New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-02-20
TIRED OF ABRAMS FARCE.
avn DEMOCRATIC SENATORS MAY JOIN
TUE REPUBLICANS AT TRENTON.
.--corrAT1oNs IN PROGRESS THAT MAY CHANGE
NoUNCED BY SENATOR DALY-PRoG-
REss OF THE REFORM LEGIs-
IATION
ry TELEGRAPH To THE TRIBUNE,


r,or+on. ~ j.. Feb. 19-The atmosphere OF
ns state House tonight when the Legislature
.,., was charged with that subtle electricity
,,ch tells people tha; something oe Importance
4, about TO happen. In the galleries, on the
ao,r of the House and in the corridors of the
ranitol there air Of expectancy. And
something was happening, though probably not
,wentv men Of all the hundred there knew what
It was
Negotiations were in progress looking To the
thinning Of the legal Republican Senate by four
~ the Democratic Senators. These men have
crown tired of the farce of the Adran Senate
They see what a scrlpe McDermotts scheme
has got them into. and they are only anxious to
Nnd some way by which they can so over to
the regular Senate. Prominent Democrats who
realize the great political blunder which was
made in the attempt to steal the Senate have
urged these Senators to take the step. Among
those who are said to have urged the Senator's
10 go over are Secretary of State Kelsey and
Benjamin +. Lee. clerk Of the supreme Court.
Governor Werts Is also said have secretly
advised the move.
Governor Wertss friends say that were he not
bound hand and foot by the racerack and the
ring. and had he not committed himself by his
hasty recognition of Abrams caucus the
Senate, he would recognize the Republican Sen
ate a. once. 1neSe TWO rs, however, cannot
be removed. He recognizes as keeniy as any
one else the position he Is In. but has not the
courage to break his bonds. All his friends ask
now is pity for him in his political Affections.
DUKE" THOMPSON DISTURBED
The four Democratic Senators who willing
10 Join with the Republicans held a conference
this afternoon and another tonight. What will
happen before morning foretell, but
tonight there is ground for a hope that the
deadlock will soon be broken. The racetrack
people got wind of the proposed secession OF the
four Senators and brought influence to bear on
them TO keep them in line. W. j. Thompson
late IN taking his seat in the House tonight. and
looked troubled when he did come in. In reply
TO some remark about the shaky Senators he
sa3d with feeling:
BLANK them,' only he did not say blank"
The conference of Democrats regarding the
feasibility of getting the question Of the two
Senates before the courts by means Of writ Of
habeas corpus has. as yet. borne no fruit and
probably will not. Perhaps luminous
Democratic legal intellect will have thought Of
some other sort of writ by morning.
There is a bitter fight between Senator
Daily Of Hudson. ana Allan McDermott. the
chairman of the Democratic State Committee,
clerk Of the Court of Chancery and few other
things 1t was a. first thought that this fight
was one gotten up for the galleries but 1t now
appears to be real one. McDemotts new
b position amounts TO a cry OF Save themselves
who can" and Days to a strenuous kick
against being offered up by McDermott as sac
rifce to outraged public opinion.
TURNING on HIS ASSOCIATES.
The conviction Of John Y McKane the sending
to prison of the dishonest election officials in
New-York. the conviction Of the Hudson County
ballot-box suffers. farcical as Governor Albeit
made that conviction by his exercise Of executive
clemency and, more than all. the uprising Of
the people against ring rule and fraudulent cleo
tions have all had an effect on the mind Of
Allan McDermott. The storm Of Indignation
with which McDermott's last political trick
received in New-Jersey. his bold and .rnpudent
attempt TO steal the Senate was the final blow
that forced through his compre ehension the fact
that the ring and racetrack doomed and
that he must put himself in touch with the
people or go down before their might
Having once grasped this idea he turns on the
people he used and decries the methods by
which he has risen TO power. and now proposes
even while his last great political crime is fresh
in the minds of every one. pose political
saint. But his halo doesn't fit. He Is anxious
TO make the people believe that he has no afilia-
tion with the racetracks or the Hudson County
ring; he writes 10 the papers abusing Daily
and Bob" Davis.
MDERMoTTs PART ~ THE PLOT.
Yet only a few weeks ago this very DAILY.
whom he declares unfit person to hold
the office Of State Senator, was McDermotts
tool In the Infamous attempt to steal the Sen
ate of the State and defy the will Of the people,
and McDermott fathercd and erected the con-
splracy which has brought about the present
state Of affairs here. 1t was Allan McDermott
who directed the Secretary Of the old Senate to
call the Democratic Senators to order before the
hour set by law FOR the Senate 10 assemble. ana
Il was Allan McDermOtt who sat beside Daly
desk while the fraud on the people was being
perpetrated and told him which Of the carefully
typewritten resolutions TO offer and when 10 oIIer
them. In the Legislative manual there Is a
biography of Allan McDermOtt. If IT was not
inspired by him II has for several years remained
there unchallenged by him. and in its peroration
Il recalls that "he is now chairman Of the Demo
cratic State Committee To his services In tha'
capacity is due in small measure the extraor-
dinary majority given for Governor Green IN
dent in 1888 and 1892; for Governor ALBEIT in
1SS3.' etc.
PART OF THE NEw-JDRsEY Bosss RECORD
OF these victories Of McDermott 1t is only
necessary TO say that over sixty officers OF the
election in Hudson County were indicted FOL
frauds in connection with the election Of 1883
There is no evidence that McDermott counte-
nanced or was cognizant Of the ballot-box frauds
alluded to- but he and his party did not scorn &c
accert the fruits Of them, and Governor Albeit
to whose election the Hudson County frauds hac
so largely contributed reappointed McDermot'
clerk of the Court Of Chancery. In the cam
paign az 1sS9 NcDer1nott moved the Democratic
State headquarters to Taylors Hotel In jersey
CITY, and as chairman Of the committee shouic
County There has been a story going the
rounds OF the papers lately Of an african wh'
every three years changes his skin McDermot
has issued a manifesto in favor OF the pur1fica
ton Of Democratic politics. and the Scriptura
leopard is still to hear from; AS for for sc%dy Daly
brought up from earliest youth IN the schoo
Of Hudson County Democratic politics, ne j
utterly incapable, either by training or intellect
OF seeing what McDermott sees, the trend OF th'
the desertion of his whilom chief. Daily wanted
the Democratic nomination for Congress IN I'M
With District and Adrain wanted xne mex
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