Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-25
What Senator Hill Thinks of tile
New York Campaign.
RESULT OF REPUBLICAN, INACTIVITY
The War That is Waged Against
Tammany.
O. OKER'S REAPPEARANCE
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Evening star
NEW YORK, October Ex-senator Hill
said today that he considered that he had
an even chance of election. This is the real
sentiment of the men who are managing
the democratic campaign. To be sure, John
Boyd Thacher gives out daily interviews
telling of his great confidence in a tre-
nendous plurality, but Thacher is q rain
bow chaser, who nearly rivals Don Dickin-
son. Plump red-faced Major Hinckley, the
chairman of the state committee, INDUCES
in no such day dreams of large majorities.
Hinckley is a practical politician of the
Hill kind and he works first and dreams
afterward. Thacher dreams and then, If
he has spare time. works. too.
That is Hlrs honest opinion Of his own
chances after ten days of stumping the
state and a talk with the managers here.
And he Is counting n great deal upon the
inactivity of the republicans. In thus
counting upon his opponents inactivity he
is doing right The republicans are not
making the campaign that they should.
They are under the firm impression that
IL is beyond question that New York will
go republican this year and that any work
done is labor expended in vain. This i'm
preston prevails i'll every part of the state,
but the republican state committee has the
disease In the most virulent form of all.
At the republican headquarters in the Fifth
Avenue Hotel there Is practically nothing
going on. Pictures of Morton and Saxton
are sent out where they are asked for, but
there is little being done to bring out the
vote by rousing the party all over the state.
The Confidence of Success.
The state committee evidently consider
1t beneath their dignity to put up the Wig
orous campaign that their republican
brethren are doing in Massachusetts and
Pennsylvania. states where there is not
Slfu inf yybe he
only question is of the size of the republi-
can plurality. Two meetings a night are all
that are being held in the state. Young
SlCat Fassett is stumping the state and
SO is MIR. SaxtOn, but outside of this pair
there are no speakers of Importance. Chair
man Hackett is firmly convinced that
everything is certain for the republicans
and that vigorous campaign work is use
less. The great trouble is that the victory
OF last year In the state almost unsettled
the republican managers. They had not
counted upon 1t and had not worked for
it to any extent and they think that the
same tactics this year will bring the same
result.
But last year they did not have David Is.
Hill working against them. lie did not care
for Maynard, and 1t is now an acknowl-
edged fact that he wrote E.. letter to May
nard asking him not to accept a uOInina-
tion. This letter is now in .hc possession Of
Public Printer Benedict, and may make its
appearance before the campaign Is finished.
nardism il will certainly appear, but the
republicans are devOting themselves to Da-
tOnal issues just now. The republicans are
greatly worried over the Cverconliience and
inactivity of their party il the state. They
fear that II will lose them many votes, and
they realize that they have no votes to
spare in this campaign. There is too much
at stake, and there is too shrewd a poll
ucian leading the democratic army.
The War Against Tammany.
TlIlft vi I'm oil nj l<,aS
up for the listlessness outside. The war
against Tammany is being wage1 In a way
that New York never saw before. Every
where there are placardS and cartoons
urging people to vote against TanmaEy.
The elevated railroad stations are deIuged
with anti-Tammany placards and pictures,
every bill board is covered with them;
every ash barrel from the Battery to loak-
ers has been pressed into serVce; night and
day wagons. with chimes of BELLS drive
through the streets bearing huge Trans
parencies; every night there are hundreds
of stereopticOnS flashing anti-Tammany
sentiments all over the city. The very
strongholds of Tammany have been in
vaded and the war carried TO the enemy S
own door. This activity will gain votes for
the republicans in this city.
Little Is now heard of the third party
movement. 1t was easy to secure enough
signatures to nominate Wheeler for COVER
nor, bat all OF the men who signed the pc
tition will not vote for him. A number of
republican names are on the petition, put
there to help the movement along; but the
republicans themselves will all vote for
Morton. In this city and Brooklyn the
Wheeler ticket will receive more or less
support. But in the state outside it will
have little strength. The people outside do
not seem to know of the existence of a third
ticket, and at any rate, 1t has not made
any impression upon them.
There is a fight brewing In Tammany that
may or may not break out before election.
1t is all over the attempted return of Rich
ard Croker to power. Croker has come out
of his retirement. He seys that he is still
out of politics, but he spends all of his time
in conferences with the democratic leaders.
When Grant was nominated for mayor
Croker at once started for New York, and
the two men are working hard in hand for
Tammany's success. All this time Mayor
Gilroy Is the supposed leader OF Tammany.
The banner was put into his hands year
ago, and II is still there, but no one follows
It, Tammany has turned the chubby face
of Mr.. GilrOy to the wall and Is off with
its old love. Croker Grant did not want
the nomination and fought against It, But
Croke er whispered IN his ear to take It.
Croker saw farther into the future. Grant
may be beaten this year, but he in taking
the nomination he has put Tammany under
obligations to him. That means that Grant
and not Gilroy will control things in Tam
many Hall and the words Grant and Crolf-
er are almost synonymous. The Gilroy
men see the whole scheme, now that 1t Is
too late, and they are ready to fght for
supremacy. Everything possible is being
done to keep the fight off until after cleo
tIon. If Tammany is beaten there will be
a grand Kilkenny fight The men VIII be
desperate at the thought of having their
livelihood taken away from them. Tam
many Is not an organization that stands
adversely we'll The elements Of which 1t
is composed make it impossible for 1t to
how era cefllliy before defeat