The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-07-12
FOUR IN A SINGLE DAY.
New Workers Wonder What the
Visit of the Politicians
Means.
SEXTON MAKES A PREDICTION.
Says Harrison and Morton VIII
Again Lead the Republican
Hosts to Victory.

NEW YORK, N. Y, July 11.-Ex-Presi-
dent Harrison arrived in this city unex-
pectedly this afternoon. He saIntered
quietly into the Fifth-avenue Hotel at
o'clock in the afternoon and with nod of
recognition to the clerk, signed his name
OH the register. Then he went upstairs to
his room, parlor Ill. 1t was all done so
quickly and unobtrusively that the poll
ticians who make the hotel corridors their
headquarters had scarcely time to catch
their breaths before the ex-President was
gone.
AS General Harrison entered the public
dining-room two hours later he ran across
General Alger. After dining the ex-Presi-
dent and his secretary went out for
stroll. On his return he told newspaper
men who called upon him that he had
stopped off for a day or two while on his
way to the Adirondacks. He may leave
for the first chain of lakes tomorrow, and
before departing may call upon Artist
Johnson to take a peep at the portrait that
gentleman has just finished of the ex-
President.
General Harrison will pass nearly a
month, and perhaps longer, in the noun
tains. He says his visit to New York has
nothing whatever to do with politics. but
the presence here simultaneously of Gen.
eral Harrison and General Alger, both
Presidential possibilities, as well of
General James S. Clarkson, the per-
sonal representative of Senator William B.
Allison, Iowa's favorite son; National
Committeeman Samuel Fessenden of Con-
necticut, who is booming Thomas B. Reed,
and other leaders, kept political tongues
wagging this evening at an alarming rate.
General Alger had called on ex-senator
Platt, and so had Messrs. Clarkson and
Fessenden. There was deal of specula-
tion as to what was up. General Alger
laughed merrily when questioned about
| his visit to Platt.
"Why," said be, 'Mr. Platt and 1 are
the warmest kind of friends. 1 always
call upon him when come to the city,"
General Clarkson thought it peculiar
that any interest should be attached to his
presence in town just now. He was more
than pleased, however, at the news that
the Iowa State convention had given Alli-
sons Presidential boom such magnificent
boost, and told New Workers that they
must keep very sharp lookout, for the
Hawkeye Statesman would run away with
everything worth having at the next
National convention.
Fessenden, as we'll as the others, ap-
peared to be not little worried about
what they heard of Governor Morton's
prodigious strength in the East.
General Clarkson and General Alger
left for Long Branch tonight. Clarkson
has cottage there and General Alger will
probably be his guest for few days.
General Clarkson has invited ex-senator
Platt to visit him while at the seaside.
Platt may run down while General Alger
is there.
Republicans up the State are ready and
anxious for the next campaign to begin.
They are thoroughly united and will GER
tainly give a splendid account of them
selves" was Lieutenant-Governor Sexton's
reply yesterday to reporters query about
alleged factional quarrels in tn interior.
"Yes," he continued, ''the ticket which
won so handsomely in 1894 will, 1 think,
be renominated, and my judgment is that
it will win by good majority. The out
look for the Legislature is exceedingly en-
couraging. I think by hard and effective
work we can gain control of both
branches"