Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-09
FOR SENATOR
AcProbabls Rssuf fthe Election in
the Empire State.
new YORK MD, TIE PRESIDENCY
The Republican Boss of That State
viii Have somasay in Convention
CURIOSITY AT THE WEDDING


Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, November 8, 1905.
One Of the results Of the recent republic
can victories may be the election of Thomas
/ c. Platt to the United States Senate Mr.
Platt controlled the last legislature: he will
control the next The result Of the contest
In the state last Tuesday confirmed his
standing as the "bosse Of his party. He
won the fight in the state, just as surely
Is his opponents in the ranks of his own
party lost the fight in this city to Tam
many. Mr.. Strong and Mr.. Roosevelt pre-
ferred to do what was right rather than
what was polite. Hence the defeat Of the
| republican county ticket But Mr.. Roose-
welt, In particular, Is just as happy as
though Tammany had not won in the local
battle. He simply believes the people who
voted to put Tammany back In power are
blind to their own interests.
Mr.. Platt had nothing to lose in the city;
for his mastery Campaign in the state
promised such a tremendous majority that
he could afford to let the city take care OF
itself without fear Of the general result.
He knew, of course. that to refuse to COM
bine with the fusionists would lay him open
to charges Of disloyalty. So he made the
Mr.. Platt's Office just before, election day
that he expected the fusion ticket to win.
To Name the Next Senator.
Now Mr.. Platt Is in position to say Il
told you SOL He is also in position to name
the next Senator from New York state. There
Is little doubt In the minds of those who
know him that he will name himself.
Though he served such a short term In the
Senate before his resignation, he has been
Jealous always of the dignity attaching to
his position as an lex" Most OF his bust
ness mail comes to him addressed Hon.
T. C. Platt." Even the officers of his own
express company do him this honor. He Is
addressed in conversation almost invari-
ably as Senator" and I am told he re-
sents any other title, or even the absence
of title. whether in conversation or in
correspondence. He Is not beyond being
vexed at the association of Tom Platt
and Dick Croker in cartoon. Altogether,
he feels in having been at one time rep
resentative of the great state Of New York
TN the Senate of the United States: To
visitor, recently, mr.. Platt said that he
remained active I'm politics because 1t
amused him, much as a game of chess
would do. 1t is almost the only amuse-
n1ent he allows himself. He is one of the
very few active business men who cannot
say that they have no time for public ser
vice. Mr.. Plaft could not well give more
attention to the duties of United States
Senator than he gives to state politics to-
day. It absorbs two-thfrds of his time at
least. " 10
Some peopleti who read this paragraph
may be surprised to learn that Mr. Platt is
rot now member of the Senate. He has
been exploited so constantly as Senator
Plat that a great many people have not
come to i realization OF the fact that he
has not been IN the Senate for nearly If
!! teen years. The fact that there has been
another Platta IN the Senate during the
whole of that period has served 10 heighten
the illusion. Mr. Plat Of Connecticut, who
was here the other day. told me that he
was called into the lobby of the Senate
often by people who supposed he was the
Senator Pfatt'' who was Conklng's as
sociate in 1881.
The nrfcld-COQklinR Feud.
If Mr.. Plat is elected to the Senate the
old Garfield Conkling feud will be recalled
wildly and the fact, SO little understood.
that Mr.. Plat was not Conklng's imita tor
but his model in one particular will be made
more conspicuous than 1t has been in the
past Only once has the fact that Mr..
Piatt prepared his resignation without con-
sulting Conkling been published: and few
saw that publication or believed 1t. 1t is a
fact that Mr. Platt prepared to resign af
ter the nomination of Robertson without
| consulting Conkling: and when he informed
Conkling of his determination, Conkling
asked him to wait until he could deter
mine what he would do. Finally ConklNg
determined to resign also, and the two
designations were sent in together The
fact that Conkling was the chief figure In
the quarrel of the two New York Senators
with Garfield led every one to believe that
Conkling initiated the designations and
that Plat was his imfta tor; hence the title
"Me-too P1att'' which the short term SEN
ator carried about for SO long time.
New York md the Presidency.
The result in New York means much
too, in the national convention which will
| meet next summer. AS the controlling
spirit of the republican party in the state
Of New York, Mr.. Plat will name the can
didate of the state If he wishes to do So;
| and New York will have a voice out of
proportion to her vote in naming the nomi-
nee of the convention 1t Is of interest to
know who will be Mr.. Platt's candidate for
the presidency next summer Mr.. Morton
| Is Mr.. Platt's announced choice; but Nor
| ton is commonly believed to be only a stalk
ing morse for some one else. Those who
have talked with the governor recently say
there Is little doubt he Is candidate for
the nomination. but whether Mr. Platt Is
supporting him seriously Is quite another
thing. DR.. Depew was a candidate before
the convention which nominated Harrison,
but he never stood show of getting the
| nomination and the New York delegation
never thought he did. He was used as
e cloak for the trading the New Workers
wanted TO DO. so Mr.. Morton may be put
| forward as a convenient mask for the
| leaders of the New York delegation, whose
chief will be Mr.. Piatt. Mr.. Platt's choice
Is commonly believed to be Mr.. Reed of
did not give him recently the Impression
| that he was for Reed. And it is not unlike
ly Mr.. Platt is for a'western rather than an
eastern candidate. For there Is a strong
| feeling here that some western man viii
get the nomination. II Mr.. Platt's choice
is named. possibly Mr. Platt will not care
to enter thesSenate. Probably he will have
Harrison-tnat4e Is to be appointed to a
place in theaeaAlnet of the next President.
If the next President is republican.
secSnd On the Ticket.
One figur4aaeHs up pretty big as a vice
presidential possibility in the smoke of
Tuesdays bHdE Bradley of Kentucky was
a candidate foYsthe nomination at the last