New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-01
PLATT AND HILL CONFER.
THE TWO POLITICAL BOSSES MEET AT
MANHATTAN BEACH

ENLARGE THE STATE COMMIT
rEE-Iiss FAVORABLE
RESPONSES.
~,oras G P,att and David b. Hill passed the
peaceful hours Of the Sabbath morning yesterday
under the hospitabe roof OF the Oriental Ho'e-' a'
Manhattan Beach. Senator Hi. came up 10 'he c''s
on private business. he said, from Normandie-oy
the-Sea where he has been for a week the guest OF
General Ferdinand +. Earle his Chief OF Artillery
when Mr. Hill vas Governor, and on Saturday
evening he slipped down to the beach to spehd sun
day Mr. P;att now makes the Oriental his sum-
mer home. What interesting subjects the TWO con-
ferred about yesterday was not divu'Sed'
Other politicians at the Oriental yesterday were
ex-Controler Theodore w. Myers ex-Poiice COM
missioner John c. Sheehan ex Senator F. II. Nc
Carren Of Brooklyn and Senator Timothy DRY
Dollar Sullivan. After dinner Senator HILL VINO
had been having quiet chat with MT fiat'' TOOK
seat on the veranda among the Democratic poll
t!cans grouped the'e. and talked about the poiti-
cal outlook Mr. Hi predicted a victory for the
Democratic party at the coming lection. and said
that he would not be surprised II 1t was the great
est in the history of the country
'Dry Dollar" Sullivan brought up the subject OF
the excise laws and nearly all present had some
thing hard to say about the enforcement OF the
liquor law Both ex-senator Plat and Senator Hl
left the beach for the city in the afternoon. and
Mr. Hill took an evening train back to Normandie-
by-the-Sea
one Of the things that are disturbing MT f'iat'
waking dreams although he would not admit II
yesterday is the work which is being pushed all
over the State TO bring about the enlargement OF
the Republican State Committee The informal COM
mttee advocating this plan-of which Cornelius n.
Bliss is chairman-composed mainly OF members
of the new Republican State Club. in East Twenty
second-st is in receipt of extremely gratifying re-
sponses to the recent circular letter from every
county in the State The proposition IS that the
State Committee shall be composed of one repre-
sentative from each Assembly district to be chosen
in the same manner Republican nominees for the
Legislature.
So far l,l33 representative Republicans In the
various Counties Of the State have pledged them
selves. in reply Mr.. Bliss's appeal to use their
best efforts to send delegates TO the next state
Convention favoring the plan. Mr.. Bliss and his
associates welcome free discussion TO the merits
of the proposition TO give every Assembly district
a representative on the State Committee. They
do not fear open oppositon-much less are they
alarmed the scheme resorted TO by the Platt
element of fighting the plan through anonymous
lcan State Committees OF such States as Pennsyl-
vania and New-Hampshire are larger in proportion
than the enlarged committee proposed by MI
BLISS movement. "Why should there be opposi
tion to a plan the purpose of which is to give all
the Republicans of the State just representations?
Is question often asked. Cannot the member OF
the State Committee for Assembly District keep
In touch with the sentiment of his district better
than a commit teeman representing several coun-
ties some of which he cannot visit twice year.
The ll3S responses referred 10 have come from
every county in the State, as follows: