Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-16
The Situation Growing Interesting
for Both Sides.
REPUBLICANS ARE ON DE1K fHIS WEEK
Machine Democrats Are Presenting
the Olive Branch.
THE CISE QUESTION

TIE situation in New York grows inter-
esti1g for both sides. The republicans are
OF de k this week Their difficulty is over
the question of selling liquors on Sunday.
and the proposition TO increa:e tie merl-
bership of tfeir state committee. MIR,
Piatt, who will have majority of the
delegates at the state convention, is )Ii-
comm ttal the Sunday question. but IS
OF posed outright to any change in the COM
mite. TIE committee, as now organized
is in his hands. TIE other fellows want to
eI large 1t, in the hope of oustinT the Plat
control. There will be some skilltul ma
neavering those two points, but other
wise the sailing will be smooth Neither
faction is expected to press its contention
far that the party subsequently, when
brought face to face with the common
enemy. will suffer seriously because of
present differences.
If 5r. Flat Wins.
And particularly IS this thought to be
tTue of the Flatt faction. If Mr.. Piatt
wins as easily as his friends expect him
to win he viii probably. as Mr.. Quay did
in Pennsylvania in Ike circumstances. be
moderate in his treatment of the van
quished. Like Mr.. Quay, he is practical
politician of the first class in management
ard. more than Mr.. Quay, he will need all
the republican votes lie can muster in No
vember He is bitter against the Roosevelt
people in New York city. He considers
that they have unnecessarily complicated
matters there. But this is hardly the time
for settling that question with them. The
.arepublicans will make their play for all the
country north of Harlem bridge. They con-
fess their weakness in the city. The CON-
binatlon that overthrow Tammany last
year has gone to pieces and cannot he re.
adjusted. Their sole hope, therefore. is
outside of the city, and is based on the ap-
peal to be made to the people on the farms
and in the towns in the interest OF general
good government.
The Democrats Next Week.
The democrats will be on deck next week.
They. too, have their divisions, and some Of
them are on old issues. The dangerous is
sues are always the personal issues, and Of
these the empire state democrats have
full share H.ll versus Whitney; snapper
versus anti-snapper; the Grace faction ver-
sus Tammany, and SO on. The main eifort
is TO keep these issues as much as possible
in the BACKGROUND this year, and by re-
Geeming the state by united action in No
vembcr, raise it into its old dominating
place in the national scale again in time for
next year.
Advances by the Machine.
The advances to this end are all coming
from the side of the machine. Mr.. Hill Is
going to Syracuse ito extend the olive
wise that in disposing Of the contests the
convention extend to the Cleveland dele
gates not only fair, but generous treatment.
He hopes to see a number of them seated.
Richard Croker speaks for harmony by
speaking in most cordial terms of MIR.
Cleveland. He has no doubt that MIR. Cleve-
land could be elected another time TO the
presidency. This deliverance would, in other
circumstances, be considered of great mo-
ment in third-term circles. But it attracts
hut at M
stances that exist. The men who are push
ing the tnird-term project along lock upon
the deverance as loaded" 1t is regarded
as a Tammany attempt to Jolly the
President, and through him his friends.
Mr.. Croker wants the corporations of all
the Cleveland men in New York city this
fall. and, by securing that, retake the city
and set Tammany up in business again. lie
holds out this bait of supporting the third
term movement therefore, in the hope of
catching the Cleveland element at home.
The Excise Question.
The excise question in New York is the
one to which party leaders outside the
state are giving most attention. They are
afraid it may become national, and, if 1t
should, that it may greatly complicate
matters for next year. 1t is a most deli
cate question-so very delicate as to defy
a fair and conservative statement in the
horid vernacular of the hustings. The man
in favor of selling on Sunday talks about
Due laws, and PurltanS, and oppression.
He accuses his opponent of wanting 10
regulate his neighbor's appetite by statute.
The man opposed to selling on Sunday
talks about a Goddess Sabbath; continent
tai Sabbath; government of the saloon, by
the saloon, for the saloon, and SO forth.
Beth sides in their appeals go to cx-
tremes in stating the case, and hence, in
national campaign, such a topic, given
over to the eXtravagances of the stump,
might become, it is feared. in every way
discouraging and unfortunate. MIR. Hill,
on his side. is resolved to press the ques-
ton. He Is making it the keynote of his
campaign. The republicans, if Mr.. Platt's
advice is taken. will try to avoid it. But
can they do it? Would simply ignoring it
in the platform serve that end?