The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-10-17
HIS CHANCE OF REELECTION TO
THE SENATE GONE BEYOND
RECOVERY.
HE is IN THE DARK SHADOW
OF DESPAIR.
sion and Republican Unity-Sel-
fish Plans for Harmony
Knocked Sky High.

b. Hill is in a gloomy mood today. If
he can be likened to bird of prey, he
sits on his ''roost" feeling respondent
over the loss of fat chicken he hoped
to seize and eat, the chicken in question
being the Office of United States senator
from 1897 to 1908. Mr. Hill started
out early in September to lure all kick
ing" Democrats back into the fold of the
Democratic party; their absence from
the polls or active hostility to the "regu-
lar" organization in the years 1893 and
1894 having had the effect of defeating
the Democratic State and legislative
tickets in both those years. Promises
\ were made by Mr.. Hill to these opposi-
p ton Democrats that if they would only
attend the Democratic State convention
they would have adequate representation
IN 1t according to their numbers, and also
goodly number of seats in the Demo-
cratic State committee. The only obsta-
Gle which stood in the way of the accom-
plishment of this scheme of Mr.. Hills
was the possession of the machinery of
the Democratic party in the cities of
New York, Brooklyn, Buffalo and Troy
by Richard Croker, Hugh Mclaughlin,
William r. Sheehan and Edward Muir
ply, Jr. If they would only cooperate
with him at the Democratic State con-
vention Mr.. Hill knew he could accom-
plish his aim.
Messrs. Croker, Mclaughlin, Sheehan
and Murphy, however, did not think Mr..
Hills scheme an attractive one. So far
as they could see, he had selfish motive
in suggesting it, namely, his own re-
election as United States senator in 1897.
Everything in the State campaign, they
saw, would be sacrificed to the election
of the State senators who are to vote
for United States senator in 1897, if Mr..
Hill had it's management. No care would
be taken of the Democratic State ticket,
and Democratic local tickets also would
be "swopped off, wherever possible for
the candidates for senator. This pro-
gram did not coincide with that of Gro
ker, Murphy, Sheehan and Mclaughlin,
for their chief concern is the control of
local patronage in New York, Brooklyn,
Buffalo and Troy. Moreover, Mr.. Hill
proposed that they should surrender
large part of their control of the Demo
cratic State committee, and thus cut
down their influence over the State af-
fairs of the Democratic party. AS is
well known, Croker, Sheehan, Murphy
and Mclaughlin revolted at the Demo
cratic State convention and brought
about the rejection Of Mr.. Hills plan to
give the State Democracy of New York
one7third of the representation of that
city in the convention.
Since the convention the opposition of
Croker, Mclaughlin, Sheehan and Muir
ply to Hills plan of conciliating the In
dependent Democrats has been intensi-
lied and has spread to lesser members of
the same Observation-Disclosures
Murphy machine. and it is no wonder
Mr.. Hill was bemoaning today the wreck
ing of his plan.
Tins the Democrats of Monroe county,
after having been united into apparent
union after seven years of dissension,
have again broken out into a violent
quarrel, the first conflict being caused by
the Reputation by the members of the
Murphy Croker-S heehan-M cLaughlin or
ganization in the county of a method of
party management suggested by a COM
mittee of the Democratic State commit
tee. James w. Huxley, the chairman
of the Democratic State committee, gave
up months time to bring about this
union of the Democrats of Monroe county
and he, therefore must be greatly an
'noyed that the Hill Democrats and the
cleveland Democrats of the county are
again at war.
In the county of Erie also, Democratic
harmony has disappeared. Considerable
union in the party was brought about
previous to the Democratic State con-
Gratis elected all three of the members of
the State committee credited to the
county the Goddess of Peace disappeared
and, apparently, she will not be back
until after election day. The Cleveland
Democrats of Erie county feel that an
attempt was made to cheat them, and
they cannot forgive it. Meanwhile, the
Sheehan Democrats, who have been de-
feated three years successfully in Erie
county, hold on to the organization of
the Democratic party there, and the
prospects of that party, therefore, are
dark in that county.
Further Mr.. Hill received the news
yesterday from Elmira that his former
law partner, John B. Stanchfeld, had de-
.cided not to run for senator in the dis
trict composed of the counties of Che
lmung, Steuben and Tompkins. Stanch
field is a strong man and the only Demo
crat that possibly could hope to carry
the district. And then came the news
That Hugh Mclaughlin of Brooklyn had
refused to make any union with the
Shepard Democrats, and as a conse- |
quence the Democratic party in Kings |
county was divided into two nearly |
equal portions. Thus, the Democratic |
party will lose mayor in Brooklyn, with
all his power, for two years to come; and |
the Democratic party in consequence of |
this disunion can not fail to lose q large
number of legislative districts that it |
would otherwise carry. Mr.. Hill had cX
pected to make some gains in the senate
districts of Kings county, but now the
Democratic party will evidently lose
some districts in that county which it
would otherwise have carried. 1t is
thought that the Republican party,
which is united in Kings county, will
also carry IS of the % assembly districts
1t can not be pleasing to Mr.. Hill to
know that the Democratic party has no |
candidate for senator in the Oneida coun-
ty district and that he must rely for sup |
port for United States senator in 1897, |
upon the vote, if he is elected, of Henry |
J. Coggeshall 1t has become known to |
the Republican voters of the Oneida dis |
trict, also, that Coggeshall intends to |
vote for Hill for senator, and therefore |
his Republican support will be small;
Sweeping his eye over the stare, the |
fact must be apparent to Mr.. Hill that: |
owing to the discussions in the ranks OF |
the Democratic party in the cities of New |
York, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Troy. Eoches-
ter and Albany, it can not possibly elect |
over II senators out of the 80 to be elect |
ed. This would give the Republican
party 33 votes in the State senate; and
the Democratic party, with only IL