New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-21

HANDS AND THE OTHER NOT PRO
NouNcED EITHER WAY.
The result OF the Republican Congress District
vent,ons on Thursday night was decided
sc,ory for the administration as reported in The
rr,bune yesterday. OF the men chosen by these
o,nven;ions-two from each Of the five. to so to ST.
Youls and help choose President-WIlis and Rob-
Its NJ the Id are administration men, and lead
s,s thereof Woodruff and AtteTbury, in the lid
Distrlct are administration men, and SO is Katen-
bach who is Wurster's colleague in the Win. Pal
mer and Saffen, in the With. are admittedly out
.,dout dyed-in-t he-wool Worth machine men. 1t
the combination of Hartman and Clark in the WITH
instruct which has the pale and slckly cast of
doubt II the Worth men speak the truth. Looking
Al Clark and Hartman from The administration point
Of view, however. they SEEM in the light of exist
ing circumstances, 10 lean toward the Wurster-
Willis line
In the four districs-the Id, IIId WITH and With
.he administration victory shrewdly planned
and brilliantly executed. and in the With District
Fisher and Scheuter made a gallant fight at long
odds against Palmer and Saffen. and the National
committee will have TO decide between the rival
delegations AS to Hartman and Clark. they are
non-commtal. It is true. but In delicate situations
men must be careful and IL the delegates from the
Nth do not come ont and advertise themselves as
administration men, that does not mean that their
election Is not virtual victory for the Willis
Wurster side. Naturally. Mayor Wurster and Com
naturally. TOO. the machine men were gloomy, be-
cause they had been affirming every day that they
would capture the 1Vth With and With districts
and did no, come doing The administra-
tim STRENGTHENED itself by the victory and has
eight out OF the National delegates from Kings
County, after of the Closest factonal ights
that have taken place in Brooklyn.
But the most noteworthy feature Of that contest
was the Mckinley feeling developed. Even the
Worth leaders yesterday admitted that Major NC
Kinley is the coming man. ' They-and others
see the handwriting the wall, in spite of Mr..
platt's nominal support Of Governor Morton In
the Id District Convention Mckinley resolution
introduced could be suppressed only by an indirect
appeal to State loyalty In other conventions dele
gates had resolutions favoring Mckinley In their
pockets and were prevented from introducing them
only by advice that such action would be ''unwise
While National delegations uncertain things.
and while Platts exact attitude toward Allison is
unknown, the Mckinley bandwagon is now away
In the front Mayor Wurster says ne is for Morton
the first ballot and for other ballots to follow.
Register Hartman. far personal favor goes is
known to lean toward Allison, for whom he has
voted in National Convention: Commissioner
Willis. who a Harrison office holder. told a
Tribune reporter recently that he could not say
what he would do If Harrsons name were before
the convention and all OF the Kings County dele
gates nominally more or less for Morton. Yet.
behind all Of this is downright, honest partially
for Mckinley among many of them. And even If 1t
not politicians. who wise in their day
and generation, can be expected to look toward the
waxing. rather than toward the waning lumnary.
Chairman Roberts. 1t may be added. is supposed TO
favor Mckinley.
WHAT THE DETAILS SHOW
AS for the results of Thursday nights
tions their elaborate details only accentuate the
results published yesterday. tabulated list Of
delegates and aternates elected is as follows:
lid District.-Theodore B. Willis. First Ward. and
George H. Roberts. jr.. Seventh Ward: aternates,
Denis NJ Hurley. Sixth Ward, and William f. Phil
lips. Twentieth Ward.
lid Dstrct.-Timothy i. Woodruff. Twenty
second Ward and Walter b. Atterbury. Twenty
third Ward; aternates. Jacob Bremen, Tenth Ward,
and James Lefferty of the Twenty-ninth Ward.
WITH District-Granville W. Hartman, Twenty
fourth Ward and Joseph r. Clarke, Twenty-sixth
Ward: alternates. Frederick Shipman, Twenty-Hfth
Ward: James Connell. Thrtieth Ward.
With Dstrct.-Frederick w Wurster, Nineteenth
Ward. and Ernest ]. Kaltenbach, Twenty-eighth
Ward: alternates. John 2. Milliken, Twenty-frst
Ward and Frederick Vog Twenty-seventh Ward.
With District-Henry Saffen Fifteenth Ward and
George W. Palmer. Seventeenth Ward.
In the With District. however Assessor Edward
H. Schleue- and Henry c. Fischer. iron manu-
facturer who were the administration slate
were nonin ited by the an-Worth-Palmer men
who quietly left the convention after they saw that
their rights disregarded.
In the lid District the Mckinley resolution offered
by Thomas Fitchie. ex-Sup=rvsor-at-Large, pledg-
Ing delegates and alternates 10 for the West
srn man was laid the table only after pro-
nounced opposition. and then only on the plea of
lnexpediency. Congressman Hurley afterward moved |
that Andrew Jacobs, John Casey, Mr. Willis |
W. McPhilliamy. Or. Rob-. J. j. Schlusser and
Dr. Brush be appointed a Congress committee on !
the ground that this would prevent the State Com
mttee from interfering with the affairs Of dis
trcl. The motion finally withdrawn
he uQfa
ness against Atterbury plainly shown, and the |
delegates OF Dady. the machine man. Of the Third |
Ward, were turned down amid cheers and after |
some personalities. When SO votes of the Twenty |
third Wards 81 were turned over to Atterbury SOL
idly mis- fight won.
In the WITH District there interesting scenes
TOO numerous to mention. but the clashing asser-
ton Of right to call the meeting TO order were
settled. Robert A. Sharkey. the representative OF
the State Committee, performed the perfunctory
duty Of calling the convention 10 order, while W
H. Friday. appointed by the General County Com
mttet really presided. The combination Of Har-
and Clark was too strong to be beaten by
anybody. The Worth-Sharkey men allege that they
really elected the two delegates and that they are
with them. but any one who had seen AidermaA
Clark repairing fences on Wednesday and Thurs
day would know how close he is TO the admnistra-
ton line. although he openly acknowledges
that he In a Plat man.
In the With District State Committeeman Schroe- |
ders contention that ne would call the meeting to
order as State Committeeman and preside as tenn
porary chairman was frutless. and William
Kramer appointed by Chairman Roberts. OF the
General Committee. finally won In the critical
ward. the Twenty-frst. the Worth men, VINO had
been saying they could deliver a majority. miserably
failed to do So and City Clerk Benjamin, in conse-
quence, sad and downcast yesterday Instead
Of e5 votes the Worth men in the ward could muster
only 49, The vote took place on the question OF
a oil
District OF the ward The administration won. II
was along toward morning that the following result
for delegates was reached:
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