New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-05-18
NO SUNDAY BULLETIN.
W.
MR.. PLATT. AFTER A TRIP TO WASHINGTON
STEALS TO BED. AND NUNS THE WORD


FOR THE TIME BEING.
The discoursgirg results Of Saturdays meeting
OF the Republican State Commute were still OBJ
servable yesterday among the antiMcKinley CO.
horts about the Fifth Avenue Hotel. No bracins
reports from anywhere given out at Republican
State headquarters is customary Sundays.
There had been general comparing OF notes when
members Of the State Committee and other Repub-
leans from the various parts Of the State came
together the day previous. and the men had left
town for their respective homes filled with the belief
that nothing could prevent McKiney's nomination.
All had gone home except ex-Mayor William l..
Proctor. OF Ogdensburg who represents the XXIId
Congress District the committee Mr.. Proctor's
loyalty 10 the machine has never been questioned,
but he could not help admitting in private converse
ton that the Republicans OF his own county OF st.
Lawrence we'll the rest OF hts district were
for Mckinley. ten 10 one.
one OF the things still casting a deep shadow
the Plat headquarters yesterday the
statement Of ex-senator Warner Miller. made pub
lice on Friday night. This part OF Mr.. MiIler's
declaration read and reread by the workers for
the machine. and they struggled hard TO place a
construction upon 1t that would afford them conso-
lation but without success:
| announced myself supporting Governor Nor
ton before many OF his oficous friends did so;
TO support Governor Mortons candidacy; have
done 20 and shall continue TO do So but want the
have the honor In part TO represent at St Louis TO
understand that l am rot taking any part in any
anything to beat Mckinley"
haTe Looked upon all the leading candidates
and worthy to MI the exalted position OF President
OF them would receive my most cordial Endorsement
and support but from my correspondence and con-
nection with the Republicans OF the Interior OF the
State believe that a vast majority OF them. after
and second TO Governor Morton's candidacy prefer
the nomination OF Mckinley.
None Of thu "faIthfulr vho stiiI cling ~ Mr.
Plat have smiled since Mr.. Miller's statement was
published. Coming from one OF the delegates-at-
large selected by the Plat convention OF March
"a, It fell with crushing force.
An hour after the State Committee adjourned on
Saturday. Mr. Plat packed his hand satchel and
started for Washington. Almost everybody con-
nected with the Machine concurred In the senti-
ment that things never looked black. All the
resources OF the "combiners." aided by the Demo-
cratic and free trade journals had been exhausted
In trying to create a stampede from Mckinley on
the money question: but not single Mckinley vote
had been affected The magnificent Mckinley ma
shaken.
-, Al day the disheartened anything ,beatMc
had gone; they said, to see Reed Quay and Man
ley at the National Capital. and he would
turned he would issue his Usual sunday-nisht ef-
K!nlcy,s nomination was Impossible" way
hi, Mr. oo GaFS n hs shSuS 6o9 sick m waited up in
robe and slippers for the Tlogans Homecoming
Mr.. P.att left Washington for New-York on the
Baltimore and Ohio p. m. train yesterday He
usually prefers the Congressional limited" OF the
Pennsylvania. lie refused to talk to anybody when
leaving Washington, TO confde his discoveries
and expectations TO inquirers the road At $40
he noslessly entered the Twenty fourth-st entrance
Of his hotel. and wended his way up through the
side staircase to take the e.evator on the second
floor, managing by this means dextrously to avoid
meeting newspaper men politicians In reply
cards sent up to room No 80 Mr.. Plat sent down
word that he had gone to bed and cared to no.
body
Mr.. Clarkson stayed up a while longer; then he
took of his bathrobe and slippers and prepared for
bed
,. MT Plat didn't come in to see me" said Mr.
1t was sagely argued by the disheartened ma
chine politicians who, like Mr.. Garrison, anx-
ous for comforting news from the other chiefs OF
the combine" that Mr.. Platt could not have gath
cred much In Washington likely to raise the droop-
Ing spirits OF his followers In New-York The Gus
todlans OF the State headquarters put the lights
and trudged homeward in silence. All hope OF the
usual bulletin from Mr.. Plat knocking holes In
the Mckinley boom was abandoned.
The final collapse of the antl-McKinley movement
was predicted last night as the next thing in order