Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1896-06-13
NOTED NEWSPAPER MEN.
EYjUbcdy Agrees on an UntQlIVOCal
Gold Plank.
ST. LOUIS EXPENSES AND HOPES.
Graphic Reports Prom tho scene Of
Next w..k'. orsa, Conysn,Ion-It
VIII Probably Last Three Days.

special Dispatch 10 tho NEws from our own
Correspondent
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Juns IA had n
chat with Thomas Plat, the famous
New York boss and manager Of Levi
p. Mor,on's boom, yesterd' y aitersoon.
had Just lett Mark Hannp, whose
face was one broad, substantial smile,
and Whose rooms were filled with a
Iollcy Mckinley crowd.
found PlAtps quarters way above
those Of Hanna. Their surroundings
made me think Of a funeral and this
impression gathered strength ~ On.
tered his rooms. The hall was desert
I'd. | knocked. The door was opened
softly and n sad, click, quiet looking
man put his head out. He said yes,
Mr. Plat was In, and could see him,
but would have 10 wait few
moments. He silently motlonsd me TO
come 10, and with gestures like tn0ss
u an Undertaken directed me 10 sii
down. There were u dozen politicians
In tho little room And yet the stiffness
was 40 great that Il could DO felt. No
onc spoke above whisper. All were
,u1 ana sad; In u arm chair near the
window sal the stiGtst and saddest Of
them all. IL was Tom Plat Imagine
Athll, thin, saliow faced. slender man,
with a Students stoop; let him have
brown hair, brown beard, and be
ets,ssd In business clothes OF brown;
lot him stop hls conversation now and
then aud 10 6fi into brown study,
aud you have some Idea Of the great
bots a. 1 watched MIN, there, whisper
ing to his callers. AZ | looked at him
he locked worried anu worn. Ills
eytl were suuken aud the crow 's-frut
Hb ut them were lsTge. l could see
that he was nefvOui; now his foot
tai ped tho nojr rapidly again aud
again, like that Of y woman when she
" excited. Now he placed his palm
on tho handles OF his chair and
with tho gold seal on the ring Of
his little finger, played n "devii'sp
TATTOO on the mahOgany, When /
enntted with him no ioli mo 10 was
not at all worried and was not nervous,
but | did not believe II. lilo " dis
Rusted with the situetion. He has
ltAs pow a. here than be has hau AZ ABy
convention Tor yeArs, anu he Ia now
passing through the most nervous
time OF bic nervous life.
lilo hns, you know, been ono OF our
greatest political fghtep for the past
twenty years and now al sixty'two lie
isa better fighter than ever When
Roscoe Conkling resigned from tho
United stAtes Senate, you remember
how Plat went out with him and how
he then got iho tiIlo Of "Me too
PlAu." Every one then thought he
was U0nkliag's puppci, and western
senator NJ he parsed one day said Of
him, "rhero goes political suicide"
Mir. Plat, however, Ia very lively
corIse. He has bossed Now York state
ever since Clsveland'A INST presidency
And he has more power now than any
other Republican In ihe East. He has
at times owned the Albany legislature
ana As usual thing he funs New
York conventions as he pleases. Platps
bOtsism IL curious In that ho rules
without holding any political oiiico
himself. RgtUos COnkling was strong
only when lac was United states senator
Rud had tho patronage. Matt Qusy
has held his own through holding
your mice, and he wofks through his
subordinate officials. Plat plays AZ
polttics for the Jun OF the thing. He
dovoles his day time TO money'making
Hnd his nights 20 Iolitios as u side Issue,
lie 10, you know, a rich man, aud ~
PRESIDENT OF the United States Express
a M a
has An Income OF many times ten
thousand dollars year.
OF late, however, things have not
been running well with Tom Platt.
lie thinks tho New York delegation
has been slighted ut this cohVsn.
ton. lie will not take insulie with.
out resenting them ana he feels
inclined to fight. l had been
in hts rooms perhaps ten minutes be-
fore he was at leisure. He then came
over aud sat down beside me.
"What does New York expect " get
out " this convention"
eve are here TO elect a President"
was the reply; 1--WE want Lew l.. Nor
ton. That u what Now York 10 here
iUrD
"But II you can't nominate Morton,
what theL2"
~ don't recognise any No." replied
Plat. "When 70 Into n sht do
not have any lie about IT, lt Is not
good politics uOr good business"
elbow about the plEitormW
awe are uutquivooally Tor gold We
want the gold plank ~ strong us We
can make II. We want no btfadui1
Whatever, We are for gold with capt
lG.D
at issaid that New York Is not sat
isiied ana there ia some talk OF posi-
billty VI u bolt"
~ don't tuink anything VI the kind
replied Mi. Plat, tive ate all Rspuuli'
cats.D