New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-13

slender nervous hand OF MI. 'iN' 10 ''''"''
n suspicious people in the defeat OF Ham fish
D. aaiaoo,o 70 tho Republican National Convention
,ror, the Duchess district. The Speakers Doom
for Governor they say. expanding too rapidly
TO suit the Boss. he quietly punctured IL IN ,hii
wov A man without his Congress district oehind
him Is hardly In a position TO press his claims 10Y
the States chief magistracy against S.are noa
troller or n Congressman with state committee
behind him.
Fish's fate contains sad lesson for the other am
h,t,ous statesmen who aspire 10 Mr. Morton's place
Apparently they realize II. for one OF 'hem I"
prom,nent State Official translated his feehhss IN
about this language the other evening: we al
,rv 10 think ourselves In It, but we are not above our
shoe tops When the Governor has served fia''
nurnoses at ST. Louis he will find balm In the shape
~ a denomination awaiting him. He Will think
long while over all that will have happened by that
time hut after many a rueful shake OF the head VIII
accent the place and be reelected by a handsome
majority while Saxton Odell Roberts. Aldridge and
cnnt,nue to work for reform. Meantime: however.
we are all shouting uproarous approval or the great
Gnvernor of New-York will be Levi p. Morton Mark
nv words Lieutenant Governor! on, Saxton,
s1PP Snrv before the Lesaure aourns have
70 he placated Then the man from Clyde had
better look out
Discussing Presidential matters. The olean
Times" remarks: Mr. Quay says Mckinley would
not recognize the people who elected him. Mr..
ouay understands the people to consist OF himself,
Mr. Patt and few lesser promoters OF personalpull
political organizations
The declaration made by "Leslies Weekly" that
there Is no natural Morton sentiment In the Repub-
can ranks which, left to Itself. would associate his
name with the Presidency leads The Troy Press
TO declare: The overwhelming Republican senti-
ment OF the State on the Presidential question has
o PRF and
Troy. for instance. nine out OF Ten Kepuocans u Is
And Ia throughout the State. Ross
ism is enthroned In the party bent upon ruling or
running IT..
It is taken for granted that Governor Morton will
sign the Raines bill. His Presidential boom. says
the machine camp. and from now on everything
bearing the trade mark T. c. p. will be accepted
sterling metal by the Governor
Even his enemies admit that Senator Pavey Is
making an enviable reputation for himself at AL
bany He is one Of the few men In politics that APP
preciate opportunity for enduring work.
Senator Lamy's excuse for going into the caucus
on the Raines bill, because ! promised Mr.. Patt"
bids fair says 1.-The Albany Argus to hold high
place among the notable sayings OF great men.
According to The Watertown Times" so per
cent OF the Republican vote In Northern New-York
is for Mckinley. and THE Binghamton Repub-
lean insists that after a complimentary vote for
Morton the entire New-York delegation will vote
as a unit for the Ohio leader Notwithstanding this
fact. the WATERFOWL paper insists that all the
delegates are loyal to Mr. Morton" To this as
indignant contemporary rejons: why
should the delegates be loyal to Morton? Why
should not this overwhelming majority send dele
gates to st. Louis who will represent their un-
trammeed voice from the outset instead Of vot-
Ing for Morton. whom they don't want so long "a
there be any chance Of his nomination? Veriiy n
Is curious TO see how the Republicans OF the EE,n
pire State swallow their convictions at the behest
OF Tom Platt More and more 1t looks as thomgh
the members Of the New-York State deie
CATION to the st. Louis Convention wound ha
many jumping-ja jacks with Patts hand hold
Ing all the strings. Why does not The Wstertowr
Times sound revolt against bosssm and urge
leans to elect delegates OF their own stripe?'
Mckinleys triumph In the Fifth Ward of Roch.
ester last week inspires The Union and Ad,.r
t!ser to tell Mr.. Morton: This IL only .,r.
Governor. but 1t shows which way the wind biow.""
At the Republican caucus In North Tonawanda
the vote for President resulted as follous. Au,o,
8; Reed b; Morton. Is; Mckinley le4 "''''''''
review OF the political situation leads .rha
fonkers Statesman" thus to sum I'D the case for
Mckinley: The dangerous thing for the other cam
didates Is not so much that McKinlev will lead
upon me uFst ballot ~ that the plurality Of votes