New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-22
WORTH A FALLEN IDOL.
nrsrprED BY PLATT AND DEFEATED IN
HIS OWN TENTS.
,,v .1.s NOT A LEG TO STAND ON. POLITICALLY.
ro-pAY-THE REASON THAT THE Ex-sENA-
TOP CAME OUT FOR MKINLEr WAS
THAT ALL HOPE OF PBOPTTIArlNd
THE UPSTATE LEADER WAS
GREss CONVENTIONS.


LOST IN THE CON
GREss CONVENTIONS.
r.ooh Worth. who has been Platts representa-
1.-Two IN Kings County for a time so ions 'hal
+be memory Of many politicians runs not 10 the
contrary s fallen political idol and II is Alto
getber likely that Ike jeremiah. his heritage
seems to him to be like speckled bird Inc
recent victory of the Administration Republicans
at tho Congress conventions only emphasized the
factional downfall of ex-senator WORTH WHICH
took place about three months ago. since "h'o"
time IT Is said. he and Mr.. Platt have not sP'he"
as they passed The tale OF the Wurster-" HIS
victory last Thursday night has been toiu a'
length in The Tribune. and ever since tna' '."e
the administration men. fgurativeiy speahis.
have "bIown into a conch and banged peh'
and told the story Of the Worth Waterloo with
circumstance and much embroidery
Rut Mr. Worths defeat did not begin al 'he
Congress conventions. He and Mr. PlaN nave
not been in harmony for some tiihe anu !" 30
now known that the leader of the state fSePup"-
can machine and the former leader OF ''e ma
chine in Kings County. are and nave pee" at o'
The Tribune yesterday published exclusively al
interview with Mr.. Worth. In which ne sau ''"'
no believed Mr.. Mckinley would be elected Presl-
fore then believed that Mr.. Plat and all oil MS
tribe were booming Morton, was first shocked
nv This apparent treason on the part OF MI
Worth Later IL came to consider that, as MI
p,a,t rim ponnaIly favors the Governor OF New
Work for President Mr.. Worths outspoKen IN
dorsem, nt of Mckinley meant that the machine
IN Kings County was no longer Platts machine.
Naturally this leaves Mr.. Worth without any
"puII' whats He has been lett out III the
cold on all sides. .ror,,. for
himself and his followers from the AdInihistrd-
ticn, and he can have no hopes now OF set'l's
anything from Mr.. Plat. who is known 10 or d
esder who requires value received foI every -
thing he dspenses in the WY or PATRONAGE
At the present time Mr.. Worth can deliver holn
ing in the way Of results ana only 'neil'i
Ruttling OF the once famous worth forces ~
rains active and In some ways powerful; MT
Fulfilling. II may be remarked. is cheerful IN
spite OF reverses. x,., ,.t
hogan some time ago. but after the last munic-
ipal election, when the Kings county machine
was first stopped and after II was taken =,
peces at the Congress conventions lhoiiias u
platt lad no use for Jacob Worth. Al the con-
test last Thursday night the Worth men made
a desperate fight. They had been claiming ihree
districts at least and had been moving all the
powers at their command to win victory whi ,ch
they knew was necessary In the crisis which
confronted them. But the strength OF the auihlh-
istration. which had been growing ever s'iiC'
Nevor Wurster went into Office overwhelmed the
hes, and bravest that the ex-senator an" '"o
Sheriff were able to muster. .
To-day as a well-known Rel ublican told II
Tribune reporter. Jacob Worth hasn't leg 10
stand on politically" And as Nj. Worth IL not
hrund 10 Mr. Platt he is not bound to Mr. Nor
ton and this explains why he is willing to push
the Mckinley boom along. This means that
Palmer and Saffen in the With District. VINO are
~ IN, srictest sect Of the Worth men. Will prob
ably be McKineyites at the National Conven.
ton Shorn Of his power. but independent or
djctation Worth can afford 10 go II alone. ana
n from this time he and his followers favor NC
Kiney. IT will probably not be because they love
Mckinley more. but because they love Piatt
less