New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-07-08


down by the people OF this State to the tune OF
156. 1O8 plurality for Levi p. Morton.
Vice President Stevenson appears by his own
statement to have been the victim Of false pre-
fences At least. he has convinced himself that
he would have stood good chance of securing
the nomination at Chicago II he had spoken his
mind frankly instead Of taking the advice OF
certain supposed friends who urged him to keep
his mouth closed at the same time promising
him their supper. when the right time came.
The right time hasn't yet come in their view.
At all events they have some other candidate
I'm their minds eye now and the Hon. Adlai
finds himself left" He can console himself
with the reflection that at any rate he Is IN no
danger Of being set up as candidate simply 70
be bOwed over.
John r. Mclean never said a truer thing than
when he declared that every greenbacker is
for free silver" That is exactly the point
Everybody who wants everything for nothing is
prepared TO take half loaf If he can't get
whole one Free silver is half loaf =
One day we hear that Croker Is out OF politics
for good and another that he is coming home
10 take command Of Tammany again and strad-
die around the quarterback among his plug
ugly buccaneering crew as usual. 1t Is likely
that he has had enough of 1t. He Is one OF the
high priests of the order which is In politics for
what can be made out OF 1t. and as there Is
nothing more in the game for him his interest in
It is exhausted. He may come back on flying
visit, but there Is little prospect that he VIII
put on his war paint again.
II Ia anybody's race in the Democratic Con-
yention, presenting a field Of scrubs never as
sembled before on any political course In the
world None OF the prominent figures In the
party want the nomination, or will take II, and
the scramble for 1t among the political tramps
there assembled is like the scramble OF gang
of hoboes for a beer can. To such base uses
has the proud and wicked old party returned
whom the gods would destroy they make mad,
and that Is the evil case OF the Democracy In
these evil days that go before its ruin. After
the campaign few bubbles over the place
where II sank will be all that Is left TO tell
it's mournful tale the Tillmans and he Altgeds
and their kind who ran 1t on the reefs all being
consigned to Davy Joness locker, the fitting
limbo and watery repository OF such among
whelks and sea dragons Populists and Anarchs
of the under deep. among whom they WILL no
doubt find themselves as much at nome rs
a sea urchin at a Sunday school. or basking
shark at q matinee.
ut may as well be understood that wmie
Am I'm the chair this Convention Will be con-
Quoted In a decent and orderly fashion, said
the chairman OF the Democratic National CoW-
mittee after setting the ball rolling yesterday
Alas for the rarity
or william IIarrty
The number Of foreign estates awaiting Amer'-
can inheritors does not diminish, though ,he
inheritors never enter In and possess them.
They vanish on approach like the end OF ram
bow showing where the pot OF gold IL buried
The last one to turn up Is appraised at SSo.ooo'-
600 and In claimed by representatives. ot the
Holt family resident here. II dates back about
two hundred years the nest egg having been
laid bv Lord Chief Justice OF the regns OF
William III and Queen Anne. IL lay In the pickle
vat Of chancery something like one hundred ana
fifty years and then heirs-at-law began To ap-
pear. but the only thing certainly known OF
them IL that none OF them ever got anything.
and nobody has yet succeeded In locating any
OF the property. Still the present American
claimants are certain IL there. and their lawyer
assures them that they have good case. They
will. no doubt, he called on TO advance some
money to carry on Investigations. and when
that 10 spent they will be asked for mora 30