The St. Johns herald., 1897-11-06
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Boss Platt Badly Frightened at
 the Situation.
! Our Regular Correspondent. |


 From Our Regular Correspondent
 WASHINGTON, October 30, 1897.
 'Helpl Help!! Help!!!" That is
 the sum and substance If the tale of
 woe poured into Mir McKinley's ear by
 Boss Platt, who made a flying trip to
 Washington to tell MT. Mckinley that
 everything was going against the Platt-
 Mckinley candidate for mayor of New
 York, and that there was also great dan
 ger that the republicans would also lose
 control of the legislature. He tired to
 persuade Mir. Mckinley to wIite a per
 sonal letter for publication. tavorirg
 Tracey, and almost, but not quite, suc
 ceeded. MT. Mckinley has the matter
 under advisement and is rather inclined
 to do what Platt wants him to do, but several of the shrewdest members of
 his cabinet are trying to show him that 1t would he unwse for him to do so. They tell him that everybody in New
 York knows him 10 be Jn favor ot Ira cey, and hat letter signed hy him,
 making that declaration would not get Tracey single vote that he would not
 -r+ ~-'--'--.'v tvhila.f # vo%ld he 9 nar 70 the administration deny ng after Ira cey's defeat tlu # had =o.@l. to force Boss Pla-ts man en the seop!e Of TeH York
 Hypocrisy is the most contemp'ible of vices. Onlv last week it was announced with great flourish of trumpets that the cabinet had decided to enforce MT. McKinley's civil service order, that no government employe should be dis charged except upon written charges, notwithstanding the decision of court l that the order was not binding in law l and now those Ohio republicans em- ployed by the government in Washing !! ton who hal declined to go home to vote | to help get Boss Hanna back in the sen- | ate, have been notified that a Mir. Sid 1 ney A. Perkins, who is known as Boss Hanra's personal representative i'll Washington, has put their uanpS upon | a black list which is to be turned over to Boss H lnna when he comes back to | Washington, after the Ohio eleCtIon. or 1 course Mir. Perkins hasn't told any of | thos, put 'lron the black list that Boss H lnna intends 10 have them discharged 1 if they in not go to Ohio md rote for h m. but that is what he wishes them to suppose and some of them regard the hint as being sufficiently strong to cause them to change their minds and decide | to go home and vote. They know that | no matter how much the cabinet may | prate about protecting the civil service [ employees of the government, that a nod from Ross Hanna is sufficient to b. ing about the dismissal of an employ e III any branch of the government. All 1 the news that comes to Washington iu- dicates that Boss Hanna is a very badly man oee~tEa prosIe e.ts of bis . defeat, and the latest blast from Colonel {. Conger, ex-member Of the Republicau I National con nitteP, and 3 member O. i Governor Bushnell's staff. against him and his methods. is not calculated tO al Iay his fright. If the democrats of Ono had mt been heavily handicapped Tn tbair campaign, there would have been little doubt of their carrying the stale, owinG to the extent of the secret opposi- ton of republicans to Boss Hanna. They may do so yet, especially if the vis of Mir. Bryan results in arousing the democratic enthusiasm and courage that it is confidently expected It will.
 Some of Mir. McKinley's fool friends may get him into serious trouble is they continue to add to thei oating over the failure of Senator N..'cotts inter- national bimetalic commission, and talk about MT. Mckinley having lived no to the promise made by the republi- .an platform. by trying to secure inter- national bimetallism through Wolcott's They may discover before the coming session of congress IS very old that there are silver men among the as well as among the demo- crats and populistS who have the cour- noe to question the good faith of Mir. Mckinley in promising Senator Wolcott that the efforts of the commission to se-