The age-herald., 1897-09-04
MATT MINOR ;. IN NEW YORK.

HoI much comfort tr9V5ling in summer. | Mans better off at home. The Pennsyl-
 varda railroad is the only railroad in the United States that has undertaken to
 master the problem of keeping their
 tracks clear of dust and preventing cin- ders from flying from the engine. Other
 roads ought to try it. If the Pennsylva-
 mia railroad can do it there is 10 reas-n
 why all the others can't do the same
 thing. That's one reason why the
 Pennsylvania railroad gets so much busi-
 ness
 New Ycrkig about the same as it Twas
 when I was there a few weeks ago, except Lemuel Ely Quigg has gotten great .al
 larger Quigg, you know is the man who is running Tom Platts machins. Always Thought Fcatt made mistake when he
 gave Qugg the job. Quigg's small citi-
 zen.5s Not much in him. Don't know any thing but machine politics. That kind of politics in New York is rotten. Quigg he don't care. Ha's in the business for what he can get out of it..
 Tom Platt he's having pretty serious
 time nowadays, Hasn't got things his
 way any longer. Citizens committee giving him pretty hard push. Nomina-
 tion of Ssth Low for mayor of Greater New York by the citizens committee is galdng to Platt. PIatt is no longer the ''easy bcas." Truth Is, Platts about out Of a job as boss at all. Platt can't have
 his way much longer. Looks like the peoples got him on the run. Nice man Tom Platt is. Clever fellow. Got more
 sense in a minute than most men have in a lifetime. Platt will never consent to | have Lowe mayor. Platt, he's a slick 1 citizen Mark my prediction. If Platt at any time believes that Lowe may be
 elected the "easy boss'' will join forces
 with Tammany and will beat the Brook 1 lyn professor. Never could understand l why Tom Platt took so much intersst in | politics. He's rich. President of the | United States Express company. Got all 1 the money he wants. At least a geod
 deal more than he can ever spend. His sons are all in business making money. | All good business men. I wouldn't be abused the way he is for one hundred l times the amount he g;ts out of it. Guess
 he just likes to have power Platt's never I made any money out of politics like l Crolosr has. Croker, you know, got rich l without ever doing any work.
 Croker is expected to arrive from Eng | land next Tuesday. He's coming back i to coach Tammany. Tammany's con- i siderably run down at the heel now. Never recovered from the swating pr. | Parkhurst gave it. The "doc," you l know, fairly raised Tammany out of it's | boots. He was the forerunner of the | Lexow committee, and the Lezow com mittee didn't do a thing to the dishon- est policemen. Some things the doc" did badly, but with all his errors he should be forgiven in having baen in- strumental in ridding New York of some l, of the greatest thieves in history, most ! of whom were policemen. It was Park hurst who drove Dick Croker to Eng land.
 Parkhurst's out of politics. Now Dick, | he's sneaking back.
 Ha wants more stuff. He never would | answer where he "got it." Dick Croker's | fortune was wrung from unfortunate | women, blackmailed by the police force, who divided with Croker. Croker's l smart fellow. But he's not straight. | Saw Larry Godkin, editor of the Post. 1 Godkin is ultra English. Don't think he 1 likes America very well. Am willing to 1 forgive him for that. No law compell- ;r ,,ot his desire to like it. Godkln is everlast- l ingly lambasting Dingley and his robber | tariff bill It was he who drove the tin | plate liars out of business in 1892. They | got to be too numerous. Grandest liars | in history. While they were yelping for | high protective tariff on tin, there was | not enough of that article being made l in this country to cook the pies on that 1 are consumed at Vassar college. I'm with Godkin. He tells the truth, he does. | If there is anything despise it is a liar. I've no use for hypocrites. They are a | disgrace to civilization. A hypocrite is l the enemy of mankind. Godkin's not l hypocrite. He's mugwump. But every | man has right to his political princi-
 pies.
 
 l the Normandie hotel. Looking pretty | smooth. Well dressed in a Prince Albert coat, and high hat. Didn't have the ap- pearance of man who had just sneaked | away from Woofort's roost. Afraid Hill's 1 lost his grip in New York politics. The
 machine got away from him. The course l inc pursued in the last campaign did him | no good. Il hurt him. He knows it. r IT ,e q, ,;c axya o, ha nr- l ship next year. That's the way he's go- l ing to get back into politics, if he can. He hasn't lost sight of the presidency. 1 If he's elected governor next year he will 1 be we'll at the head of The procession in | 1900. Don't think Whitney likes Hill al-
 though they got in the same nest together
 last year. They just said nothing. They l didn't even saw wood. I think Whi rrey
 will stick the knife in Hill if he attempts 1 to go to the front.
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