The news & observer., 1897-10-12

tlclan, ana repedteuly "0"N
had given up something Ior nothlng
something which neither practical politi-
clan nor the successful business man Is
generally willing to do.
Under ordinary circumstances 1t would
seem as though the Democrats should
have profited by reason of the lack Of
''unifying forces to be found in the Cltl-
zens' Union and the Thomas Jefferson
| Democrats. But Mr.. Croker, who seems
| to have developed a wonderful capacity
| for laundering since his return from
| England, took another hand at nominat-
| inc candidates, and now confusion is
confounded and war has broken out be-
| tween the gold and silver Democrats and
| Tammany Hall.
MR.. GUGGENHEIMER'S NOMINA-
TION.
1t all arises over the nomination of
Mr.. Randolph Guggenheimer for Presi-
dent of the Municipal Council, instead
of Col. Jacob Rupert, resigned. Mr..
Guggenheimer is real estate attorney for
the firm in which Mr.. Croker is silent
partner, and he is his own authority for
the statement that he was a good Nc
Kinley Republican last fall. He declar-
ed his intention to vote for Mckinley
in letter published in Bryan newspa-
per. Mr. Croker, at the time of the city
convention, announced repeatedly that
only men who had voted for William
Jennings Bryan would be allowed to be
placed upon the ticket His candidate
for District Attorney, instead of being
Tom Grady, Senator, Police Justice, and
a red-hot organization man, who at least
made free silver and Bryanesque speech
es last fall, is Col Asa Bird Gardiner,
who succeeded in running away from his
political duties and obtaining a residence
in Garden City, thus escaping going on
record through his vote.
Inasmuch as Mr.. Guggenheimer is
representative of the English brewing
syndicate, a combination of interests
popular neither among the local brewers
of New York nor among the opponents
of the trust methods of doing business,
it may be taken for granted that he
will not succeed in attracting many
votes to the Democratic organization
ticket.
As for Gen. Tracy, Citizen Low and
his friends continue to pour hot shot
into his candidacy as the nominee of the
| regular Republican organization. Citi-
zen Greevey, the chairman of the Brook
lyn committee of the fifty, during a re-
cent political meeting in the interests of
Mr.. Low, reminded his hearers Of the
cord connecting Tracy and Low and then
| remarked in Il most scatbing fashion:
Mr. Platt has invoked the honored
name of the party of Lincoln and Grant
| but he said nothing of the name of Gar
| field"
While most of the machine Republicans
and Platt adherents will mechanically
vote for General Tracy, not entertaining
any hope of electing their candidate, but
simply to enable the regulars" to make
a respectable showing when the returns
| are canyassed, many may secretly cast
their ballot for Van Wyck, who is the
| second choice of every Tracy supporter.
Chairman Quigg and Platt are already
| convinced beyond doubt that General
| Tracy is hopelessly beaten, notwith-
standing the fact that he has received
the Endorsement of aid from the McKin-
ley administration and all party leaders,
and as between Low, the bolter; George,
the proclaimed foe of trusts and corpora
tions, and Van Wyck, simply the candi-
date of rival organization, they prefer
| Tammany to win. Platt has made no
deal with Tammany, but history would
|
campaign closes.
BALM FOR GRADY'S FEELINGS.
AS a balm to his wounded ambition,
| Grady has been promised a Commission
ship in one of the city departments, and
| Mcintyre, who declined to forsake the
| Tiger in time of need, has been booked
for Assistant District Attorney should
Tammany's county ticket win
| The strenuous efforts Of Platt ct al. to
make Mckinley campaign argument
paramount in the campaign have failed,
and the efforts Of free silver Democratic
| leaders to force national issues to the
front has resulted in free silver being
| ignored or repudiated on all sides. The
nerve and inconsistency displayed by the
George adherents, swearing allegiance to
the Chicago platform, and asking for
Bryan public Endorsement, when George
repudiates the principal plank in the
platfOrm-free silver-is nearly equaled
by Tammany seeking chairman Jones'
Endorsement on the plea of regularity,
when Tammany ignored the entire Chi
cago platform.
Betting may not be an indication of
the way things are going, because it will
| be remembered that betting men in this
clty were positive OF the election or
Cleveland at the time of his second Presi-
Dental canvass, but it is worth mention
ing that the ruling odds are in favor
of Tammany. Two of the New York
city papers, not at all friendly to Van
Wyck, have attempted to poll the voters
Of Greater New York, and it is sugges-
tive that after interviewing and securing
expressions of opinions from perhaps a
quarter of the voters of the Greater
New York territory, the candidate of
Tammany Hall is in the lead in both in
stances. Straw ballots and political bets
are not everything. But they serve at
least as a straw by which some people
are led to believe they see the way the
political wind is blowing.
A SHORT ANSWER.
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