Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-11-17
BOSS CROKER +. BACK |
His Probable Course as to Tammany
Halls Leader.
PROJECT 10 FORM 4 new STATE
Jeffersonian Democracy Apparently
Lost in the Shuttle.
THEGOvERNoksHIP PROBLEM
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
NEW YORK. November 16, 1897
If New York city and state politics were
of the cheotic variety before elections. what
shall be said of the situations since cleo
tons? Tammany Hall is the only organiza-
ton which has a well-defined program
Like all Of Tammany's programs it is
based upon the distribution of Offices
Judge Van Wyck has been recuperating
after the "arduous duties" of the last CAM
paign in the suburbs of the city. Boss"
Croker, who has been spending few days
at southern summer resorts in search of a
change of liver, in company with a number
Of Tamanany leaders, has returned.
With the same dark suit and, overcoat
and we'll brushed silk hat, Richard Croker
has returned to the scene of his triumph.
There was no ovation on his arrival. With
the Tammany chieftain were Mrs. Croker,
Col. Asa Bird Gardner of ito hi with
reform" fame, and Sene tor Thomas F.
Grady. Croker stated that he felt better;
had no thought CT politics. but simply
wanted to attend the horse show, where he
has box and promises to be a star at
traction.
A Lot of Talk.
OF course Croker's return has precip-
itated a lot of talk. chiefly in regard to the
removal of John c. Sheenan from the NOM
inal leadership of Tammany Hall and the
substitution of John F. Carroll. Opinion
is evenly divided as to Cookers course in
this matter Carroll, it is we'll known, was
his intimate during his sojourn abroad
and during the campaign, and had his ear
mere times than any other man in New
York. If Cookers own desires were final
1t is believed Carroll would be made NOM
inal leader, vice Sheehan; but there are
several discontinued spirits in Tammany
and they follow closely behind Sheehan
1t would probably be bad policy to stir up
trouble in the organization so soon after
the re-entry into power. Sheehan is likely
therefore to remain in his present position
for the present at least.
To Create a New State.
Aside from the expected scramble for
office Richard Croker is said to have an
ambition to extend Tammany's domain be-
yond the confines of Greater New York
Cookers idea is said to be to create a new
state by divorcing sixteen counties of the
state of New York and Incorporating them
as the state of Manhattan. This is de-
fined in bill. which is to be introduced at
the coming session of the legislature by
Assemblyman Patrick Trainor. of the thir-
teenth district this city. Mr.. Trainor who
Is member of Tammany Hall, presented
a similar bill in the assembly last year,
but 1t did not get beyond committee
Mr.. Trainor insists that the bill and the
idea embodied in it are his own, but the
political importance of the measure is
such that 1t is hardly credible that a sub
lieutenant would undertake to suggest and
advocate the plan without the consent and
assistance of the leaders. Mr.. Croker, how
ever, prefers to profess ignorance of the
project, which is ore of the most gigantic
IN the political history of modern times
The plan Is to create a new democratic
state and add two sure democratic United
states senators; to secure control of the
legislature of what would be the greatest
and richest state in the Union; to divide
the electoral vote of the pivotal state; to
send to the lower house of Congress q solid
democratic delegation from the state of
Manhattan, and to get absolute legislative
control over the second greatest city on
earth for the benefit of Tammany Hall.
Will Oppose the Bill.
The other democratic leaders in the state,
it is said, will oppose the bill on the ground
that 1t will be unwise to separate the great
commercial and political interests of the
empire state, and, furthermore, they will
not assist in making an old rival and antag-
onist the greatest political power perhaps
il the country, for his ACKNOWLEDGMENT
would mean their extinguishment POLITICAL
ly.
In order to become a law. the Trainor bill
must be adopted by the Legislature and be
approved by Congress. The sixteen
form the state of Manhattan are
New York, Kings. Queens. Richmond.
Suffolk. Westchester. Oorange. Putnam,
Duchess, Columbia, Ulster. Greene,
Rockland. Albany. Rensselaer, and part of
Schoharie, with a population of $780,, 30,
as compared with 2.631, l23 for the forty
four re naming counties. This would make
the new 'tate the second largest in the
Union in regard to population, Pennsylva-
MIA alone exceeding it. The remaining for
ty-four counties left to comprise the state
of New York would make state the sixth
largest in the Union. The new state would
contain a territory of $500 square miles, as
compared with territory of 40, 1913 square
miles.
The sixteen counties have twenty-seven
out of the fifty senator's. and more than
half of the assemblymen in the legislature
under the present apportionment, and TWEEN
ty out of the thirty-four representatives in
Congress.
The Jefferson Democracy.
AS for the Thomas Jefferson Democracy.
it seems to have been lost in the shuttle
since the recent election. Henry George,
who succeeded to the leadership Of the
party and to the nomination for mayor at
the time of the death Of his father ap-
pears to have given up politics temporarily
and has devoted his attention recently to
the preparations for his marriage to a Chi
time ard attention in the future, however,
to the publication of his fathers work and
to the leadership of the Thomas Jefferson
democracy. 1t is thought that nine oat OF ten
of the 10000 votes cast for Henry George,
the younger, in the recent election, were
cast by single takers On this account it
is expected that the single takers will DOM
mate the new organization. The Manhat-
tan Single Tax Club in fact, recently Of
fered the Thomas Jefferson democracy Its
club rooms as a permanent headquarters
for the organization and it is thought its
offer will be accepted. On this account
many Of the cid leaders have declined to
follow the organization into the camp OF
the single takers Willis Abbott, the chair
nan of the Henry George campaign COM
mittee. recently published a card. to the
effect that the vote which would have gone
to Henry George the elder, of Ter his death
very properly went back to Van Wyck."
This surrender on the part of Abbott to
Croker is regarded as deathblow to the
organization, so far as practical political
effort at the present tine Is considered.
though it may be a sort Of nucleus around
which single takers and disaffected demo-
Gratis may rally in the fGtureS
To Align Republicans.
Recognizing, therefore. That the demo-
Gratis In Greater New York are now prac-
tically united. strenuous efforts It is said,