The sun., 1897-09-17
WORTH WAR TO BEPUSHED.
THE LINES ARE BEING DRAWN TOE
THE PRIMARIES NEXT MONDAY.


Conptro,ier P,ir,or Rewards Two County Com.
ntttee Delegates who stood BY worth AFTER
Giving s,rns or BeinE Ready 10 90 over 90
the eEnemy--PatricE n. Flynn Denies . harh'
Tho anti. Worth leaders in Brooklyn encour-
aged by the gallant capture OF the County Com
Inittee from tho strongly intrcnched enemy on
Tuesday night, are busily engaged for another
grand coup at the primaries next Monday
night They arc cock sure that on that night
tho Hon. Jacob worth's utter political de-
throncmcnt will be decreed and that the decks
will In dead earnest be cleared for action
before the time comes TO 'cross the river
Tho prediction OF Sheriff Buttling and tho
other Worth retainers that tho combination
formed by Lieut.-Gov. Woodruff, Theodore b..
Willis. and Walter b. Atterbury would fall to
pieces after tho County Committee contest
had been decided. has not been verified. Those
gentlemen arc still harmonious, and yesterday
they spent several hours at the Clarendon
Hotel headquarters arranging all the details for
tho next battle
Lieut.. Gov Woodruff declared that tho
stories about n probable compromise between
Senator Platt nnd Worth were utterly base
less.
"Mr. Platt." he said, doesn't play politics
that way. There has boon no change In the
situation except that the two men are further
and further apart. There is no chance OF a
compromise Worth will not have half the
delegates to tho City Convention or anything
near it. He will also be beaten in the County
Convention, probably to 1. Ho has never
carried a County Convention. even with the
State organization with him, and he Is not
going to do it now with the State organization
against him. Worth's game has been one OF
hypocrisy from the start, He declared for
Low because he thought he could hold his own
wards, in which there is no Low sentiment
and make inronds in such wards as the First
Seventh. Twentieth and Twenty. third, where
the Low sentiment Is strong. IL Is peculiar
that with the exception of two votes In these
wards they We're solidly against Worth
will wager that more delegates Will votS 10 Iol
Low in tho City drS 1rSm the "'
1t is generally assumed that Naval Oficel
| Sharkey and Congressman Fischer. who pro
| tee by majority OF nearly 20 instead OF g
will henceforward be included in the anu
p. Ii. Flynn, who was instrumental in bring.
| ing Henry A. Hamburg, the Eighth ward lead
| er. into the anti orth camp. denied emphati
| cally yesterday the story that he had come or
Saturday night from. Senator Platt bearing an
| olive branch to Worth.
go and ask Jake himself, Mr., Flynn said
''about such proposition. His state OF mind
must be interesting"
Comptroller Palmer, who shares with Sheriff
Buttling the distinction of being very close tc
which are exceedingly suggestive, to say tht
least. In the first place he promoted Josiah
W. Mackey, a $75 a month clerk in the Regis
ter's Office, to the place of ASS slant warrant
| clerk in his own office nt a salary or $loo
| month. Mackcy was delegate to the County
| Convention from the Tenth ward, and voted
| for Worth. Two days before the meeting ht
was regarded shaky, and the Willis peo
| pie were trying TO capture him The othei
| appointment by Comptroller Palmer was that
| OF Abraham Miller as Dockmaster at a salary
| OF 81 900 year. Miller also a delegate tt
the County Committee from tho Twenty sixth
| ward, and stood by Worth. He, like Mackey
had for few days been in the "doubtful' col
| umn OF delegates
| In a few days the warning statesmen will
| have their states for the various county anc
other offices in the field and the fighting whicl
| is now general will be transferred to each OF thu
old 629 election districts among which the Re
publican voting host is still distributed, al
| though tho Election Commissioners have re
| duccd the districts TO 5l6. In their quest fo
| delegates the anti Worth chicftains, cmbold
| ened by their success. will penetrate every dis
| trict, no matter how strongly manned II ma!
seem to be by the enemy. nor will they b,
| checked in any way in their onslaughts or di
| verted from their main purpose by the presence
| OF the dccoy Low banners which Worth ha
| hung out to bcfog the real Issue.
| Until Worth is completely driven from tn
field there will be no peace in the Republican
| camp.