The age-herald., 1897-09-14
Those Who Abused Him Now
 Platter Him.
WILL SELECT THE TICKET
Dayton May Be Nominated for Mayor as He Is Strongly Backed by w. C. Whitney
 and Has a Good Record.
Special to The Age-Herald.

is home again and when he is ready he
 will select the Tammany candidates
 for all the offices to be filled at the No
 vember election from Mayor right down,
 the list ito aldermen. The fiction that
 Croker is out of politics. is so trans
 parent that 1t TO longer deceives any
 one. The Tanmany district leaders and
 the men who want ito be nominated for
 effice have been falling tover each other
 to obtain a word withSthe "old Man a Since Croker stepped ashore last Tues
 day morning. his every move has been
 watched with brsathless interest by a
 public that has been engaged in abus-
 ing him for several years. The record
 of his movements fills columns in the pa-
 pers every day and a crowd of reporters
 and newspaper artists are at his heels wherever he goes.
 Some of his friends and more of his
 enemies are trying to create the impress sion that CrolSer is going to have him. | self nominated for mayor. SuoA talk amuses him and pleases him as well | for he is not without vanity. But he 1 has too much sense and too much knowl- l edge of human nature to attempt any
 such daring move as that. He could
 not be elected and he knows it.
 But Croker, according to his friends,
 is quite well pleased to see newspapers
 that have abused him shamefully in
 the past now printing pages of stuff in-
 tended to convince the public that he is
 the greatest politician of the age. And | 1t must make him feel very we'll sat | isfied with himself to see politicians who | denounced him as a coward less than two years ago now crawling in the dust at his feet and begging him to nom mate them for something or other. Croker believes that Tammany is going to win this time and he knows that the victory will be the most important and far-reaching in the history of the organ ization and will not surprise any one if he takes occasion to punish some enemies and reward his friends in the makeup of the ticket His word will be the law of last resent in the selection of candi- dates.
 It Is the general impression in inside circles that Charlss w. Dayton, formerly postmaster, is slated for the nomination I for mayor with the approval of Croker. Dayton is backed for the place by W. c. Whitney, and all of the powerful influ- ence of the Metropolitan Traction com pany. Whitney has more influence with Croker than any other man inside or outside of Tammany Hall Dayton is a very popular man and made a good rec ord as postmaster. He was opposed to Bryan and the Chicago platform in the last campaign, but CrolSer is in full sym- pathy with the Tammany plan to ignore
 that platform in the local campaign. It is also said that th- nomination of Day. ton will be entirely satisfactory to Arch bishop Corrigan and the Catholic clergy of thla city, an Influence very powerful
 and far-reaching in local politics.
 There is no longer any doubt about the
 position or the national democracy, or
 sound money democrats in this cam
 paign. They are all going to fall in line
 and support the Tammany ticket and
 take chances of getting share of the
 spells. They will, of course, make a
 strong play to have some of their choice
 officeseekers placed on the ticket.
 lThe republicans are going ahead with
 their preparations to nominate straight
 ticket and for once 1t looks as if the
 mugwumps of New York would have to
 go to the polls amd be coutned unless
 go to the polls and be counted unless
 their idol, Seth Low, gets discouraged
 anid w]tl1draIwrs from the race at the Fast
 moment. The talerlt gossip Is to tEe
 effect that the republicans are going to
 nomlrate Chauncey M. Depeiw for may
 or, and thsIa he can be induced to aJc-
 cspt. It might be considered a step
 Backwards in politics for Depew, but of course idhere is a chance that he might be elected, and 'the first mayor of Greater New York VIII have great opportunity ito make a record for hanself. The re- pubIoan and mugwumD situation in a nuthell is a fight against Senator Platt, a fight to break his power and drive | him from tlhe leairxthip of 1lhe party in | the city and state. The, same fight has | been going on for six years and every | yeLar Mr Pla1t turns up at the conven- | tion with more delegates than he had | the year before, and his grip on the machine grows fitHle tighter. Tn vic | Cory or defeat at the polls the result is the same in the paIty organization. Many times Platt has apparently been in very close place, butt he always came out ahead of his enemies, and the chances are tlh.aIt his luck will not de- sert him this time.
 New York is just now enjoying the greatest boom in its history. The busi- ness of the wholesale merchants was never better, and the downtown streets are congested by the enormous traffic. l The most conspicuous evidence of pros l perity is to be seen in the bay and on | the rivers. The oldest inhabitant never
 saw before so much shipping as there is now to be seen in the harbor. The | rivers swarm with vessels of all kinds, | and the upper bay Is crowed with ships | at anchor awaiting their turn at the docks. The docking facilities of the city are entirely inadequate to handle promptly the vast thrush of shipping. Vessels are coming here from all over the world for cargoes of grain.