The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-10-13

New York, Oct. 12.-The Tanmanv
district leaders have reported that the
ieeEng In favor If the candidacy of Henry
George Ia so strong among the poorer
voters that something must be done to
stop 1t or the defeat OF the Tammanv
ticket Is assured. This warning has been
neeued ana it was said tonight that It
mas oeen uecineh to use the fact that Mil
llcnnire Tom l.. johnson is MANAGING the
George campaign to disgruntle the work.
lngmen. Banners will be put up in the
tenament districts rit,iculing the George
movement, it Is said, and also johnson
Jonn e Sheehan has at last secured n
favorable reply to his appeal to Demo
cratic governors of States to back nm tha
candidacy Of Van Wyck for mayor. n
came to-day from Governor johnson. of
Alabamn. AS this is the only one which
Mr oneehan has made public and so
iil"nN Democratlc governors have declar-
Ell tor Henry George, it is fair to assume
that Mr.. Shcahan has n lot of letters and
kilograms which would make better cam
palgn material for George than for Van
Wyck. Tammany's appeal fer campaipn
iunds is meeting with n chilly reception
III the money center. A circular letter
issued by Sheehan was sent to the gold
Dem ocrats, who have usually been connt-
ed On for contributions.
IL carefully reIralned from any mention
OF the chicago platform o, the attitude
OF tue organization in last years Presi-
Dental contest, and the hope was enter
tanned by Mr.. Sheehan that the substan.
tai men OF the party would forget that
Iammany stood in 1896 for silver The
nope WAS vain, for those in Wall street
VINO received the circular, almost 10 n
man, tore it up and threw it into the
waste basket. Tammany's double deal
ing IN this campaign is not bringing
much to its leaders. Gold democrats re-
iuse TO contribute to her campaign fund
and the Bryan men will withhold their
votes from her candidate.
Tammany's district les(lers are nnder
instructions to whoop things up for the
ticket, to announce accessions from every
quarter to their ranks and to predict on
every possible occasion n Tammnny Hall
victory. Those orders were given by
Richard Croker, who has told his lieuten-
ants that nothing wins votes like enthu-
siasm. The district leaders are doing
their best to obey these orders, but the
real fact is that their hearts are not in
the business. and when they are not talk
ing for the public, but let their friends
see their real thoughts, they admit that
the SITUATION Tor the 1ammany ticket is
just as desperate as 1t was when they
were AL wearing glum faces waiting to
see what stripe OF coroner politically
would sit on. the Tiger. They say. too.
that the man who tells them to laugh
and shout and predict victory for the
ticket is the man who has made it hard
work. ~ leader of the executive COM
mittee, discussing this subject, says:
eli 1t had not been for Mr.. Croker's
return and his nsistence on running the
machine again, believa Tammany would
have won in walk. cannot see how
he has strengthened .us by taking hold
again He certainly has not attracted
the votes which 1--WE need The only
thing which can be said in his behalf is
that Mr.. Croker is perhaps the only man
who could keep the machine together and
working in harmony. But we need
something more than machine when
Henry George threatens to make such a
drain on our voting strength. We need
more votes and | think we could get
more II Mr.. Croker had stayed in Eng
lanf and kept his hands off this fight.n
1t is announced that at the ratification
meeting to be held mt Tammany Hall ON
Thursday night eX- Governor Cam pbell, of
Ohio; Arthur p. German, Jr., of Mary
land, and John b; Stanchheld, of Elmira,
will speak.