The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-09-26
TO AID ELLSWORTH.
PERsIsTENT WORK TO RENOMLNATB
THE PRESS-GHG Law MAN.

rift Engineering tho Scheme at Sara
~toaa-LnborinS with L'Hommedieu.
SARATOGA, Sept. 25.-There is a conspiracy
RoinR on among certain Republicans hero
which may end in involving the National Adj
ninistration Of President Mckinley and bring
inV TO it's doors intending trouble. II Is all
over the determination OF United States Sena-
tpr Plat, Representative James ". Wads-
Worth'and John L. Merritt Of Lookport, Fourth
Assistant Postmaster-G General. under Post
naster-General Charles Emory Smith at
Washington TO renominate Timothy f. Els
worth to the Senate for the Forty-lfth dis
tEict. which Includes the counties OF Niagara,
Orleans and Genesee. Senator Ellsworth
Good sponsor last winter at Albany for the
pFOss gag bill. This bill was denounced as q
most Infamous attack upon the liberty Of the
pEees by the Republican State Editorial Asso-
cation. Every Republican newspaper in the
0tate save one denounced II, and yet Sena-
Tor Plat and Senator Ellsworth insisted that
y should pass.
When It was first handed to Gov. Black for
hes approval he promised. after due con-
sideretion. TO sign the bill II IL came to him.
When the storm broke and the Republican
State Editorial Association denounced 1t and
declared the bill to be more unjust than any
ukase issued In the barbaric days OF the Czars
Of the Russian Empire. Gov. Black sent for
Senator Ellsworth and requested him to re-
commit the bill to n committee. where 1t died.
Senator Ellsworth did this with bad grace.
and since that honr he has on all occasions.
public and private. manifested his vindictive
spirit toward the press of the State OF New
York. At his Senate convention in Lockport,
only q week or so NO.. he caused resolutions
70 be adopted which clearly showed the trend
Of his mind. TIL resolutions then adopted
were most insulting 10 every reputable news
PAPER In the State.
Now Senator Plat and Ellsworth and wads-
worth and Merritt are taking steps which may
make II necessary for the Mckinley Admins
tration to turn its attention to the matter.
Last night Representative Wadsworth. Judge
Edward p. Come. Senator Ellsworth and
Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General John
e. Merritt invited Irving L'Hommedieu.' the
Republican leader Of Orleans and a candidate
against Ellsworth for Senator. to meet them
In a room in the United States Hotel. L'Hom-
medieu accepted the invitation. and 1t was
then learned that the Senate Convention to
a successor to Ellsworth had been
called to assemble at Albion on Oct. 3. 1t had
been the purpose to call this Senate Conven-
ton together a month ago. but Ellsworth
learned that he would be bitterly opposed for
denomination by Republicans and the Republic
can newspaper press Of the State. and 80 he
and his friends postponed the Senate conven-
ton until after the State Convention. and now
It is known that 1t has been called for Oct. B
at Albion. Those interested in the matter do
not hesitate to say that the Senate Convention
been called for this late day for no other
reason than to give the newspapers OF the
State as short a time as possible in which to
expose Ellsworth. should he be renomi-
mated. and those interested with him in the
job.
The way Ellsworth's fight for a renomina-
ton now stands is that he has the delegates
from his home county of Niagara. and he re-
quires either the delegates from Orleans or
with which to win. Archie Sanders
Of Genesee is O candidate for Senator to sue
coed Ellsworth, and so is L'Hommedieu.
IL here. and tells his friends that he
is in o very embarrassing position. He doesn't
care very much for the Senatorship. but would
really like to be Internal Revenue Collector
for the western part Of the State. but as he
said to a friend to-day:
Il cannot hand over M delegates to Ellis
worth and let him win with them. because
when l went to Washington for the internal
revenue collectorship the Republican news
papers OF the State would inform President
that In return for the internal reve-
nue. collectorship 1 had turned over my dele
gates to Ellsworth. who is held responsible
for the Ellsworth Newspaper bill. l cannot
the nomination for Senator without the
delegates from either Orleans or Niagara. and
It doesn't look as II I occupied a very pleasant
Wadsworth. Coine. Ellsworth and Merritt,
approaching the dilemma Of Sanders. got
into that room In the United
States Hotel last night, and he says they laid
down on him" sharp to turn over the Orleans
delegates to Ellsworth and thus allow Ellis
worth to win a denomination.
L'Hommedieu refused to listen to the de-
mands. He told how Senator Plat had sent
for him to 60 to New York last week and how
this visit Senator Plat requested him to
over the Orleans delegates to Ellsworth.
L'Hommedieu refused to do this ON the
ground. first. that Ellsworth had stood sponsor
for the Ellsworth Newspaper bill. a bill which
Mr.. L'Hommedieu insists that the people out
his way distinctly interpret to mean sitting OF
the freedom Of the press of the State. and. Sec
ond. because Ellsworth's unpopularity In his
on account Of his sponsorship for the
press gag bill would, in the event Of his re-
greatly leopard the reelection Of
Denis Evarts. who has Just been renominated
to the Assembly in Orleans.
The statements which Mr.. L'Hommedieu
made to Senator Platt In New York last week
he repeated to Wadsworth. Ellsworth. Come
and Merritt last night. They argued with him
and urged him to abandon his position. but he
would not. and there the matter now rests.
The singular feature Of the whole situation
Is that q Republican United States Senator, q
Republican member Of The House Of Represen-
tatlves and a Republican subordinate OF a Re-
publican Postmaster-Genera In President
McKinley's Cabinet have Joined hands In the
effort to bring about Senator Ellsworth's re-
The worst Of the whole business.
It was added. is that Ellsworth and his friends
have a wretched notion that the objections to
his denomination are personal in their nature.
All are either too blind or stupid or vicious to
appreciate that a fundamental principle in
volvinR the good name and integrity OF the
Republican party Of the State OF New York is
at stake.
The national Republicans who are pushing
Ellsworth for rem omination seem to be utterly
Indifferent to the fact that his denomination,
the denomination OF the man who stood spon-