The evening times., 1898-09-07
MR.. PAYN VISITS MIR. PLATr.
A Pilgrimage Preparing to Wrestie
With Governor Black.


New York, Sept. 7.-Superintendent of
Insurance Louis F. Payn came TO town
from Albany yesterday. He visited SEN
ator Platt at 49 Broadway, but most of his
time was taken up in receiving Republi-
cans at the branch office of the Insurance
Department of the State of New York,
IL Broadway. Supt. Payn was fresh
from the conference in Albany, where Gov
Blacks friends spoke of the Republican
situation in the State of New York.
Superintendent of Insurance Payn met
yesterday at his downtown offices Edward
Lauterbach. former president of the New
York county committee, and other Re
publicans. Gov. Black, it was declared for
the seventeenth time, will not retire as
candidate for governor, but will persist in
his present position until the last ballot
is taken in the convention. 1t will do no
harm 10 announce that some of the Re-
publicans who conferred with Supt. Payn
yesterday, and who are Gov. Blacks
friends in every sense of the word, ad
vised that the governor should retire from
the race, and it was even said that some
of these Republicans, who believe heartily
in Gov. Black and in his integrity OF pur-
pose, will journey 10 Albany within two
or three days for the purpose of telling
the governor just how they feel about this
matter
They do not hope. ii was said to alter
| the governors determination, for the rea-
son that all the information is to the eff
| feet that Gov. Black believes that he has
| been illtreated, not only as a man, but
as a politician. There are two stories
about this, however, and the first is from
| the Platt people, who say that, on Gov.
! Blacks visit to Washington last spring,
| he failed to make it clear 10 Senator
! Platt that he desired a denomination for
governor. The Platt people went on to
say that when Gov. Black visited Wash
| ington on this occasion Senator Platt de-
sired very much TO hear how Gov. Black
| felt concerning a denomination. Gov.
| Blacks friends, on the other hand, said
yesterday that. even on that visit OF the
| governor to Washington, he. the COVER
nor, believer that Senator Platt was in
imical 20 him, and that he would not fore
go his dignity by speaking TO Senator
Platt concerning a denomination. AL
| this, il was added, does not help the sit
uatiofl at all: it is simply told for the
purpose of portraying the present state
of things among the Republican politi-
clans of the State.
| 1t was charged yesterday that Gov.
| Black was not altogether frank and can
| did on his visit TO washington in the
| spring and it insisted on the other
hand that Senator Platt, ror his part,
had not been altogether candid with Gov
/ Black. There is a very ugly feeling over
this matter. Superintendent; Insurance
Payn, departed for Albany last night at
| 5 o'clock. The Columbia County fair is
to take most OF his time for the next two
| days at Chatham. Some OF Mr.. Payn's
| factional enemies declare without reserve
| that Mr.. Payn should be suppressed"
! Some of Gov Blacks friends even added
that such a redoubtable person as Su-
| perintendent Aldridge should be sup
pressed" That's all very well, was ad
! ded, but Mr.. Payn and Mr.. Aldridge.
| and for that matter. Mr.. Collins and
Mr.. Easton, too, do not propose TO be
| SUPPRESSED"