New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-08-07
PLAYING HIGH POLITICS.
HIGH OFFICES SOUGHT BY THE TWENTY
FIFTH WARD.
NOMINATIONS FOR CONGRESS AND THE STATE
srNATE THE IRIZE FOR WHICH NEW
LEADERS ARE PLANNING-DIs-
SATISFACTION WITH THE
MACHINE

MACHINE.
The T7enty-ffth Ward is preparing TO play
ambitious politics this fa,l II Will have candi-
dates for both the State Senate and for Congress.
and is sure IL will land Of these places. i
not both
The audacity OF the Twenty-hfth Ward is a
result OF the quick manner in which William j.
Taylor. the assistant postmaster. has wrested
control Of the ward from Robert \. SharEey
II reems only yesterday that Taylor moved
from the Twenty-third TO the Twenty-hfth
Ward. and his rapid work in downing 4 man
who has spent thousands IL being good fellow
and who had the active support OF Woodruff
Dsdv and Atterbury. is eGualied only by the
lightning dispatch with which John j McCiinnis
deposeG Cedmus IN the Eighth Ward
II is needless to say that it Is Taylor and his
ally William L. Extance. VINO are going TO nave
the candidates for Congress and the Senate"
In fact. they have them in grooming now, but
as they are TO be sprung as dark horses. aver
all the other candidates have been maxim
themselves hoars. dcnounc.nC one another.
Their names are not disclosed yet
AS Taylor and Extance won the ward merely
by neck AT The last primaries 1t might be
assumed tbat Naval officer Sharkey could spoil
the plans Of his nov and powerful enemy. Ihe
Taylor people are depending on giving Sharkey
side only fve districts in the ward. but time
alone can tell whether they are ovcr"ora lent
In order not 20 cffend the Saarkey faction in
the ward however The Taylor men say they
have chosen for their candidate fo' Senator
business man who has never miXec in any OF
the faction fights in the ward. and has co"se-
ouentlv never aroused any antagonism that
would drive the sharkey people from his sup
port If they saw he had & chance 10 win.
Outsiders NAV question the ability % the
Twentv-ffth Ward to get both Senator and
Congressman this year. In view ~ the fact tha'
they have neither u these places this year
they are in fairly good position 20 TRADE TOT
one % these noninatioss but # the deal be
with the Twcnty-third Ward. they would stand
a better chance to get The nomination for Con
gress than the other
The With Senate District embraces the
Twentv-arth. Twenty fourth. Twenty-nnth,
Thirty-second and Twenty-third wards. The
Ivth Congress District comprises the Eighth'
Twenty-courth Twelfth. Twenty NTH. twenty
sixth. Thirtieth and Thirty-arst wards a IL"
districts In the Twenty second Ward, ana diS-
tricts XIX to XXX OF the Twenty third ward
Now the Twenty-third Ward has two rival
Candidates for the nomination for the senate III
the With District. but candidate FOR
Congress in the WITH District The twenty
third Ward could therefore easily AFFORD 10 give
its eghtv-four delegates in the Congress DIS
uict In exchange for the support of the twenty
9Th Ward delegation in the Senate dlstrlc''
And the Congress convention Will be held Hrsu
A deal Of this sort would have 10 be Inade
With Atterbury. as he controls the east ehd oi
the Twenty-third Ward. He is supporting AS
sernblyman Marshall for the Senate But there
comes difficulty. Taylor Is nearer Internal
Revenue Collector Moore. who is supporting
senator Wray for d denomination.
Another difficulty is the fact that Henry A
Powell is candidate for Congress. ana the
Probabilities that Atterbury would give ms
support TO Powell for Congress rather than to
Twenty-ffth Warder Powell. after his de-
ieat for District Attorney OF Kings County. be-
came candidate for United States Distrlcl-
attorney. and has had the support OF nearly all
sne Patt leaders. But Mr.. Platt required that
ar' Powell be indorsed by his ward There
arose difficulty, as Powell had just gone as
cdrpetbagger from the Nineteenth to the Twch-
V-fourth Ward
when he sought to get the Twenty fourth
ward TO indorse him II refused. and pnshco
rnetnt as a candidate. The result was tnat
reiut won he was the choice Of the ward
mat Powell had to have but could not get
II the Twenty-fifth Ward fails TO make deal
,,aavorable TO it, the present outlook has IT that
mere VIII be a three-cornere1 tight in the IVth
Soneress District convention and a four-cor-
1ered high; In the With Senate District con-
S..opn' Ihe Congress contest will lie between
s, uwei! Congressman Fischer. OF the Twenty
ward and the Twenty.nfth Ward DARK