The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-06-27


Murphy to give up the idea Of succeeding
himself in the senate ana fui 1oi 'he
Eovernorship.
Murphy failing him, Croker may settle
on Perry Belmont. though he has re-
neatedly been warned that to select TINS
man of millions and of society would be-
nothing less than political suicide what
Croker would like is an upstate man. one
who would appeal to the country vote as
well as the city vote. Murphy mis- TINS
requirement to the letter. He lives at
Troy, Governor Blacks home, and is liked
all the state over It has been urged
against him that he is a Catholic, put 1t
is not believed that this would be any
serious hndrance to him. Not to make
light of serious subject, it would Seeni
from, = e,ance at the prevailing hguTeS III
state politics that the only way III wi'i,"
this could materially inJure "ouiu NC
through the fact that the senator ,'""
ra,ioion at all Mr.. Croker is deNou'
rtI,o1jo himself however, and while he
has never filled elective offices IN person
, +, i nrattv generally conceded that ne
has filled a considerable number Oh ''ei''
with other men c., ;,-,,o,
yns they are fishing around to tind issues
upon which to make the HFI' i t.
hear no vital relation to the nam ,hhs -
vicw-the spoils of a state-'"' '">'
necessary. 49,, .r,,ar
II is hut truth to say that the Sl'rt'
,s,,o viii nlav no great part in the hsh''
nor is II . sort n revelation TO say li''
tho love of silver is not strong III W.
state. Up the state there are aoNoo":'9
.hi. h.fo1,+ metal but in such tnrohsioei'
hie numbers as to be no Stflou7
IA the gold men in an eiectioH' IT,,
In plainness and in 1rahhlle9@. I'm
nIavs a part in the coming electioh II WV
,-y.,nIjpnHE,
1oadors there are few sincere S'lNei
r,n,, I,1iot Danforth has played me P"'
Co., an II is worth to his guhcrhhIoI' NV
ocnfrations but If he were con
# was of no further value TO MN ''o -
dron If and drop it quick. lie "99u'~
that Mr. Danforth Is as Sh'o''" ~
,I.,, and as ingratiating as any ma"
with a finger in politics, and the aS.o''.,,,
inc mart about his stand on the money
,,oetior &c that he expects to receive an
~ si11,e, s,1pport on account OF II ana
All the gold support because the il""l1o'rIo
ana bankers know how sound ne Is OH vac
subject .hor
N. Danforth reminded me once wiz"
ne was summing up his guherhh'otl" d.
sets that he had been state treasure "
Now York twelve years; that he was la'6e-
", interested in big financial enterprises
ana that the moneyed men knew that ne
cor)d bo depended upon to do nothllS
extreme There's the peculiar stronSth
of the well-groomed New YORKER VINO u
as glossy and handsome as new !7iih
hat. He is orthodox in his party re'atio"S
and at the same time the business me"
of New York know he will do nothing eX-
IRENE.
Mr.. Danforth, too, ia Hills candidate
How jealous an advocate of silver the
Albany senator is one has only to go PACK
= stem to the Chicago convention 10 ui9-
cover Still the foxy senator mas no SCI"
nles which would forbid him permitting
his candidate to reap all the ADVANTAGES
of an orthodox position. Mr.. lii> Is IN the
dght to win, hence he Is throwing away
no raw material.
Nor is Mr. Croker any warmer 1rlehd Oh
silver than IIill. He wants to rout the re
DubIicans by showing how cXtraVagant
and corrupt they are in the state admin
istration and go no further. lie VIII not
permit the financial question to he l0@Red
in If he can help it, and fortunately lor
him and for Hill, political events III 'h'S
state have helped him The war mas ilSo
done its part. The fight IN Ne" foth
yyfll be on state issues unless the repupl-
cans succeed in forcing the financial queS-
ton into it, which IIll. Croker. Danforth
and the rest are trying to avoid.
They most interesting situation OF All
Is presented by Platts quarrel with Black.
What there Is of the republican party
outside of Mr.. Platt IS not strong enough
numerically to elect a half dozen NOM
beers of the Iegislature-that is, such haf
been the case up to within few weeks
ago and whether it Is no longer 50 is
speedily to be proven. Platt is the WhpI8
thing the supreme. the almighty, the easy
boss. In him the boss system has reached
its apotheosis Two years ago in little
mood of his he named a large dark, weird
10. an