The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1898-06-27
OF Course the Leaders Of 1t Are in the
Great City.
SENSATIONAL AND DRAMATIC
Is the Way the Contest for the. Su-
premacy Is Described.
PECULIAR PHASE OF SITUATION
Each partv with Two Prominent Men
Trying to Get Control OF Ihelf
Party Men.
BY Robert AdamsOn.

BY ROBERT AudAhoo'h'
Now York June 2i-(Special Correspond,
encol-Of course. the war mas "pHc"ls'
om lesser interests. just as the storm en-
veIo,es the summer cloud, but Si'ihe III
,.oi,.in,, q coycrnorship III state where Il
,oyoruorthip may be next door to the pres
tdnocv is difficult to shut up III Il clo9c'
altogether. - VOW +ba
1t curiously happens that Just no" '"o
notifies of this state IS keyed up 10 u
pitch beyond anything in recent tApt,
cnco whether YOU look at IT WIN wv
eva Of a politician, dolshtins III DE
rar7a we'll DIayed or with the eye OF an
ardent spectator, taking dehGht III '"'r
which presents in every heightened pn'Fe
the powerfully dramatic the sl'"''i''
exceptional. ,, T.
Tho situation is sensational as wen;
& NOT foo much to say that the lls''
which is now in the thick Ill n"'h P'iN
IN This state involves not ohlY -. ~
utfcal control of the state OF Ne" -
q newer ranking next to chat or 'he p pr
dcucy itself. but it inNoVeS-''Il' ~.
Tho dramatic for you-tnc high propaolntN
Of the absolute Political slaughter ol Nv"
,,nlitical Gglres long established IN pow
and who rank higher even thAn MAIN
Uanna-Mr Plat and Mr.. croker
New York swings nearly evenly III '"o
balance as between IN" Two P'i'c7 50
,.n,n n, some popular CONFUSION II -
"a
these two great parties bathing Tor It's
control tho situation would be IhrllhhS
crot,yh in a political sense, but when aao-
Cd TO that vital, desperate life 5uuSEIeS
are being fought out in the two PaIue9'
democrat against democrat TepuoiN4h
against republican. you nave d 7P'
,,,bil], oven the blood and riot OF war car
NOT entirely draw the public away from.
Mr. pIatt never had close can lot
his 1ice as now-no, not even Whou WI"
the proud peacock ConkinG ne quiO 'he
senate in q pet and was allowed l" say
omit He was younger then ana d uVle't
nn1,- meant a temporary reversal Nearly
q generation has passed and STRANGE nv"
roo.ar IN the form of a long, shy aWk-
,.-ra country governor with long chh
o,7 a stubborn nose is Wooing the party
away from him. You have the drafn''iC
,paiti when you remember thht uli9 -
tha governor Plat made for tooi. lie
has turned out to be two-edged, cutting on
very side and Platt has dropped nm as
H., would y hot iron. lie has set out to Nio-
1cnt1,r ,lnd0 the governor he made ana inns
sqrno governor with the long chin ana the
down east Maine way he has about Nun ~
fighting back with q smile that Is talltH-
ling and ticks that tell
Take the democracy. Far more imam :"
fighting chance to win is given IT.: Mt
F|6Fcr fat with his New Yo"< city VIC
tory and hungry for Wioer S'ooe una
greater power. means to be us o1el"'o''
r,ba same ambition is burning in the bosom
Of the newly awakened David y. INN. J ne
Albany man is tired of his sohtudc ana Is
l,-e+i,7r for q return of his past EIoTies as a
,,ri+i,al leader There Is the same warm
relation existing between ME- I'M an" M
croker as has existed between the ser
lent and the children OF women since 1t
was pronounced that the latter shouIH
nrli=e the head of the former. If Their
.,,,fifio,s as leaders had not often before