Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-11-24
FAITH IN ROOSEVELT
Reform Element in Republican Party
Commend His Course.
A DINNER 10 ALL FACTIONS
Speculation IS to Who viii Re-
ceiye Appointments.
SOME DEMOCRATIC REGRETS
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, November % 1898.
There has been a great gathering of the
republican clans to meet and consult with
Gov-elect Roosevelt, All day yesterday and
today he has been Bouncing about the city
each stop marked by important consulta-
tons looking to the framing of the pdrty's
policy in the next legislature; the drawing
together of the factions and the selection
or important appotnte es. The exact result
of these conferences as regards legislation
and appointments may be disposed of in
the colonel's own language:
Il will not announce in any way until it is
time for the business of legislation to begin
what l will recommend. and 1 will not an
heunce appointees to office much before it
is time to make the appointments. In the
meantime I will only say this-that l will
talk with any man who is possessed of in
formation which can be of service in franz
ing a legislative progra m or making fit ap-
polntments to office"
Ihcre are numerous straws, however, that
indicate the direction of the wind as re-
CARDS appointments For instance Col
ReoseVelts old colleague on the police
board Avery d. Andrews seems to be the
man most prominent for the position of adj
1utant general For military secretary
Sherman Bell is frequently referred TO; FOR
superintendent of pubic buildings Fred
eflck Easton of Albany or Joseph Murray
OF New YORK the latter being credited with
launchlnS the Roosevelt guberra lorial
boom, and for superintendent of the bank
ing department, Frederick ID. kilburn, it Is
hehefed, will be retained in office. The SUI
Perintendert of public works and commits
sioner OF agriculture are uncertain, while
the commissioner of labor statistics viii be
selected oy representatives of organized
labor. The leader and president pro tenn
pore OF the senate has been practically de-
c;ded upon. 1t will be Senator Timothy l..
Ellsworth, who was the sponsor for the So
called 'press-gag" bill in the upper branch
OF the legislature at the last session. So
Lothlng iehrite can be said about legisia-
ton.
All Factions Pleased.
the general conduct of the governor-elect
Is pleasing all factions. Oven the Rev.
Charles II. Parkhurst. the ignored" has
found time to lean toward Teddy" trifie
1 nave been watching him very Closely
since the election says he, and [ be-
iieVe that he is trying earnestly not to be
ANYBODY slave He has great oppor-
tunity when he becomes governor to strike
, telling blow at machine rule in the sta.e
mere areJStormg times ahead. / beneve
That ultimately the political situation will
resolve user INTO struggle between the
governor ana Mr. Platt and his legls AZURE.
Roosevelt may have to appeal finally to
the people and5the people will support
Roosevelt.
independent citizens are clapping their
hands in glee as, they declare that here is
a true type of a governor, determined to
get into touch with all interests and to adj
minister the affairs of the state for the
any, unbridled and Embossed. Certain
oid-time pn.itical hacks shook their heads
and Whispered merely that the Plat ma
chlne would have hard time of it in
Keeping this sort of a governor in line.
There IS dash OF energy and a brusqae-
ness OF copveI sation about Governor ell ct
Roosevelt that copv tnces all with whom he
confers with that he intends to know for
himself what should be done in Albany
and he wants to get at the root of every
question under cons deration.
AS a result of Col. Roosevelt amalea-
mating policy his friends point TO the DIN
ner given last night, at which republican
leaders of the factions which have been
holding one another by the throets and
stabbins one another in the back for years
broke bread together at the Metropolii an
Club and declared peace in the presence
OF the goVernor-elect and Marcus A Ham
na chairman of the republican national
committee. 1t was a notable harmony
dinner, and everybody 5wore alleg ance to
the governor elect, who left the ga herring
believing that his purpose of COMPOSING
1acfionai differences had been fulfilled
Depew for the Senate
Incidentally. Senator Plat practically An
T..
to be his colleague in the Senate after
March 4, 1899. Friends of Dr. Depew be-
! lieve that it is settled that he Is to 90 to
the Senate, and that either Elihu Root or
Joseph Fl. Choate will be named for the
court of ST. James. A friend of Dr. Depew
| says:
On the other side of the fence Tammany-
| ties running to figures to show how it
might have BEEN and they are really
! {,,f1
elected governor by a plurality of 1850
Tammany has discovered that in the
borough of Manhattan and that of the
| Bronx there were between 1900 to 20, 900
defective ballots. These were marked
, void In looking over these figures and
also over those marked as blank" and
defective" Tammany men figure how Au-
gustus Van Wyck could have been elected
governor of the state of New York. 1t is
asserted by them that the blank void and
defective ballots in the boroughs of Man
haitian and the Bronx. if counted for the
Tammany ticket, would have accomplished
that result The beard of official canvass
| erS has been engaged in the city hall for
| several days canvassing the returns Coun-
| Gilman John T. Oakley, Tammany leader
| of the fourteenth assembly district is CHAIR
man. Tammany men who have been watch
| Ing the returns were thunderstruck when
the aldermen, reading off the returns an
nounced the exceedingly large number of
ballots cast by men who had intended to
vote, but had, as a matter of fact not
voted at all. Citizens had become be-
wildered as to how to fold the ticket again
and simply returned it to the inspectors
| just as it had been handed to them
Tammany leaders are unable to explain
| how so many voters had disfranchised
themselves They asserted that at least 95
| per cent of the lost ballots would have been
! cast for the democratic ticket. This Is the
| first year In the history of TamInany Hall
when no sehoolsiof instructions for voters
were established. Indeed at no meeting
was it explained by the Tammany workers
| how the ballot should be folded The dis
| trict leaders and captains neglected up to
| the last moment to explain the mysteries of
| the ballot t6 the voters. And now the peo-
| pie about the wfgwam wonder what Rich
| ard Croker swilli'say when these facts are
| laid before lhinhF He Is expected here by
| the end of the week. There will be no
| severe accounting, it is believed, for Mr.
Croker haso already declared that no dis
| trict leaderIfwiIiS be turned down.
There was great joy among the republic
| cans when they learned of the lost votes.
Ex-Alderman Thomas Rothman was par
| ticularly elated.
Few Crnm BIS for Tnmmauy.
| Tammany metS who staked their all on
! tho of Van Wyclr's ala,t;o,, -. --.--