The evening times., 1898-08-15


can State Committee. and Chairman
1emuel Ely Quigg. of the Republican
County Committee. agreed upon a pro-
gram at Manhattan Beach yesterday.
which. they expect. their machine fol-
lowers will help to carry out. 1t contem-
plates having President Mckinley ap-
point either Chauncey M. Depew or Le-
vi P. Morton ambassador to England
make Benjamin F. Tracy one of the
Spanish-American peace commissioners:
the development of still more candi-
dates for governor to embarrass Black /;
Q warning to the governor that he must
either suspend Supt Aldridge or risk alb
solute and public disownment of the 81
b00e00 canal steal.
1t was agreed also that the Republi-
pan State Committee should be called to-
gether at the Fifth Avenue Hotel next
Saturday. a week earlier than had been
INTENDED, and that the Sta>e convention
shall be held at Saratoga on September
q.
Mr.. Platt went to Washington on Fri
nay 1t is said to block the appointment of
Nhitelaw Reid either as Secretary of
State or ambassador to England. Having
for Secretary of State he was Informed
by the President that he proposed to ap-
point John Hay to that portfolio. Inquiry
of the President failed to reveal whom he
WAS considering as Hays successor.
Having satisfied himself that Reid could
mot get the place, the Senator recommend
ed Gen. Stewart L. Woodford as one of
the Spanish-American peace commission
ers. The President and Secretary Day
agreed that Woodford ought to go back
TO Madrid as soon as peace was officially
declared. Then Senator Platt recon-
mended Gen. Tracy. The President re-
piled that he had a very high opinion of
Gen. Tracy. but that friends of Joseph II.
Choate had been ahead of him. The Sem
ntor filed a protest against Choate as one
who had always been inimical to the ma
chine of which he is chief, and reminded
the President that it was Choate whom
opponents of the machine put up against
dim for United States Senator in 1897.
While in Washington Senator Platt
hoped to secure the consent of Cornelius
N. Bliss to head the Republican State
ficket this fall. He begged him for hours
to say Yes" 1t was finally agreed that
the question should be left to the Presi-
dent. Yesterday Mr.. Platt reluctantly in
formed his lieutenants at Manhattan that
neither the President nor Secretary Bliss
retiring from the Cabinet. The President
insisted that the Secretary of the Interior
should stay in his present berth until the
expiration of his term.
When Gen. Samuel Thomas. very in
Innate friend of Secretary Bliss. heard
ithis, he vas inclined to ridicule 1t.
rBliss," 81 d he stuck to it he would
never enter the Mckinley Cabinet-yes.
.up to the very hour of his appointment
He has always been ambitious to be gov
ernor of New York. 1 have not yet given
up hope that he will accept a nomina-
,tion."
Col Astor has been pressed upon Sen
ator Platt by his political parent. Post
master Cornelius Van Cott. Astor has
many millions, and has been under fire
as a member of Gen. Skaters staff He
will have anti-Biack votes in the State
convention.
When Roosevelt's name was mention
I'd some one in the party remarked:
s'Roosevelt would run like scared dog.
and as governor he would be as crazy as
a scared dog" Senator Platt laughed
heartily. Then some one else asked:
s'Senator, where would you and your
machine be three months after Roose-
welt became gove-nor?'
The senator looked toward the sea, but
made no reply.
Col Lowell H. Jerome. who was watch
Ing Roosevet's boom, declared that Platt
would have to accept Roosevelt whether
he wished him or no. Just wait until
Roosevelt is able to get out of quaran-
tine at Montauk Point" observed the |
colonel. land he will get the grandest re-
ception this city has ever seen
News from the attorney generals Office |
came to the conference. which showed |
that the case against Supt Aldridge |
was assuming such scandaious features |
that the machine must officially disclaim |
responsibility. or risk certain defeat in |
the fall elections. There was talk about |
calling upon the governor to exhibit at |
least a moral sensibility of the embar- |
rassment suffered by the party upon the |
eve Of a big campaign. by going through |
the form OF suspending Supt. AIdridge |
State Engineer and Surveyor Adams |
cannot be touched by the governor for |
he is an elective and not an appointive |
officer.
1t was said at Manhattan Beach that !
the governor, Immediately after the dam
aging disclosures made by the commits
sion, would have suspended Aldridge but |
for the Interference of Lou F. Payn.
Should the governor not act upon the
suggestion to discipline Aldridge it need
occasion no surprise If the State COM
mittee next Saturday adopt resolutions
conderning the canal steal make the !
PLAT machine disclaim all responsibility
for ! and warn the governor that he
must assume 1t all.
The Republican convention meeting in
Saratoga one day earlier than the Demo-
cratic convention gathers in Syracuse
means, SO Republican leaders say, a two