The evening times., 1898-10-01
MR.. HILL CAUGHT MAPPING
The Syracuse Slate Made Up
While He Slumbered.
AWAKENED AND SURPRISED
Croker and His Friends TOO
Thoughtful of the Comfort of the
Worn-Out ex-senator to Disturb
His Rest While They Decided
Upon Nomination.

New York, Oct. david Bennett Hill
went To sleep in Syracuse a little after
o'clock on Thursday morning and was
shorn of the locks that made him a man
feared in the Democratic party. Richard
Croker was in charge of the shears. Ed
ward Murphy helped him, and, to the
amazement of everybody, the representa-
tives of Hugh Mclaughlin, who suppos-
edly was the frined 10 the death of the
man of Wolfert's Roost, had hand in
the undoing of the Croker enemy.
Mr. Hin slept for nearly four hours.
Then the Croker victors woke him up and
told him that they had decided to nomi-
nate Judge Augustus c. Van Wyck for
governor. He could approve or disap-
prove, just as he pleased, he was inform
ed. He was not fully awake when the
news came to him, and as a result he
fumed and sputtered a little and then
decided that, being a minority of one,
the only thing left for him to do was 10
express surprise and agree with those
who surprised him that the brother of
the mayor of New York was the most
available candidate I'm the Democratic
party for the goyernorship.
Slept While Croker Planned
! the men who found the friendly enemy
of Croker asleep. Mr.. Croker, Mr.. Hill,
! Senator Murphy and a few others, held a
/ conference in the Yates House at Syra-
! cuse, beginning in the last hours of We'd
1 nesday night. They wanted TO unite on
4 a candidate. The Tammany element
which had shaken Hilrs hand, in for
| getfulness Of the past, wanted TO please
| Hin, If posstble-to give him almost any
| thing. For hour after hour the confer
ence lasted and Mr.. Hill would not be
brought into line 1t became O'Clock
in the morning. There still was no pros
! pect of making him that he was only
one in long determined Croker-Mc-
| Laughlin faction.
He wanted Danforth above all men to
! be named for governor. If he could not
| have Danforth he wanted Stanchfield He
! did not want man from New York just
| as he said in the interview that told how
| Croker had caught him mapping.
Kindly Allowed to sIumber.
When the conference adjourned at a lit
tie after 2 o'clock in the morning. Mr..
IIill was very tired To those who asked
him what had been done he said that
| the only result had been the renewal of a
difference Of opinion. No candidate had
! been chosen Then he went to bed. Sena-
| tor Murphy and Mr.. Croker were not
sleepy. They had seen in a flash that
| Hill was alone. No sooner had he entered
| the elevator in the Yates to go to his
| room than they had another conference.
1t took them about five minutes to decide
to tell Hill that they had decided to nomi-
nate Van Wyck, the judge.
| Because Hill was tired they concluded
| that they would not spoil his slumber but
| their work had been SO neat and kept so
| well away from Hill that they could not
long refrain from telling him how he
| had gone to sleep and lost.
They woke him up at O'Clock In the
morning and he was the most surprised
man in the gathering of delegates He
| had expected that the Mclaughlin men
would stand by him even when he was
| asleep. He went to bed and Croker won
| the victory. There was nothing left for
| Hill to do but take the choice of Croker.
| He found himself alone.
| This was at 6 o'clock in the morning.
! 1t was four hours later when the Hill
| contingent of delegates learned that their
| Samson had been shorn of his strength.