The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-31
LOOKED LIKE A CROKER NO.
ne SHOOK MS MEAD HARD AT THE
nos. JOHN 4. MASON.
,Peared Like lie Didn't want to See the
CoIored Brethren Either Nobody
Knows what These Visitors Wanted
McCulIaGh aud Elihu Root Provoke
<,-..,. I,,n TALKING IittIa

Mr., Croker Into Talking Little.
The second sign of harmony that there has
been in the Democratic ranks since the Hon.
Elliot Danforth opened his cold storage room
in the Hoffman House and the Hon. Richard
Croker. the Chief OF Tammany Hail. opened
his headquarters in the Wigwnm. came yester-
day. when the Hon. John A. Mason the
deputy chairman OF the Campaign Committee
OF the Democratic State Committee. called on
the Hon. Richard Croker at Tammany Hall. 1t
was about o'clock in the afternoon. The
Hon Richard Croker was looking around for
his overcoat preparatory to going TO his club.
and the crowd in Tammany was about making
up its mind that an uneventful day had ended.
when the short and bewhiskered Mr.. Mason
stalked into the co rrdor and walked over to
the east room. Mr.. Mason wore gray fedora
and carried Il fall oyercoat on his arm.
Mr.. Mason had not been at Tammany Hall
for several years. but he had read In THE Sun
exactly how to reach the Democratic chieftain.
and without asking any questions he made his
way to Mr.. Cookers room. The Hon. Richard
Croker. having discarded the desk and chair
OF the Hon. John Kelly. was sitti ng at the
highly polished mahogany desk &C quired by
the Hon. John F. Carroll. smoking cigar.
Mr.. Mason was hardly tall enough to look over
this desk and whom he stood on tptoe he
could Just see the top OF Mr.. Cookers head.
He sided around the end OF it and said Good
afternoon. Mr. Croker
Mr.. Croker calmly took tho cigar from his
mouth and. looking at the ashes. said: All.
Mr. Mason. | believe glad to see you, MIR.
Mason" At this point the word having gone
around that there was to be Il conference be-
tween the chieftan and n representative OF
the Democratic state Campaign Committee.
everybody drew back out OF hearing and all
eyes were turned on the pair. Mr.. Mason
stood with his arm over the end OF the desk
and Mr. Croker sat putting at his cigar as a
steam engine puffs when the engineer pulls the
throttle wide open.
As the talk proceeded the Hon. Mr..
Mason grew moro anxious and leaned
low over the desk. He used his right hand
to emphasize everything that he
said and his fedora-crowned head
bobbed and his eyeglasses shook Mr.. Croker
pulled on. Mr. Mason turned and threw his
coat In a chair pulled up either sleeve and
went ahead with renewed vigor. At the end OF
about ten minutes Mr.. Croker could be seen to
shake his head: Mr. Mason's lips moved his
head bobbsd up and down and that closed the
interview. for Mr.. Croker stood up ana began to
walk ahead. lust as though the Hon. John A.
Mason had never been there. Mr.. Mason
lodged out of the way. picked up his coat and
left the hall muttering "Munchausen" and
juice Verne" as he went out. He said them
at a reporter, but to whom he intended to ap.
u, &c l W. w. w. wa" "o VIZ ~ c,i
ply them was not apparent. Nhen Mr. croker
was ask cd about the visit OF tho Hon. John A.
Mason he walked away
Mr.. Croker had arrived at Tanmany Hall
some time after noon and was greeted by a
delegation OF colored brethren. This delega-
ton told Mr.. Croker that they were for the
Tammany Hall county ticket and then stood
around expectaptly. Mr.. Croker said he was
period OF painful silence. 1t was up to some
ooaS TO sn, sone','hE or 10 some. n'he. put
NOBODY sither sali or dla' finally one OF tho
Wi, VIM, ,I we coma IVAN tob ,nvv,v,.
And another one said: why, we come toh to
old man he dom, ss.m n vor, ,ob 70 GO.
Wv, a 49,. az e1, ,h - "n' ~" 10 $50
W The Hon. aieIae Dsl1. the Hon. James !.
along after the colored de- ieeation and each Of
them had autea talk with Mr.. Croker. Mr..
Ts ID S sad 10 . h a.
maids Xes,erday, morning in H. newspapers
be chief OF the State, constab ularS that Pla.t
means TO establish 4 he can get control Of tho
doing .omething and so, he gives out t" tbs
story n9t,Se that Jrdg. Thomas Of
the lnlteu states Court uOn I agree. Judge
Thomas. good federal Judge. says there is
no illegal natura ization.'
Mr. Croker talked on for two or three min
utes about this ana then declared that the
Hon. Cornelius Van Colt. postmaster OF New
the law to do slectionserinR. He said There
are more letter carriers going around now and
asking people to vote the Republican ticket
than there are Republican workers"
=, Where do you get this information ?" asked
''On exceedingly good authority" said Mr.
Var q m nulp
authority that letter carriers are snsnding
their time soliciting votes for Republican can
didates. and If that isn't violation OF the Civil
Service law don't know what is: the Civil
Service laws expressly prohibit any election
eering on tha part OF office holders. yet here's
Ehu Root. the Secretary Of War. coming out
and interfering with an election in an As
ssmbly district in Now York. In a letter
printed in THE SUN this morning, in which Mr.
Root tries to whitswash Mazet in the Nine
teenth district he says that the Astoria Gas bin
was exactly tho same as the East River Gas bill.
I've got hero a copy Of the East River Gas Bill.
and It contains this provision: Such corpora
ton shall pav annually into the TREASURY OF the
city Of New York. to the credit OF the sinking
fund thereof. 3 per centum OF it's gross
receipts from gas furnished by it TO
private and public buildings in tho
OF New York throuuh aipu lain