The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-20
DANFORTH BEHIND A DOOR.
HE ALTERS HEADOUARTERS AFTER
4 VISIT 10 MIL.

Democratic Campaign Is Now Under Lock
nnd Key-Bars of Raipbovs Laid In
Hi, WI, N,r NJ s, . mutt
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The Hon. Elliot Danforth. Chairman OF the
Democratic Executive Committee, called on
the Hon. David Bennett Hill at the Hotel
Manhattan yesterday morning and was
closeted with him for something like two
hours When he returned to Headquarters.
Chairman Danforth said that Mr.. Hill had
come down from Albany on law business,
and that the call had been purely
personal. The Hon David b. Hill ia n more
or less quiet politician; he doesn't 90 around
blowing horns, and he does n good deal OF busi
ness behind closed doors. The Hon. Elliot
Danforth. on the contrary. seeks not privacy,
All OF Mr.. Danforth's rooms at the Hoffman
House have opened, ono into the other. and
only portieres separated them.
1t was noticed Yesterday. Immediately ofter
Mr. Danforth's return from the visit to SENATOR
Hill. that a change had come over him. II
wasn't very many minutes before he had sent
for some Of the hotel attendants, and inside of
half an hour four husky men ma ie their v,v
into the room bearing a huge door. 1t wa. one
OF those doors the upper half OF which is made
out OF plate glass
They had hinges and tools and in less TINA
than 1t takes to tell It they had hung II between
the main Office and small room opening off
to the left The only entrance TO thI, room was
through that doorway After the lob was done
Mr.. Danforth viewed it, at first with satisfac.
ton. ana then he shook his head. He
whispered to the men; they nodded,
and went to work digging out the putty and
taking out the glass then boards were brought
in and nailed over tho opening. 40 that II was
impossible to sec inside the room Strins
were put over the cracks SO that MOTH
ing from the insid. conld le,k
studied it from n'" top to 'Ws Sa,,om 's anG
then discovered that it didn't exactly ut
nailed at top and bottom, s' It wa. mot not
uhtil TINS had been done that the
JOB was finally and enthusiastically
from both sides M M,.or Ala .ha sar Uo'
Tba, went 81 I,,,,a .'L tau .ne SUM me,
h s ns thu cE c The
% mnntar,t by anu Dy mr. Mason came out, mr.
Vino Ss s Sa Of o shon sd sns
there was silence until the click was hoard
again and the politician was ushersd out Mr.
panlorth when ne was seen by the reporter
Vouchsated no explanation OF the change that
had como over him hut he did admit that be
hsd nat .nd ..IL.I iii &C., umI
..i' 49, VAN 'ena'oi mn on
purely soclaa matters"
Senator Hill was sought ont nv tho renorters
At the M,nha,t,p uo,.I M. Sar.to. hoa -
~ tno han"a''oh iio''I. ihs SENATOR hau no
explanation to make. He said Now really
mustn't talk for publication at this time.
Ae uoN " az in'ei'Le" uh'ess nave
some point to make. and | have point to
make now" And that yas all that he would
say.
among the visitors who got inside the barri-
ecaded door TO see Cha irmdn Danforth was the
hon. Norman T. Mack. the BRYAN leader OF the
democratic party IN the western part OF New
YORK stale heretofore Mr.; Danforth has had
somethlhg q monopoly OF campaign
down with some as hne and zig
a. any that Chairman Danforth has
s tls,b a ror the Hon: William Jennings Bryan;
with enthusasm Tor the State Committee that
honored Mr.. Bryan as the natural and APP
nation" and with enthusiasm over tho out
look OF me Democratic party in the state
o. New YORK. DIR, Mack DECLARED that the
re democrats Of MS own county OF Erie would elect
is gain OF one He declared further
t ana Ds empnatiealiy: that he believed
town candidate IN the ChautnuGua dis
rict He admitted that there was no
earthly show OF defeating the Hon. Fred =.
Nixon, speaker OF the Assembly who repre-
SCENTS the second Chautauqua district but he
SAID that In the FIRST district there was a great
row and great dissatisthct!9n. and he was