Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-07-01
Republican Leaders Planning to Com
bins the Opposition in New York.
SILVER DEMOCRATS GETTING 10 WORK
Maybe They viii Have O. II. P.
BeImont's Gold Nine for a Bari.
SUCCESS OF RACING VENTURE
special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

l cpctihA correspondence VI Inc Evening star.
| NEW YORK, June 30 1899.
If the plans of the republican leaders are
| satisfactory to the Independent republican
| and all other anti-Tammany organizations,
| there will be square test this fall of the
full strength of the Tammany and anti
| Tammany forces. The republican machine
| leaders are even willing to make conces-
1 sions to the independents, which, in view
| of their hostile declar atoms toward the in
| dependents during the mayoralty cam
paign, shows rather an extraordinary
| change of sentiment.
Chairman Quigg. acting under the in
! structions of Senator Plat, has made a
| statement which is calculated to stay the
more tmpetuous of the Citizens Union lead
| ers who ara inclined to make war on the
| republican organization without waiting for
| the campaign to open. The republican
| primaries are to be held on September TO-
| The reorganization of the county commit
| tee and the election of its chairman is
| scheduled for September 26. At present
! there is no candidate for chairman other
| than Mr.. Quigg. Senator Plat favors his
| reelection, and, while Gov. Roosevelt is
said to be personally unfriendly to him.
| the governor is known to desire coalition
of the republicans and independents.
| Silver Democrats Will Fight.
The Chicago platform democrats are pre-
| pairing for the next national convention.
| They have already organized a state ex-
| ecutive committee. and are now organizing
| a state committee. The aim of the organ
izers of the movement, apparently, is to
| form a permanent state party. They be-
| heve from the looks of things that they
viii name the delegation which will sit
| in the next national convention. The fol-
| lowing circular has been addressed to a
number of prominent persons who are sup
posed to be in sympathy with the Chica go
| platform democrats:
| An organize ton committee was appoint
| ed May 10. 1899, at meeting of the COM
mittee of 100 who managed with great
| form democrats in New York city last
| April. This committee has organized
state executive committee of 300 to be
| composed of the executive committee and
| OF one member from each of the lao assem-
| bly, districts OF the state. This work is
| preparatory to selecting a full delegation
| OF loyal Chicago platform democrats to
| the next democratic national convention.
You have been proposed as a member of
the state committee. If you will accept
the place upon election. please sign and re-
| turn the inclosed pledge to the secretary of
| this committee without delay and remit
dues to the treasurer
Persons joining the organization are re-
CURED to indorse the following resolution,
| which is the test of loyalty TO the Chicago
platform:
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
committee that only those should be Sc
iected as delegates to the next democratic
national convention from the state of New
| York, who gave open and loyal support
to the platform and candidates of the Chi
cago platform, and who are pledged to
support and advocate the readoption of
| the principles of the Chicago platform, and
who are pledged to support the action and
| candidates of the democratic national con-
Vention OF 1900; resolved, that We pledge
ourselves, Individually and collectively, to
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secure the selection of such delegates"
I The dues of members of the executive
| committee are $l5 per year, and of mem
| beers of the state committee $40 per year
Ollie BeImOnt's Gold Mines.
| Many politicians. including prominent
| men in Tammany, expect to grow rich out
| of their holdings in O. II. P Belmont's
| mines in the Klondike. The mines were
| purchased a year ago, and have been ex
! tensively worked and are likely to prove
| one of the best paying properties in the
| world. They are loco miles nearer the
! United States than Dawson City. and
thither from this city Thursday next,
| thoroughly equipped and bearing the hope
| of mary local and national statesmen d
| special car will take the party over the
| Vanderbilt roads to Seattle, where a
steamer will be in waiting 10 take them
| to the gold fields This mining venture is
different from the average Klondike enter
prise in that it is such an assured thing
| that its capital stock is all subscribed.
Senator John p Jones of Nevada, whose
political hobby is silver, is the president.
| The vice president is Jimmy Oliver of Tam
many Hall, the Sage of Paradise Park,
who knows a good thing when he sees it,
and has as many eyes as fly is supposed
to have. The secretary and treasurer is
O. H. P. Belmont himself, and the mining
| camp. which is already of considerable pre-
portions, has been named in his honor. The
expedition will take with IT mining ex
merit of intaIna tiOnal repllfdtiOu well
cargo of improved machinery with which
| to develop the property. which includes
| both vein and placer mines. The party will
spend the sixty days looking over the
mines of the company and inspecting other
properties. The company is likely to ex-
pand and take in other holdings.
Popularity of Racing.
It is officially announced at the Coney Is
land race track that the attendance during
the present meeting was the largest in the
history of the association. The Suburban
day crowd numbered 1880 paid admissions,
while on last Saturday afternoon, 16.5oo
persons passed through the gates On
other days the attendance has been pro-
portienately large. The race track owner
of the future will look back at the asso-
citation managers of today with the min
gled feelings of admiration and awe with
which the ten-cent lunchman on the Bow
cry studies the prices on Klondike bill of
fare.
old days of 80 they will cry, when 1t was
nothing to earn $2500 600 in one year on a
plant costing originally $150.000. What
royal spendthrifts were those old chaps of
so. And how tender and thoughtful they
were of the interests of the poor track own
ers."
The four Long Island race tracks-Brook-
lyn, Sheepshead Bay, Brighton and Aque-
duct-wiil clear on their own attendance
figures in the neighborhood of $1,000 00a
this season. incidentally the public con-
tinues to pay $3.50 FOR admission. This was
the sum demanded when the tracks claimed
they were being ruined by the constitutional
amendment. At the same time purses were
reduced and horse owners were burdened
with number of petty charges. There are
some interesting features of the present
racing situation. The attendance is the
greatest in the history of racing in the east
The prices of admission are the highest
ever charged in America. The overnight
purses were about one-half what they were
about five years ago. In the stakes the
owners race for their own money, the as
ISOLATION only contributing the use of the
track and the profits of the association
this year will range from so to 100 per cent
on the money they have invested.
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