Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-08-12
Politicians Awaiting With Impa-
thence the Arrival of Croker.
THOMAS B. REED EN- ROUTE HOME
Sol Berliner About to Leave for
the Canaries.
WH1TNEY'S RACING PLANS


| VIII DeSln 10 mum. Before he goes to Sara
toga, where he is expected next week, he
| will be asked to settle more local disputes
than have been on the calendar at any one
time in recent years. Men with following
refuse to accept his declaration that he
will not interfere with district affairs. If
he does not, the indications are that Tam
| many will lose several districts in Novem-
Der. Croker has had nearly a week to
| mediate, study and plan, and no doubt by
| the time he gets here he will have mapped
| out in his mind plan of action. There
are many Tammany men, and there are
| many democrats of national influence who
| would give great deal to know and to be
able TO anticipate the policy that he will
follow when he gets home.
Press Agents Worried.
The press agents of the presidential boom
| of Augustus Van Wyck are worried by the
| attitude of John F. Carroll and other prom
inent Tammany leaders. According to these
press agents conferences were to have been
| held at Saratoga this week and next, at
| which leading democrats from the west and
| south were to be enrolled in the movement
| to defeat the denomination of Bryan. The
| movement has been extensively advertised
| by the press agents, and Van Wyck is at
Saratoga ready to gneet all corners. John
| r Carroll and other men prominent in
| Tammany have fatty refused to have any
| thing to do with the affair until Boss
| croker gets home. They have heard all
| the news from the west and south that
every delegate from these states to the next
| democratic national convention will be for
| Bryan and the Chicago platform, and they
| refuse to commit Tammany to any OBJ
| posing movement until Croker gets home
| and gives the order. There are n lew west
| ern and southern democrats now at Sara
| toga, but they are not the men who control
| the party organizations influence votes
| in their respective states. The much-ad-
| Verused Van Wyck conference has been
| only h1ppodrome so far, With no star per
| formers. Croker will go to Saratoga next
| week but his friends are of the opinion
| that he Will not commit himself or Tam
| many to an open fight against Bryan and
| the Chicago platform at present. The
| trouble in the local organization will keep
| Croker occupied for some time. and the in
dlcatlonS are that the only important Do
| litical conferences at Saratoga this month
| will be those held for the purpose of maxi
| ing up a Tammany local ticket for the fan
| campaign.
| THOMAS B. Reed Same Steamer
On board the same steamer with Croker
Is eX-Speaker Thomas B. Reed. Mr. Reed
has kept his plans and his movements so
| entirely to himself that the announcement
| in the newspapers that he had taken pas
| sage on the st. Paul for this country was
| the first intimation that the law firm of
| Which he is to become a partner has re-
ceived that he had terminated his Euro
| peah vacation The understanding, when
| Mr.. Reed left in May was that he would
| be back in time to take up his duties in
| september. 1t is expected that on his ar
| rival here he will go for brief visit to his
old home, in Maine, and that his return to
| New York will precede that of his family
/ Mr. Reeds entrance into metropolitan life
| promises to make something of a stir. The
| political possibilities that attend his adj
| vent are the subject of considerable specu-
! lation.
| While his retirement from public life is
| understood to have been directly OCCASION
| ed by a wish to attend to private affairs
| winch the meager salary of public office
| had compelled him to neglect. the emolu-
| ments of his new trust are such as should
| make any man Independent in his means.
| For an entire absorption in and devotion
| 70 professional career Mr.. Reed would
| have precedent in the conduct of pre-
| decessor in the Speakers chair. John C.
| Carlisle. who. as a member of a Broad
| street law firm, has disappeared from the
| surface of politics. Mr. Carlisle however.
| was a gold democrat in 1896, and is out of
| tune with the present policies of his party
| Roscoe Conkling furnishes another prece-
dent of complete retirement from politics,
| but Mr.. Conkling had become an open OPP
| ponent of the administration.
Sol BerIiner Going to His Post.
| Sol Berliner is about to start for his post
! as United States consul at the Canary Is
| lands. A few weeks previous TO the be
| ginning of the war against Spain Presi-
| dent Mckinley appointed Mr.. Berliner
| consul to the Canaries- Congratulations
| We're heaped upon him. He became the
| guest of honor at a farewell dinner, but
| there was sorrow when the war came on,
| not because Berliner was not going away.
but because he was forced by the war to
| remain here. Ever since the end of the
war Soils friends have been bidding him
| goodbye. They have shaken his hand a
dozen times and said:
| Goodbye, Sol. No matter whether Nc
| Kinley is reelected or not the influence of
| everybody we know will be at your service
| to have you held over"
The promises were made in good faith
and will be kept. Democrats and repub
| licans alike viii do what they can to make
| the consul a hold-over. He is going around
now saying goodbye and expressing the
| hope that when he reached the Canaries
| the boys will write to him. While in the
| islands Mr.. Berlner will look after the
commercial interests of the manufacturers
| of tins country. He has a printed list OF
| thu articles he will handle, which reads
| like advertisement of a department
store. He will sail the steamer Ger
manic on August Is to Liverpool, and from
there Teneriffe.
w. G. Whitney's Turf Ideas.
W. c. Whitney will not send any of his
crack thoroughbreds to England. He de-
cla1es that he is racing for the pleasure
there is in it, and that he would not derive
any amount of satisfaction from newspaper
CT special ca BILE reports of his victories on
! the other side. Moreover, he will have no
| kind of call on the services of Tod Sloan
or any other jockey in Great Britain next
| season. Mr.. Whitney has returned rom
abroad more enthusiastic than ever o-er
! the thoroughbred. He looked the field over
pretty thoroughly and has concluded that
the American horse will soon prove the su-
perior of the foreigner. The success of
Sensations get this season impressed him
greatly, and he believes that other sires
will follow close in his footsteps. One
thing that indicates unusual interest in turf
matters on the part of the eX-Secretary of
| the Navy is an experiment he is making
with Bermuda grass, with view to grow
| ing it on American tracks. and thereby put
| ting the big associations here on an equal
footing in the matter of going with those
of England and France. He thinks the dirt
tracks are very inferior, and is hopeful of
having them abolished eventually.
Interesting Golf Handicap.
What promises to prove an interesting