The evening times., 1899-12-22
POLITICAL NOTES AND GOSSIP.


Biiss for Vice President.-The repor
OF Cornelius N Bliss candidacy for thu
second place on the ticket with Mr. Nc.
Kinley is revived. Mr.. Bliss friends base
their hopes for his success upon the bittel
fight the Platt machine is xaging on Secre-
tary Root. who is the choice of the Ad-
ministration. While the relations between
Mr.. Bliss and the party organization are
pleasant, it is not believed by well-infdrm-
ed politicians that the Platt- Woodruff COM
bine would consent to his being selected
as the compromise candidate.
| The deal formed In Washington last week
by Senators Platt and Depew and Lieu
tenant Governor Woodruff has as one Of Its
| main objects the removal OF Governor
! Roosevelt from Albany to Washington In
| order that Mr.. Woodruff may succeed to
| the governorship. 1t is known that the
agreement on this point Is very thorough
| and the Plat machine is now working to
that end. NE. Bliss, II is said. is being
held in reserve both by the Administration
| and the New York organization for anoth-
er position OF far greater practical impor-
tance to the party than that OF the Vice
| Presidency
In the not impossible event that the
President should conclude it to be unwise
to continue Senator Hanna at the head CT
the National Committee, it is stated that
he will call upon either Senator Aldrich or
Mr.. Bliss to take the chairmanship. TIE
Rhode Islander is known to be the Presi-
dents first choice, with the New Yorker
second. it IS not believed that Senator Al
drich cares to assume the character of WORK
involved in tie management of the cam
paigr. and 1t is thought he would decline
the place. Then the position would fall to
Mr.. Bliss, who. 1t is believed, could ho.d
the party forces together in New York,
even should they be widely separated into
warning factions by the struggle now
going on between the Adm nistration and
the Piatt machine over Mr.. Root
New York for the Convention.-It
is noticeable that great many of the
Democrats In Congress do not speak unfa-
vorebly Of New York as the place for hold
ing the Democratic National Convention.
and Ii is considered not impossible that the
metropolis will be selected by the Nationa,
Committee when ii meets in Washington.
February %. 1t is pointed out that the
party has not held a national convention
east OF the Allegheny Mountains for more
than thirty years. The last time the party
ration OF a ticket wes in 1865. VIXEN Sey-
mour and Blair were the nominees
This convention was held in New York.
The Tammanyites are making all sorts of
pledges TO the party managers in behalf of
Gotham. They declare that If the con-
vention is held in their city next year it
will give such encouragement TO the DEM
ocracy Of the Empire State that it will re-
suit in capturing New York's big electoral
vote for the ticket. They point out that
Roosevelt. the most POPULAR Republican in
the State. was elected governor by ma
jority so small as to show the State still
TO be doubtful. and many Of them claim
that but for treachery in one Democratic
stronghold TO which the organization paid
practically no attention Van Wyck' would
have been elected.
The Joke on MIR. Pnyne.-Represen-
tatiye Payne. Chairman of the Committee
on Ways and Means and by virtue of taat
position floor leader of the Republican
majority. is undergoing much badinage at
the hands of his colleagues because of his
failure to secure adjournment for the holi-
days early as he desired.
To be defeated on little matter of ad
journment seems, according to these crit
les. to demonstrate that as a floor leader
the gentleman from New York is not
brilliant success. And to be beaten by the
aged Grow-that. they point ont TO Mr..
Payne. is the height OF tactical weakness.
But Mr.. Payne is calm and placid. The
jollying' he is receiving does not in the
least disturb the placidity OF his counte-
nance nor the blandness of his smile. Mr..
Payne never loses his temper. The House
will warm 10 any man who can make il
smile One of the chief reasons for Mr..
Bailey's failure as Democratic leader was
that he has no idea of the humorous. He
takes everything else as seriously as he
does himself.
Mr. stnIIing.' Ambitiop.-If Repre-
sentative Jesse Stallings succeeds in MS
ambition, and is elected Governor OF Ala
bama. there will be sorrow in one New
York heart. Representative Mcclellan
would rejoice greatly at a friends success
in attaining that TO which he aspires, but
the joy in this case would be tempered by
genuine sorrow al losing the pleasure OF q
friends companionsnip. Stallings and Nc
Clellan are like Damon and Pytnias. They
are inseparable. They walk together, tney
manage to sit side by side in the House.
and they almost invariably dine together.
There is only one time when they separate,
and that is when Mcclellan enters society. |
Jess" does not care for society. While |
the New Yorker is dapper and always dress |
ed in the height of fashion, the Alabaman is !
anything but swell. His soft hat is as /!
big as Bailey's or Champ" Clark's. and he /,
wears double sack !
coat. Stallipgs has peculiar faculty Of |
getting people out Of the street when they |
talk with him-clear off the sidewalk and |
into the middle of the street. This is be- |
lieved to have been acquired by his cam |
paigning down in the Montgomery district, |