The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-30
pOLITICAL NOTES.

Fractional dinfcultios among Democrats this year
not limited to the three bnrouchs of Manhattan.
Brooklyn and B-1ny, At the recent nesting in
Jamaica OF the Su.phin faction o. Demo- rats in this
Borough OF Que ms. COUNT Clerk John II. Sutphin
Of Jamaica and Fred Belle OF Wooih iven
named as county committeeman The district leaders
will later name delegates FOR Judicial, saenoly.
Aldermanc aud county conventions. frb which
selections will he made and standing committees
appointed. In last years election tho Democratic
vote of Queens county was 13.o5o and the Repub-
lican vote 8.7l5.
According t. the statistics compiled ny Comp
troer Coler. these are the large American cities
which make no c ,ntr buttons of public moneys %
private charitable institutions: Boston. Cncinna i,
Pittsburg. Cleveland, Milwaukee aud Jersey City.
The contributions OF Chicago, St. Louis. New or
isans Detroit Newark and NJ nneapp- are insight l.
cant In amount. Philadelphia. Baltimore ana Wash.
ington charitable insti utons get public aid but
New York contributes more In year than all other
American cities collectively. The amount Of New
Works contribution - private charitable funds 10 IN
excess of SIS. 600, 900 yearly.
Tho increase Of valuation by the Chicago Board Of
Review OF Assessments 10 going on rapidly as
the census and not q computation was in progress.
When the local Board gets through with the assesr
rnens. which being increased at the rate of Sa-
ooo. 600 day, the State Board ia expected to add
IN SO. ooo, 600 more Meanwhile, the assessor ,nts
10 rural counties of Illinois being steadily de.
creased. In Washington county. for instance which
10 in southern Illinois. the decrease in personal
property compared with year ago is 100000.
land s4e4ooo. and on town lots sss, 600. total
OF 8672.ooo.
Some OF tho Tammany Hall leaders have hit upon
an eIpedient which commcnds itself strongly to
their idea of practical politics In those districts OF
tho city which are overwhelmingly Republican in
an ordinary party hght. they are proposing TO
dorse cand iates named by the Citizens Union pro-
vided certain candidates arc or profess to be
Democrats in principle" This mark Of the tigers
att nton has been very grateful to the unsophisa
Gated Cit'. who are mors accustomed to be laughed
at than conc lated, and some Of them have come to
he conclusion that. AttsrAll = dOmasticAtsd tiger
has some advantages as house pet. The tiger u
willing.
The only state in the country carried by Mr.. Mo.
hinley In 1898 In which the Prohibition vote sL-
ceeded tho Republican plurality was, oddly enough.
Kentucky, in which heretofore prohibition has not
oeen altogether 50 popular as some other states.
The TT 'hiOitionIss Of Kentucky have nominated o.
7. WalA'e of Girard county for Governor.
Some OF the TammAny Hall contests said to he
scheduled for this year contests In name only,
and this il especially the cess in the Second Asaon.
bly, district where the opponents of Alderman Pat
mex DIVER disclaim any present intention to dis
pute the leadership there. cOntenting themselves
with the effort to defeat III. nation Of Judge
DIVERS candidate for Municipal Court Justice.
Herman bolte The Second Judicial district Ia made
up OF wards g. a. and a. and mAll portion Of the
First ward 30 much OF the Fourth aud sixth vards
AZ are included in the Second Assembly dstr ct will
he recorded in the Judicial Convention for
the nomination OF Jude Diver. whersAs the
daleEtes from tbs Fourteenth ward are expected 10
oppose MS renon nation, Juti~e Bolte was elected
III lsNS Pr"r t" that time the Judge OF this rtbu al
was for nineteen yra7s Fo irtesns4 Ward man 40
that according T. political GXr the Fourth ward Of
which Justice Bole is rssiHcnt. Ia entitled to the
nomination whether or not he is the candidate who
receives It, and the friends OF Judge Diver profss
70 be EAnguins that he will