Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-24
Democrats Show Little Interest in the
State Campaign.
CANNOT GET TEE SINEWS OF WAR
Few Contests Expected for Places
on Republican Ticket.
ODELL TO BE AT THE HEAD
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.


NEW YORK, August %, 1900.
Delegates to the republican and demo-
cratic state conventions will be elected at
the primaries which occur on August -.
So far as the claims of various candidates
for the nomination for governor are con-
cerned, there will be few, If any. contests
on the republican side. The regular organi-
| cation will control large majority of the
delegates to the republican convention. and
Senator Platt must assume the responsible
ity for the nominations which will be made
in Saratoga. Senator Platt - averse still
to declaring for any one candidate for gov
ernor, except that he has intimated again
he would be pleased If Benjamin B. Odell
| would become the republican, nominee.
There talk Of the revival Of the Odell
boom at Manhattan Beach the other day
| and Plat was asked what he thought of it.
Go ahead and revive it,, he said to the
| newspaper men.
Would 1t suit you to have Mr.. Odell still
insisted for GOVERNOR" was asked.
Nothing would suit me better
1t Is probable, however, that the organi-
zations plan will be decided on before the
delegates go to Saratoga to the conven-
ton. and that there will be no departure
from this plan Senator Depew is due to
arrive from Europe next Saturday, and Sc
reno E. Payne will be back next week
There will be a roundup of the leaders
with Senator Platt in a week or so, and the
entire state ticket then will be selected.
Murphy Leads the Democrats.
Ex-senator Murphy has been declared the
nominal leader Of the state democracy.
Murphy's headquarters will be at the Hoff-
man House, and from this place Mr.. Croker,
assisted by Mr.. Murphy, Will enroll his fol-
lowers throughout the state trying to or
ganize an effective fighting machine, so that
when the great trial of strength comes at
the state convention, in Saratoga, on Sep
TENDER IL. he will be able to smash the
Hill forces and put them to rout.
l. The democratic leaders in this state have
70 all outward appearances entirely aban-
doned campaign work for the national ticket.
For three weeks the state headquarters at
Broadway and 26th street have been desert
ed by the men supposed to be in charge of
the work. Chairman Mcclure of the ex-
ecut1ve committee was there for hour
on Saturday morning, and Chairman Camp
bell was there day and a half in the
early part of last week. With the excep-
ton of these flying visits no one In author
ity has recently visited the headquarters,
and the rooms are occupied by few en-
ployes, who apparently have nothing to do.
No explanation of this method of cam
paigning Is made by the employees on duty
at headquarters or by the chairmen of the
two committees, but it Is common gossip
among democrats that the Bryan cam
palgnerS nave no money and that they have
met with rebuffs and refusals wherever
they have attempted to raise funds. 1t is
well known that Tammany has refused to
have anything to do with the headquarters
under the management Of Chairman Nc
CURE of the executive committee. Tam
many has plenty of money for campaign
work, but refuses to contribute one cent
to the state headquarters.
Democrats without Organization.
Reports from up the state are to the eff
feet that in many counties there is prac-
tically no democratic organization and
that no attempt has been made to carry
on a campaign for the national ticket.
Soon after Chairman Mcclure opened state
headquarters he let 1t be known that he
expected to have Mr.. Bryan make num-
Der of speeches In the state during the
campaign. No one in authority will ad
init that Mr.. Bryan has refused to come
to New York, but for weeks not one word
has been said about the plan and 1t Is
known that the democratic national COM
mittee will do no work in this state.
Bankers and fnanciers in this city SEEM
ed to take but mild interest today in the
report from Odessa via London to the
effect that the Russian government con-
templates attempting to float 100000, 600
rouble loan in this country. Similar re-
ports have been received here from time
to time during the past year, but, with
the exception of a loan of fairly large size
made by one of the large local insurance
companies on some Russian railroad bonds
nothing more tangible appears to have
come of them. Conservative bankers here
have several times been quoted saying
that a Russian loan would hardly be popu-
lar in this country. In proof of this they
point out that the New York Security and
Trust Company, the fiscal agent in this
country of the Russian government, has
been unable to dispose of more than a
very small amount of million-dollar lot
of Russian railroad bonds, which the COM
pany has had on the local market for some
time.
No Prospect of Japanese Loan.
Bankers say there is very little likeli-
hood Of Japanese loan being offered in
this market at present. London bank
ing house having a branch in this city ca
bled over to ask what chance there would
be of disposing of a lot of Japanese bonds
here, and, although the answer was not
encouraging, the report got started that
the bonds would be offered in New York
No further talk is heard of a German
loan being placed here, but it is said this
depends somewhat upon the need of the
German government to raise money for
war purposes.