The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-10-06
REPUBLICAN
BLINDNESS.
w. E. Curtis Says They Do Not
Seem to Realize
The Dangerous Situation Exist
ing in New York.
SEES BRIGHT OUTLOOK
For Success of the Democratic
Ticket.
Croker to Control Patronage If
He Carry the State.
SEES BRIGHT OUTLOOK
For Success of the Democratic
Ticket.


the following from W. E. Curtis.its New
York correspondent:
The Republicans do not yet realize
how hard the Democrats are working to
carry the state of New York or recog-
nize the conditions that favor their sue
cess. In the first place. since he became
the grand sacheIn of Tammany hall Mr..
Croker has never before had any in
ducement to carry the state for presi-
Dental candidate of his party. He had
nothing to expect from the success of
Mr.. Cleveland, who has been the Demo-
cratic nominee twice since Croker came
into power, nor from Mr.. Bryan four
years ago. and Mr.. Croker is a practical
politician He does not waste his time
or his efforts But this year he is in
Sp1red by an inducement, which has not
been officially disclosed but which is
probably a promise Of recognition in case
Col. Bryan is elected.
Neither Col. Bryan nor Mr.. Mckinley
at this point in a campaign would give
q positive promise to any politician for
anything. They are too wise to tie them
selves up in any such manner, but there
is not the slightest doubt that Mr.
Croker has received from Mr.. Bryan an
assurance that his organization shall be
recognized as the regular democracy of
New York IN the distribution OF patron
age At least this is believed by every
body who has relations with Mr.. Croker,
and is admitted by members of the ma
the campaign in the east. Mr.. CrOker's
Ieutenants say that he demanded such
an assurance before he undertook to
carry the state, and got it. Being a man
of plain words and practical methods
he told Mr. Bryan'S representatives in
language that they could not possibly
misunderstood that he did not propose
to assist in electing a president who
would allow anybody but himself (and
he meant David B. HID to divide the
loaves and the hsheSin that state What
n frvnl fTe-fr -+
to him and to his lieutenantS, who were
Immediately informed
One reason for Mr.. Cr0kers confidence
of q Democratic victory in New York is
found in the fact that Col Bryan, Rich
ard Croker, David B. Hill, Bourke Cock
ran, Edward NJ Shepard and John De-
Witt Warner will sit on the same plat
form at Madison Square Garden on the
evening of October 16, which will be
notable phenomenon in politics. 1t
could not have occurred at any other
time within the last twelve years, and if
Mr.. Schurz can be induced to attend the
meeting he will add another remarkable
figure to an extraordinary combination.
Every one of the men have mentioned
was doing everything he could to pre-
vent the election of Mr. Bryan four
years ago except Mr.. Croker, who went
to Europe in order to escape the necessi-
ty of doing So
Mr. Shepard, for example, who will
preside at Mr.. Bryan'S great meeting, is
particularly conspicuous, from the fact
LnSL ne belongs 10 the law Ur1n OF Edr-
son, Shepard & Ogden, the regular at
torneys and legal advisers of the Ame-i-
can Sugar Refining company, or sugar
trust, as it is Familiarity known, which
Mr.. Bryan has denounced in nearly
every speech he has made. Mr.. Shep-
ard is said to have drawn the articles
of Incorporation for the trust and to
have taken all the legal steps in its or
ganizatiOn. Nearly his entire time from
one years end to the other is absorbed
in giving advice to that monstrous mo-
nOpoly. Nevertheless, he is an anti
impeTialist, and as such has been in
vited to preside at Mr.. Bryan's meet
ing.
The significance of the fact that the
Democrats are united in support of Mr..
Bryan does not seem to be appreciated
in its full force by the Republican man.
ayers, nor do they seem to realize that
since 1896 there has been an almost COM
plete revolution in the municipal poll
tics of New York state. At the last
election the mayors of New York,
Brooklyn and almost every other city
in the state were Republican, and con-
trOlled the police and the election ma
chinery This fall the mayors of New
York, Brooklyn and almost every one of
these cities are Democrats and in control
of the election machinery and the DO
lice. Instead of two Republican judges
and one Democratic judge there will be
two Democrats and one Republican at
nearly every precinct in the state 1t
should also be known that the Demo-
Gratis are working with greater zeal
than they have shown since the TiIden
campaign. They are not holding so
many big meetings as the Republicans,
but more small ones, and thousands of
campaign workers have been employed
by the Democratic committees to make
a hOuse-to-hOuse canvass in the factory
towns to discuss the issues of the cam
paign in the barber shops and saloons
and other places where voters are ac-
custOmed to gather. Their talk is not
reported in the newspapers, but it tells
at the polls.
Mr.. Croker knows better than any
body else what is going on in the DEM
ocratic campaign, and why he believes
New York state will give it's electoral
vote to Bryan.