Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-06-02
Croker Orders State Convention to
Instruct for Bryan.
hill OPPOSED 10 TIE PROPOSITION
Roosevelt Still Being Talked Of
for Vice President.
PROBLEM FOR CENSUS TAKERS

| Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
NEW YORK, May 81, 1900.
| Last Saturday morning the informant
| was given out by one of former Senator
| Hills lieutenants that the Tammany lead
| ers had made an agreement with Hill and
| the Kings county men to this effect: %
that the state convention should indorse
| Mr.. Bryan; CD that the delegates to the
national convention should not be instruct
| ed. and 81 that the Chicago platform
should not be Endorsed. At that time there
| is no doubt that John F.. Carroll, Croker s
| agent, Endorsed the program. Then came a
| cablegram from the chief, and now there
| is all kinds of trouble brewing. According
| to the instructions of this cablegram, the
| 105 Tammany delegates in the democratic
state convention that is to meet in this city
June . will vote to instruct the national
| delegates for William ]. Bryan. Carroll
| has made the announcement upon orders
| from Croker. This sudden change on the
part of Tammany means fight in the
state convention against David B. Hill and
his followers, with the odds largely in
| favor of the local organization, because
there is a Bryan following in every section
of the state anxious to vote for an in
Structed delegation.
If the sixty-three delegates from Kings
county join Tammany and surrender to
Bryan the resolution to instruct will proba-
| bly, go through on the first roll call in spite
of any combination against it that can be
made by Hill. The announcement of Car
roll that Tammany is in favor of sending
to Kansas City an instructed delegation
was surprise to the rank and file of the
orga nization. The average Tammany lead
er and politician wants to be regular all the
time, but many of them are secretly OPP
posed to instructng the national delegates.
They will obey orders. however. and from
| the WigWam there will be no voice of pro-
test against the plan issued from the Demo-
cratic Club. There are many men in Tam
many, however, some of them office hold
ers, others liberal contributors to cam
pagn funds who say in private that they
| will not vote for Bryan for President, and
will do nothing to aid his campaign.
Horace White for Lieut.. Governor.
Many republican politicians from differ
| ent parts of the state are in the city and d
| large majority of these believe that Senator
| Horace White of Syracuse will be the re-
| publican nominee for lieutenant governor.
Senator N. n. Stranahan has also been con-
| sidered likely to get the nomna ton but
| it is admitted that he will make no fight
| for the place if White wants it. Neither
will Senator White make contest against
| Senator Stranahan. The belief is also eX-
| pressed by upstate leaders that the demo-
| Gratis will lose the twenty-second. twenty
| fifth and twenty-ninth districts. now repre-
! sented respectively, by William j. Graney
of Westchester, Jacob Rice of Ulster and
| Curtis n. Douglas of Albany. Republicans
| believe. too, that Rensselaer, county could
! be surely redeemed except for the bitter
fractional fight waging there between the
| adherents of ex-Gov. Frank S. Black and
| Postmaster Joseph a. Leggett of Troy.
| Black is said to have promised the sena-
| torial nomination to Assemblyman Michael
Russell, while LegSett favors Arthur Mac
| Arthur The latter is a particularly strong
| man. He owns an influential newspaper is
| very popular and is one of the most prom1-
nent Masons in the state.
Local republicans We're surprised to read
| in the Washington dispatches that Charles
T. SaXton to be nominated for United
States judge of Porto Rico and that Geo.
W. Lyon was to be nominate for a high
judicial position in the Philippines. Saxton,
who was formerly lieutenant governor and
who is now chief judge of the court OF
claims by appointment of former Governor
Back opposed the nomination of Theodore
Roosevelt for governor in 1898. although
he was a machine candidate. Lyon Is a
former secretary Of the Union League Club.
Neither man is regarded as a loyal organ
ization republican, and Senator Platt was
asked before he left the city the otner Gay
why they We're recommended.
"Secretary Root is responsible; better ask
him. was the answer.
Roosevelt for Vice President.
Republicans of prominence in this state
still insist that Governor Theodore Roose-
Welt will be nominated for Vice President
| in Philadelphia next month, and that the
| unanimity of his selection will be such that
! he will accept. General Francis V. Greene
sudden popularity with Plat and Qu1SS mas
caused the politicians to do some hard
| thinking. Some of them now surmlse that
| should Governor Roosevelt be nominated
| for Vice President General Greene may be
! developed as the republican candidate 1or
governor. 1t was mentioned as a posslpi-
! ity in 1898, and after Governor Roosevelt
nomination and election the appointment as
state superintendent of public works was
offered to him, but he declined. Then the
governor made him chairman of the state
canals commission. General Greene eos
est friend in politics is Governor Roosevelt.
! The governor first suggested ms name 10
Plat. it is said. for president OF the county
committee. After much consideration Piatt
and Ouigg it seems, have decided tnat
General Greene shall be elected president
of the county committee next month. mat
will brand General Greene as a Platt ma
chine man, and that evidently Is Flatl
purpose. according to the belief OF some
politicians The attitude of Lemuel f.
Quigg and his friends has made politicians
suspicious concerning Gen. Greenes Selec-
tion as OuiggS successor. QulSS has been
strenuous in trying to weaken the chances
of every other man who has been suggested
for his position, but now he announces that
Gen. Greene is all right, and Will be elected
county chairman next month.
| Archbishop COrrisan's Visit to Rome
The old story has been revived that Arch
bishop COrrlSan present WISH 10 TeoiHe
may result in the alteration of the boun-
daries of the New York archdiocese. For
more than ten years it has been held that
the territory il which the archbishop has
jurisdiction was too extensive, and that
new diocese should be created in the upper
part of thu present archdiocese. The APP
pointment Of Bishop Farley as auxiliary
bishop in 1898 removed the necessity for re-
ducing the size of the archdiocese.
Now, the change spoken of involves the
creation of a new and larger diocese by
the cutting out of the territory from Yonk-
ers to Poughkeepsie, and consolidating the
remainder of the New York archdiocese
with the diocese of Brooklyn. The Brook
Ign diocese is made up of the boroughs of
Brooklyn and Queens and the rest Of Long
Island. Ever since Greater New York
came into existence there has been much
talk of forming great Catholic arch
diocese, to take in the whole city. 1t is
said the Catholic authorities agree that
their ecclesiastical consolidation is inevita-
bic. The story surrent in Catholic circles
now is that as Archbishop Corrigan and
Bishop Mcdonnell of Brooklyn are both in
Rome the question will be brought before
the authorities there for consideration. 1t
is said that should the consolidation take
place Bishop Mcdonnell would be made
adjutor to Archbishop Corrigan. with the
right of succession. 1t was in a similar