The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-07-12
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Albany correspondent Of the Syracuse Post
| Standard tells in detail, upon the authority Of
| politicians prominent at Kansas City, the story
! of David b. Hills throw-down by Richard Gro
kcr. II makes an interesting chapter in dirty
| politics and is as follows. almost from the
| hour that the Democratic state convention ad
| journcd in New York city Ave weeks ago the
| pins set up to do Hill at Kansas City
| The plan was hatched in Tammany Hall with the
full sanction Of Croker and Augustus Van Wyck
was to be the beneficiary When the state CON
vcntion adjourned it. was believed by the state
leaders that with the modification Of the free
silver plank the Democrats would have fighting
chance in this state It was agreed that Hill
should be New Nork's member Of the commit.
tee on resolutions to secure a modification of
the declaration for silver Then what happened?
| Hill came back to Albany and went to work
| the platform. There was no fight; no opposi-
| tion; no dissatisfaction with his sclcction-On
| the surface. Under cover, however Tammany
working TO smash Hill and elevate Van
| Wyck-the man who was hissed in the state con-
| ycntion ice trust magnatc. Van Nyck
as the nominal state leader is Croker's ideal
| Van Wyck wanted to get on the committee on
| resolutions Croker wanted him there, and Gro
| ker's lcutenants paved the way for putting him
| there. They went into the upstate districts
and proceeded to salt the delegation McCar-
rem and Shcvln, who were in charge of the
start and Senator Murphy was not difficult to
| get. Norman +. Mack, the head Of the Erie
| county delegation, also joined the deal. He is
| afraid Of Hill and, furthermore the Croker brand
of politics appeals more strongly to him than
| the Hill brand. Then there man named
Burke up in Franklin county The Twenty.third
district was represented by two Hill men. Burke
wanted to get on in place of one of them. His
! friends went to Hill Hill said that he did not
care il the other fellow was agreeable So Burke
| got on. When it came to a showdown in the
| delegation Burke came out from under cover
| and voted against Hill That was one OF the
lituc things that made Hill mad, The next time
he met Burke he wouldn't speak to him. The
chances are that Burke will have occasion to re-
| member this incident. Hill was not prepared for
| Crokcrs treachery. lie had intmation that
| he was being fooled until he got in the confer
cncc. Then it was too late TO make a fight.
lie protested and pleaded, but every strap had
been pulled tight and cnChed and he had to
take the dose prepared for him. After the meet
| ing Of the New York state delegation Hill was
| in better position to fight Tammany than Tam
many was to fight him. Croker had stakcd cy-
| erythng to beat him for member OF the commit
| tee on resolutions. After that he had nothing
in reserve. Hill did not go on the committee as
| the representative of anothers state bcause 1t
would look too much like carpetbagging. Tam
many got panicky, however, when it learned on
his opportunity, and for fear that he might,
tried to scare the silver men by declaring that
| Hill was a radical ant.silver man, was hostile to
| Bryan and would II he had his way, disrupt the
| party. 1t developed very speedily that Hill had
more friends in the convention that the whole
| Tammany aggregation, and after he refused to
| go on the committee the representative of an
other state he was in almost constant consulta-
tion with the Democratic national leaders on
the insertion Of some planks and the modification
Of others in the platform. 1t was on his advice
that the plank denounCing imperialism was made
conspicuous and it is strongly suspected that it
was due to mis- efforts that the income tax plank
was dropped"
"When President Mckinley assumed Office"
says the Philadelphia Ledger, "the finances Of
the country were in bad way. Large sums Of
money had been borrowed by the previous ad-
ministration, because the annual revenue was in
sufficient to meet the annual expenses. In
few months after President McKnley's inaugura.
tion a new revenue law was enacted and, since
that time, partly because of a great trade revival,
the revenues have been increased so that there
is promise of surplus. 4 war begun, not by
the president but by congress, with the APP
proval of both parties il not at the hehcst Of
the American people, was fought to a successful
conclusion in the course Of a few months II
was very costly, and war taxes had to he in-
posed to meet the expenses But the essen.
tial facts remain that, during this adminstra.
tiOn, the finances Of the government were put
on sound basis; that credit was rcstored that
business revived and that the country entered
upon an era of industrial activity that shed its
blessings upon labor well as capital. The
campaign orator who forgets that seeks to he
little it, will address deaf ears"
According to the Times, Herald Of Chicago
German. Americans Of the middle west dislike
William Jennings Bryan's free silver theories
now as much as they did in 1896 The 10 to
dose has not been made more palatablc to them
by fayoring it with anti imperialism" and pro.
Boer declarations Representative German
Americans in Chicago and Milwaukee say so.
Public sentiment in st. Louis and Cincinnati and
other typical centcrs of Germanic thought and
influence runs in the same direction. While a
tendency to desert President Mckinley on the
Boer and 'imperialistic" issues has been pro.
claimed all over the western country, and more
than half believed by many, it appears TO have
been ehectualy stopped il it ever existed, when
Bryan insisted upon reiteration Of the silver
form.
Charles J. Bonaparte, the Baltimore reiormor
.clared for Mckinley. lie says; III the Dem.
ooratc party is ever again TO become a useful
instrument Of government in the United States
this can be effected only by defeat so COM
plete and neduiyocal to convince its politi
clans for all that fellowship with socialism
OF any shade and in any form can lead only TO
disaster. II must be thrashed into decency and
common sense II IL is to he once more a party
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