El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-01-20
NEW YORK

bone Stiff-Bryant 70 BE
"Whooped Up" BY Order OF
Croker-Mr. Quigg's Star Sit
tings-police Department Shak'
en- Up-Minor Matters.
Special Correspondence of the HERALD.
NEW YORK, Jan. 16.-The endeavor
of Louis F. Payn, the present super
intendent of insurance of the state oil
New York, to secure another term may
not seem at distance to be matter OF
national Importance, but 1t promises to
create a schism in the republican party
in this state that may have the most
important consequences. Psyn is an
appointee of Governor Black =: he Is a
lobbyi st of the worst type, having been
convicted not only of bribing Legislators
but double dealing with the railroads
he represented some years ago before
the legislature. In a report upon
Payn's career made few years ago,
the chairman of the Investigating COM
mittee, Elihu Root, now secretary
of war, said that Payn was "a
stencil in the nostrils of all good
and honest men in the state" and this
Characterization has chung to the man
ever siuce. Psyn, however, has many
frie nds in the legislature and they de-
mand that the governor shall resppolnt
him when his term expires this spring.
In the event of the governors refusal
to appoint him, Payn's friends say that
they will defeat the confirmation OF
any other sppointee, thus raising an
issue between the state senate and the
governor that can only be settled by
the surrender of one side or the other.
The governor has stated positively that
he will not appoint Payn and Mt is
hardly necessary to say that he will
stick to this resolution. If Psyn can
hold his friends together, the inevi-
table result will be that there will be
two hostile factions in the party whose
differences will greatly weaken the
repu blican chances of retaining con-
troll of the state next fall. The Tam
many members, of course, have every
incentive to make the fight as bitter as
possible, and some of them have al
ready said that they will vote against
any nomination that is opposed by
Payn's friends in the hope of bringing
about what would be vote of LACK of
con fidence in Governor Roosevelt.
Another result of this controversy is
to bring Roosevelt's name prominen tly
to the fore again as q candidate for the
vice-presidency, the republicans desir-
ing to remove him to position In
which the animosities he excites will
not be an element of weakness in the
party in this state.
1t is responsibly reported here that
orders have been received from Rich
ard Croker to "whoop things up" for
William J. Bryan when he comes to
this city next week. In any event it is
settled that Mr. Bryan will be ''recog-
nized" in some conspicuous way by the
democratic club, which will thus com
mic itself formally to the support of
Bryan in the next campaign. AS is
generally known, the rank and file OF
Tsmmany have always been for Bryan,
aud Croker has Informally declared
he fsvors q second nomination of the
silver Chang ion, so that nothing re-
mains to be done but to confirm what
Is already conceded. In the last cam
paign Tammany was lukewarm or
hostile in its support of Bryan simply
because the Tammany treasury was
empty and it could not afford to alien
ate the business and moneyed men who
had always been liberal contributors to
funds. Now, however, prsc-
tically the whole of the working men,
bership of Tsmmany is in Office and
there is no lack of money; Bryan there
fore can be supported without loss.
the officeholders making good what
business men refuse to contribute. For
there is no doubt whatever that the
business and fna 1cial elements here
are as violently opposed to Bryan and
his doctrines as they were 10 1896, and
the opposition to him will be just as
effective as it was ut that time.
Both Mr.. Plat and Lemuel Ely
Quigg deny that the latter, though
still the republican county chairman.
ts no longer Mr.. Platt' s'representative
in legisl alive matters. Nevertheless,
Mr.. Quigg's career as q sub-boss here
seems to be reaching it's end. Some
one, aud it is generally believed that
Mr.. Quigg is the man, bungled the
Mazet investigation, and his days are
doubtless numbered. Mr.. Quigg, as q