The evening times., 1900-04-06
Hait Till Croker Returns.-The

the politicians standpoint il is a billet
very much to be desired.
wait Till Croker Returns.-Tbe
Democratic politicians of New York seem
to have been very much confused in their
ideas and mixed in their intentions by
the announced candidacy of Admiral Dew
ey. 1t appears that they are now ready
10 abandon their original purpose OF fol-
lowing the immemorial custom of the New
York Democracy by instruciing their dele
cation TO the National Convention aud in
tend to send the seyenty-two delegates to
Kansas City "unhampered." As far as
known none OF the men conspicuous either
by words or acts in the party organization
of the State has openly declared for Ad-
miral Dewey. On the ether hand many
OF hem have declared for Mr. Bryan. How
ever, these declarations, CT course, are
always subject 10 change. and il is con-
sidered highly probable that the AdmTal's
unlookCd-for announcements has disturbed
the equilibrium OF some Of them. Judge
Augustus Van Wyck is supposed to have
had considerable following in New York
though comparatively no progress has
been made by his movement. AT the same
time the fact that an active propaganda
in his favor has been going on for two or
three months seems 10 indicate that the
New Workers have been in thai mental
condition described by Senator Depew in
his Porto Rican Tariff speech as open
minded" This condition presumably is
a good augury for the Dewey movement
Still. Richard Croker set things in motion
for Bryan in the Empire State nearly a
year ago b. declaring himself for the Ne
hraskan above everybody else, 1t is not
known definitely when Mr. Croker will re-
turn from Europe. On this interesting
point even the Hon William z. Sulzer
appears TO possess no satisfactory infOr-
nation. Al last accounts CTokers broken
leg was doing very we'll However, as
fractured femur is liable to be very &C.
centric under the surgeons care, il is
thought 10 be not impossible that Mr..
Croker's broken leg may be getting rap
idly worse now instead of better and that
this luckless circumstance may make his
stay in Europe indefinite. IL is not doub-
ed that if he should come home within the
next ncuth he could set everything all
righ; in New York. either for Dewey or
for Bryan. though, of course, if he doesn't
return before the convention TO elect del
egates TO Kansas City is held there is no
telling what VIII likely happen. The State
Committee will hold meeting on the goth
instant for the purpose OF naming the time
and place for the convention. 1t is sup
posed that al this meeting there will be
iniport2nt developments. II is not at all
probable that Croker will return 10 New
York before that date. However he is said
to own cable frank. and he can use this
10 good effect if he wants to do so. Still.
that broken leg may now be of more con-
cern to him than politics. II ii is he will
probably forget to communicate with his
braves by cable when they rally around
the State Committee on the 20th
L. Blackburn Jneasy:-It is believed
that former Senator Blackburn is begin
ming to grow uneasy about getting the seat
10 which he was elected by the Legislature
Of Kentucky a short while before his
State was plunged into anarchy by the as
sassination of Goebel. The term 10 which
he was elected begins with the Fifty
seventh Congress, and yesterday Senator
Jones of Arkansas introduced in the Sem
ate the unusual credentials held by Mr..
Blackburn. accompanied by a vOluminous
statement of facts and allegations con-
cerning the unusual character of the ere
dentials. Though elected by a large ma
jority in the Legislature Mr.. Blackburn
was unable to get the de facto Governor
TAYLOR to certify to his election. Since
the assassination of Goebel he has not
recognized Taylor's right TO exercise any
of the functions of Governor, and. there.
fore, has not requested him to sign the
certificate. Ii is considered to be not IN
likely that a question of the legality of
his election will be raised when he presents
himself at the bar of the Senate of the
next Congress to be sworn in. 1t may be
argued that since the Legislatu that
elected him declared that the election to
which it owed its existence was full of
fraud and wrongdoing as evidenced by the
Legislatures act in declaring Taylor not
entitled to the governorship. the Assembly
also was an illegal body. In brief. it may
suit the purposes OF the Republicans in
the next Senate, if not in this, to nullify
as far as possible everything done in Ken
tucky under the Goebel law. In that event
Mr. Blackburn, il is feared. would have
hard time of ii getting into the Senate
on the certificate of election filed for him
yesterday by Senator Jones.