New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-11-06
HILL AT OLD TRICKS.
SlfARTTNG UNDER DEFEA T HE
CRIES FRA ID"
REPUBLICAN LEADERS LAUGH AT THE
STATEMENT WHICH HE FORCES
MASON TO MAKE

David b. Hill from his cave Of reflection at
Albany yesterday prodded SecretA AIRY John A
Mason, of the State Committee. into announc-
ing that because of fraud in the upstate
Republican vote there would be a contest Mr.
Mason in the afternoon asked Charles F. Muir
ply, the prize guesser of Tammany Hall. and
Daniel F. Mcmahon. chairman of the Tammany
Executive Committee. 10 go 10 State headquar-
ters for conference
This sudden activity on the part Of the Demo
Gratis led Colonel Dunn and Colonel Fox, at the
Republican State headqu@Eers, 10 take extra
precautions against any taIhpering with the
returns. Messages were sent out for Republi-
cans everywhere to see that irregularities
were attempted by Democratic election work
ers and to ser that al, returns with certified
copies were duly filed with the proper officers
of the law. Commissioner Page. Of the Elections
Board. summoned to state Committee head
quarters. He told the Republican leaders just
what the election bureau required 10 do
TO safeguard the election returns
Colonel Dunn when he heard what the Demo
Gratis were talking Of doing. said:
IF they want to contest the vote. all right
Wen give them all they want Of that SOFT OF
business We win see what car. q Sons ters 81
looking up Tammany irregularities in this city
1t certainly looks peculiar that Tammany polled
more than 10000 plurality in the greater New
York. when they looked only for l12.o0O at the
outside"
Secretary Mason Of the Democratic state
Committee. after hearing from Mr.. Hill over the
telephone. said:
we concede nothing. Odelrs election is
simply a claim. We will not admit his election
until every defective ballot alleged defective
ballot has been scrutinlzed. We have evidence
of Wholesale debauchery and corruption in Or
ange Oneida. Albany and Erie counties. and IN
the cities along the line of the New-York Central
Railroad The defective ballots and the Chi
canery practised In the three judicial districts
where the Republican State machine bent every
energy to elect Attorney General Davies, are
alone sufficient to change the result We shall
contest every foot of ground
Mr. Hill did not come TO the city. J. " Carlisle.
chairman OF the Democratic Executive Com
mittee also remained somewhere upstate. lost
in reflection as TO the intelligence of the farmer
Bird S. Coler was in Brooklyn. Frank Camp
| bell, chairman of the Democratic State Commit
tee was the lone manager OF the defeated Dem
ocratic forces to appear the Hoffman House.
and the reported conference last night at the
Hoffman House OF Democratic leaders to contest
the election of Odell did not materiaIize
There was a general disposition to regard the
re )ort of a contest with suspicion. Hill is not
looked upon by the public at large-and even
within his own ranks this same suspicion turks
procedure So when there was talk of con
test the politicians began to ask what Hill
meant The answer given by who has
arrived at the verge of political nervous pros
tration through following Hills devious political
paths:
Are you still fooled by HIP" asked this
politician. "It is all plain day. Hin is
drubbed. and drubbed soundly. German made
good in Maryland Bryan made some headway
jc
than the blizzard of 1888. All the vote he got
came from below The Bronx, where Hill is not
in power and where he is avowedly looked upon
with distrust Up the State. where Hill should
have showed his strength. he ran away behind
Now he wants to set up the cry that he was de-
frauded out of the election. and go before the
next Democratic National Convention rehabili-
tated as a martyr. It is old and transparent
Hill trick.
"Hin steal the State? He cannot do it. II he
owned and controlled the county clerks and
election officers up State he might do it, but he
doesn't They are honest men and beyond Hills
influence He stole the State once and he will
never try it again.
ASK yourself the question. Who defeated the
| Democratic ticket? and the answer comes direct.
II was Hill Hill injected the coal plank into the
State platform. That cost thousands of votes.
The enmity 10 Hill over the State is intense,
and yet Hill instead of subOrdinating himself.
| made himself the central figure in the campaign
and thus alienated many votes. Hill came to
! New-York and pleaded with the warning factions
here for harmony. They agreed, and the Democ-
racy below The Bronx was united: and look at
the result Up the State Hill threw D. Cady
! Herrick out in Albany by the neck. What did
/ Herrick do? Look at the unprecedented Re
| publican majority in Albany In Clinton County
/ Hill turned on Smith NJ. Weed Look at the
/ result in Clinton, BY failing TO reconcile diff
! ferences in Clinton and Albany. Hill lost the
ticket $4,000. votes. and that enough to lose
! without referring TO other things. Hill won't
! contest. He is setting up this cry 10 cover his
/ defeat but il won't go"
Mr.. Campbell, chairman of the Democratic
/ State Committee, a subdued and chastened