Waterbury Democrat., 1902-11-08
THEY'RE AFTER DAVID B.
And Tammany will Aid in the
 Hunt For Him.
Plan is to Drive Hill Out of Politics The Reason Why the Upstate Went So Solidly Republican Known to Hill and His Political Friends

New York. Nov S.-There are indi- cations that movement is already on foot Witnln the democracy of New York to prevent Davld B. Hill from capturing the state delegation to the next democratic national conVentlon- Three of the prime leaders are Lewis Nixon, Smith AI. Weed and Justice D. Cady Herrick. Other adherents or Grover Cleveland also are interested, and it is understood that strong or ganization soon will be formed for the avoWed purpose of putting MT Hill out of business in democratic politics. Tammany Hall no doubt will lend it's aid at the proper time, but what inter ests the politicians just now is Lewis Nixon's return to political activity. No democrat in the state is more an tagonistic to Hill than Smith M. Weed of Plattsburg. He is at the Waldorf. and expressed his satisfaction frequent ly at Hius defeat in the rout of Coler at the polls. MT Nixon had Mir Weed as a guest on Thursday night by ap- pointment. Clinton county, where Mr Weed is the democratic leader, gave the largest republican vote and major ity to Governor Odell on last Tuesday 1t ever gave to any republican candi- date. It was one of half dozen coun- ties up the state which gave larger vote for Governor Odell than for Will liam Mckinley either in 1896 or 1900. Various reasons besides Mir Weed s personal antagonism to Hill assisted in rolling up the unprecedented republican majority in Clinton county, and some democrats said last night that if Hill wanted to go into the "cOnteSting', business and should persist in his inti- nations of republican fraud up the state the democrats of Clinton county would give the public few morsels to digest.
 Clinton county's state tax, it was, shown, was about S39, ,OO0 few years ago. NoT 1t is only $1,2O0. The same relative proportions prevail in many other upstate counties, and this was a great. silent factor in procuring the big vote for Governor Odell. Hills deceit and double dealing in politics also had an appreciable effect
 When Edward Murphy was candi- date for United States senator before the state legislature, Smith M. Weed also was ambitious to obtain that honor. MT Weeds friends always have said that Hill had promised to support MT Weed for the nomination. Clinton county had elected a democratic as- semb1yman, H. B. Barnard. who pro- fessed to be an avowed Weed man. When Barnard got to Albany, however, he Was taken into camp by Hill and Murphy and voted for Murphy's nom- | ination.
 That was the beginning of the feud l between Weed and Hill This year Hill put up contest in the democratic primaries in Clinton county against Weed. Thomas F. Conway, who twice was a candidate on the democratic state ticket for atorney-general, headed the Weed delegation which was elected ] to go to the democratic state conven- ton. Halsey Rogers was the leader of the HfH faction, and Hill calmly threw the Conway delegation out of the state conventions and seated the Rogers crowd. Rogers got into trouble during the primary fights in the democratic party. Soon after these primaries, by the way, a note of HilHs, payable to Rogers, for $1.20O, was put through the Plattsburg bank.
 MT Weed and MT Conway and their democratic friends worked openly against Hill's state ticket at the polls on election day. as Justice Herrick and his friends did in Albany. If Htll real- ly wants to know what caused the great democratic slump up the state, or if Coler wants to know, democrats said last night. several local troubles within the party like those in Clinton and Albany might be narrated.
 You will not see Hill anixous to dig up any evidence against the republi- cans,' said prominent upstate demo- | o1saf 1aSf niOhf tsHn xuo111d oro+ his own fingers burned, and he knows it. As Devery says, of him, Hill is -four l fiusher."