The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-31
DEMOCRATIC SECRET POLL.
on DEMOCRATIC Authority 1T
GIVES ODELL 5000.
Either BluflnE or O,crconndrnt At the
Hoffman. for They're Claiming Every.
thinE-Tammany Not Expected TO
Work Hard to Build l'p Rival Machine

Either the Democrats at the Hoffman
House are past masters in the art Of bluff
ing or they are suffering from souffle over
confidence. II was said last night that Mr..
Hill had told Mr.. Carlisle and Mr.. Mason
and the other Democratic campaigners
that he had decided on the old tactics of
the Republicans more than fifteen years
ago, when Senator Quay, Gen. James s.
GARRISON and James G. Blaine believed that
il was policy Ito claim everything"
II has always been known that Mr. Hill
is not an Originator or creator" in politics.
His snap con vention for himself at Albany
in February. 1892 was modelled on Roscoe
Conkling's snap convention for Gen Grant
at Utica in March, 1880. Conkling failed;
so did Hill Politicians, like actors, imi-
tate each other.
Some Of the Democrats not especially
friendly to Mr.. Hill nowadays said yester-
day that Gov. Odell was surely beaten
man. They went on TO say that the fierce
trouble in the Fifth Judicial district
over the Republican nomination for SUI
preme Court Justice Of John c. Davies
and Watson NJ. Rogers was one Of the
worst features Of the Republican cam
paign; that the Kings county situation
was bad for Mr.. Woodruff and that New
York county would roll up great plurality
for Coler. They said also that there were
other weak points in the Republican firing
line.
While these Democrats were talking, one
Of the best informed Of Democrats. who
didn't care to try TO mislead THE Sun, said:
A secret poll made by the Democratic
State Committee, for which SO man was
paid to a. man in every election district
above The Bronx, shows that Coler will be
beaten in the State by 5000 plurality.
They won't tell you this upstairs. but l
am telling you the fact because I'd like to
have THE Sun know the absolute truth
about the Democratic situation"
From other sources it was learned that
Coler is not expected to have much over
10000 plurality in New York county The
biggest plurality that conservative Demo-
Gratis give him in the borough of Brooklyn
is 1000 Where Van Wyck got in 1898
5000 plurality in Greater New York, these
Democrats said that Coler wouldn't get
more than 90, 600 or 10000
One of the important Democrats went on
10 say that Mr.. Hill had formed combina-
ton with the Greater New York Democracy,
including John e. Sheehan Jacob A. Cantor
and William Hepburn Russell nobody In
politics to-day knows who is the real leader
of the Greater New York Democracy for the
purpose of organizing a New York County
Democratic machine against Tammany,
and that nobody is more fully convinced OF
the truth Of this statement than Leader
Charles +, Murphy. John +. Carroll, George
W. Pmnkitt. John j. Scannell, George B.
Mcclellan. and Timothy d. Sullivan
1t was argued from this alleged situat ion
that Tammany Isn't going to build up a
machine against itself
A wandering street poet toddled up to
the HOFFMAN House bar yesterday and
pulled out manuscript which read
cAsABnScA ooLyR.
The Bird stood on the burning deck,
Whence all but he had hcd:
The name that III the coal plank wreck
Shone round him on the dead
lie called aloud SAY. Dave MI. say,
II yet my task Is done"
He knew not that the Rooster lay
Unconscious Of his son
Speak, Dave again the Chicken cried,
II may yet be gone"
And not single speech replied.
And fast the flames rolled on.
There came a burst Of baloting
The Brd-oh where was he'
Ask OF the winds that far around
With fragments strcwed the scat
With hair and smile and bronchial tubes
That well had coughcd their part-
But the mobiles, thing that busted there
Was that young trusting heart
Next Tuesdays election. the poet said.
will determine whether Mr.. Hill is TO he
Governor of the State Of New York, or
Mr., Odell.