Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-20
NEW YORK POLITICS
Dissatisfaction Over the Dem
ocratic Platform
GOLFER A WEAK MAN
H1s coNHEcTIoN WITH TRUSTS
~ IS Il HANDICAP.
Member of the Republican Committee
Says State Will Elect
Odell Again.

tom dropped out of the democratic cam
paign issue. "the empty coal scuttle,' i
was a blow that almost killed father. The,
say that Mr.. David B. Hill has not smiled
since. The English sovereign who wa
stricken dumb by the loss OF the Roya
George and his hope and heir was not
circumstance.
New York comes up again this year witt
a campaign, which II 1t will not add to tn,
gayety of nations. at least will add te tn,
gayety Of politics. Indeed, It is kind O
a joke as the case stands. Mr.. David B
Hill. of many political bout, is being poset
as the chief jester. Some one, in time.
agone described Mr.. Hill as q peanut poll
tician." When and where that term origi
mated it would be hard to say. Life ani
the campaign are too short TO investigate
the subject. Certain II Is that since the
Saratoga convention. which was dominated
by Mr.. HILL which named ME-. Hills candi.
date-in the opinion Of the rank and file the
weakest candidate that could have beer
chosen-when the conventtoh selected g
platform with the radical socaaiistic plank
favoring government ownership of distinct
ly private property: when the convention
went dead against Americans sentiment as
expressed time and again regaEding the
Philippines; when the conventions went out
of its way to attack the SONS ofAmerican
fathers and mothers. boys fghtng for .hsir
nag in the Philippines; when the convention
made an onslaught upon American indus
tries in favor of European industries, GER
tain it is that many democrats said: This
man Is playing peanut politics for his own
ends.
Curses for Mr.. HILL
So in New York. one heaRs Mr.: David B.
Hill cursed loud and long and In language
anything but parliamentary. Yet, in the
end. the most Of the faithfxd VIII walk up
and vote the straight tickeE like nttle men,
though they may expectorate audably upon
the sidewalk while SO doing and straight.
way proceed to the nearest, bar and take
divers and sundry drinks Ia consolation.
1t s-indeed an off year. when New York
cannot present something bizarre and novel
in the way of a campaign. Probably it is
true that the remembrance of the present
generation runneth Not to the contrary.
To pause and consider the difference be-
tween the republican ana democratic state
campaigns is interesting. The republicans
have Mr. Benjamin B. Oden jr., shrewd
politician, who has back of him the record
He has made the most Of it, and has made
one or two popular strikes with the farm
ers, the taxpayers and the people at large.
He is standing on a platform that squares
accurately with the national administra-
ton and the verdict of the people Of this
country as expressed in two great elections.
He has posed within ten days as the friend
Of labor. Whatever his sincerity, he "got
he II tod
party back of him. -
The democrats. with Mr. Cbler at their
head. come in with a soeialistfc. semi-p popu-
listic platform and plank on the Philip
pines In opposition to the expressed voice
Of the public. They declaim against the
protective tariff. question the people have
passed upon at least twice within recent
recollection.
In the late state convention this threat
was uttered: I've will turn upon them tthe
protected industries of the United States,
the shot and shell of foreign competition. -
1t is said that the workingmen of New
York know what that threat signifies; they
realized 1t In the days Of the Wilson Cor
man bill, when the shot and shell of Euro
pean pauper labor competition was turned
upon American workngmen.
Campaign Has Just Opened.
The campaign in New York has just
opened. The people have been so busy
within the past two weeks contemplating
that coal scuttle that they have devoted
very little attention to politics. Now that
the scuttle gives promise of being filled,
they are beginning to turn to other ques-
tions, prominent among which is politics.
Mr. Coler, Mr.. Hills candidate for gov
receiving cir
of which is not complimentary. Mr.. Coler
is said to be president of a trust company
at salary of $4,000 a wear. Now, that to
some people would not disoualify Mr. Coler.
True, they might envy him his $4,000 and
wish that with jimmy or a crowbar or
some other convenient instrument they
could break into that trust srStill, to the
average democratic mind that ought to be
a fearful disqualification. And yet Mr..
Coler does not seem SO to consider IT. he
keeps right on, they say,s drawing that
$5O.Ooo per annam. and refuses 10 resign,
although 1t Is said he has besn requested to
do SO by the stockholders.
Then there Is that plank N favor of the
government ownership OF pEivatei property.
With what might be termeas ansunfeeling
regard for the feelings of his chief, Mr..
Hill, who inserted that plank I'M the plat
form, Mr.. Coler has exhibited an apparent
intention to disregard the plank. He seems
to be afraid that Mt4s DeEhocracy may
stumble over it. and issolicifous to assist
her across it.
The republicans are hot rfdot after Mr..
Coler on his trust record. Some say that
they will yet nail him to the cross his own
party has erected.
Interestinr Conrresx,or.L cannnairn.
The congressional Campaign here is very
interesting Greater New York will, under
the new apportionment. send eighteen repre-
sentatives to Congress- That is a pretty
good quota. about up to some Of the bis
states of the. went But in this neck Of the
woods. "Congreaeman..' as he Is called
doesn't count much. The same expires
sion might apply to the same congressmer
in Washington. II one wanted to be sar
castle.
One of the picturesque candidates is ..Bit
Tim" Sullivan of the Wall street district
There is gem II use the word gent ad
tCAS vr,I