Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-10-25
DEVERY AFTER HILL
He Remembers the Turn
Down at Saratoga.
A UNIQUE CAMPAIGN
BIG Ex-PoLICEMAN SPEAKS FROM
CART-TAIL.
Political Managers of Both Sides Are
Making Some Sanguine Pre-
dictions of Success.
Special from a staff Correspondent.

Special from STAFF Correspondent
NEW YORK, October 25.-''Blg Bill
Devery has his war paint on and is out on
the trail after Mr.. Hill. Big Bill goes over
his district and speaks from a cart tail
amidst the glare of red fire, and between
the pauses of a band which plays the air
composed in his honor and that is now
heard on every corner. Big Bill remembers
certain trouncing in Saratoga at the hands
of Mr.. Hill Big Bill is good friend and
likewise a good hater. Last night he passed
Mr.. Hill " hot one, as he termed it, from
the cart tail from which he was speaking
down in de mint" This here man HILL"
said Big Bill. "is snake in the grass, but
you watch. we will kill that snake in 1904.
Young Coler is all right. I'll stand for him
and I'll see that me friends do, but this
man HILL no deres nothn' doinR
Mr.. Hills attack on Gov. Odell for the
governors alleged connection with the gro-
cery firm handling state contracts has ere
ated great deal of talk in New York
Many people think that Mr.. Hill proved his
case on the governor. But l find the gen
eral opinion to be that Mr.. Hill made a
mistake. Last night l talked with one of
the biggest men in Tammany and he said
he wished to the good Lord that Mr.. Hill
had not made that break.
S4o111S VI dILy MdudSeTS.
AS the campaign draws to a close, the
party managers are making some vociferous
claims. At Mr.. Coler's headquarters in the
HOFFMAN House today they were boastng
that Mr.. Coler would carry the state by
oo,o0o majority. They said that he would
get a plurality of Or, 1000 below the Bronx.
Leaving the Hoffman House and walking
across the street to the Fifth Avenue one
runs into the republican campaign where
Chairman Dunn gives out a few figures
The democrats say that Gov Odell in order
TO be elected would have to get at least
100000 plurality above the Bronx Mr.
Dunn calls attention to the fact that four
years ago Gov. Roosevelt polled 112, 600 out
side of greater New York. AS Mr. Dunn
reads the stars there are no signs that Gov.
Odell will run behind Gov. Rooseyelts rec
ora. But when you get down to cases 1t
Is In the air that Mr.. Coler cannot win
Democrats tell you that when you get them
around the corner away from the crowd
and talk squarely with them. You cannot
get away from the fact that the people do
not take this young man seriously. They
look upon his nomination as a kind of q
confidence game that Mr.. Hill, for reasons
OF his own, worked on the people.
Coler Very Hopeful.
Candidate Coler was feeling very hopeful
this morning at the Hoffman House. AS he
walked up and down the room talking with
ehC S"SpdpCl uell, lie SdlO.
II would like to ask few questions in
economics. Why, for instance, does it cost
S36 per thousand to collect the inheritance
tax under the republican administration
when 1t only cost 81 per thousand to col
lect it in 1893 under the democratic admin
istration? In three years I received for col
lecting the inheritance tax in fees about
$4,000, or an average of so, 900 a year
most of which was expended in the Ramapo
and confession Of judgments fights. De-
Quoting an average Of $4,000 from these
legal expenses a saving made to the
state by the abolishment of the fee system
it would still leave the legal expenses at
over $50 per thousand for collections In
1888 the amount collected for inheritance
taxes was $3071 ,6S7.O9 the legal expenses
were $23,09 199. or 81 per thousand. In 1901
the amount collected on the Inheritance tax
was S4OS4, ,GO6.S7 and the legal expenses
this dfference-this graft? To what class of
men does this money go? l would very
much like to have these questions answered.
SO that the public and myself may be en-
lightened when we come to deal with the
question officially.
Some Pertinent Questions.
DO they turn the full amounts of the
taxes into the state treasury and then paw
out the expenses? Or do they deduct all
expenses and turn in only the net return?
Another question 1 would ask, If it was not
a TACT that in 1893 the number of employees
for the state at Albany was approximately
571 and are there not now O91 or an in
crease in the number of employees of 81 per
cent and at an increase in salary paid to
them of $1S4 05709. about the sum per
annum they get out Of the savings banksp
When 1t comes to the question of taxes, re-
publicans have a few words to say On
every farmers barn upstate will be found
posted, next week, big sheets showing from
the official record how the common mans
taxes have been reduced under the OdeIl
administration. Through republican lesis-
lation in New York the average citizen is
gradually being relieved from taxation.
The republicans promise that in another
year from now the New York citizen will he
free from state tax The public service
corporation will furnish the money TO RIM
the state which usually is derived from the
Citizen" n NJ