The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-06
HILL HUMBUGCED TAMMANY.
GET orr THE VOTE HERE, SAYS
He; BE HARMONIOUS.
II viii He Al Right Up the Stste-Thcy
DO II and lie Swats Ills Enemies ~
the State. WhereupOn the Anti.Iliii
Upstate Folks Rise Up and Elect Odell

David Bennett Hill. 30 said Democrats
Mt Delmonico's last night. Is a humbug.
and they put a big II" on il Ii IL not al all
extraordinary that Democrats go to Del
monico's. They go there to eat. The
Democrats who were there last night were
unanimous in saying that Hugh McLaugh-
lin in his "PoohPooh Hill" interview in
the afternoon papers was correct.
A very old friend TIE Sun said that he
remembered well the days when Andrew
jackson. Martin Van Buren, and Franklin
Pierce were Toasted in New York city.
This staid old gentleman, and not alto
gether iorgctful citizen. went on to say:
Il RENE nlber family now that one Of the
speakers III that era said, A fraud usually
ends up 10y dcirauding himself or some
thing TO that effect. ] am afraid Mr.. Hill
Is In about the same box to-day"
Mr.. Hill couple Of months ago came
down to New York city and had talks with
and all sorts of Democratic leaders below
The Bronx, begging that the Democrats
down this way should be harmonious.
Leader Murphy Of TaInmany Hall ac-
cepted his views. So did John +. Carroll:
80 did Hugh Mclaughlin and James Shev-
lin, and Senator Patrick McCarren and for
that matter, SO did John c. Sheehan. And
80 all the Democrats below The Bronx
pulled and hauled to bring about a fine old
Democratic majority on election day
At that time the Democrats suggested TO
Mr. Hill that N might be advisable for him
TO harmonic with Supreme Court Justice
Herrick in Albany county, and the follow
ers of Smith NJ Weed in Clinton, and with
Edward Murphy. Jr.. in Rensselaer,. To
this, Mr.. Hin, In his nervous fashion. it
was said. replied:
All right, all right you fellows down
hare do Hut md ayarvf HIM N ba
State viii lie all right
Then tho Democrats down this wav
spoke 10 Mr. Hill again and minated that
II might be advisahl e to have the Monroe
county Democrats got into line. and Mr..
Hill fdge,ted and said again: All right.
all right
Mr. Hill, 30 these Democrats went on to
say. had humbugged the Democrats below
The Bronx. The very old Democrat went
on TO tell what "A hunbug was The first
zone who humbugs." And then he fol-
lowed this up 10y the statement that 800
years ago the word -humbugr first came in
rs a piece Of fashionable slang, and meant
in those days "a false alarm-a bugbear."
Then the word degenerated into "a man
with spirit of deception and imposition,
fasteners, hollowness. pretence, sham, an
impostur, cheat, a dcCeitful fellow a
person given to cajolery. hattery or specious
stories.
SAID this learned Democrat:
A Democratic humbug like Hill is
fellow to bait the hook, spread the tolls.
decoy, waylay. lure, beguile. d,lude, in
veigIe, duIe, gull, hoax, fool, befool, ham
Uoozle, STUFF up. sell, balk trip up, fool TO
the top Of ones bent. send on FOOLS errand,
gid the pill make things pleasant, divert.
make. believe trump, up, He is bogus;
tricky, fictitious, artificial, unsound,' and
SO forth, and so forth"
The comments of this antique Democrat
on Mr.. Hill were brought out by the vote
in the counties Of Albany, Rensselaer, and
Clinton on Tuesday. This fine old Demo-
crat pulled his whskers down 10 his stomach
and pulled from his pocket card on which
was written
in 1895 Albany county gave Van Nyck,
Democratic candidate for Governor, g25
plurality; Clinton gave Roosevelt - plur-
atty, and Rensselaer, gave Van WICK eo4
plurality.
In 1907 continued this great anti
quarian in Democratic State politics. Al
hauv county gave Od-ll ALP plurality;
Clinton gave Odell / Sos plurality, and
Re, s-elaer gave 0dell i,sio plurality"
WIN the Democratic situat ion still in
his mind, this old-fashioned Democrat
proceeded 10 tell what was done in these
three counties on Tuesday He said.
Albany county on last election day gave
Odell Q $50 plurality, Clinton gave Odel
t.l0 plurality and Rensselaer, gave Odell
? .1?9 plurality"
The old Democrats inference was that
Mr.. Hill swatted tho Herrick faction in
Albany this year. and hence the big vote
for Odell. that Mr. Hill lanbasted George
Weed, the son of Smith NJ Weed, and 80
Odell Rets. that big plurality in Clinton;
so, also, Mr.. Hill az the Saratoga conven-
ton turned down his old friend, Edward
Murphy, Jr.. and where Rensselaer, gave
Van WICK, the Democratic candidate for
Governor IN 1865, a plurality of 6O4, it gave
Odell on Tuesday plurality Of 2.729
Murphy Of lammany and The Kings county
leaders attend TO Mr.. Hills request for
harmony and Mr.. Hill pokes his upstate
adversarics and these upstate anti-Hin
folks raect Odell No wonder Mr..
Mclaughlin said at the auction room in