The sun., 1902-09-26
HILL on HIS WAY TO THIS CITY.
lie stopped Over at Kingston 10 Confer
with Chief Judge Parker.

SARATOGA, Sept 25.-David b. Hill, who
Is the absolute master OF the Democratic
party Of the State Of New York. left Albany
this afternoon for New York city. He
stopped on his way at Kingston. the home
Of Chief Judge Parker Of the Court Of APP
peals, where, It was said, he also met other
Democrats Mr. Hill is to be at the Hof =
man House in New York tomorrow morn
ing and is expected to toe in Saratoga on
Sunday
II is known that Mr. Hills purpose Ia to
make the approaching Democratic State
Convention the event of his political life.
He has been told by national Democrats
friendly to him that he can never hope
to be nominated for President by his party
In 1904. Mr. German, it was said by those
competent TO speak, has received the same
friendly word Mr.. Hill, il was declared,
wants to beat Gov. Odell. This, il was
said, Is to be the final act Of his political
career.
Mr., Hill and Mr. German, it was said
by their friends here tonight, are con-
vinced that the Democratic national scheme
IL the nomination for President in 1904
Of Richard Olney Of Massachusetts.
II was said that Chief Judge Parker Il
| fully conversant Of It and that il one
| of the chief reasons why he does not desire
| the Democratic nomination for Governor.
| Still, Mr.. Olney comes from a Republican
| State, and the idea now is. il was said, to
talk Chief Judge Parker into the belief that
| ( he accepts the Democratic nomination for
Governor and wins, Olnev will he killed of
| a. Presidential possibility in 1904
Charles n Bulger Of cswego, who at
| tackled Croker and Murphy in the Demo-
cratic State Convention Of 1900, is promi.,
| nently mentioned for Attorney-tieneral
| on the Democratic State ticket He comes
! from a county which gives fine Republican
| ma iorities. whereas the Croker districts
and the Murphy districts have in times
| past given handsome Democratic ma jori-
| ties for Democratic State nominees.
ERUPTION OF coLER BUTTONS.
In expectation of Mr.. Hills visit to-day
| there was an eruption Of Coler buttons
last night Mr.. Coler was at the Holman
! House talking with Chairman Griggs of
| the Democratic Congressional Campaign
| Committee, who Is sometimes called Grim
Jiggs" by his more intimate friends. Mr.
| Coler is not going 10 the State o,Lvantion
| Agents Of his, however, will go to Saratoga
on Sunday and see how the land lies. Mr.
Coler has charge Of the Democratic cam
paign fund in this region. He remarked
last night that this fund was so big that
ii took three trust companies to hold it.
"One-seventeenth of the fund, said Mr..
Coler, is in gold The rest OF il is in silver.
| cannot tell you now its exact amount,
| but no one of the three trust companies
| has more than $500 600 Of tho fund,
II was announced by Mr. Coer's friends
that he would not make a fight for the
| Democratic nomination for Governor. II
has been reported from various parts of
/ the State that Mr., Coler might be nomi-
mated for Lieutenant Governor. When
Mr.. Coler was asked about this last evening
| he grinned
II was reported last night that Senator
| Timothy ID. Sullivan, Florence Sullivan.
the leader of the Eighth Assembly district
and Thomas j. Dunn, the leader Of the
Twenty-sixth Assembly dist rict, met Comp
troller Grout at the Murray Hill Hotel
late on Wednesday night and asked him If
he would treat Tammany Hall generously
If he were nominated for Governor, Mr..
Grout il anxious 10 run for Mayor Of New
York next year on the Democratic ticket
il the party Is unit ed and has chance OF
success Anyway, II il expected that h.
will ~ce Mr., Hill and talk to him.