The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-01
PLATT SAYS DROP THEM OFF,
OTHER DEMOCRATS IN PLACE OF
CIRCUIT AND FORNES, HIS IDEA.
David ID. Hill Credited with Advising
Mclaughlin In the Fight With MUIR
phy-Shcehan VIII InsiOrsc Tamnany
Ticket II Murphy Plan Goes Through.

phy-Shcehan VIII InslOrse Tamniany
Ticket II Murphy Plan Goes Through.
Senator Plat said last night at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel concerning Comptroller
Grout that il Mr.. Grout did not retire frcm
the fusion ticket the Republican City Con-
vention should be called together and Mr.,
CIRCUITS name be dropped.
Il am very emphatic" said Senator
Platt, "and / am convinced that the Re-
publican City Convention ought to reconveIe
and drop Mr.. CIRCUITS name AS for Mr..
Fornes, l know very little. as he has not
been personally as prominent in the situa-
ton of late; but if the Republican City Con-
vention Is reconvened l believe that two
Democrats will be nominated to succeed
Mr.. Circuit and Mr.. Fornes on the ticket.
Il OBSERVE" said Senator Plat, shat
Mr.. Grout recalls the Theodore W. Myers
incident of $780, when Mr. Myers was nomi-
mated for Comptroller by the nti-Tammany
people and was taken up by Richard Croker
and Endorsed by Tammany Hall. Mr..
Grout has no right to appeal to that pr, &C.
dent, for the reason that at that time Mr..
Myers had no dickers and no deals with
anybody. He was merely a good Comp
troller and suppose that Tammany Hall
took him up on that account. But Mr..
Myers had no deals and no dickers. and it
is apparent at the moment that Mr.. Circuit
cannot be similarly exonerared."
"They say, l see," continued Senator
Plat, that vote in Owego, and the infer
ence has been drawn that l should take
no interest in New York city politics. l
have quite as much right to take this inter-
est in New York city politics as any citizen
of the State
M'LAUGHLIN TAKING HILLS ADVICE.
At the Fifth Avenue Hotel last night a
Democrat conversant with what is going on
said:
This move of MIR. Murphy Of Tammany
Hall to nominate Mcclellan, Grout and
Fornes means the wipng of of the political
map in Greater New York of Uncle Hugh
Mclaughlin, for the reason that he has al
ways been given too much to accepting the
advice of David B. Hill. l know that Mr..
Hill has been down here within the last
week or two and has advised Mr.. McLaugh-
lin as to his attitude concerning Mcclellan,
Grout and Fornes. MIR. Hill has no right
to tell Mr.. Mclaughlin that Grout and
Fornes are not Democrats. Everybody
knows that Mr.. Grout and Mr.. Fornes have
never been anything but Democrats. ~
Mr.. Mclaughlin" continued this Demo-
since he has been taking Mr.. Hill advice.
What in the world has Mr. Mclaughlin to
say against putting Grout on the ticket?
Go back a few years when Grout was a
lieutenant of Edw ard NJ Shepard, and
the Shepard Democracy was abso-
lutely arrayed against the McLaugh-
lin sent for MIR Grout. Mr. Shepard leu
tenant, and made Mr.. Grout his, McLaue III
Inns, candidate for Mayor OF Book
yn. Mr. Shepard got so mad over the
treachery OF his chief lieutenant Mr..
Grout, that he ran stump for Mayor, and
Mr. Wurster, the Republican candidate,
was elected.
Here it is" continued this Democrat.
MIR Mclaughlin takes from the Shepard
people their chief lieutenant, MIR Circuit,
and dominates him for Mayor, and yet Mr.
Mclaughlin objects to Mr.. Murphy's taking
from the Citizens Union and the Re-
publicans Grout and Fornes, in order to
rengthen his position.
There has not been a move made by
Mclaughlin within the last month that has
not savored of Mr., Hills foolish advice.
SIBERIAN WILL ENDORSE MURPHY TICKET.
II had talk with John c. Sheehan tonight,
head Of the Greater New York Democracy,
and Mr. Sheehan told me that II Mr. Murphy
nominated his ticket of Mcclellan, Circuit
and Fornes, the Greater New York De
mocracy would indorse the lammany ticket
from top to bottom"
Mr.. Sheehan was seen at the Holman
House late last night, and while he would
not dony that his organization was to
indorse the Tammany ticket, he would
not affirm the story. But bet was made
of IS to one cent that the Greater New York
Democracy would sustain Tamlnany Hall
in its present position.