The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-21
HILLS CANAL DOUBLE PLAY.
IT'S THE ASSEMBLY HE WANTS,
NOT THE DITCH.
Advice to Canal County Democrats. Vote
CanaI-Advice to Other Democrats
Vote Authorizations More Pull and
the Public Schools VIII be Ours.

ADVICE to Canal County democrats SVto
CanaI-Advice to Other Democrats,
Vote Anti-C anal-One More Pull and
the Public Schools VIII be Ours.
David B. Hill, on his last visit to New York
city. the other day. when he advised Mr..
Grout not to run again on the fusion ticket
for Comptroller, also talked with number
OF Democrats on the proposed canal amend
ment. which is to be voted for in the ap-
preaching State election. Mr.. Hill met
number OF New York State Democrats.
and 1t ia understood that his advice was
that in canal counties the Democratic State
Committeeman should promulgate canal
ideas in the shape Of resolutions, and in
anti-canal counties it would be quite advis-
able to advocate anti-canal ideas, according
70 the proposed amendment to the Consti-
tuition to be submitted to the people this
fall In other words, Mr.. Hill adopted the
attitude Of Jay Gould, who twenty or thirty
years ago testified before legislative
committee:
an Republican counties l was Repub-
lican, and in Democratic counties Demo-
crat. but was always an Erie man."
1t is positively known that Mr.. Hill. on
his visits to New York city, has advised that
canal county Democrats adopt resolutions
In the Assembly conventions advocating
Gov. Odell's SOL 900 600 idea for the canal.
and it is also positively known that Mr..
Hill, in his talks with Democrats from anti
canal counties, has suggested that resolu-
tions be adopted against Gov. Odell's pro-
posed amendment to the Constitution.
20 nj III.
lieves that he can capture the Assembly
at the approaching election. There were
eighty mine Republicans in the last Assembly
and sixty-one Democrats, showing Re-
publican majority of twenty-eight; but
Mr.. Hill, according to his friends who dis
cussed this matter at the Hoffman House
yesterday, believes that he is on the right
tack to capture the Assembly. His warfare
Is to be directed against Assembly districts
where the Republicans won last year only
by from 80 to 800 majority, as follows:
Chemung; the Second district Of Dutchess;
the Sixth and Seventh districts OF Erie;
the Tulton-Hamilton district, 1t Is under
stood, is to be settled by the Republicans
without trouble; Greene county; the First,
Sixteenth and Eighteenth districts of Kings;
Lewis county; Livingston county. Mont
gomery county; Nassau county, and the
Fifth, Nineteenth, Twenty-first, Twenty
fifth. Twenty-seventh and Twenty ninth
districts of New York county; the Second
district OF Niagara; the Second district OF
Oneida; the Second district Of Orange;
Putnam; Schuyler Seneca; the Second dis
trict OF Suffolk; Sullivan county; the First
~ l,atr 80 11ctn
county; and the Third district OF West
chester
All the foregoing Assembly districts,
Mr.. Hills friends said yesterday, could be
brought over to the Democratic column
this fall, provided excellent work was put
| in. Mr.. Hill hops into New York city
| and hops out on great many occasions
and he is working day and night, it was
said, to capture the AsSembly from the
Republicans this fall One reason why Mr.
Hill wants to capture the Assembly is that
| he may be able to supplant Charles r.
Skinner Of Watertown. Superintendent Of
Public Instruction.
As one of Mr.. Hills friends said at the
Hoffman House last night:
! "Mr. Hill would rather have the place of
Mr.. Skinner than the place Of Governor of
the State of New York. He believes that
in Mr.. SINNERS department there could be
built up a machine which would be event.
ually of great value to the Democratic
party Of the State"
SO Mr.. Hill is going to make the great
est play OF his life to capture the Re-
publican majority in the Assembly this
| fall. The Senate is not elected until next