The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-17
CHAIRMAN CAMPBELL TO QUIT
HILL no MAKE y. n. CARLASI-E
HEAD OF COMMITTEE.
judge O'Brien to He Rcnomlnated by Botm
Psrties--Hill Making PLANS to Cap"
ture the Assembly. Flight for wh'ch
VIII he the Real Battle I'm the state.

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| VIII he the Real Battle I'm the state
SARATOGA, N. Y, Aug. 18.-Frank Camp
bell OF Bath, who has been chairman OF the
| Democratic State Committee for four years
! is to retire and David B. Hill 10 to put i'll his
place John N. Carlisle OF Watertown. This
was the news in Democratic circles here
to-day.
The Democratic State Committee, it is
said, is to meet either In New York city
| or Albany, about the second week In Sep
tember, to renominate Denis O'Brien OF
Watertown FOR the Court Of Appeals To
this nomination the Republican State Com
mittee will make no objection; on the con-
trary, it will either indorse Judge O'Brien,
or, II il meets ahead of the Democratic
committee. IL will nominate him.
Both committees were empowered by
the last State conventions to nominate
this year the successor Of Judge O'Brien.
II was also said that the fusion forces in
New York city may indorse the renomina-
ton OF Supreme Court Justice Henry
Bischoff, Jr., by the Democrats.
The disaster which over whelmed Richard
Croker, leader of Tammany, in 1898 when,
for personal reasons, he refused to re-
nominate Supreme Court Justice DAILY
and thereby, it has always been affirmed,
materially lessened the chances of electing
Augustus Van Wyck Governor, and the
interference of Gov Odel with the judiciary
of the State during his first term at Albany,
called forth such storm of criticism that
there is no desire to inject judiciary nomi-
nations into the stripe OF politics at this
time
The Democrats punished Mr.. Croker
for his conduct and the Republicans in
speeches and at the polls, called halt
on Gov. Odell.
Neither the Republicans nor the Demo-
Gratis have decided what course to adopt
concerning the nomination of a Supreme
Court Justice to succeed William w. Good
rich in the Second judicial district Justice
Goodrich IL to retire because of the age
limit, and yet his friends declare he still hos
twenty-five years Of sound work in him.
Mr. Hill, his friends here say is working
day and night, perfecting plans by which
he hopes to capture the Assembly this fall
The Republican maiorities in both houses
at Albany were much reduced last fall
In the Odell slump Senator Platt and
Chairman Dunn of the Republican State
Committee are not letting grass grow under
their patent feathers in their efforts at least
to maintain the present Republican ma
jority in the Assembly.
With the nomination of Judge O'Brien
Of the Court of Appeals unanimous the real
battle in the State between the two parties
will be over the Assembly In many parts
Of the State, above The Bronx. the Demo-
cratic machine is almost derelict. II
has had no State patronage since Gov.
Flower retired on Jan. 1, 1894 and no Federal
patronage since Mr.. Cleveland retired
on March g. 1897
Az matter of fact Mr. Cleveland, dur
ing his second term was not particularly
generous in his favors to the New York
Democratic State machine. Democrats
here say, though, that this mat ter Of pat
ronage has not injured the m achine in |
the country districts 80 much as the loss |
of first voters in the Bryan free silver ma
tional campaign of 1893 and 1900 and in |
the state campaign last fall when Mr.. Hill |
helped Bryan ont by injecting the coal |
mine confiscation plank into the Democratic |
State Convention platform.
Democratic wise men now say that no |
further steps should be taken to drive flu |
ture first voters over to the Republicans |
The concern over this line of policy the |
battle for Mayor in New York city and the |
fight for Assembly this fall, Democrats |
admit, are but the skirmish lir es in the great |
national battle next year in New York State |