River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-11-03
KILKENNY HARMONY sss*
That Is the Kind That Prevails Among
New York Democrats.

New xork Democrats
Sot since the traditional cats of Kill
ke'1ny were hung across . line by
their tails has there been such an
amusing harmony of subdued discord
as is heard in New York, now that
Judge d. Cady Herrick has been NOM
mated by the Democrats for governor.
Judge Parker wanted Edward NJ.
Shepard, OF District Attorney Jerome
galvanize his campaign into the sem
blance of life.
David B. Hill wanted John 3.
Stanchfield, because Stanchfield best
represented the organization outside of
New York City, to which Mr.. Hill
owes his ascendancy in the state
Democracy. Mn. Hill had no use for
Herrick, who, as Democratic boss Of
Albany county, has been a thorn in
his side fol-, years. But, it is said, he
accepted Herrick and put him in NOM
1nation on the principle of the sales
man who sold a coat marked $15 for
$40, on doubtful creNt, because he
would lose less If the bill was never
paid. Hill will lose less in Herrick's
defeat than if he had succeeded in
nominating his friend Stanchfield.
Senator Patrick H. McCarren, the
Brooklyn boss, to whom Judge Parker
owes his nomination, wanted Comp
trOller Grout nominated, and for a
time he had Mr.. Hills ostensible sup
port for Grout. Judge Parker and
Hill went back on McCarren; the
former to placate Charles Il. Murphy
and Tammany, and the latter because
he couldn't help himself.
Tammany accepted Herrick be-
cause it was willing to accept any
body who stood for the discontinue
of Boss McCarren. AS a tomahawk
in the hands of Charles +. Murphy
with which to dispatch McCarren, d.
Cady Herrick would serve Tammany
much better than either Shepard or
Jerome.
Besides, did not Judge Herrick's ca
claims on the admiration and neces-
sites Of Tammany? His abuse of his
judicial position to the political ext
gencies in Albany is along the line of
what Tammany considers the higher
walks of politics. Moreover, has he
not practically pardoned an official
blackmailer and protector OF disorder
ly houses by imposing paltry fine Of
$1,000 on the notorious Police Captain
Diamond?-a stroke Of judicial lem
iency toward corruption in New York
City peculiarly attra ctive to Tammany.
If he would SO act as judge, what
prodigies of clemency 10 good men"
might he not perform as governor
So Tammany dropped Mayor MeClel-
Ian and swallowed Herrick and his
record with genuine relish and noisy
gusto.
Not so, however, the Democratic
press of New York City. The WORLD
takes it's medicine with evident
nausea; the TIMES turns .Herrick' $
picture to the wall and fixes its gaze
on Judge Parker, with the reflection
that one honorable nomination in four
years Is as far as the New York De-
mocracy can be expected to pander to
the somewhat blunted moral sentiment
Of it's constituency. The EVENING
POST openly repudfates Herrick, say
ing that proper regard for it's own
reputation forbids giving him the neg
alive support of silence.
From this brief resume it may be
gathered that the elements for a har-
monious Democratic campaign in New
York are all that could be desired
from Republican point of view.