The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1904-10-28
KILKENNY EARL,C-e-
That Is the Kind That Prevails Among
New York Democrats.

New York Democrats.
Not since the traditional eats Of XII
kenny were hung across : line by
their tails has there been suca an
amusing harmony of subdued Giscord
as is heard in New YORK, LCw Tat
Judge ID. Cady Herrick has been nom
mated by the Democrats for governor.
Judge Parker wanted Edward Nj.
Shepard, or District Attorney Jerome
nominated for governor in order to
galvaniZe his campaign into the semi
blance of life
David b. Hill wanted John Is.
Stanchfield, because Stanchfeld best
represented the organization outside OF
New York City, to which Mr.. Hi
owes his ascendancy IN the state
Democracy. MI Hill had no use for
Herrick, who, as Democratic boss or
Albany county, has been thorn III
his side for years. But, it is said. he
accepted Herrick and put him III NOM
nation on the principle of the sales
man who sold coat marked SO for
$1O on doubtful credit because he
would lose less if the bill was never
paid. Hill will lose less in Herrck'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 +. 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 OF
| Jerome.
Besides, did not Judge Herricks ca
reer on the bench present sterling
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 a paltry fine of
$1,000 on the notorious Police Captain
| DiamOnd?-a stroke Of judicial len
iency toward corruption in New York
City peculiarly attractive to Tammany.
If he would so act as judge, what
prodigies of clemency to good mem
might he not perform as governor:
So Tammany dropped Mayor McClel-
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's
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 repudiates 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 har
monious Democratic campaign in New
York are all that could be desired
! from Republican point of view.