The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-03-10
Political Chat.

Inc IlTSL person To suggest W CudFIoS
T. Murphy the advisability of starting a
| Cleveland boom was none other than
David B. HILL I had this intorma sion
! from Mr.. Hill himself in his own office. =
This surprising statement was made to-
night by a prominent upstate politician
who was with Mr.. Murphy in his fight for
the control of the State Committee last
Saturday. He then continued
Everybody knows that Hill hates
Cleveland, but Hill plays the game of
politics in a perfectly cold-blooded way.
You must recall that at the last State
convention Hill and Murphy were on the
most amicable of terms. The good feel
ing between the two leaders had been
undisturbed up to the time OF the Mayor
atty campaign.
when Mcclellan was nominated for
Mayor, Hill told Murphy that the best
thing he could do to hold the Independ
ent Democrats in line for the ticket would
be to begin to talk Cleveland for Presi-
dent and to have all of the Tammany ora
tors assert that the result of the Mayor
atty election was bound to influence the
Presidential election.
Hill told Murphy that he regarded
Cleveland as an absolute impossibility,
but he said that he realized that the IN
dependent Democrats would see in the de-
cla1ation for Cleveland evidence that
there was a complete change OF front on
the part of Tammany and could thus be
induced to give Mr.. Mcclellan their sup
port. 1t was the surest way to beat Seth
Low, Hill said, and could do no harm
so far as the National situation was con-
cerned, because Democrats elsewhere
would not take the Cleveland talk seri
ously
Murphy thought Hills advice was
good, and took it. When, however, the
Tammany ticket had been elected, Mr..
Murphy began to take the Cleveland
boom seriously.
He concluded that with MIR. Cleveland
as the candidate for President, the Demo
Gratis could certainly redeem New York
State, even if they lost the Presidency.
Hill told him chat his idea was ab-
surd, that not only would the nomination
of Cleveland spit the Democratic party,
but that Cleveland would be badly beaten
even N New York
Murphy, unconvinced by Hills views,
decided to stick to Cleveland, having Nc
Clellan in reserve. In order to carry out
his programme il was necessary that he
should have an uninstructed delegation
from New York.
"It was al this point that he and Hill
came to the parting of the ways, for Hill
has always been for Parker. We are now
certain of a merry fight in the conven-
ton, and the prospect is that so much
hostility will be shown between the con
tending factions that even though the
convention should instruct for Judge Par
ker, his candidacy will be weakened in
the eyes of the Democrats of the country
They are evidently going to have a hot
time in ''de ate' this year, both for the
Congressional nomination and in the cleo
ton. There are four or five candidates
for the nomination in each party. The
fight between Linney and BlackhI"' ie'
already making the fur fly. Among Demo
Gratis there are four or five candidates.
A correspondent of the Jefferson Re
corder brings out Thomas c. Bowie, Esq,
and thus urges his nomination:
"Ashe, one of the oldest counties in
the district, will lay a strong claim to
the candidacy this year, owing to the
fact that she is the only one of the noun
tain counties in the district that has never
confident that Mr. Bowie is the man from
this section from the fact that he made
the fight for the State Senate two years
ago in the counties of Watauga, Ashe and
Allegheny against great odds, running
ahead of the ticket in all of the counties
and was defeated only by a bare MAORI
,ty of 20 votes.
Mr. Bowie descended from a long line
of politicians and statesmen. On his tatN-
ers Sdethere were three members OF one
Bowie family: Governor of athe State OF
Maryland, Beverly johnson, the dlstln-
guished American statesman wrO was sue
cessively u. S. ATTORNEY General. |. :.
Senate: and Ministe~ to England under
President Tyler, was MS great uncle On
his mothers side, his great grandfather
Elijah Galloway, represented Ashe IN the
State Senate and House of Commons for
twenty-five years in succession. His
grandfather, DR.. James Galloway, a physl-
clan Gf considerable reputation, was elect
ed to the Legislature from Wilkes
county before he was twenty-one, but be-
came twenty-one before he took his seat
His uncle, Benjamin Galloway, also rep
resented Wilkes county a number q
years ago in the lower House. His uncle,
A. S. Galloway commonly known as IT'D,
was member Of the Legislature in the
year 1861. His uncle Lee Carmikle, was
elected to the Legislature and also made
the race against Clingman for Congress
in this district.
Since Mr.. Bowie is graduate OF the
University of North Carolina and was a
student of Yale, we feel confident OF his
ability to fill the Mace
while he was student at the M
versity he won successfully the 'Declalm-
err 'Debater, and the Wiley p Man
gum medals Of orators. Using the ex-
preston of the Bull of the Brusheles, ne
will meet the enemy and demohsh MN
The New York Times says that e&-
Secretary Carlyle has gone to princeton
at the instance of Tamuany, to ascertain
whether Mr.. Cleveland would accept the
nomination if rendered to him
Colonel Virgilius Temper Lusk declares
in favor of Professor Britt as the Repun-
hcan nominee for Congress IN inc Ienth
district. That's q heavy blow. TO Iilollias
Settles Congressional aspirations