Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1904-10-06
KILKENNY HARMONY
That Is the Kind That Prevails Among
New York Democrats.


New York Democrats.
Not since the traditional cats of Kill
kenny were hung across a line by
their tails has there been such an
amusing harmony of subdued discord
as is heard in New York. now that
Judge ID. Cady Herrick has been nom
mated by the Democrats for governor.
Judge Parker wanted Edward M.
Shepard, OF District Attorney Jerome
nominated for governor in order to
galvanize his campaign into the sem
blance of life
David B. Hill wanted John r.
Stanchfield, because Stanchtield best
represented the organiza ton outside of
New York City, to which Mr.. Hill
owes his ascendancy in the state
Democracy. Mr.. Hill had no use for
HeErick. who, as Democratic boss of
Albany county, has been a thorn, in
his side for years. But, it is said, he
accepted Herrick and put him in NOM
1natlon on the principle of the sales
man who sold coat marked $50 for
$40, on doubtful credit, because he
would lose less il the bill was never
paid. Hill will lose less in Herrick's
defeat than it he had succeeded in
nominating his friend Stanchfield
Senator Patrick III. McCarren, the
Brooklyn boss to whom Judge Parker
owes his nomination, wanted Comp
rroller 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 E. Murphy
and Iammany, 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 tonlahawk
in the hands of Charles F. Murphy
with which to dispatch McCarren, d.
Cady Herrick would serve Tammany
much better than either Shepard or
Jerome.
Besides. did not Judge Herricll's ca
reer on the bench present sterling
claims on the admiration and neces-
Stiles of Tammany? His abuse of his
judicial position to the political ext
genciesS 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 len
| ianesss toward corruption in New York
City peculiarly attractive to Tammany.
Ii he would so act as judge, what
prodigies of clemency to good men'
might he not perform as governor?
So Tammany dropped Mayor A1cClel-
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 its medicine with evident
nausea; the TIMES turns Herrick's s
! picture to the wall and fixes it's 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 its constituency. The EVENING
POST openly repudiates Herrick say
ing that proper regard for its own
reputation forbids giving him the neg
ative 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.