New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-31
MOCK TEARS FOR HILL.
State Committee 10 Join Game
Watching Corruptionists.

Ex-senator David 3. HIS friends contemplate
uresenting a resolution at the meeting of the
Denocratic State Complittee on Thursday express
,re regret at the prospective retirement of MI
an as the Democratic boss of the State This is
"A furtherance Of the scheme to do something to
convince the voters OF the State that Hill is a
cipher and that ex-Judge Parker is the leader
The Hill organs are now industriously at work
eoreas,ng the runor that Mr.. Hill never intended
% nominate Justice Herrick for chief judge of the
Court Of Appeals Attorney General Cunneen
for associate judge.
1t can be stated the highest possible author
fly that Mr.. Hin was and still is In favor of the
nomination Of Herrick and Cunneen. He has told
Senator McCarTen John 3. Stanchfield that
he viii not tolerate having the Republicans name
the Democratic candidates for judges of the Court
of Appeals. His neutenants all over the State are
hard at work trying to work up sentiment
against accepting Justices Cullen and Werner af-
ter they are nominated by the Republican State
Convention.
II there has been any change in the Hill pro-
Eramme 70 punish Edgar NJ. Cullen for insisting
on az honest ballot and q fair count in 1891 II is
because the Parker managers are conscious that
the tide Is setting against them and that their
campaign is going the dogs
Congressman Francis Burton Harrison returned
yesterday afternoon from a hurried trip I'D the
etalA II was scouting excursion. He told Will
IAN F. sheehan and August Belmont Yesterday
thai ne found the woods full of Republicans all
hard at work. and that If the Democrats vera 60
Ing to accomplish anything they would have to
do tremendous amount OF work
II is generally believed in Republican circles that
the Democratic plan up the State will be the same
IS IN the Flower cafrpaign. Mr. Flowers generous
campaign contributions enabled Democratic town
committeeman TO pick out ten fifteen men known
70 De !ukewarr1 in every distrc. and hire them 10
stay al home ano work their farms on eIecTion
oay. This plan worked for one or two wears and
then the reaction came. When il finally heca me
known that these tactics had been EMPLOYED a deem
seated resentment TOOK hold OF the nninde Of men
who had voted the Democratic ticket ali their lives
They left their party. and have not voted the Demo
cratic ticket since. This happened In the southern
ter counties. along the Erie and Ontario and West
ern railways. In Della ware County the Democrats
elected an Assenblyman in 1881 but since 1899 thar
Assembly. " ~
The Democratic plan OF campaign Is being mar
roH!y watched oy the Republicans for the reasons
outlined The State committee has received in
oeclarng tor roosevelt The Democratic plan Of
campaign will Il is believed. be directed toward
these men, The order will soon 90 out to GET them
BACK INTO line even they to be hjre6 70 stav
al nome ana whittle pine shingles al s. a day
II Is admitted that IL this is the plan to be used
mis- ian the Hill men will be indispepsa bic Hill
vas IN direct control Of the campaign in 1891 and his
men were the ones who paid about twenty-five
thousand poor stav ar home and work al
nothing at from s. to IS q day -
ne only thing that is worrying Hill followers
now IS. VIII the men who bought 10 vote against
tSooseVelt stay bought, and will they If they prom
Use 70 vote for Parker for consideration vote for
the Esopus man after they get in the booth? The
eiection laws are very different from those of 1891