Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-02-04

who had been trained 20 know anOnl
warships. and he had bitter contr9
~yersies respectinging the merits
of some vessels which had
been contracted for before his an
pearance In Office; the heat Of these
disputes has not died out yet. He
maintained his stand. Helearned about
warshlps, and II was due To me an.
tisity Induced BY him that our nav
was III The good condition II showed
during the Spanish war.
His term Of ofiee ended, Mr.. Whit
ney returned / New York city 10 car.
~ ont his system e unite and syste.
Matte The operation nf lts railways
The cars were wFetched affairs, and
all we're drawn b. horses, Mr.. Whit.
ney took with him ID New York COT
Daniel s. Lamont. ciegeIand's private
secretary, out of politics To learn rail
reading. and made his president 81
Avenue G company. Later Mr.. Whit
ney became Lannon'S earnest adyo
cate when President Cleveland sought
a New York man for his cabinet. and
Lamont became secretary Of va.
There seem 10 have been two req
Sons Why Mr.. whitney would not 70
back Into President cleseland's cab
met. One of them grew ont OF poll
ties. When the democratic national
convention met In Chicago In 1882, the
delegates from New York arrived
there with a document containing a
declaration, signed BY every delegate
and by every member Of the demo.
cratic state committee of New York.
that the sentiment Of that state was
adverse 10 Mr. Cleveland. and that It
would be unwise to nominate him as
being unable 10 carry his own state,
he must be defeated hi The nation.
Mr.. Whitney and other New York
democrats did not agree with this.
Directed BY him they laborcd with the
delegates from the other states, asking
them II consider the sentiment of their
own states and II they determined Il
70 he favorable 70 an Cleveland. ID
vote FOR him without regard to New
York. And 80, despite oratory from
Cochran. Fellows and Dewitt of New
York. Cleveland was nominated.
Good Work for Mr.. Cleveland.
Some OF Mr.. cleYeland's TOO ardent
partislans were bitter In their assaults
upon The men who had told the on
yention that he could MOI carry New
York Mr. Whitney was not ne saw
clearly that, as Mr. Cleveland carried
the state by about only 1000 In 1884.
when mugwumpery Was rife. and los,
i by about $1,000 IN 1858, men who
did not like him personally might eas
lily and honestly persuade themselves
that he could not carry Ii at all In
1892, He again exerted his diplomacy.
He helped the democratic machine
10000 votes from Harrison and
give them 10 Cleveland The people
Cleveland more than In 1854.
they gave him a popular plur.
ality OF 10000, Or 10 1883. when his
was . $4,000. III 1892 the plur.
atty was about $4,000. William G.
Whitney had the astuteness "a dis.
cover how the popular mind was work !
And one reason why he would
10 into Mr. cleyeland,s cabinet
IN 1893 was that he wanted TO show !
he had worked for Mr. cleye.
lands nomination not with the hope
getting a high Office. but because
he had thought that Mr.. Cleveland
was the only man his party could
elect.
He turned again 20 railroading lie
md begun IN 1854 by acquiring d rail.
way line 1--WE miles long on
broadway. and be went On buying or
until BE- produced the pres. :
Metropolitan railway system.
which embraces all the surface lines
the island Of Manhattan and in the
borough of the Bronx as far north al
9 mark drawn east and west from Tar.
rytowno On The Hudson 70 Mamaroneck
q Long Island sound Then n dc
elared hat horsecars were out Of
place III New York Mayor Grant was
carrying on q crusade against tele
graph and telephone poles and wires
q ne STREETS and Tie people generally
objected q trolley poles and wires.
VI whitney Installed i cable sys
Iem on broadway az 4 cost and In The
faee az engineering dinicultics until
then Thought prohtbluye Ii worked
successfully. ba It's cost was 100 great
q permit its extension !
Underground system Adopted.
Iha fhlng III III, than, Nh N and d
traction method cheaper than The
aad mt objectionable IKE the