Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-22

at the time that Mr. Olney was getting his
grip on Massachusetts,. and at the very mo-
ment when some quiet work In Illinois was
promising to bear fruit, it hurts them to
| have Parker loom up so big that his shad-
| ow overcasts them
Next Move Uncertain.
What their next move will be nobody can
guess. They may yet succeed in making a
| diversion in Illinois and one or two other
sections of the west which will demand
Cleveland as a compromise. 1t all depends,
| as the popular saying goes.
| David B. Hill Is the real victor, and four
days reflection seems to have shown the
New Workers that 1t is an old-time victory.
| 1t is very pretty talk about Judge Parker's
| wishes and how Hill will have to respect
| those wishes. So he may, as far as suits
! his own purpose, but he will be the master
| of the New York delegation at st. Louis
| and in the state convention which Will NOM
| mate the candidate for governor.
Mr.. Hill, one of his political friends told
me, has two things on his mind. he is a
good hater and until the scores are settled
| he won't be ready for business He was In
his political grave SO long that he brooded
! over them, and now that he has come back
to life he is a resurrected political leader
with grudges
The first thing which Mr.. Hill wants to
do is to throw Mr.. Bryan out of the st.
Louis convention, just as he and his follow
ers were trampled on and substantially
thrown out at Chicago in 1885, He has
never forgotten the humiliation put upon
| him then. In his ambition to have revenge
| on Bryan he has the sympathy and support
of the Cleveland element and of all the
factions of the eastern democracy which
also were huFniliated
To Settle With Tammany.
Mr.. Hills other grudge to be settled is
that with Tammany. 1 asked If he were
not satisfied with the outcome at Albany,
and was told that he was not. A few years
back Boss Croker and the organization hui
inflated him, set him down on back seat
and proclaimed that he would stay there
Now he has put Tammany in the rear of
the hall, but he isn't satisfied, and will take
further measures to dfScredit the wigwam.
Aside from his personal feelings 1 was In
formed that Hill looks upon it as abso-
lutely necessary from the political stand
point to keep Tammany below the Bronx.
He now has big club, and he will hit the
Tiger whenever it shows its head up state.
These are what might be called family
matters. To an observer from abroad who
feels special interest in them there are
other phases of the situation. The signs of
an oldtime Hill campaign very plain.
His allies, the brewers, brought for
ward in the beginning. The liquor dealers
start an ostensible non-partisan campaign
to secure the modification of the Raines
law. There is big fund back of it. Other
influences which Hill always was able to
utilize are also getting in motion. They
are not good influences in public affairs.
l asked If Hills coal-ownership plank was
not coming up to bother him with the cor
porations. NO. was the reply. ITS for
gotten already. You know Hill is q law
yer He was the attorney Of some of the
corporations when they were fighting Gov.
Roosevelts franchise tax law"
All this Is interesting to know, and many
other things which In the view of Hills po-
ifttcal followers make him the dictator Of
the empire state this year. But wanted
to learn how Tammany stood and asked
one of the leaders of the organization who
has more than the local breadth of view
He said they had been badly trounced, and
they knew it, but it was a mistake to think
that they were done up. Tammany he said
never was done up though sometimes it
suffered a temporary loss of power. Its
control of New York city is still complete,
and Hill Will not be able to dislodge 1t. The
organization will not oppose brute force to
stronger brute force. That is one of the
points in which Leader Murphy excels Boss
Croker. He can be foxy as we'll as brutal.
Tammany Now at Work.
But what is Tamn any going to do at st.
LOUISE l inquired. The answer was that
1t wasn't going to wait till st. Louis and
that already it had begun to communicate
to other parts of the country it's fears that
Judge Parker might not be the strongest
candidate
It will not make the mistake of the two
national conventions in which Bourke Cock
ran and its other orators vehe mently OPP
posed Mr. Cleveland on the ground that he
could not carry New York and were shown
to be wrong. Instead its persuasive influ-
erces will be directed to instilling the doubt
whether Mr.. Hill and Mr.. Hills candidate
should be accepted by the national democ-
racy when perhaps some one can be found
who will not represent Mr.. Hill or Tam
many either. Then there Is the further
persuasive point that since the democratic
majority must come from New York city,
If the state is to be carried. the organiza-
ton which rolls UP the vote In New York
city should have its wishes respected.
All this might mean Cleveland, for Leader
Murphy is said to be sincerely of the opin-
ion that the ex-President is the strongest
candidate. Besides. as the Tammany can
didate he would make the organization
more respectable, and responsibility Is now
tho aim.
However, Senator German has friends in
Tammany and also In the Hill ranks. II
turn should come and the Parker boom be
sidetracked he has q very strong supporter
in ex-senator Edward Murphy.
The Tammany campaign of persuasion
while ostensibly directed to raise doubts
garding Parker may serve another purpose,
which is to secure the organization more
recognition II he Is nominated than Hill Is
willing to give it. That is one of the hints
which is heard.
A Fight on the Governorship.
Tammany also is going to make a fight
on the governorship. and If 1t can regain
some of its prestige in the national conven-
ton, 1t has hopes of preventing the NOM
nation of a Hill candidate at the state con-
vention in September. This does not seem
probable. Hill has managed to build
back fire in. Brooklyn, where Tammany
crossed the bridge and gave Boss Nc
the outcome of the successful municipal
campaign when the Tammany prestige
reached high water. Hill not only has the