The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-04
POLITICAL +

w ftNe A"N N"NNaA
POLITICAL NOTES.
just st the moment the following figures
may be Of interest:
NEW YORK cTx's voFn ron GOVERNORS.
Van wyok Dem) over Roose welt Rep). 1893.
Stapchheld DemJ over Odell RepO, 1900, A,26S.
Coler Dem) over Odeil (Rep.l. 1909. 122, SSA.
Hcrriok (DemJ over Higgins CRepJ. 1904 sO,lsl.
KNPuBLIcAS sLURALrrIEs ABOVE THE BRONX.
Rooseveltfn 1898. Ioi, 100.
Odeil in 1900, 155. $50.
OdeIl in 1909. 49,. SIS.
Higrfus IN 1904. loo.oai.
Ex-aov. B. B. Odell, Jr., It Is st a tied. be-
lieved that Louis F. Goodsell shouldn not again
have sought the Republican nomination for
State Senator for what is oolloquially known
as the Orange district and so told Mr.. Good
sell. Mr.. Goodsell. however. insisted on II.
saying that inasmuch az in 1904 he beat Henry
Kohl. his Democratic opponent. by 2,o47 he
could easily win again this year.
Il should have had to be dreadfully hard
up" said a lawyer. an old line Democrat. "to
have taken that job from Hearst as David
b. Hin did"
The speaker referred to Mr.. Hills repre-
senting Mr.. Hearst before the Court Of APP
peals on Tuesday. lie continued.
Hearst has roundly abused Alton n.
Parker and every friend Hill ever had, but
then Mr.. Hill was never known to have great
tubs OF red blood in his veins"
Yet Mr.. Hill had to break into the lime
light somehow or somewhere" remarked
another old time Democrat. -for political re-
tirement to him is worse than physical death"
Speaking OF Mr.. Hearst and Mr.. Hin a par
t~iculsrly interesting bit may he recalled that
at the time Mr. Hearst's newspapers were
a~ssailing President Mckinley and printing
cartoons and matter which were considered
criminally libellous Mr.. Hearst became some
what nervous and sent for Mr.. Hill to come
to New York to a conference. MIR. Hill was
the personal attorney Of Mr.. Hearst.
Arthur Brisbane was present at the con-
ference between Mr.. Hearst and Mr.. Hill.
All Of the alleged criminally hbellous mat
ter was submitted to Mr.. Hill, and as a lawyer
he gave IL to be his opinion that Mr.. Hearst
could be prosecuted by the Federal authori-
ties and he advised an entire change OF
policy.
why do you print such stun, anyway Mr..
Hearst7" asked Mr.. Hill.
Governor" Interrupted Mr.. Brisbane, be-
fore Mr.. Hearst could answer. "as | under
stand this case Mr.. Hearst sent for you to
see how we could be kept out OF jail. He
didn't send for you to tell him how to run his
newspapers. We don't need any advice from
you how to run Mr.. Hearst's newspapers.
Just you tell US the law and how to keep out
Of Jail, and that IL all you are needed for
on this occasion"
That's a mighty smart man. a mighty
able man" said ex-GOv. Hill later, speaking
Of Mr.. Brisbane.
On a certain occasion in the first Cleveland
administration when a Massachusetts, clergy
man In a sermon repeated a Islander about
President Cleveland, the late Col. Lamont,
then Mr.. Cleveland's secretary. was In quick
communication with the United States District
Attorney for the district In which the clergy
man had uttered the SANDER and that clergy
man would have been prosecuted for criminal
libel before shutdown had he not promised
to retract his SANDER on the following Sun
day.
To DO explicit In telling this little tale the
cler gym uttered the SANDER on Sunday
morning. So quickly did Col. Lamont act that
on the following morning, twenty-four hours
later, the clergyman had abjectly apologized
and saidt that he had merely repeated In his SER
mon what gibble Rabblers and vicious people
had told him and the promise for the retrac-
ton had been given. On the following sunday
the clergyman carried out his agreement.
Ex-United States Marshal Louis r. Payn
OF Columbia county says there IL no truth
I'm the reports TO the effect that the Republican
leaders Of all the counties are not united
strong and hearty for Hughes. There have
been whispers Of sullenness or the part OF
Republican leaders In certain counties OF the
State since the Saratoga convention for the
reason that quite q number OF Republicans
believed that Ex-Governor Frank 5. Black
should have been nominated for Governor.
Mr.. Black. however. put a quietUs on that by
aging that In no sense was no a candidate
and his refusal to allow the use OF his name
ended the Black boom.
Mr.. Payn has been In Republican politics
IN New York State since 1890, and no said &C
the Holland House last night:
Personal feeling should have no weight
IN the campaign. All Republicans In my
judgment are good Republicans and you will
see that on election day they will stand by the
ticket from sunrlse to sunset"
Most politicians said In old timer at
the Manhattan Club, ARE mental towards.
They cannot help being mental towards any
more than Q lawyer can help procrastinating.
Self interest makes the politician a mental
coward while the laws delays turn the most
concentrated and direct legal mind into a
lackadaisical. q hating and a procrustinating
intellect"
10 has been whispered at Mr.. Hearst's