The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-01-15
| lIIICAl CHAOS
n IN METROPOLIS
Nk York Leaders Seem to Be
"A More or Less IndiS-
posed.
EXPOSURES
FAR-REACHlNG in EFFECT
RepOrt of Mcclellan Taking
Control of Tammany Given
Little Credence.

NEW YORK. Jan. 13.-Politics con-
arues in a state OF chaos. This is be-
.euse the old political parties are leader
ess OF discussing new leaders, while
RnIy w r. Hearst knows the plans of
-.he Municipal Ownership league or the
-fndenendent league, as II is now called,
and he Is away and won't tell.
4 Hill Says He's Out of It.
U On the Democratic side. United States
senator David =. Hill, the only man who
has any right To claim the title of state
ieod der saws that he Will never. never at
lend another political convention and
fbnt his one remaining ambition during
fbe rest OF his life Is his law practice.
His refusal 10 attend the sessions or the
Armstrong insurance investigating COM
n,ittee upon the ground OF Illness. prac-
.4Ically ends his career as a leader In any
'eyent because the life insurance inYcs-
tigating committee attracted so much at
1lention that Senator Hill'a enemies would
i,p justified in saying In the future that IL
his health did not permit him to appear
before the life insurance investigating
Committee and explain the charges that
had been made against him, his health
was not good enough to permit him to re-
main AT the head of tho Democratic or
'ganization In this State,
\ Is Probably Sincere.
\ AS a matter of fact, Mr.. Hill is un-
A out OF politics. Though he did not get
Is much out OF the life insurance COM
NBnies by way OF retainer az Senator
Thomas C. Plat or Senator Chauncey
M Depew or former Gov. b. Il. Odell,
ae did get something and during these
alter days If there is such thing as
rtaintcd money" IT is probably life In
surancc money" At any rate, II appears
% be considered equivalent to political
icath during these latter days for life
Insurance money TO be traced home to
.he pockets of politician, no matter If
n cases like Senator Hilrs, It comes In
he form Of n retainer.
And good lawyers like Senator Hin
,robably argue that they would receive
,ho retaners, even If they were not at
!he head of the political organization
lin politics" lnterferes with their money
making capacities, they arc better "out
>f politics than "in politics"
1 Gossip About Mcclellan.
\ Here In this city there is considerable
kcssip about Mayor Mcclellan reaching
2ut 10 take personal control OF the Tam
many organization now that the grip OF
Charles F. Murphy is believed to be
oosening. They base their belief on the
appointments that have been made dur
Ng the last few days by the Mayor per-
-onally as we'll as by the personality OF
he men selected as heads of depart;
arents, and for other positions. But all
4 these speculations are made without
/ careful analysis OF the record of the
Mayor himself and his personal char
lctcristics.
I'm the frst place Mayor Mcclellan,
lightly or wrongly, is nothing II not an
organization man. Probably there is not
n the entire country man who is
Eore thorough believer in the value OF
loolitical organizations. And he could not
urn his back upon the organization with
put calling for a shower OF epithets such
hs 'traitor." The case of Mayor Weaver
pf Philadelphia has been cited as that Of
a man who had the nerve" 10 turn on
6he organization which nominated him
md become "reformer"
II Weaver Always Independent.
y The cass are hardly parallel however
fpieyor Weaver was a good deal of an In
dependent In his methods, his way of
kninklng, his manner of life, when he
Pprst broke into politics. He did not grow
khp In the Republican machine orgnniza-
Jon of Philadelphia as Mayor Mcclellan
spas groWa up In the Democratic organi-
patton hge He was simply picked up
py the Republican machine as a IMAM
Eho goa To church"-and that means
more Ia Philadelphia than hcrc-and nom
mated n District Attorney Once the
Rgai Cadtser of Philadelphia. 1t was a
A .lll moH simple thing for the Republi-
tn orgahzation OF that city to nominate
! I'm for Mayor But, though aflilIated with
Iganlzabn men, he never was thor
7t pgniy Sturatcd with "organizational-
MSlellan's Case Different.
uMcClelun case was different Lifted
-nfom theplacc Of political reporter to a
.nsndsomey paving position In connection
~lEitn the Brooklyn bridge by the old
Erokcr hchinc. Mcclellan received his
nrst sta5 In life from the organization
Known ~ Tammany Hall. Then he was
hsaln plSed up by tho old Croker ma
chlne in he city OF New York and made
Rresidentpf the Board of Aldermen Then
tainmanl Hall sent him 20 Congress and
kepl him.thcrc In spite Of his opposition
70 Bryan and Bryonism for a decade or
RoIe. Ten Tammany Hall once again
nade hin Mayor in opposition TO the
Vomocrar organization In Brooklyn and
Slhe other boroughs
Would Require Nerve.
VC nese hinGs arc cited merely for the
PuIpose z showing how difficult IT is for
nftoi. Seoge b Mcclellan TO kick over
tne laddq by which he has rsen In re-
ponSe a the demands of some OF the