The Washington times., 1908-08-14
Republican Plans for New
York Revealed During
Hitchcock'S Visit.
M. w. LITTLETON
DEMOCRATS MAN
Tammany Hopes to Force McCar-
ren Faction Into Line and Gain
Control OF State.
By ]. C. wELLIvER.

be nominated to succeed himself.
That Is one Of the pearls of political
thought dropped during the visit of
Chairman Frank H Hitchcock 10
! Washington for a single day. There
Will be plenty OF investigation and in
quiry and consideration OF claims of
opponents and proponents. but the de-
ciston. which will come down from Oys-
ter Bay, and which will be conclusive,
will be that Hughes must be renomI-
mated
Il viii not please the old line poll
ticians, but they vii. have to take their
medicine. which thev will do That is
part Of their business. They are not the
people who have TO be considered. They
never bolt They have a future in
nina that is more or less personal 70
/ themselves. The people to be consid-
cred are those who can be satisfied only
by giving them a candidate and a plat
form that for the moment suit The
biz independent element Of the Empire
State is being considered in making this
determination.
LittletOn Favored.
Governor Hughes viii be nominated
by the Republicans, and the tip Is
70 name Martin W. Lituetou 10 on
pose him Littleton is the Tammany
candidate. but that is not the reason
why he is being named He viii be
presented because ne always has been
a good deal Of friend of McCarren,
the late Brooklyn boss. and the Nc
CaTenites viii be in bad shape 10 op-
pose him In short, it is a game on
the one hand 90 put the McCarenites
iu a hole and TO complete the undoing
of their political pretensions, and on the
other 70 compel The most thorough unI-
| feation OF Democratic support that il
possible.
II is explained that the Tammsn,
crowd is inspired rather BY feeling
against McCaTTen In local matters. than
Dy ambition to elect a governor. Tam
many would be pleased to capture tEa
state administration, for IL is hooked
up right with the State organization
now 10 make the most OF such a vic
tory But Tammany.s hope of doing
that is weighing much less with IL at
this Juncture than its nope Of subJugat-
ing Brooklyn ana definitely establishing
the rule Of the tiger in that borough
Aim At MeCarren.
Originally, beginning at end before the
Denver convention, it was the purpose
of the Tammany people 10 name
BroOklynite and a MCCarrenite for gov
erEOr. First they fgured on Bird
Coler, who was esteemed altogether the
logical person But Coler didn't per-
form quite to the satisfaction of Tam
many at Denver; he. was allowed 40
know some inside information. which
later he was accused Of spreading, and
so Charles +. Murphy announced that
Coler was dub, and that there
really would be nothing doing with him
This judicial conclusion having been
reached IN the case of Coler, the ques-
tiOn was 20 ind the right man 10 run
in his place. Judge William J. Gaynor
at once appealed as the right man, and
il is veraciOusly alleged that one inI-
pOrtant reason why Tammany would
not assent, at Denver, to the proposition
of GaynOr for Vice President w~s that
il was holding him back to run Tor gov
ernOr. He would serve the purpose of
putting the MCCarren people in the
hole. and, moreover. ne was a likely
vOte-getter. 50 il was Gaynor for a
and took himself out Of IL as emphati-
cally as he could.
With this, matters settled down to
Martin ". Littleton- He is regarded
as the strongess man in sight for the
general purpose OF simultaneously sup
pressing McCarren. subiugatMg Brook
lyn. and at the same time ayailing of
every chance TO carry the state
Would Control State
Tammany is not going to overlook any
chances this year to extend iCs power
It is determined at all hazards 20 com
plete its annexation of Brooklyn; if.
after that is assured, it can annex the
upstate region of New York well and
good But Brooklyn first When It l.
digested and assimiIatcd the State prop
osition Will come conveniently along,
Mr.. Murphys ambition is boundIessi
he Is perfectly willing to boss the whole
state, and the expansion of the greater
city, with the increasing tendency to in
dependence in politics, he believes.
opens the way, by careful management
of the situation, for Tammany to annex
the entire state in time But he is not
disposed to hurry the matter. He
would prefer il TO come gradually, nat
uraIly: he doesn't want to scare away
the upstate people by too freely ex-
hibiting his trained tiger in the rural
precincts.
The Tammary game, none the less. is
to control the whole State IF New York
from the city hall and in time to make
the State house at Albany rather an
adjunct Some important steps i'm that
game are to be taken this year There
is a good deal OF reason to believe this
New York State game looks more i'm
portant to Murphy than the chance to
elect Bryan.