The sun., 1908-05-10
POLtTTCIL NOTES.

Hhlea 70 the DtUOCTullV nhIOUdl NuuNtnNlVh
intend to remain at home. Their places are 10
be taken by their alternates. There are
Democrats In the delegation 80 irrevocably
opposed 10 Eryan that they will not place
themselves in the position where under The
unit rule they may be compelled to vote for
his nomination,
Speaking Of hard times. said q Demo-
cratic politician yesterday, you will note
that in New York county alone 800 liquor
saloons have already refused this year 10
renew their licenses These licenses cost
Sl.sO0 a year"
II was further stated that all told there are
5000 liquor saloons In New York city, that is
the five boroughs making up the city, and
that 5000 OF them are owned or controlled
by brewers. and that II Ia the brewers, feeling
the hard times, who have refused to renew
the licenses for 500 Of the saloons.
Senator Alfred r. Page Of the MIN eteenth
New York district Ia not TO return TO Albany
next winter, according TO good Republican
information yesterday, and u was added
! that Senator Page at the proper time Ia to
| issue the announcement that he does not
desire a denomination. The other end Of
| the story 10 that the Republicans OF the Sen
ate district do not see their way clear to give
Mr.. Page = denomination,
President McGowan OF the Board Of Alder
men, acting Mayor In Mayor Mcclellan =
absence, represented the city At the great
Catholic parade q week ago Mr., hcGowan,
a. acting Mayor. stood beside Cardinal Logue
and Archbishop Farley, and Of course was
attired on that occasion like any other gen
| tleman, frock coat. silk hat. dc, and yet
| bystander was heard 10 ask:
is that gentleman with the white hair
and white mustdche monsiEnor'"
The stranger. II was learned. came from
| Camden. ~ J.
! II Patrick j. Mara, now looked upon a.
| the new Democratic boss OF Queens county.
Ia good to the TGmmany folks he may be
made State committeeman to succeed Joseph
| Cassidy. The foregoing statement was made
by Tammany people yesterday, and they
| added that one OF the prospective ohanges
among upstate Democratic committeeman
! Ia that Bruyn HAsbrouck OF New Paltz Ia to
| succeed George B. Van Valkenburgh OF
Lexington.
| With Daniel p. Cohalan already slated for
| Grand saohem Of Tammany Hall to succeed
| W. Bourke Cochran and TO be Democratic
! national committeeman for the state to
succeed Norman T. Mack, II was said yester-
| day that Cochran feels his retirement very
keenly, also that the refusal to renomnate
| him for Congress IL another unhappy cpl
sode with him. However. there were Demo-
! Gratis hereabout who had story 10 the
| effect that II President Roosevelt Is renomi-
! mated Cochran will take the stump for him.
| and in the event OF the President 3 reelection
1 Cochran is to have a foreign mission. In
| bN fhnaa
! who said their sources Of information as 10
White House Affairs was good
Il was recalled that It was Cochran who
wrote the resolutions adopted by Tammany
! after the Portsmouth treaty OF peace between
! Russia and Japan was signed pTasing Roose-
welt az a peacemaker. and at the dinner Of the
| Friendly Sons OF 81, Patrick shortly after
ward Cockrans speech was eulogistic In the
highest degree Of Roosevelt. Not even the
oldest living member Of Tammany can recall
when the organization. save on the occasion
mentioned has patteda Republican President
| on the back
Speaking OF Roosevelt and Tammsny as
| illustrated in the Cochran resolutions, II may
not be out Of place 10 state that in August,
| 1904 President Roosevelt said 10 one Of his
| visitors at Oyster Bay: Wait till election
day and you'I And that have more friends
In Tammany Hall than many people dream
! or" True enough. Tammany's vote for
Parker melted prod giously, just as the
President foretod,
The word has gone out among the Demo-
! crats OF New York State that Augustus Van
! wyck, one Of the delegates from the Seventh
| Congress district. il to be the States member
! on the committee on resolutions at the Denver
| convention. Mr. van Wyck had this place
also In 1000 at Kansas City, when he sue
| ceeded David b. HILL who had held the place
in a number Of national conventions. In
1904. the Perker convention, Mr.. Hill resumed
his place as the states member on this inn
portant committee.
II is now known that what are oxen Of az
exceedingly handy men will he named for
the committee on credentials both in the
Republican and the Democratic national
conventions TO be a member OF a national
committee on credentials one must believe
thoroughly the maxim Here all friendship
ceases. II is superseded by the practical
political maxim What is there In il for me:"
There are some pretty miserable stories
aHo az to the amount OF pressure" eyerted
or attemp pied 10 be eyerted on Alderman
Flanagan to cast bis vote for Joseph Cassidy
to succeed Bermel as President Of the Bor-
ough OF Queens. Flanagan resisted ell over
lures. But he had better tell the story him
self II he will.
For the first time in seventeen years the
Democrats OF Port Chester elected several
DAYS ago their village ticket Port Chester
IL the home OF william H. Ward. Republican
national committeeman for the State. Demo-
Gratis arguing yesterday from the standpoint
OF this election believed that there was a
good chance to elect on Tuesday q State
Senator In the Niagara Orleans district
Yet the Republicans down this way we're
confident that Wallace. the Republican oandi-
date for Senator, would have an easy victory.
The Court OF Appeals has decided that the
present Senate 10 a de facto body. but then
the Senate Ia the Judge Of the qualifications
| OF its own members, and there will be no
! trouble, II was stated. over the seating OF
! the Sentor electe from the 0rleans-Nisgara
district
or the various Presidential candidates,
! Republican and Democratic, now In the pub
| lIo eye, six Of them we're newspaper rhen-
Fairbanks. Bryan. Taft, Gov. johnson, Sec
retary Corteyou and Senator Philander c.
| Knox,
The h ote men Of New York city and Of
| other big cities In the country are very much
interested in the plank concerning prohibi-
! tion to be adopted by the Republicans at Chi
| cago by the Democrats at Denver and by
! the Hearst people at Chicago. In other words
they fear that these three national conven-
| tions may take cogniZance In some radical
manner In their platforms Of the wave OF