The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-04-10
POLITICAL NOTES.

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the national conventions Of 1879.
Thsre has besn . heap Of diarn-siOn
among politicians over Mayor GaynoT :
action In practically oompslling theg New
NoTk mate Department Of Excise aud the
District Ai,ornsya Of New YORK county,
Giagz couasy. Rickmssa sHd Qsseeas.
90 assume the responsibility Tor enforcing
the exciAo law In New York 0ity. From
. politiral organization point OF view many
politicians bslisVO that the Republican
Seate organization Uill bs very materially
siren gthsnsd by the Mayors dectsaon.
While the Democratic examinations In
tho Ave boroUghs making M the city viii
be Weakened. In other words. the poit-
tIcans add. " there has been any gran In
snforcinG the excise law the Democrats
organizations have been benefited by u.
While under the new rule the Rspnblbnan
state excise machine win nov benefit from
this alleged Eraft.
william Barnes. r.. Republican leader
Of Albany county. let % be known before he
sailed away for Nassau forty-eight hours
befOre the vote was taken on the fate Of
Aids thai senator william .. Orattan of
the Twenty eighth distTict jAlbnny county,
would without the slightest doubt vote a.
he pleased. either for Aids or against Aids,
bHt no matter how he voted GFattah would
certainly he renominated BY the Rspnbli-
rana of the senate district next fall GRAFT
tan voted for Aida.
Eariy In Jsnuary. Whsn II became neces-
sary 10 elect q Preaisient pro tenn. of the
senate TO succeed she late John Rnines.
MIR. Barnes told senator Aids personally
that he. Aids. ought not 10 he a candidate
for the place. hut that be should he quite
content 60 remain 81 chairman Of the fi-
nance COMMITTEES.
Let yon amt I be candid With each
other. Aids. said Barnes 10 the deihrOnesi
Chensnso senator. you ought net to sss
into the limeliEht. I am not saying any
thinR 20 hurt your feelings, but you know
that Il would b Tar bstier for yOu TO take
my advice IN m. matter
Barnes was for llinman at that time. not
because he particularly favored Senator
Human 80 . Hughes senator but becanas
he believed n would he fairly good politics
for the Republicans IN name Human.
Richard Croker 10 % return TO New York
from Florida ON Apri 10 and TO sail for
Europe four DAYS later.
Numerous Tammany men ~ we'll n
Democrats not connected With the Four
tenth street organization diher with the
TAmmany men anosed In thia column last
sunday TO the effect that should William
q. Hearst put up . fight al the priuia rte-
In the Assembly districts next fail he
wouldn't win q single district.
-Quesns county said n Tsmmany man
Who n especially well informed. 10 hotbed
of hsarss's followers. This Was shown
i'm three eletions. 1906. teos and 1000. and
Hearst viii without the slightest doubt
carry the Queens coUhiy primaries. The
cassidyitss will probably iOin the nesrst
people. Then too Kings county has been
especially strong for Hearst. and there
are spots In New York county whore Hearst
and his men have practically destroyed
the Tammany examinations. The Tam
many men who sttempt 20 belittie Hearts,
strength On New York city other at the
primaries or ~ The polls had better guess
aSaiR
Roger e. sullivan. Democratic national
committeeman from Illinois. tells his friends
that hs 70 not Inclined TO believe that Mayor
Oaynos % New YORK. eli y can last ~ Demo-
cratic Presidential factor.
-HS n trying % do too muCh. said Mr..
sullivan 20 bis ffieods. The Mayor can
not keep 10 hla present pace. When think
Of the Mayor I recan President HarVtaou'a
sdmonition 10 Theodore Roosevsi, - .
united seates Civil Service Commissions
Deaf think yOn cen reform the univer-s
WYNN tHenty-IouB hounN
The New York ststs Democrats IeaGnerr
arc % iAs srsnsez tia, :hsy "a! s.ace dsssr
rates to the Democratic state convention
nett fall from tho COUNTIES Of Warren.
Franklin, jefferson and Erie. and possibly
from several other counties.
Occasionally Republicans connected with
the New YorS State organization whisper
49, - a61N 49, ~
a~publlcan STATE convention for Hughes.
They next recsll that David b. Hhl 49,
nominated nv n stampede Of the npmO-
crntic state convention of Isss. only Mr..
Hm was defeated that yssT nv pirrallV
OF iss Oeo.
Representative Eugene Y Fos- Of the
FouIteeuth district OF Massachusetts -
TO he one OF the speakers In The MOn-Os
county. New York. Congress dIssri,t ciec-
ton IN the ~hoIt 80 dsf-S' George ". AID
ridge. Mr.. Fc~-'s district was Republican
for many years. ~ vas Eepubli, an by
. Saa In ie0., n ais In iHai. ',-s7 "a isss
and D. "a In ISOs Nrt al the special eisy-
ton held recently FO~- vas elected a. n
Dsmocrai by about aeao. making n change
Of sO.OOa votes.
Perkins. RsvaIbticAB. of the Monroe Ton
O.. 7Oa n 1907. s.a,1 in 100 and i1.ie1 IN
saos The democrats are us.ng "a the
ROche-fef district the same issues that n ere
sIcC essful In the FOss disirict ti-saiisSaet ION
with tire tariff the high COS; OF living,
Ac. and IN addition they are attacking
Mr. AIdridge personally because Of the
cheek handed 70 him by El'jAh Kennedy
after csrtain nrs insurance legislative cpl
sodes we're ended al Albany and on the
% 90 90 canal scandal twelve Years ago.
The problem, ~. Have the economic issues
and the interest," In them which defeated
Foss's opponeBt extended tn the Rochester
Congress DISTRICT Mr.. AIbTidGe IL personally
very popular with most kinds of Pspub-
leans in Mooroe county FOE the reason
Ina, for many years he han rORferred many
favors aud also many Democrats IN the
district have heen beholden 10 him. In
fart In tsn~s past the IIewo~raiic o.EanIza-
Ion % tho county has been litile short &C an
ANNEX 30 tho Republican organization
The same state of aasirs has prevailed in
Albany and In other COMPLIES Of the STATE
Gen. CiArkson after he r-tires FROM the
SurveyoTship may become the esiitor
Of . newspaper eirheP in New Work or
chicago. He Uas for many years editor
~ the Dss Moines ia HssSsfsI. He ~
Tho Old time type q political editor
like ThuFiow wesd, Gen. Jnrres WATSON