Show washington LETTER from our regular correspondent oct 1 1894 new york politics have always occupied a considerable share ahara of the political discus alons sloes in washington but since the nomination ot of senator oy the democrats democrat nothing else but now new york politics has been talked by those who are moro more later inter ested in politics than anything elso else the general impression regardless of oc political opinion to Is that the result of the now york campaign will bo be a deciding factor in the making ot of one or both of tho the presidential tickets put forward in 1800 1896 by the democrats and the republicans by a fortunate accident I 1 heard one of the best informed men in the united Sta tesa man whose whole name Is synonymous synonym with accuracy of political judgment from the atlantic to the pacific among public mon men express his opinion of the situation not for publication but for the information of halfe halt a dozen friends he said bald the importance of the new york nominations for governor does not ar arise se from the personality of the candidates but from the fact that both of them are fighting not for the governorship of new york groat great oa as that honor ua undoubtedly Is but for the presidential nomination of their respective parties this may appear to be a strange way to regard mr mortons Mor tons candidacy when his age is considered but that ho he so regards it 11 him alta self I 1 have the very best ot of reasons for knowing and what Is if more it if he can defeat senator hill his bis chances for success would be excellent the man who cari can carry new york to Is not likely to bo be turned down with impunity by either tho the republican or tho the democratic conventions of 93 and that it Is just bat what makes this campaign so intensely interesting no reader of the newspapers has bee forgotten that only a few weeks ago it was seriously proposed and disc discussed umed among tho the administration demo damo cratto senators to formally read senator hill butof out dt tho the democratic party because of his refusal to support the Domo oratio tariff bill now then how bow much roal real assistance do you suppose the administration and its followers will give giro senator hill in his attempt to use the governors chair as a stepping stono itono to the presidential nomination of 0 his bartyl mighty litis you may be suro it might be ba inferred from this that I 1 considered hills chances very poor but that would bo be wrong its a toss lose up at this timo time as to either his tho the best beat chance of winning Mort morion onla Is just as bad off when it comes to outside assistance si Al as his bis opponent with tile knowledge knowl edze that his election means his bis can didney for the presidential nomination of his party it if Is too m much uch of human nature for either ex president harrison Harrt son ex speaker reed heed governor me mc killoy ot or nay any of those who are already pledged to support tho the candidacy of either of thom them to overwork over work themselves trying to elect mr mn morton my belief to la that the present campaign in row new york will be freer from outside interference than any for mony many years and that tho the winner will como come very near to landing the bial nomination of his party in 1806 1808 if he bo does not actually succeed hut ut I 1 will not attempt to guess tho the at this stage of lot the race it has been a long time since the tha average washingtonian onlan WAS moto moio astonished than be was at the arrest and return to jail of captain henry W norgate now gate ex ohler of and disbursing clerk cleric of tho the U S weather bureau who about thirteen years ago escaped from the custody of a deputy U 0 marshal valle while he ha was awaiting trial for the embezzlement of a sum in the neighbor hood of from the U S government the statement that the officers of tho the government secret service have been beau on his track during these thirteen years but have been bean unable to locate him is regarded as simply silly A alcore score of people in Wash washington inkton could have located hogate howgate within forty eight hours at any time since his bis departure depar lura from Waa hington and rt one time several years ago a private de da made anda a publeo cubilo proposition to arrest him within forty eight hoil hours irs it amthor authorized lied by the proper authorities sad and paid a reasonable reward for so BO doing but his bis proposition was not accepted at no time bs bab the tha government offered a reward for his apprehension it waa because the people bt washington had bad settled mottled down to tha belief that howiate would never be ar hestela roste d that thai ills his arrest caused astonishment whether right or wrong croaa the theory that the arrest and trial of howgate would bring exposure and ruin to others who had bad shared d the money he be and that those others were ware powerful enough to td prevent his bis balag actively sought for was long ago generally accepted whether this theory was waa entirely a myth or that the ba interested parties have hava loii loal power or hard died la Is tho the subject of much discus discussion elod among those thone who were familiar with how gates career in Washington his steady riso rise from obscurity to the bead of a scan uno title branch of the government and hid bis equally as marked rise in tho the social and club world I 1 his open defiance of to social cial 1 laws and desertion of hia big wife and children to live openly in clel als ganno gane with a woman to whom he bo was not worried married his trial Is looked forward td with as much interest ax as was that of cols coll breckinridge although the evidence Is expected to bo be of an entirely en tirey different nature the E 7 city school house boase is now built up to the tha square and the root will soon bd on n so that the abo flo finishing labing of the buil building dini will not require very nuch much time it wilt will be baa th handsome bandi omo and convenient for tho the school child oa of thit that |