The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-10-31
THE CLOSING CAMPAIGN.
HOW THE GRANT GAME IS PLATED
IN TIE EMPIRE STATE.

HOW THE GRANT GAME IS PLAYED
IN TIE EMPIRE STATE
Close OF Registration In New fork-A
Heavy Cutting Down OF the vote
Calculations About the Political Re-
suit in the State-The MayOralty Con-
test-Theodore Tilton as Lecturer
Tho Horse DIstemper-Somo OF the
Affections About TO Visit Charleston
TFRoa DUB OWN CORRESPONDENCE
New YORK. October 27.
The short registration of voters IN TINS city
| reveals the effect of Commissioners DaVen-
nort,a onerations. He declared at the outset
that he would cut down the registration, ana
| no has succeeded. There are always many
c,tIzens who are 30 Indifferent to the priVl-
,epe of voting and to their duties as citizens
that efforts have to be made to get them TO
the pels. The obstacles thrown IN their
way this year at the places of registry
have kept this class OF home. A long
and impertinent scrutiny, closing With
the administration of the oath, was the
ordeal through which every Intending voter
had to 90. This was supplemented by visit
of the government spies to the voters real.
dence, subIecting his family to insults and
outrsges rather trying TO the average amer
lean citizens patience. Naturalized citizens
were subjected to still more annoyance, par.
tlcularly when they could not produce their
original naturalization papers. Thus the luxe
warm have been frightened of, aud the earl
eat have been badgered, delayed, and often
times distranchlsed; and Davenport mao tne
satisfaction OF seeing the registration of11ces
close last night upon 5Gt han at
of last year. A Presidential election has
heretofore brought out larger vote than was
aver cast previously. Ia this election the vote
will be smaller.
The total registration lu New York City Is
l4s,slO. The registration last year was l62.-
592. The v0te four years ago was 100 & sosa.
been dlstranchised by terrorism and violence.
The comparison Of the registration with tuat
of philadelphia Ia curious and suggestive.
Philadelphia Is Republican clly, with 750'0vO
inhabitants, and l85,000 voters were regis
tered before the recent election. New fork
ia Democratic city, With l,00o,0O0 innaol-
tants, and the registered vsrers number l4s,-
$40. ..,.
than ever of carrying the Empire State. II ID
renorted that from three thousand to i've
Thousand Virginia and Maryland negroes nave
been brought into the city and registered. IL
Is comparatively easy to use our colorea
brethren for fraudulent voting, as tney LOOK
pretty much alike, and tits difficult to Identity
tbem' Them The Republican estimate Ia that the
State, outside the city, will give thirty thou-
sand msjority for Grant and Dix. In the city
no more thau ten thousand majority is con-
ceded 10 Greeley, and there are even senguine
Republicans who claim the city loo. slmon
Cameron wrote 10 friend 10 washington the
other day Il saw copy OF the ietterl tnat
New York had been 'a1ed," "aud that people
who are not behind the scenes will be aston
Ished ut the magnificent majority 1t will give
Grant. 80 - 80
not shared by the Democratic managers.
while they admit that the large majority 1or
Greeley which they anticipated at me open:
lag Of the campaign will not be realized, they
stlll olaim that he Will carry the Slats by q
substantial vote. They calculate that the
Liberal Republican movement will help them
to small majority outside the city. ana mat
Greeley will get at least thirty thousand ma
iorlty here, even on The small registratlon:
They agree that Kernan VIII run oen.oa 1
Greeley, but stll claim his election by good
The msyoralty issue has settled down Into q
ousdrangular fight between Lawrence, Reg-
ulsr Democratic and Liberal Republican,
Havemeyer. Grant Republican and committee
Of seventy, O'Brlen, Apollo Hall. Democratic,
and MoCool, Democratic National, The latter
Was nominated last night by That wing Oh tle
local Democracy, of which Benjamin wood 10
the animsting spirit At this Time OF writing
the prospects decidedly favor Mr.. Jimmy
O'Brien, The Endorsement Of Havemeyer by
the committee OF seventy divides the reform
vote, Just as Tom Murphy and the Grant man
ayers proposed, and O'Brien slips In between
bis rivals. The committee OF seventy, Wnlcn
oft ha m raf0fm
movement last year, as q non-parllsan D0oy,
has become completely radlcalzed. IL mas In
dorsed nearly all the Republican local nomlna-
tIons. and thus becomes mere tender 10 the
customho1ge.
listened to lecture on the Presidential
question at the Brooklyn Academy OF Music,
last evening, by Theodore Tilton. An admis-
sion tee was charged at the entrance, and the
audience was, therefore, comfortabiy select.
Tilton is q Brooklynlte, and this was his home
effort, bis neIghbors aud friends were there
to learn from bis lips why he, Radical OF the
Radicals, had abandoned the Republican party
and clssped hands with the South and the
Democracy. Tilton spoke for TWO hours.
remember but one other two hours lecture
that have listened to Without any fatigue
mean that OF Everett on Washington. nave
been rather pr.judiced against theodore til
ton since bIs foolish determination with wood
hull and Claflin, Two years ago, but must do
him the Justice to say that, as an effective pub
lie speaker, doubt II he is equalled by any
Young fellow of his age in America. He
has fne stage presence, q clear melodious
voice and enthusiasm, and he warmed bis az.
dience up to such degree that 1t was almost
beside itself with the same emotion. This ls
the true test OF speakers claim to eloquence.
TIlton enlertains for Mr.. Greeley personally
an affection bordering almost on alteration,
and his present slumping tour fs purely labor
Of love. He has spoken for the last seventy
dsys and nights almost continuously. and is
of to New Hampshire again on Monday
morning. A man In the audience shouted,
''What are the prospects :" Bright" az
swered Theodore, and then he went on to
saw that, though "the sky ls temporarily OBJ
sc1red," the Liberal party is "the party Of to.
morrow, and Tomorrow is ever triumphant"
We are In the midst OF the horse dtetemper,
full and graphic newspaper accounts of which
you are having daily by mail. There are few
vehicles ln the streets. to-day. ! Idor't know OF
anybody among my personal acquaintances
who owns horse who HASN'T q sick horse.
My doctor, poor fellow, Ia trudeing over this
big city on foot, visiting his patients, and II his
pony does not speedily recover, he Will have
TO 20 to bed and be sick himself. You can
scarcely realize the difference this epidemic is
making in all our habits of life-hOw 1t touches
Ill ~ x,h p1nu1d nnt