The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-10-27
PROSPECTS, IN NEW YORK.


KelIy'S Trip Through the Stnte-Thinks
Robinson IL ont la the CoId-SchclI
Thinks Cornell may have 5000 Pitt
rally.
NEw York, October 24.-The closing
days Of the campaign are fraught with an
interest and excitement quite up to that
Of 1876. This is owing not only to the
fight OF the factions in the Democratic
ranks, but TO the fact that the result in
these November ides, largely decides the
Presidential contest OF next year. Mr..
Kelly, the chief OF Tammany. and its can
didate for Governor, has just returned
from trip through the State, and boasts
that the result lies now between Mr.. Cor.
nell, the Republican candidate, and him
self, and that practically the regular
Democratic nominee, Gov. Robinson, is
out in the cold. Mr.. Kelly is personally
and politically SO vipdictiVe against Gov.
Robinson that he doubtless oVerstates the
situation, but it is no doubt bad enough to
warrant the Republican committee in
making minimum estimate OF a majority
OF 25,000 in round numbers, and even q
larger plurality for Mr.. Cornell. Some
estimates place both the majority and
plurality much higher.
Hon. Augustus SChell, a Tammany
sachem, says he would not be surprised II
Cornell's plurality exceeded $4,000. The
detection ofGeo. W. Curtis and few other
Republicans from Mr.. Cornell does not, it
10 uotI nu,0t,1f IN Vyotynh tlNo,,0b H.,
Robinson, who was, not very long ago,
Republican himself, hopes to increase the
Democratic column from those Republic
cans who think he is already better
governor Of New York than Mr.. Cornell
would make. At the Democratic head.
quarters at the st. james, they speak very
confidently of the election Of Governor
Robinson, but give no decided estimates.
The regular Democrats are not making
campaign of meetings and professions, but
the ''still hunt" we hear so much OF in
State politics is being pursued with all the
old Vigoro OF Mr.. Tilden when he was chair.
man OF the State Committee. This still
hunt consists OF a careful canvass Of each
township in the State, the probable chang
es, those known to have changed, and tho
increase or decrease as the case may be.
So far rs l can learn, the committee have
not been able to estimate, with anything
like precision, the vote which Mr.. Kelly
will get in this city, but it will be much
larger evidently than was anticipated at
the start. In Kings county, (Brooklyn),
the Tammany organization has not much
hold, and 1t Is believed that leading Demo.
Gratis, like General Slocum, Hon. Archie
Bliss and Hon. John o. Jacobs will vote
for Robinson. Indeed, II there Is any.
thing in the gossip about 1t, these gentle.
men have been working in a quiet way to
secure the withdrawal OF Kelly and Rob.
inson, and the restoration OF harmony in
the Democratic party; and in this they
have been aided by Southern Democrats
and by Senators Herman, Barnum, Wal
lace and others in the North, but it Is lust
about as idle to attempt to dam up Maya.
"a Falls with sand as to move Mr.. Kelly
ono inch from the determined stand
he has taken 10 destroy Governor Rob.
inson, even II the Democratic party
in this state goes down in the common
ruin. Altogether tits a strange middle.
The leading Democratic paper, the IIorld,
is very hostile to Mr.. Tillen, but supports
Mr.. Robinson for Governor and yet
everybody knows that the election OF Mr..
Robinson would mean the nomination OF
Mr.. Tlden next year by the New York
delegation, II not by the National Conven-
ton. There may be some Of your read.
ers who do not know exactly what Mr..
kelly's grievance consists OF. | will tell
you. Soon after Governor Robinson's
election he interlered, as he had a right to
under the law, with some OF the local Off.
ces in this city, such as county clerk, etc.,
with the purpose Of breaking up abuses,
TO call them byno worse name. Mr.. KEEL.
ly claimed control OF the officials, on the
ground that the Tammany organization
furnished the Democratic nomination for
the State, and that it did not become Gov.
ernor Robinson TO ignore 1t, Mr.. Kelly
heretofore, as now, has always maintained
that districts in the interior, which never
gave q Democratic majority In their exist.
enco have dictated the nomination for
Governor in tho State Convention, and
then called upon the city OF New York
10 furnish the required majority to elect
it.
Mr.. Kelly says he simply wishes to con.
troll the patronage in the interest OF that
majority. The detection Of Mr.. Kelly
only extends to Governor Robinson. Il He
will support the rest Of the ticket nomi.
mated at Syracuse. His ticket, with his
own name heading it for Governor, will
be followed by that OF Hon. Clarkson N.
Potter for Lieutenant Governor.