Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-10-25
THE CAMPAIGN, IN NEW YORK.
HOW 1T DIFFERS FROM FORMER ONEs-THE EXCITE
MENT EQUAL TO THAT OF 1SI6-KELLY VIRTUALLY
ADMITS CoRNELL'S ELECTION-AUG. SCHELI. SAYS
THE PLURALITY WILL BIZ 50,000-CURTIS DEFEC-
Z TION-FA1LURE OF ALL EFFORTS FOR A COMPRo-
AISE-MR. TILDEN GENERALLY BLAMED ETC

ADMITS CORNEILS ELECTION-AUG SCHEII, SAYS
Tinsnrrr fLuEATf w VIII BE soooo[cURIIs DEFEc-
AIsE-AR. T1IDEN GENERALLY BLAMED, ETC.
Correspondence OF the Stdr.]
NEW YORK, october "a.
The political campaign in this state this fall
differs from former years in several details You
no longer hear the stalwart democrats talk as OF
old about the majority they will "roll I'D from
Kings county to Cayuga BRIDGE The river
counties are not put into the calculation any
more. but it is reduced to the probable vote which
Messrs. Robinson, Cornell and Kelly will gesthis
side of Harlem bridge. The closing DAYS of the
campaign are fraught with an interest and ex-
citement quite up to that Of 1876. This is owing
not only to the fight OF the factions in the demo-
cratic ranks but to the fact that the result in
these November ides, largely decides the Presi-
Dental contest OF next year. Mr.. Kelly, the
chief of Tammany, and its candidate for COVER
nor, has just returned from a trip through the
state, and boasts that the result lies now between
Mr.. Cornell, the republican candidate. and HIM
SELF and that practically the regular democratic
nominee, Gov. Robinson, is out in the cold. Mr..
against Gov. Robinson that he doSbtless III Sese over.
states the situation but it is no doubt bad enough
to warrant the republican committee in making
minimum estimate OF a majority OF 25, 900 in
round M 9drl numbers and even larger plurality for
majority and plurality much higher, but pre-
fer the opinion of such republican as Judge
Robertson, of Westchester, just renominated for
the state senate, who never loses his head in
election estimates. Hon. Augustus Schell how
ever. a Tammany sachem, says he would not be
surprised II CornelFs plurality exceeded so, ,OOO
The detection OF George VIM. Curtis and few
other republicans from Mr.. Cornell does not, it
Is said, amount to much, though Gov Robinson,
who was. not very long ago. a republican him
SELF hopes to increase his democratic column
from those republicans who think he is already a
better governor of New York than Mr.. Cornell
would make. At the democratic headquarters
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 pro-
cessions, but the ''still hunt we hear so much
OF in state politics is being pursued with all the
old vfgor OF Mr.. Tilden when he was chairman
OF the state committee. This still hunt consists
of careful canvass of each township in the
state, the probable changes, those known
the case may be- From these condensed tables
one OF probable results is made. So far as can
learn, the committee have not been able to esti-
mate, 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
Tammanny organization has not much hold, and
it is believed that leading democrats, like Cen
eral SlOcum Hon. Archie Bliss and Hon. John c..
Jacobs will vote for Robinson. Indeed II there is
anything in the gossip about it, these gentlemen
withdrawal of Kelly and Robinson, and the res
toratfon of harmony in the democratic party;
and In this they have been aided by southern dem
ocrats and by Senators Herman. Barnum, Wal
lace and othersin in the north but it is just about
idle to attempt to dam up Niagara Falls with
sand as to move Mr.. Kelly one inch from the de-
termfned stand he has taken to destroy Gov
ernOf Robinson, even II the democratic party
in this state goes down in the common ruin
Altogether it is a strange muddle. The leading
democratic paper, the World, is very hostile to
Mr.. Ttlden, but supports Mr.. Robinson for gov
ernor-and yet everybody knows that the election
Of Mr. Robinson would mean the nomination Of
Mr.. T1lden next year, by the New York delega-
ton, If not by the national convention. There
may be some OF your readers who do not know
exactly what Mr.. Kelly's grievance consists Of
l will tell you. Soon after Gov. Robinson's cleo
law, with some Of the local OFFICES in this city,
such as county clerk, ETC., with the purpose Of
breaking up abuses, to call them by no worse
name. MI. Kelly claimed control of these officials
on the ground that the Tammany organization
furnished the democratic majority for the state,
more 1t. Mr. Kelly heretofore, as now, has al
ways maintained that districts in the interior,
which never gave democratic majority in their
existence, have dictated the nomination for gov
ernor in the state convention, and then called
upon the city of New York to furnish the required
majority to elect it.
Mr.. Kelly says he simply wishes to control the
patronage in the interest of that majority. The
detection OF Mr.. Kelly only extends to Gov. Rob
insOn. He will support the rest of the ticket
nominated at Syracuse. His ticket, with his own
name heading 1t for governor, will be followed
by that of Hon. Clarkson N. Potter for ieuten-
ant governor.
To an impartial observer, should say that it
would appear that more democrats are blaming
Mr.. Tilden for this situation than Mr.. Kelly in
Guiding many who do not approve Of Mr.. Kelly IS
bolt, ard who will vote for Robinson.