New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-10-28
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trpoN A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE!
A1p,xy. Oct. o." The machine always WINS
ercent in time Of great popular excitement" sara
Mr.. John f. Symth. while seated In his DroEei
Office here, q few weeks before the oua'og1 Oon-
rertion And he continued. the machine is the
resrlt Of great care and constant labor" few
rooments afterward d clerk brought him
tba news that his Albany County ma
chineD had ground out unanimous
Folrer delegation. Time passed. the delegation
dnlv cast their votes for Mr. Folger for Governor
and the machine" prepared TO win."
Unfortunately for Mr.. smyth, there has been
popular excitement over the doIngs Of the Sara
toca Convention His little machine here Is not
confident of winning. 1t doubts its ability to Keep
the usual Democratic majority IN Albany county
within respectable figures. All of Mr.. Smyth
d" great care and constant labor" in perfectng the
" machine" seems to have been wasted Perhaps
MIR. Smyth's transfer to the larger held of state
notifies bv his election as chairman of the RepuD-
Hcan State Committee was unfortunate for the
machine" OF this county. Whatever the reason
the members of the machine" and those
Republicans who intend Loyalty TO support
the STATE ticket although not followers OF MI
SMITH are discouraged by the outlook. The tide
has been adverse ever since thesSlratoga Conyeh-
tiou Immediately after the convention Inc Ereh-
ina Journal the leading Republican newspaper OF
Foigers nomination was secured, and has since OPP
posed his election as Governor. lis attitude haa
great effect among the Republican farmers
of the county especially; as in the city
many of the readers of The journal would have
bolt,d the ticket no matter what advice 1t gave
For wears there has been large independent llc-
pubican element IN the city. The proxy frauds az
Saratoga naturally deeply offended this element IL
took no persuasion on the part Of The Journal to
make them decide not 20 vote for Mr.. FOlger They
have since formed a secret Republican organization
having for It sole object Mr.. Folger's defeat.
One of the leaders of this organization, Nr. ~ l.
Judson said TO HE TRIBUNE correspondent ye'ter
dav: 1--WE have cauvassed every ward IN this city
aud formed branch organizations IN every ward.
We never have had such a strong organization
in opposition 10 the machine as we have
now. | estimate that through our votes
CleyelanTs majority IN this county viii be
900 You know the usual Democratic majority
Is . 800 or 900. there menocr5 OF orr organ
-zltIou WHO viii tel you that Clcyelauds majority
will amount to :. 900 IN this county. Many RepuD-
ica who intend 20 vote az iust SIR Fogar are al
randy copiup 10 Us and obtaining their ballots
nns unusually early interest III such
matter shows the decpurss OF the feeling. We rave
also canvassed the great repair shops Of the New
YorI, Central Railroad ar West Albany. There we
have found great many Republicans VINO 90
not intend to vote the state ticket
We thought at one time OF publishing
list of the member, of one organization, similar to
the LIST printed in Buffalo, of those Republicans
there who refuse TO support the Saratoga ticket,
but IN the end we thought il the wsest policy not
IN do so. The Administration Republicans pub
l~bcd the other day long list OF eminent residents
of Albany as vce-presIdeus and secretaries OF that
meeting at Tweddle Hall We'll, we looked over
the list ana found upon it over hundred members
OF orr orgalIzatIon.'
Yet there Is a sturdy resistance made by lnduen-
ial Republicans Of the city and county To the
threatened bolt from the ticket. An earnest sup
rort Of the ticket for instance, IS gwen by eXStna-
tor Hamilton Harris and by ex-senator Henry k
Pierson now Chancellor of the Board of Regents.
Mr. Harris said yesterday to The TmBUNES cor
respondent: " There is indeed disatectiOn in the
county among Republicans, but there il much less
than there was q week ago The Republican mass
meeting held here a week ago to-day a highly
successful one. The mas, OF the party Is Loyalty
supporting the ticket. You viii find that when
ever one Republican has declared he will vote
against Folger the news is trumpeted all
over the city. Thus the disai1ection Is
magnifed Moreover, the Democrats are not IN
good shape. They have put up two or three canai-
dates for the Assembly in several Of tie districts
Consequently there is good deal Of quarrellng
among them Our local nominations have been
excellent; nearly all Of them are Garfield
Rcpubllcans. That element, therefore, is support
iuE them and the state ticket Our candidate for
Congress, Mr.. Van Heuseu. is a man Of high cnarac-
ter. and must adj q great deal OF strength TO tie
ticket. Besides. we have al excellent party organ
ration
Ex-Assemblyman Grircs. who lives ia til" conn
Try. wa, a litte respondent He said: II we lose
tn, State-aud II appears as If we would-we shall
not recover IL formany years Mark my words defeat
in thi, STATE this fall Will ruin the Republican
parry forever You will see the Republicans who
are defeated this fail turn round and knife those
next year who defeated them, If they ar nominated
for office The feeling is getting very bitter Out
my way we are canyl-sng from house To house Tor
Foiger 1t isawfui hard work. but it tells"
Isaac V. Baker. the superintendent Of Prisons
.aid 10 THE TRBCNE's correspondent: | have
found a z ,od deal of dsaflection among RepubL-
cans during Iny travels through the State 10 and
from the STATE Prisons. But do not think the con-
test q hopeless one on our part The Democrats
have made such poor local Nominations ia many
part, of the state that they Will 10 thousands OF
votes That is the case here in Albany IN Buffalo.
aud in several other places. They have
been too confident OF running IN Cleveland and
therefore careless about their local nominations"
The Republicans here are naturally taxing ad-
vantage of the mistake Of the Democrats referred
to by Mr.. Baker. Mr.. Smyths machine the ke-
publican General Committee. Is aided by the mem
bcrs of the Grant Club" a strong organization
This WI. the clue whose mem crs 10 the number
OF / 900 went to Saratoga Whlt the hoDuDlitau
State Convention was being held there hrlr
parade through the streets Of Saratoga headed by
bias, band aId q banner bearing the title, Inc
Grant cub attracted much attention az the time
Many of he convention delegates SAID that II m
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and Conkng We're returning under the patronage
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