Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-10-20
The Importance of the New York

Election.
The election which is to take place in
New York on the 9TH proximo is invest
ed with unusual interest. With her SO
electoral votes, that is regarded as
the pivotal State upon which the next
Presidential election will turn, and
whichever party carries it now, will
have good ground to hope for victory
there two years hence. To this end both
parties will doubtless exert themselves
to the utmost, and although the Democ
racy of the State are once more united
and working together in harmony, and
the indications are that with their popu
lar ticket in the field they will certainly
carry the day, still the Republicans can
not afford to yield without a severe
struggle The loss of New York would
mean to them a loss of prestige from
which they could not easily recover.
There is also another reason why the
Republicans will make unusual exertions
in this contest The party in the coun-
try at large is divided into two factions,
the stalwarts and the half breeds or
Garfield Republicans. Of these Mr..
Arthur is the acknowledged leader OF the
former. and Mr.. Blaine OF the latter.
These two gentlemen are there
fore engaged in bitterr
ivalry between themselves, and
each covets the next Presidential
nomination. Maine has held her cleo
ton already, and has cast her lot with
the Republicans, and now it is necessary,
to prevent Blaine from getting the inside
track on this account, that Arthur's State
New York-should go aud do like
wise. To effect this Mr.. Arthur is bend
ing every energy. He has succeeded in
placing his machine candidate In
the field in the person OF
Judge Folger, and, although forgery
had to be resorted to to secure the adj
ministration's favOrite the nomination,
yet it was secured, and is acquiesced IN
as a victory for the administration in the
preliminary contest in the convention.
Indeed SO closely is Folger identified
with Arthur that were he elected it
would amount to little more than the
appointment by the President of the
New York Executive.
Under these circumstances it is plain
that Mr.. Arthur will leave no means un-
tried to secure Folger's success. He has,
as it were, placed his own political for
tunes upon the cast of a die, and Folger's
defeat will mean nothing more nor less
than Arthur's discontinue. The whole
influence of the Federal administration
will therefore be brought to bear
in his behalf, and that this is
a tremendous power has been fully
manifested by the demorelized
condition of affairs in Virginia, where
Mahoneism and reputation were euh-
bled 10 triumph only through the in
fluence of Federal patronage. 1t is true
that Arthur's interference in the political
affairs of New York has aroused the
people there to a determination to resist
what they realize to be bold usurpation,
and this will be the most formidable OBJ
stacle in his way. 1t will, in all proba-
bility, prove the chief factor IN his de-
feat for, while the New Workers might
have looked upon Federal interference
in the Southern States during the recon
struction period with serene complacency
and sublime indifference, they have
shown themselves quick to take alarm
when their own rights are threatened.
1t is evident, then, that the Democrats
of the Empire State will have no child's
play before them on the 18th of Novem-
Der. They are united, have placed an
unexcepdonable and popular ticket in
the field, and are assisted in their fight
by the fact that the leader of the opposi
ton was nominated through fragrant and
shameless fraud. Notwithstanding all
this, however, they are fighting the power
and patronage of the Federal Govern
ment, and must work, and work hard, to
win. If they do succeed, the victory
will truly be glorious one, and will un-
doubtedly make its influence felt in the
great national contest of 1884.