Daily globe., 1882-09-30
THE F0RGERS' NOMINEE.
The Republican Opposition to the
Election Of FOlger.
IT CONTINUES TO AUGMENT.
A Growing Belief that Cleveland Will
be Triumphantly Elected.
A "Bliss"-fut Prophecy.
Especial Telegram to the Globe

Special Telegram to the Globe.
New YORK. Sept. 29.-Mr. George Bliss
is understood to say that the Republicans
in this state will elect their ticket by 10000
majority. His confidence, it must be said,
is not shared by large number of the
newspapers and of the prominent men in
his own party. There is.sa feeling sin the
air'' that the Republican party will
be beaten, and that many
Republican voters will help
to do it. 1t is long time since the party
has gone into campaign so heavily hand
icapped as now with the bad record and
unsatisfactory proceedings of its state con-
vention. The features of the convention
which are vehemently denounced by the
party itself are: First, that Jay Gould's
influence killed off Cornell if
it did not nominate Folger;
second, that B. p. Parker, a half-breed
member of the state committee, purchased
the nomination for lieutenant governor by
leaving his friends and supporting the
plans of the administration; third, that
forgery was resorted to to defeat Cornell,
the onus of which Police Commissioner
French has not yet lifted from his should
ers, and which has been justified by
certain of his co-laborers as an excusable
political trick, and fourth, that the machine
politicians evidently meant to have their
own way at Saratoga, no matter what the
people desired Or favored. These are rea-
sons enough to explain the displeasure
which is painfully apparant in the party
ranks. The Republican voters are num-
bered by the thousands who believe the &C
tion of the Saratoga convention did not
reflect the sentiments of the party, and it
is already evident that many of them are
bound to teach the machine politicians
lesson this fall, even if they have to vote
for Governor Cleveland to do it..
So far as Folger is personally concerned,
he is unobjectionableto most Republicans,
but there are great many voters who have
declared objections to the infuences,which
have forced him upon the party. The
Democrats are so fortunate as to have a
candidate whom it will be
no very great hardship for any
Republican to vote for. Among the
younger politicians of the state there are
none who possess more elements, of personal
strength and popularity. Like Mayor
Low, of Brooklyn, he is credited with hav-
ing demonstrated the fact, that city gov
ernment can be run on business principles.
1t can be said in his favor that all
the ring contractors and fourth rate
politicians of Buffalo are his enemies, and
that since he became mayor of that city,
no man has taken dollar out of his treas
ury without rendering guild pro quo. The
best Republicans as well as good
Democrats want to see that sort
of man elected governor.
Mayor Cleveland himself gave a very
fair expression to the general sentiment
when he said, in an interview, that he felt
his nomination was an approval by the
state of the course he had, as citizen,
been compelled to take in the administra-
tion of affairs in its third largest city, and
an expression of their desire that the
same principles of government
should be applied to the admins
tration at Albany. Another fact
pointing to the election of Cleveland is
the probability that, besides good many
disaffected Republicans, the Democrats
will also capture the anti -Monopolists. 1t
is learned that their committee has already
decided that there Is no one on the Re
publican ticket whose candidacy they can
recommend except that of A. B. Hepburn.
candidate for congress at large. Hep
burns course in the legislature on anti
monopoly questions found favor in the
eyes of that young and rising party. As
for the rest the present prospects are that
they will swallow the Democratic nomi-
nees. The state committee, at its meeting
on October 8, will name the candidates
whose support they recommend.
The Democrats will hold grand mass
meeting early next month, The indoor
meetings will be held in Tammany and
Irving halls, and there will be outside
stands on Fourteenth street and Irving
place. The county Democracy meetin gs
will take place around Union square.