New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-04
THE CANVASS IN CAYUGA.
OPPOSED TO AN ADMINISTRATION CANDI-
DATE.

| TERFERENCE-wADswORTH WELL lhoo"hi ob
| THE CONGRESSIONAL CONTEST.
! IFRoM SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRiBuNEI
AUBuRY. N. Y, Sept "a thriving manufacture
ing city, with all the signs of intelligence ease and
comfort in its we-shaded streets, lined with pleas
ant homes. churches, schoolhouses and academies
and surrounded by splendid farms in
high state Of cultivation is
picture which. when held up TO the mind
politically bent will be understood Mt once to repre-
sent n strong Republican city like Auburn ana n
banner Republican county like Cayuga. In such
free and intelligent atmosphere political machines
| 20 not thrive. The element upon which the ring
sters feed and grow fat in the larger cities Is want
| ing here Hence Auburn has neither a Conkllng
machine nor Tilden machine such as can be
found in cities like Albany or Buffalo, though sren-
uous efforts have been made to maintain such or
ganizatons If the convicts from the State Prison
| were turned loose upon the community probably
| the machine manIpuators could find the needed
| material with which to pack caucuses and run con-
ventions but until that unlocked for time arrives
| it is probable that Auburn will continue in the
| even tenor of its ways, without the use
| of these modern political institutions
and regardless of tho wishes of Federal officials
| like Internal Revenue Collector John n. Knapp,
who was specially appointed to manage one ma
chine, or Tilden sympathlzers like ex-Warden
William J.. Moses, who has made hasco III attempt
ing to manage the other machine.
With four daily newspapers and many more
weeklies in city of about 20 900 inhabitants, in
addition to the outside newspapers that circulate
largely here, furnishing political information of all
kinds, and in the absence of effective
political machines 10 color public opinion.
the inquirer is able to get in Auburn
fair, impartial and intelligent view of what Re-
publicaus think of the candidates for Governor AID
the party prospects generally.
So far as Governor Cornell Is concerned, the pre-
ponderance of opinion here is in favor of his renom-
ton; not because of like for the maj.
but for the reason that he has made good
Governor and is believed to be safe
for the place If natural preference was to be
considered alone in making choice for Governor
the Republicans of Cayuga County would not re-
cord themselves in favor of the denomination of
Governor Cornell he reasons for this, as given by
prominent Republicans here rather antedate Mr.
Cornelfs career as Governor, though his appoint
ments to office have had something to do with it,
Machine politics as demonstrated in the career of
Roscoe Conkling who once lived in Auburn. are alb
horred by the majority of the Republicans of this
county. They do not forget A,r. Cor
nePs part as the chief Instrument IN
the hands of the ex-senator i'll crushing out ana
trampling under foot tue past, by the use of Fed
eral patronage. the real sentiment of the party III
this state Yet i'm consideration of his record as
Governor. and Of the fact that he has refused to
make the high Office of trust he holds subservent 10
the wishes of Mr.. Conklng. and also somewhat in
Ruenced by the forces that are arrayed against him,
the Republicans of Cayuga County are apparently
willing to bury the past and to aid
in the denomination of Mr. Cornell; and
10 Is probable that he will get
the eight votes of Cayuga County so long he has
a fair chance of nomination and this statement is
made too i'll the face of the confident predictions
of the who are managing the canvass in this
state for the Administration They have been led
to believe that By the changes made in the Federal
Offices in this county its vote in the State COnven
ton would be captured by the Administration.
such statements have been made in New-York
recently by Thomas G. Plat and other
Conklmg followers with damaged regulations ap
parently on information derived from Internal
Revenue Collector Knapp. Unless all signs fail.
however, the delegations from the two districts in
this county will go uninStructed, but under resolu-
tons approving of the administration of Governor
Cornell and with the intention of supporting his
candidacy.
Some of the friends of the Administration have
been asserting recently in various parts
of the State that the President and Mr. Conklng
are taking no part in the and that no signs
NJ their interference can he found The changes In
Federal offices in Utica Ogdensburg, New-Yori
and other places, made sipce the adjournment of
Congress- and not to fill vacancies or TO succeed in
cumbcuts whose terms had expired, and the new
officials being all Of the extreme AntiCOrncl Stall
vart type succeeding men of the opposite view or
who took 10 active part in politics ought to be
sufficient answer To that assertion If
better answer is wanted it can be had
here IN Auburn. General John n. Knapp who
was one of the most outspokon haters of Garfield,
and q tireless worker for COnkling and Platt at
Albany last year was repudatcd By the Republi-
cans nj this district last fall when he came up for
reelection as a member of the State COMMITTEE Ills
membcr of Assembly who, following his lnstruc-
tions at Albany, became one Of the spartan band,'
was a candidate for reelection but could get only
two or three votes III tho district convention. Not
withdrawing this fair test of the opinion of the
Republicans of the county, Mr.. Knapp
was appointed not long ago Internal
Revenue Collector and was allowed to name
nostmastcr or two of his own kind. In Auburn the
almost unanimous sentiment of the community as
EXPRESSED by petition to the President, was dis
regarded in the appointment of a postmaster and a
Stalwart was given the place. Such changes as
these have aroused a bitter antagOnism 10 the Pres
ident and Conkling
These newly appointed Federal officials, with
United States Marshal MacDougall, are doing their
utmost to prevent Governor Cornell from secrr-
ing the delegates from this county Thomas
C. Platt has been up In this part
of the State, in Tioga and adjoining
counties working ike beaver for the same end.
Since his sudden exit from the contest in Albany
last year his influence except among Oiceholders,
has departed. but it would not be surprising, from
renorts received here, If by hls wel-known methods
Of mauipulation he should secure the Iioga delega-
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