Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1882-10-06
Folger'sSDilemma.
WILL HE DECLINE 2

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New YORK, Oct. 2.-The sensation
In political circles to-day has been the
rumor which was in everybody's mouth
that Secretary Folger might decline the
republican nomination for governor
1t was said that many of the secretary.
friends in the state had written to him
that the republican sentiment in the
rural districts was against the Saratogs
ticket, and that he would be defeated i
he remained in the field. Republicans
in New York'and Brooklyn are reported
to have told him that he could not pol
the party vote in those cities, and
should therefore decline to run. This
feeling is by no means confined to the
half-breed republicans. Many stall
warts in this city admit that the ticket
is likely to be defeated, and some o.
them say that all the candidates
should withdraw.
A stalwart, who is a conspicuous
member OF the assembly district asso.
Citations, said tonight: Things look
very blue for us in New York. / doubt
our ability to pull the ticket through. y
Another influential talwart, who was
delegate to the state convention, said
"a republican who employs two OF
three hundred men, asked me to- day
whether helped to nominate Folger.
| told him that l did, and he said:
You ought to be hung, for you have
buried the party in the state That
is the kind of feeling l find everywhere
in business circles"
Some of the stalwarts say that Presi-
dent Arthur nominated Secretary Fol
ger, and If not doing anything to coun-
teract the feeling in the party against
his own ticket. Instead of being here
to give us his counsel" said one of
them, "he seems to have purposely
gone beyond the reach of the tele-
graph" He added that Felger had
better withdraw and let Gov. Cornell
be nominated to save the party.
JOHN F. SMITHS VIEWS.
ALBANY, Oct. 2.-The Argus to-mor-
row will contain the following: "a re-
porter called on John F. Smyth, and
said:
"Mr. Smyth, / see that some of the
papers are specializing as to whether
Mr.. Folger will decline the nomination
for governor"
"Mr. Symth-You can say that /
have no reason to suppose that Mr..
Folgar will decline the nomination and
every reason in the world to conclude
that he will accept it,
BAD BLOOD IN BROOKLYN.
BROOKLYN, Oct. 2.-There is a gen
uine panic among the republicans OF
Kings county over the swelling tide of
opposition to the Saratoga nominations.
The executive committee of the repub-
licAn general committee remained in
session in Everett hall until l O'Clock
yesterday morning discussing the situa-
tion. The committee closed its doors,
and then Edwin Packard, the president
of the republican general committee,
offered resolution providing for the
appointment of a committee of five to
wait upon Secretary Folger and urge
him to decline the nomination, and to
favor the recouvocation of the state
convention to place new ticket in the
field. Mr.. S. Z. Maddox, a sfalwart,
said he apprehended that there was a
desire on the part Cf some republicans
to defeat the republican ticket. To
pass such resolution was to
concede the election of the democratic
ticket. He thought that much of the
opposition to the ticket would wear
away, and that united effort would
overcome it. He taunted Mr.. Packard
with being one of the Cornell scratchers
three years ago.
Albert Daggett vigorously urged the
adoption of the resolution, and said
that fraud and corruption had carried
the day. The candidate for lieutenant
governor, Mr.. Carpenter, went to the
convention with delegation for Mr..
Cornell, and he assured Mr.. Daggett
that this was the fact. The next day
he said that the delegation was evenly
divided, and that the reason was that
the administration had promised to
Gen. ketcham postmastership.
When the question of the election of a
temporary chairman came up, Carpen-
ter said that he was still for Cornell, but
that he did not see what the question
of temporary chairman had to do
with 1t, while every man knew that the
key to the convention was its Temporal
ry chairman. The action of tie com
mlttee on contested seats was an out
rage, persons received seats who had
no right in the convention. 1t was
combination of bribery, trickery, fraud
ard corruption that had brought about
the nomination of Folger and Carpen-
ter, and as the matter now stood he
did not see how the republican candi-
dates could possibly succeed.
Mr.. Maddox excited claimed that
the resolution was designed to enforce
the declination of Folger and the nomi-
nation of Cornell.
Mayor Hobbs said that no conven-
ton ever held was as unfair and cor
rupt as that held at Saratoga, and as
the matter now stood he believed that
at least 100000 republicans in the state
would vote against Folger. He wanted
to see there republicans come back
like a.ewhirlwind a. and support new
ticket.
A call of the wards was taken that
some information about the sentiment
among the republicans In the different
wards might be obtained. From the
First ward it was reported that seven
ty-five per cent. of the republicans
VINO went to register openly declare
that they would vote against
Mr.. Folger. More or less oppo-
sition was reported from the Second,
Third. Fourth, Fifth and Sixth wards.
Mr.. Cotton of the Seventh ward, the
strongest republican ward in the city,
reported that nine out of every ten
republicans whom he had met ex-
pressed opposition to the ticket.
County Auditor Biggs said that unless
a change took place he believed that
the ticket would be defeated by 200,-
600 majority. Mr.. Cadmus of the
Eight ward said he wanted the party to
win SO that he might vote in 1884 for
James G. Blaine, Goods nobleman."
Other delegates reported a desire on
the part of active republicans to do all
that they could for the ticket, but they
said that there was great dissatisfaction
among voters.