The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-11-14
The Republicans Closely Watching the Count
-UnimpOrtant Gains from the Counties
Above Harlem Bridge.
The Democracy Intend to Make the
Civil-SerVice Law a Dead Letter.
"We Don't Propose to Have Our Supply of
Money Shut Off When We Need 1t for
the Next Presidential Campaign"
NOTHING NEW IN NEW YORK.
Changes Thus Far Not Enough to Alarm the
Democracy.

Changes Thus Far Not Enough to Alarm the
Democracy.
Special to the indianapolis Journal.
New YORK, Nov. 13.-There is absolutely
nothing new to report concerning the political
situation in this State. The official canvass has
been completed in all but very few counties
above the Harlan river, and the changes so far
reported have been slight and have not affected
the Cleveland and Blaine vote enough to alarm
the friends of the former or toinspire the friends
of the latter with new hopes. The Republican
managers still think that there have been frauds,
but they are not at all sure that they can
prove them. They will watch the count
closely till the last certificate is
formally signed by the Secretary of State. The
count in this city to day brought forth no start
ling developments. If there are any sensations
in store they are so carefully guarded that the
most careful and acute observers cannot discover
them. The Democrats are in much better
spirits onight than they have been for some
days past, and one of the members of the Demo
cratic national committee assured me that he
thought the danger was over, and that Mr..
Cleveland's election was an assured fact. l
asked the gentleman if he thought that the
Democrats were entitled to the electoral votes of
Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, and Missis
sippi. Well" he replied 1--WE may not be
titled to them, but we have them, and that
settles il. We have the nine points of posses
sion in favor and we propose to hold fast all
that we have got. Our Southern friends are
looking for a return of the good old times. They
expect to assume charge of the government as
soon as Mr.. Cleveland is inaugurated, but am
afraid they will be disappointed for a time. Mr..
Cleveland has some sentimental notions about
civil-service reform, aud it will take just about
two years for the Bourbons to reform all that
nonsense out of him. 1t may take time. but they
will do it That cyil-servce law will be dead
letter in less than one year, and it will be so
dead by the end of Cleveland's administration
that its friends will have forgotten its existence
We don't propose to have our supply OF money
shut off by this law when we come to need help
next presidential campaign. l understand that
the hundred thousand office holders of this coun-
try gave less than forty thousand dollars to the
Republican national committee. That is the
effect of the civilservce law. We want none of
it."
Senator German, of the Democratic commit
tee, said to night that he had every reason to
feel conhdent but steadily declined to give the
figures on which his cheerful assertions were
based. / called at the Democratic State head
quarters and could get no figures at all. 1t was
SAID there that Grover Cleveland himself did not
know the committees figures on New York, and
that they were known to two members
of the committee only The best esti-
mates now at hand place Cleveland's plurality
at about l, 100 If that plurality is to be over
come it will be done in this city, and there will
be indications of it before the canvass. has gone
much further. The frauds which have given
Cleveland his slender plurality have not grown
less apparent, but the difficulty of proving and
giving them legal locus has increased. The
Republican national committee is making an ad-
mirabe exhibition of frmness and pluck, and if
it was as firmly supported by the Eastern press
as it is by the Western papers, the fight would
not seem an unequal one.