Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-10-03
Outlook in New York

NEW YORK. Sept. 24-The follow
ing article from the Sunday Mercury
very clearly describes the situation:
while the politicians are naturally
anxious about the results of the Octo-
Der elections in Ohio and West Nir
ginia. the real interest of the great ma.
tional contest in November centres in
the Empire state. New York is the
battlefield of 1884, as it was of 1880,
and here every inch of ground Will be
stoutly contested. 1t is for tins reason
that Mr.. Rlaine rNade his advent here
to open his campaign III person, where
his chief antagonist, Cleveland, is al
ready strongly entrenched, and while
he will devote a part of his attention
to other states, this will be the one
important point to which his best
energies will be devoted. Here his
mountebank ally, Butler, has already
made his debut, amid vast volieys OF
stage thunder, and in this state his
managers announce a starring tour
for the willy Massachusetts, monopO
list which will occupy most
of his electioneering energies.
While pretending TO be the
upbuIlder of a peoples party,
Butler will do all that he can to de
moralize the democratic cohorts and
to conceal the very patent fact that a
vote for Butler is in effect vote for
Blaine 1t will be rare fun for the
hero Of Dutch Gap 10 swing around
the circle in the first state iii the
Union, but when he comes to count
up the victims of his'raid, he and his
employers arc likely to be sadly dis
appointed men. Joan Kelly, with all
the prestige of Tammany hall at his
pack, and strengthened as he was by
strong canal ing, antiTllden sentl-
ment. made the same tour in 1879,
and on the day after election c3unt-
cd but II, 566 votes to his credit, OF
which 43, 047 votes were cast by Tap
many hall in the city of New York.
General Butler cannot possibly hope
to carry oBe-quarter as many
votes in this city, where Tam
many hall has declared itself
for Cleveland and Hendricks,
ard he will be lucky if he polls 30 900
votes outside the city limits True, the
republicans in 1879 elected their can
dldate for governor; but they were
then united where now they are badly
demoralized. The independent repub-
hcans. comprising the better elements
of the party, have taken themselves
out of the camp of the corruptionists,
bag and baggage, and the Conkllng
stalw warts are bitterly antagonizlng
their old foe, Mr.. Blaine. Then come
the prohibitionists, who showed them
selves capable of casting nearly 25,-
900 votes for their candidate for gov
ernor in 1882, and who now, with so
popular a presidential candidate in
the fed, will be able to command the
suffrages of 1t least $4,000 voters, five.
sixths of whom will be drawn from
the republican ranks. These lndispa
able facts so clearly point to the de-
feat of Mr.. Blaine, that as soon as the
smoke of the battle IN Maine had clear
ed away. he has come to this state
in person to see If his magnetic" in
fuence can make headway against
the tide that threatens to overwhelm
him six weeks from next Tuesday.
His efforts will fail Public indigna-
ton against the corruptionists, of
whom Blaine is chief, is drawing TO
the Cleveland banner the whole body
of incorrubtlble patriotic voters Of
both parties, while around his col
league, Mr. Hendricks, the entire
democratic party masses itself with
burning enthusiasm to aveBge the
electoral fraud Of 1876. These com
blaed forces are simply irresistible.
Indeed, every political sign of the day
points to the triumph of Cleveland
and Hendricks in this state by a ma
iority outside the city of New York.