Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1885-08-25
The NEW YORK CONVENTIONS.

fammany Said to Want to Choose the Next
sheriff OF New York-Kyarts Looming Up
for GoTernor-Plans Of the Peoples
Party.
SARATOGA, August 24.-Every member
Of TammAny has always claimed $4,000
votes for it ever since Mr.. Kelly ran for
Governor. Its leaders and workers had no
objection to Democratic harmony, could
stomach Edward Cooper or Grover Cleve-
land, or anybody or anything, even to hay-
ing to take Hubert o. Thompsons choice
for Governor; but il must have something
in return.
Therefore" said g Tsmmsny man,
there will be in the future occasional little
kicks about triGes, like the growl over the
date and place for holding the convention,
but they won't affect Democratic harmony.
They viii simply mean that Tammsny ex-
poets to nominate Tsmmany men to one or
two of them in return for Democratic hsr-
mony. Asthe union Of forces goes on, ,stsgeby
stage, Tammany will assert her right to gov
ern herself until Mr. Thompson satisfies her
leaders that ne rightly values the enormous
vote she will cast for the union ticket"
Il is said that Tsmmsny wants to supply
the home county with q sheriff.
Tha Democrats here ara al a. much de-
hahted ss the Republicans are dismsyed BY
the State Committees choice of date for
the Democratic Convention. The Repubh'
cans are not to be blamed for delaying their
convention until after that Of the Democrats.
That is good politics. But theS cannot
escape the laughter that now greets those
Republican editors all over the State who,
relying on what they called the msgnsnim.
ity of their enemies, assured their readers
that the Democrats would not convene later
than the middle Of September.
The Republicans have got q great many
candidates-forty at lesst-snd several
leaders who have not been able to agree for
long time A week ago the plain
spoken and frank men among the chiefs Of
the party openly admitted that the outlook
was none too bright, at least by comparison
with the promised patching up Of harmony
in the ranks OF the enemy. They were
afraid that there would be q great deal Of
wrspgipg, Of unseemly discord, followed,
perhaps oy an unWise nomination. Bat
suddenly the air has cleared, the clouds that
fTinged the horizon have rolled away, and
these same men have begun to smile. They
say ths. they have found the key to the sit
ustion-s key that will open every gate on
the road to the new Capitol, with the
possible exception of the Irish gate. Tnst
key is Evsrts If he has got as lively q
Presidential bee in his bonnet as his friends
say he has, these leaders declare he will &C.
eept the nomination. If be will accept, it
may not be so difficult TO unite all the clans
behind him, they say. The machine men,
the ultra-hightoned voters, and even the
Mugwumps, are pictured as certain to file
in line and march to the polls under this
banner, and if there is nothing in the EV-
arts record to attract the Irish vote, there is
Just as certainly nothing in it TO drive that
vote away. fit Is not to be Evarts, it may
be Judge Andrews, or the Hon. Ira Daven-
port; but there is a chill ing decline in both
DreIel and Carr stock.
1t is 8 curious fact ttat on the day after
the meeting of the Democratic State Gen.
trsl Committee there was similar reaction
in the Democratic ranks, and men Of posi-
ton in the partY-Hill men and Cooper
men-Who rad been loudly predicting the
nomination Of their candidates began to
testify to the sudden cold wave that rolled
over those folloEings Some said it was
only serious CONFUSION of nature and
some said it was only little lowering of
the temperature such as often precedes a
spell Of intensely hot weather. 1t certainly
was widely felt. Utica, Syracuse, Albany
and New York have all been heard from,
and from each place comes the same re-
irsin. 1t may not be either Hill or
Cooper"
The Greentsck party has called its con-
venlion for September 9Th, at II o'clock at
Clarendon Hall in New York The Peo-
ple's National Anti-MonOpoly party has
called a convention at the same place and
date. 1t, however, meets at 10 o'clock
two hours earlier than the convention of the
Greenbackers. Conspicuous members Of
the Peoples Anti, Monopoly party agree
that 10 definite policy has yet been decided
upon, but that in all likelihood that organ
izstion will be willing to fuse with one Of the
leading parties, either one that is willing to
accept The reform platform adopted at the
Saratoga Conference. That much conced-
ed. the men nominated would have to be
weighed, and I'VE would resaire,' leader
SAID, AT least two men OF our own selection
on such fusion ticket-oae Greenbacker
ard ole Anti Monopolist "
Among those spoken of "a candidates on |
the Peoples National Auti- Monopoly party
ticket are William W Niles Railroad Com |
missioner John 0'DonneB, Louis F. Post, |
Thomas B. Carroll, Leonard G. Mcdonald,
of Gleu's Falls, F. B Thurber, Joseph Pulit- |
zer. Ralph Robb, f Fl G. Clark. of Troy,
and John Lsw, Of Nyack. Dr.. John Swim
burne is urged By the Alosny Citizens AS
socisiion.
DR.. Seeger, Chairman Of tie Peoples
Anti-Monopoly organization, says his pso-
pie held the BALANCE OF power and mean to
continue to hold il. I'VE have relegated
The cranks and sentimentslists to the rear
he says and our practical men have as
sumed control To use slang political
phrase, we mean to play politics in down
night earnest. We are organized as never
before, and our districts are in the hands OF |
our best organizers We enter the cam |
paign with quite little money in our treas |
ury, which is something remarkable for |
US
The Prohibitionisss are talking very |
bravely. The impression that the rumors |
about St Johns earnestness and honesty, |
after the close of the last campaign, weak |
ened the party in its strougholds is su er-
roneous one. The smAllness Of ClevelandS .
majority, and the largeness of the vote the
temperance folk piled up in some OF tie
western counties. have nerved them to re-
newed effort. They say they will have
more money than ever before, and will push
the work in all the Republican counde.
Their Convention is to be held iu Syracuse
on Sep,emberS.