The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-30
MR.. w. A. CROFFUT'S LETTER
Who Will Be the Respective Candidates
for Governor of New York;
AS 1t Now Looks, Evarts and IIill-The Te-
huantepec Railway Ship Canal-"Bill"
Kings Romantic Career.
Correspondence Of the INDIANAPOLIS journal.

| Correspondence OF the Indianapolis Journal.
NEW YORK, Aug 27.-The local political caul-
dron is boiling. but that operation IS carried on
| in most sluggish demure and respectable
manner. Seldom is boiling pot so very leisurely
and dignifed Neither party is greatly excited,
but it is not to be denied that the most agitation
prevails among the Democrats. The Republic
ans have shown GOODNESS which amounts to i'm
pudence in calling their convention before that
of the oppostion it has the appearance of
bravado, but nobody who was at the committee
meeting can doubt that it sprang from con-
fdence in being able to carry the State under
| any probable circumstances.
1t is fact that the Republicans feel serenely
| sure of baggng the State this fall There are
few serious divisions left unhealed, and factional
animosties have mostly disappeared. Roscoe
Conkling's power for good or i'll has vanished If
he had come heartily out for Blaine year ago
this day, Blaine would have been elected, Conk-
ling would have been his Secretary
of State, and nothing but death could
have prevented his succeeding him as
President in 1889. But the DEVILS pride embit-
tered his heart and sharpened his tongue. If
| Blaine had declined the nomination and secured
it for Conking the latter would not have had it
| as the generous offer of the man ne hated. 1
don't believe he would accept the throne of the
universe on those terms. So he has passed away,
| and is as if he had never BEEN
The Democrats are worse off than their op-
ponents. President Clevelands administration
| may have been a success, and it certainly has
been heightened and independent in some i'm
portant particulars, but it has not made the
Democrats happy. I judge that there are from
% 900 to So 900 Democrats in this State who will
not 60 to the polls this year, whoever is
nominated. Yesterday met one of these from
st. Lawrence county, the banner Republican
stronghold of the State.
| wal, you ask me how tbs, he said; sits jest
| here. We amt agoin' to work any more at
present, and we're agoin' to look on for spell
For twenty-five years now we've KEEP up
| Democrat organization in our county We
knowed we couldn't get no offices, and
| we didn't want none; the Repubs
ried the county slick every time.
That's all right. says we; but we've
hung on like grim death, few hundred of us,
and KEEP our county organization alive-at some
little expense, mind you For we said 'Bime-by
l
| Several of em is worth as much as four or five
hundred dollars year apiece. Wal, Cleveland
was elected. We hollered for Joy and come up
for our simple reward. Did we git itF
My hayseed companion turned his head away,
| gaZed off into Infinite vacancy, and uttered
| comprehensive grunt of disgust far more express
i've than any gesture that any shoulder hosting
| Partisan ever invented
| Did we? Huh! There hasn't been but one
| postmaster changed in our county. He died.
And II! be hanged eff Cleveland didn't boost
| mugwump into his place. Are we a-gong to
sweat this year, No, sir; we shall not turn
| hair. I'll be hanged eff L vote at all"
| The enraged couGtryman did not say changed"
| substitute the word for the benefit of my Sun
day school readers
| WHAT SORT OF TARGETs2
Who will the candidates be? 1t looks at this
moment like Hill and Evarts, but the kaeido-
| scope keeps Topping around, and nobody can
| tell what week will bring forth. The Repub-
licans feel that this year they want no dark
horses, but can take strong and wellknown
man. providing he is acceptable to those who
have had sharp fractional differences in the past
| Either Mr.. Evarts or Judge Noah Davis fills this
| bill. Among the Democrats it seems to me that
| Governor Hill would poll the most votes. He is
in no way identified with Tammany, or County
| Democracy, the administration or ants. There
! Is no reason why they should not al support him
| unless the President is nursing up in the Adj
| rondac woods private and personal reason
| which is good deal smaller than his country or
| even his party.
1t is we'll known that Mr. Cleveland, and still
! more Mr.. Whitney, desires the nomination of
| Cooper 1t is well known that Tammany is
| opposed to him. 1t is well known that Tammany
has been approached by man who was author
lied to say, Give US Cooper, and you shall
have the bulk of the local Offices" Indeed
man who speaks for Mr.. Kelly told me so this
morning, and he added. I'VE shall agree to that
if it is made regularly. If they don't give us
t thIrtyone e out Of Of the seventytw0
| not stay in the convention or vote
for the candidates If they give US that repre-
sentaton we will ac1uiesce IN Cooper's nomlna-
! ton, provided that the best Offices in this county
are conceded to us. But the trouble will be that
! we can't guarantee his election. There is a good
| deal of independence in Tammany and the rank
and file will not vote for Cooper, no matter what
| we sachems may say. He made straight
bargain with the Republicans for mayor, and
| beat Kelly in 1879, and can't be made Governor
| now by any bargain of any sort"
| Some are expecting the Democratic lightning
| to strike new man like the mayor of Albany
and this possibility must have a place in the
| figuring. But at the present moment it looks
| like Hill against Evarts
| TWO GREAT SHIP RAILWAYS
| The projected ship railway of Captain Eads,
at Tehuantepec, across the Isthmus of Dariea,
has been heard of and seems to be making more
and more noise every month, but very few know
anything about the similar enterprise which is
being pushed across the Isthmus of Chignecto
which connects Nova Scotia with New Brunswick
encountered one day this week, at the Windsor
Hotel, Colonel Delamater, one of the civil
engineers in charge of this unique work
| well he said, ''we at last report sub
stantial progress. The money necessary to
build our ship railway through from the Bay OF
Fundy to the Eastern sea- is all subscribed. and
we are going ahead to grade the road at once
We know about how many vessels go around
| Nova Scotia every year. and about what our
| income would be-"
l asked what proportion of those vessels
| would use the rail.
"All of them" he said ''every one, except