The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-08-30
The Prospect of Close and Uncertain Canvass
Causes an Increase of Cheek Among
the Balance-Of- Parties.
How the Rev. Albert Wallace Dissipated
the Dullness at Ocean Grove.
Jay Gould Said to Fear Personal Violence at
the Hands of Stokes-Theological
Dog Fight at Manhattan Beach.
EMPIRE STATE POLITICS.
The Great Parties Moving Slowly and Search
ing for Pointers.

ing for Pointers.
| Special to the Indiana polls Journal.
| New YORK, Aug. 29-Conversation to-day
| with widely different but observant politicians
| yields understanding of the situation in this
pivotal State. The conferences of the two parties
at Saratoga resulted in little else than the fixing
of dates for the conventions. Neither
issues were chosen and the contest for nomina-
tons is still indecisve. Every interested man
has his the ground listening to the
faintest noises from Washington. The attitude
of the administration in the campaign is not yet
defnable. The only clear thing is that Mr..
Cleveland would be badly damaged by defeat
| of his party in his State, for that would
show reversal of sentiment since his election.
Hubert 0. Thompson and Hugh Mclaughlin,
the Democratic leaders of this city and Brooklyn,
may know what ticket the administration
favors. but hardly any one else
does. The Hill men make believe
they have had wink from Mr. Manning, but the
Governors mad eagerness to meet Dan Lamont,
the other day, and to make the most of the color
less letter he got from Mr. Manning show how
far from easy he really feels about support from
Washington. Edward Cooper has unquestion-
ably gained the undivided support of New York
city, Tammany and all, apparently because the
mugwumps have promised 20 him the support of
the Times and Evening Posi-. Hubert o. Thomp
son likes him, and has urged the President to
take the same view, but he is waiting for
answer. Tammany enters into the agreement,
just as she usually makes bargain, In the role
of striker She is torn by five aspirants to the
bossery; in the absence of Kelly, not one of
whom has the respect of the whole organization.
In this plight. without leadership she merely
says to Thompson: "Give US the sheriff and you
| can have our 40 900 city votes for any ticket you
make up" The situation here is summed
up by keen politician thus: eff Mr..
Manning, acting for the administration,
decides for Cooper he will get the backing
of New York and Brooklyn, which would doubt
less beat Hill. But Manning doesn't seem to be
quite sure Of Cooper, who was weak as mayor of
| this city, and is disliked by Tiden, who once
| said of him, You can rely on him until he has
| made up mis- mind Since the Saratoga meeting
| there has grown up feeling that Abram S.
Hewitt. brother-in-law of Cooper, will be
| chosen. He will have his insomnia, his irasci-
| bilty. his bad record with newspaper men, and
his toadyism to the British minister all operating
against him, but the mugwumps wculd vote for
him, and, say what you WILL the Democrats are
anxious to please the mugwumps"
A man close to both Manning and Tiden says
as to any quarrel between them: 1T exists only
in the mind of its inventor. Tiiden is misrepre-
sented by being connected with thousand
things in which he has really taken no interest.
| Dan Manning is great deal more to Sammy
Tilden than Tilden is to Manning For years
Tilden las got his politics through Manning to a
far larger extent than Manning has gained from
him"
The Republicans are scarcely less alert for
indications Of Cleveland's policy, because their
fortunes in this campaign depend much on the
opposing candidacy Evarts is looming at the
close of the week, just as he did for the senator
ship last winter, when his enemies were making
fun of him as a sentimentalist The point made
now for him is that he would get the mugwump
vote. The powerful Union League Club is for
him, body and soul. The man less pushed, and
yet with solid backing, is Judge Charles An
drews. Drexel and Carr are becoming micro
scopic
The outlook for close and uncertain canvass
brings out the brassbound assurance Of the
balance -of-power parties. They are more ram
bunctious than ever before. The Greenback
men would not meet in convention with the
labor party because. they said, the latter
made a farcical exhibition with Ben Butler last
year. They claim for themselves $4,000 votes,
while the Labor folks dig out of last years
figures rs 600 ballots, which they still hold for
delivery to which party will adopt their
platform and give them two places on the State
ticket. The Prohibitonists are simply beside
| themselves They have been holding more and
bigger meetings in several of the rural counties
than has ever been known, their treasury is
richer than hitherto, and sober talk is heard of
electing Talmage Governor now and President
| in 1885,
OCEAN GROVE CAMP-MEETING.