St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-10-22
DAVENPORT DEBATE.
Varying Expressions of Leading New
Workers on the Possibilities of
the Campaign.
Some Points Upon Which All Agree, and
Several Reasons Why Mr. Daven-
port is Leading.
Republicans Playing a Game OF Bun
and BuIIdozing in Gin
cinnati.
Exuberant Mr.. Foraker Claims
Everything in New York--The
Virginia Struggle.
The Empire state Campaign.

Virginia Struggle.
The Empire state Campaign.
Special to the Globe
BUFFALo. y. Y, Oct. Ell think
MIR. Davenport will be elected governor,
although | should like to see him beaten, "
remarked prominent Buffalo gentleman.
81 should like to see Davenport beaten be-
cause he is training with the money crowd
the crowd that has been disturb
ing element in the Republican
partv of New York for the past six
or eight years, the crowd that knitted
Conkling. betrayed Folger and slaughtered
Arthur, and l should like to see him beaten,
in short, because he is the candidate OF the
MugwumpS and Featherheads. L should
also like to see him beaten because he is
not a fit man for governor, and ought not
to have been nominated. Mr.. Davenport is
a weak man and would never
have been thought Of for any political
office but for his vast wealth, which came
to him by inheritance. He was never a
leader in the senate, nor even in the pol
itics Of his own county, and while there is
not much to be said against him there is
lust as little to be said for him.
But [ believe Mr.. Davenport will
De elected, because the Democratic
oarty in New York is hopelessly
iemoralized. Mr.. Cleyeland's course with
regard to the patronage has chilled the
ardOr of the Democratic workers all over
New York, and there is general feeling
lmong them that the best thing to be done
S TO let the election 90 by default as re-
Duke to the administration. On the other
aand
THE CLEVELAND ELEMENT
of the party is not at all pleased with Gov
Hilrs nomination, which is regarded as a
Tammany triumph, and fear that his eiec-
lion would be accepted by the country
as an evidence that Mr. CleI Gland
had lest the confidence OF his own
party in his own state. Gov. Hill
if thus forced to sail between the
Democratic mugwumps who think he ought
to be defeated in order to strengthen the
administration, and the Democratic stall
warts who think he ought to be defeated in
order to rebuke the administration. Yes
there are Democratic mugwumps and
Democratic stalWartS. ut least III
New York, and now that the
party controls the patronage the dividing
line between the two elements IS becoming
more sharply defined. Ii the Democrats OF
the state were united and harmonious Gov.
Hill would be elected for Davenport will
not receive anything like the full Repub-
lican vote, but under the existing condi-
ti0ns do not think it possible for the
Democratic candidate to win"
Mr. James D. Warren, proprietor of the
Buffalo Commercial Advertiser. for several
years chairman of the Republican state
central committee and himself candidate
for governor before the Saratoga cOnven-
Jon, says that he expects Davenport to be
.ected, mainly because of the diSSensionS
the Democratic party.
A GOOD MANY STALHARTS
N Erie and surrounding counties would not
vote for him, but the detection of this ele-
ment would not be as great in proportion
as it was from Blaine last fall. Mr. DaVen-
port would receive large Independent vote,
and would have the support OF a considerable
number of Democrats who are angry at the
administration. The failure of Tammany
and the county Democracy to agree upon
local candidates in New York city will also
have a bearing upon the result.
Z. II. Butler, founder of the Buffalo
Evening News, successful independent
journal, said that the existing conditions,
so far as Erie county and Western New
York were concerned. were unprecedented
in the political history of the state. vt
Buffalo the complications were especially
numerous, and complex influences were
at work which defed intelligent analysis.
The nomination of Mr.. Davenport was a
triumph for the faction controlled by Mr..
Matthews. proprietor of the Buffalo EX-
press, and by Mr.. Sherman S. Rogers, and
as such was especially diStasteful to the
Stalwart eoment of the party which these
gentlemen had
ANTAGONIZED WITH VARYING SUCCESS
for many years. Mr.. Rogers ambition was
to become United States senator, and MI.
Warren and his followers would leave no
stone unturned to prevent the attainment.
Mr.. Butler looks for the smallest total vote
OH November 3, in proportion to the p0pu-
latlOn, ever cast at a gubernatOrial election.
Mr.. Wilson l.. BiSSell, formerly and for
fifteen years law partner Of the president,
and whose personal relations with him are
perhaps as intimate and confidential as
those of any other person, was next inter
viewed: Gov Hill" he said, "wiil receive
the full vote Of his party and L think he will
be elected. | know that the president
desires that result and that he intends
coming to Buffalo to vote. He does not,
however, consider it part of his official duty
to interfere in the campaign and will not
seek to influence the people of New York
in their action" While the opinions quoted
vary materially upon many points
they are in substantial accord
as to some of the most essential
facts of the situation. Competent observers
of all shades of opuion agree that a light
vote will be cast in Western New York,
that the Independents and mugwumpe
will support Mr.. Davenport with
practical unanimity, that the
stalwart Republicans are either in
different or openly hostile to him. and that
there is some Democratic disappointment
with MIR. Cleveland'S administration, al
though its extent and the bearing which il
will have upon electinoS are variouSly eSti-
mated. The truth, however, appears to be
that Mr.. Cleveland's administration
is stronger than Mr.. CIeveland's party
with the masses in Western New York,
and that Gov. Hills chances of election are
largely contingent upon the success of his
efforts to convince the people that he is sim
cere in his professions of adherence to MIR.
Cleveland's reform policy.
The Struggle in Virginia..
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 21.-There is a sud-
den awakening of new activity in the Vir-
ginia political campaign. 1t has been an
active one all the way through. but there
seems to be renewed activity just now. Il
is evident that the uncertainty attending
the result of the Ohio election has set the
Republicans to work to certainly carry Vir
ginia The party leaders have sent some
OF their best men to the representatives OF
the warning factions among the Republican!
of the Old Dominion, and have said to then
that they must for the present lay asid;
lher Quarrels and set to work tt
carry the state. The Republicans ses
that they will need a Virginia senator
In the senate Shnuld II tnrn ont tha