New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-27
LOOKS WELL FOR ROOSEVELT
PROSPECTS GROWING BRIGHTER DAILY

PROSPECTS GROWING BRIGHTER DAILY
THE MAss-MrErIxG ro-yIGHT-MR HEWITT AMI
TIE soiDIERs--TIE BUSINESS MOVEMENT.
Inc republican in the city is conducted will
more spirit and determination as the day Of election
draws nearer. Chairman Root Mr. Roosevelt aDc
othcrs were busy yesterday the Fifth Avenue head
quarters answering letters and dsT atches and direct
ing the work which being carried on in every
erection district. At the headquarters of the Citizens
COMMITTEE OF One Hundred. No. l, 212 Broadway,
ike vigorous effort s being made to secure votes for
Mr hooSeyelt. In every Assembly District there are
committees at work and still another subdivision OF
the work is carried IN each of the 500 election
districts The organization is the most complete and
effective since the Presidential canvass of 1850, and
the results promise to be of the most gratifying char
acter.
Chairman Root said yesterday that complete can
vass oi the city failed to reveal any break in the Re-
publican columns, every member of the party, with a
very small George detection, standing firm for Roose-
velt while there letters in Mr. Roosevelts pos
session from nearly 900 Democrats promising their
Noes to him election day. He said that the talk
about Republicans voting for Hewitt absolutely
without foundation and even ridiculous in the
light OF the constant accessions to the Republican
ranks from the Democrats
The mass meeting in the Cooper Institute tonight
promises TO be splendid demonstration Thomas c.
Acton will preside and speeches will be made by
Hobart Herrick. of the Produce Exchanges Jackson
). schultz. j. Seaver Page John +. Plummer, the
Kev. Dr. Howard Crosby and Theodore Roosevelt.
Inc police arrangements have been carefully made
under the direction of Captain McCullagh, of the
seventeenth Precinct. The doors will be open at
o'clock Platform tickets have been distributed to the
members Of the Executive Committee OF the Republi
can County Committee. The lists of ce-presidents
ana secretaries will include many names OF well-known
business, men, some of whom have not heretofore
voted with the Republican party. Some of the speak
ers as well IA officers men who have been indepen
dent in local politics and have frequently voted for
Democratic nominees The Roosevelt Campaign
Gut OF the XXIst Assembly District, numbering
ooo men, had expected to attend the meeting III a
body, but they now only expect if the weather is
clear to march TO the vicinity of tho hail and form
part of an out-doormeeting
Mr.. Roosevelt will speak in the XIIIth Assembly
District TO morrow and later in the day he will speak
at Sixty seventh at and the Boulevard to the voters
OF the XlXth District On Friday he will speak in the
Ath District at p IN. and at No. 49o Thrd-aye, in
the XVllth District ut $50 p. m., and at the Forty
second Street Depot at p. On Saturday he will
addres. the young Republicans.
DIR. Crosby gave it his opinion yesterday that
Roosevelt will be elected Tie said that he had paid
careful attention to the George movement and he esti
mated that George would get $1,000 votes. Cornelius
n Bliss agreed with DR. Crosby as to the strength OF
the George movement. lie thought that Hewitt was
growing weaker every day. Robert G. McCord said
that the bottom had fallen of the Hewitt canvass
and that 1t was now fight between Roosevelt and
George.
The efforts being made by the Democrats to break
into the George movement are regarded significant
OF Hewltts weakness Curran. one Of Georges man
ayers, got fat place in the Brooklyn Navy Yard this
week. To another mannLer offered place in the
Custom House. George Blair, trarey, DOnavan,
Connolly and other profc workmen who have
been appointed to State offices by Governor Hill have
been brought to the city and money has been gwen to
them to try to seduce the George managers This
combined effort of the State and National Admnisra
tions behalf OF Mr. Hewitt has angered the George
men and set them 10 working all the harder II was
tai
on the part OF Mr.. Hewts managers OF his weakness.
rhe Astors, the largest owners OF real estate in the
city, have concluded to support Mr. Roosevelt as the
surest way to defeat George.
lne record OF Mr.. HewI an important part of the
crIilcsd by Edward Mo Pherson. the veteran compiler
poc % OF hs city IN Which he sass:
In tine light OF Mayoray the soldier vote it
appears ought to be massed soiy against Mr. Hewitt
they take interest In debate he has been most offensive
pension bill which the President
ye91 @ s b @ b e e es tax 70 70 psy the cost
And the ls o February last heaone OF all the Repre-
Pension bill. ~ixty.hve eX XConiederaes with Mr. AOrtm |
cast against that measure The confe,rates in the Senate
asee YIN tr spnDctns a. m IN passing te p g m 80 % s' h r
SCI with the most element @ Of the southern
he knew exactly what he was doing.
Mr. Hewl,t's speech OF May 5 Of tho exhoi-
tons OF his unfortunate temperament which are ire
OF his speech:
The Limit Of endurnce the part Of the taxpaer has been
reached ant j. breakin ont IN riot ami death ana d la
mite and Will not stop until the pressure ana oad OF TAXA
ton is removed.
lie his friends from ths South were placed in
embarrassing position when bills such as that be-
fore the House presented; they could not discuss
ihon without having the imputatl0n Vt ulsOydlsy
thrown ut them. IL WAS not honest nor oaole to
press upon them those measures to which they wsre
not able to dissent The burden OF ms speech
was that the Government had not money TO give away
and that taxation must be re uced TIE TRIBUNE 10 an
editorial pointed that the sources OF the evils or Riots
anu dynamite caused by taxation. but by false
notions, winch Mr.. Hewitt had at times helped to incu-
cate
An influential Grand Army man said that Mr.. Hewitts
would doubtless lose him the votes of many Of
the soldiers OF the late war lie had not shown hlnseIl
the friend or the soldier
The pressure OF the huence OF the business part OF
the community which has Largely declared IN favor OF
the election OF Mr. Roosevelt Is being felt among other
voters. An old Republican who has sometimes voted In
lines said that he had been In places OF
business OF many bankers within the last Few
among the clerks. He had found in one bank that OF
nearly persons the service Of the bank
Practically all were for Roosevelt, and the same
was found TO be true III almost every pisce
which he visited. The work OF the Down Town Cluo
nd partly brought about this result but the pnepai
confidence In Mr. Hewits ability to Withstand the pres
sure of the mon who nominated him. .
Inc real estate men, was reported at the republican
ton OF the Down Town Club at No. AZ Broadwayat 230
p M to-day. and tn. Stock Exchange members at $3.50
attend these meetings. Members OF the Executive
Committee OF the Down Town Club visited tne
that they not satisfied until there were organ
zatlous IN every business circle working for the eiec-
non OF Mr.. Roosevelt.
several delegations from Democratic and ndependont
organizations the callers ON Mr. Root and
W. W. Roosevelt They expressed desire 10 WORK In
ioh-patisan spirit ;or the election or Mr. ROOSEVELT
BUSINESS MEN IN EARNEST.
ACTIVITY IN THE nRyCnoDs AND DOWNTOWN |