The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1888-11-02
lon A SLENDER THREAD
Hang all the Hopes Of the Dem
ocratic Managers.
NEW YORK is A GONE STATE.
Local Democratic fractional Fights
will Reduce the Majority in the
City to 3o,OOo-Brice's Com
mittcc Feeling very Blue.


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New YoRK Cry, Nov. 1.-The result
of the voting in this State next Tuesday
will largely depend upon the Democratic
plurality in this city. The condition oI
affairs here on the Democratic side is
much worse now than it was in 80, when
the Democratic majority was about S6,'
900 for the Presidential ticket.
Each of the factions are.bending every
effort at every cost to secnre the success
OF their local candidates, and each side is
willing to trade votes for the Republi.
can National candidates for votes for
their local nominees. How much trad
ing can be done is impossible exactly to
state, but skillful politicians estimate
that on q probable vote OF 275,OOo ut
least $1,000 Democratic votes can besuC-
cessfully traded. This would mean loss
OF 10000 in what otherwise would be
the Democratic plurality. Upon this basis
that close observers calculate that the
Democratic plurality on the Presidential
ticket will not vary much from $4,000
If this calculation be correct it would
imply the certain defeat OF the Demo-
cratic ticket in the State, as there is no
probability Of the Republicans coming
TO the Harlem river with plurality OF
less than 10000
1t is now known and openly stated
that the administration is supporting the
Tammany ticket. Cleveland don't like
Hewitt, and although he is under the
deepest obligations, yet is evidently
using his influence indirectly to secure
his defeat. Ali Of the Democratic Office
holders in this city, irrespective OF their
former affiliations, are supporting the
Tammany ticket. Where they got THEM
word from or how they got their word,
no one knows,bu sudden change came
overthe spirit their dreamsafter Cleve'
land left.
The word has been passed around
among the several hundred OF inspec-
tors OF wares, watchmen and clerks i'll
his department that Grant, the Tam
many candidate, is the one for whom
they should cast their votes. To-day
three Republican Inspectors, whose
names cannot be given unless to sacri-
flee their heads, stated severally that
they had got an intiinatiOn which they
had regarded virtually us an order to
support the Tammany candidate.
This thing is going on all through the
custom house and the appraisers stores.
A prominent politician said tonight: ~
know about this matter. Itseems to me
TO be the very height Of political folly
and it is one reason why those who pre-
familiar with the inside OF the campaign
are looking forward to the announce
tlent OF the vote next Tuesday night
with blueness. 1t means that II the
scheme be carried out the county Dem
ocracy men will have to resort to despe-
rate tactics in order to hold their end up.
SIT shows the basis of ingFatitude on
the part OF the President, for it was the
county Democracy that brought about
his nomination at Chicago in 1884.
There is nothing in politics except faith,
and when n prominent man loses the
faith of his party followers, he loses
about all OF the political capital he has
got.
"How far this open warfare, which
means trading by the wholesale on elec.
tion day, will reduce the vote on the
electoral ticket, l cannot state. That is
problematical,"
Another gentleman said tonight, "It
you rely upon this city to carry this
State and this State decides the National
contest in favor OF the Democratic ticket
then the jig is up. My only hopes for
Cieveiand's reelection is that we are 60
ing to carry, as Chairman Brice says he is
going to carry, States like Michigan,
Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota. l
know this is n pretty small tag upon
which to pan a political hope. l can
only add that | am just now not betting
on hope supported by such slender
thread" c.H.