New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-07-01
WARNER MILLER'S VIEWS.
A BRIGHT OUTLOOK FOR REPUBLICANS.
NETWORK TO BE THE BATTLE-GROUND THIS CAM

NETWORK TO BE- THE BATTLE-GROUND THIS CANE
PAIGS-A WHINING FIGHT AHEAD.
Ex-senator Warner Miller. who came down FROM
Herkilncr on Friday to attend the mass-m meeting al
the Metropolitan Opera House. Just starting for
Gettysburg yesterday morning. where he will meet
his old comrades in arms July A, when he was NEE
in the big corridor Of the Fifth Avenue Hotel scv.
cral men had crowded around him 10 talk about
Chicago, all Of whom greeted him with the now
familiar title OF The next Governor OF New-Yorks
Ex-Congrcssman Roswell c. Horr, Of Michigan wac
among the number. to whom the Senator remarked,
apropos of Mr. Horrs speech of the previous evenings
The whole country Will soon DO saying baa to
Mr. Cleveland. You set a keynote Mr.. Horr.' Senator
Miller was asked what he thought Of the work Of thu
Chicago Convention, and replied
1t Is scarcely necessary for to answer that
question. The entIN country must know how
heartily the situation is acceptable to The Con~
vcntion's work well done,
=" How is the result received In this state7.
From the tImc l struck New-York state al
Buffalo, on returning from Chicago up the presents
time, have not found a single Republican who haa
raised even the fantest objection either to tho plat
form or to the ticket 1t has been remarkable that
botn are received heartily warmly and with growing
enthusiasm by every one in the party / have been
in receipt of many letters from tho State giving
information about various counties. which Indicates
the same condition existing I'm other parts OF tho
Empire commonwealth. These letters from my
WhOl0
great State every man who Is Republican Will support
the ticket. Every man who IVES Mugwump or an In.
dependent In 1884, Will support this platform AMI
TINS tickcf, except he be a FrceTrader The fact "a
that the Mugwnmps and Independents are, as a rule.
free traders, who not frank enough In 1884 to
admit the real ground OF their detection Now they
must fish or cut bait This Is TO be a fight between
the two parties great principle OF public policy,
There Is no middle ground. Every man Will bd
forced sooner or later to take his place on one sIdd
or the other,
what do you hear about Democrats and tho
tckct?p
IL intended to mention my information In that 70.
gard In addition to the good feeling In our own
ranks, there Is widespread feeling in both parties
that we arc going to succeed. The Democrats In,
dore the personal qualities Of candidates, and
can find no flaw In either. Business men promise To
support tho ticket and, above ALL tho Iaborlng men
are indicating their purpose to give It their sympathes
and votes. The labOring man IS the bulwark OF the
Nation. and this campaign is TO DO a fight for tho
American laborlng mans benefit. / have had numer-
Gus letters from business men and manufacturers
promising to help elect the ticket. In 1854 these
what laboring men Will do, base my statements on
assurances received personally from many aborins
men themselves since the Chicago Convention adj
ourned. So II IS safe to say that I'm this state tho
Republican platform and ticket Will receive only
the support of largo number OF men who have here.
oioIe been Democrats. but are protective tariff mena
Most assuredly they WILL believe that we shall
have great uprising OF tho people But our friends
and the people should understand thoroughly that
sewfork Is TO be the battle ground OF this contest
and that the Democracy Will leave stone untuTncd
and nothing undone to carry II. Al means are alike
to them If only they can win They have the all.
vantage of position, of power, OF patronage. We
have, however, the advantage Of the issue, of the sup
port OF intelligence, loyalty and patriotism, before
which their columns Of onice-holders cannot stand!
The people will assert themselves sovereign against
one-man power. One great difficulty in the political
arena ha, been swept away by four years OF Demo-
cratic rule The present generation had knowledgs
OF what the Democratic party was In power. 1t has
learned since 1884, that the Democratic party IS UNI
American, unprogressive and that it does not meet
the just expectations OF the country. Ii has carried
cut none OF Its promises and II has signally failed In
every branch of Administrative Government,
Just as the Senator turned TO go he stopped for
last emphatic word Let our people in New-York
understand said he " that they must nerve them-
selves for the greatest political struggle in modern
history. We shall meet here in New-York the entra
power of the Democratic party In the United States
They need not raise a finger in any southern State,
and they know II. But they must carry New jorA
or be defeated and they also know that IL is 10
be war to the knife. II every Republican does his
duty we shall redeem the State, as freemen have III,
ways won the battles Of libery.'