Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-07
From appearances at the present writin

From appearances at the present writing
New Yorks majority for Harrison has settled
the Presidential contest That it was prima-
rily the tariff question on which MIR. Cleve-
lands fortunes went TO pieces the returns from
the interior of the state Indicate. Such few
counties as held fast to their democratic ALE
glance or made gains for the national ticket
were those where the local interests are all
permanently or temporarily connected with the
democratic party, or, at any rate, not connected
with the republican. In Albany the demo-
cratic state government has its seat, and,
like New York county, its traditions,
reaching back to Van Buren's time, or
farther, are generally democratic. Its in
dustries are Of q character which depend
chiefly on unskilled labor, like iron mills and
ioundries, canal and river shipping, and the
Nike In Chemung Governor Hill makes his
home; and, whatever may be said Of his gen.
eral practices in politics, it is probable that,
among his own neighbors, he worked loyalty
for the national ticket. In Greene and Rock
land counties, again, the bulk Of the working
people are agricultural laborers in summer and
ice-harvesters in winter. Rensselaer,, in which
Troy 10 situated, has the same class predomi-
mating in its population as Albany. Schoharie
Ia an agricultural county largely, with some
railroad interests, and long-established dem
ocratic record. Seneca has for the most
part q farming and village population,
and its heaviest industries are saw
mills, -four mills, brickyards, tanneries,
and malthouses, where a low tariff would con-
tribute more to the profit of the proprietors
than high one. Westchester, although not
included geographically in the section south Of
Harlem bridge, belongs there for all political
purposes and may regularly be depended upon
to pay her share of tribute to the democratic
city Of which she is one of the feeders. The
interior counties, ON the other hand. in which
the republicans have made their largest strides
forward, are generally those in which
the occupations of the people are
dependent on the maintenance Of a
high tariff for profit. Onondaga is
the banner county, showing an improvement
of 2, 400 on her vote of 1884, as testimony to
the earnestness with which her salt, tobacco,
paper, machinery and agricultural implements
interests have striven for the success of the
protection ticket. In Ontario there were agri-
cultural implements, wooden goods and car
riages to be especially defended from competi-
ton; in Cattaraugus, agricultural implements,
carriages, furniture, and tin, copper and sheet
iron ware; in Chautauqua, carriages, ma
chinery, saddlery and harness, and paper; in
Franklin, pot and pearl ash and iron mines; in
Clinton, iron mines, chiefly owned by one set
of capitalists, who have always been strong
believers in republicanism and protection; in
Oswego, starch, steam engines, steam shovels
and dredges; in Otsego, agricultural imple-
msnts, wooden goods, saddlery, carriages and
machinery; in st. Lawrence, pot and pearl ash,
carriages, saddlery, machinery, and tin, copper
and sheet-iron ware; in Steuben, furniture,
saddlery and brewery products, and in Tomp-
kins, carriages, furniture, machinery and
paper Erie has somewhere near SIS OO0, 900
invested in protected manufactures Of various
Sorts Duchess is the home of the republican
candidate for Vice-President, and Oneida, the
center Of the great stalwart REVOLT Of 1884,
which has no parallel this year.
In most of the cases in the interior of the
state where protected industries have swelled
the republican vote, the factories are so
situated that nothing but a heavy tariff,
it is believed, could compensate for the
disadvantages Of situation, regards dis
lance from market or tidewater, the cost
Of Transporting the raw materials used, or
the like. While, therefore, there is good ground
for suspecting trades here and there in which
the democratic national ticket was sacrificed to
state and local tickets, the evidence generally
points to the tariff agitation as having done the
most serious work against Mr.. Cleveland.