Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-11-05
REGISTRATION,
The Foundation on Which New York Demo-
Gratis Base Hopes
Proves to be Favorable to Republicans.

In regard TO the large registration in New
I York on which the democrats base SO much
hope, the following despatch from Webb,
the well known and reliable CORES spondent
of the Boston Journal, is instructive and in
teresting:
There is not single fact to which the
democratic Leaders refer which furnishes
them legitimate basis for their confidence
They have had much to say for the last
three days about large increase in regis
tration, and they have assumed, as they
have assumed everything. that the increase
in registration south of High Bridge of ap-
proximately $4,000 means that SO, 200 more
democratic ballots will be found in boxes
than were there, no matter how they got
there, in 1854. The increase in registration
has given the republicans throughout the
country some concern, for naturally they
have inferred that it might be the result of a
gigantic conspiracy against the purity of the
ballot box. The republican national COM
mittee has been studying the cause Of this
Increase in registration since the registry
books were closed. Persons who have mad a
quarter of a century of experience in stats
tics of New York politics have been consid-
ering the subject The report that has
been made to the republican headquarters is
substantially this: The greater percentage
of the increase of registration on Manhattan
Island is mainly above l4th street, and not
below it. That means that it is not in the
lower wards of the city, where the demo-
Gratis have hitherto been generally able to
maintain their strongholds and where a con-
siderable portion of the floating and danger
Gus vote is located. The increase, on the
contrary, is to a very much greater extent to
the north of that, and the greatest increase
IN registration Is in what are called brown
stone districts in the extreme north of the
city, the new portions which were almost
wilderness four ears ago. good deal has
happened in the city of New Yo:k in the
last four years. One of the things that has
happened is remarkable development of
the northern residence portion of the city.
This has been mainly caused by the exten-
sion of the elevated railroad system and the
general improved means of quick transit.
vast region north of Central Park which
four years ago did not figure very largely in
the registry books, is now densely populated
hundreds of young men, who formerly lived
in New Jersey and in other suburban places,
with the development of this northern por
ton of the city and the general introduction
of flats and the reduction of rents, now live
in New York city, and for the first time have
become voters here.
The New Army of Voters.
The gentlemen who has had charge of
this district for the republican national COM
mittee says that the canvass that has been
made shows that the increase of registration
in this section is very much more to the ad-
vantage of the republicans than of the dem
ocrats; that the new corners are largely re-
publicans; that the increase of the republi-
can demonstration in Harlem the other night,
which is without a precedent in New York
politics, shows the nature of the politics of
the Inhabitants of this region, which is a
newly created political country since the
registry of four years ago. There is another
element in this registration. There are
many young men who vote for the first
time, and who, after the prediction of Gen.
Logan some years ago, have been called in
the political dictionaries the Logan voters of
1888 Gen. Logan, in one of his notable
political forecasts, said that in 2l years,
from 1865, there would be a new generation
of voters, the sons of Union soldiers, who
for the most part would vote as their fathers
fought. The investigations of the republic
can committee show that there is to be
large accession to the republican strength
from this source. The republicans are,
therefore, encouraged rather than discour-
aged by this great increase in registration
now that they are advised that they will re-
ceive their full share of the percentage of
the increase.