Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-11-05
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ON TEE EVE OF TEE GREAT BATTLE.
The Latest News and SDeclad0ns.
Why New York Democrats are Confident
REPUBLICAN HOPES IN VIRGINIA.
New Jersey Credited to Cleveland
Terrific Nitro.Glycerine Explosion.
THE EBATTLEGROUND YORK
The Increased Hopefulness at Demo.
HOPES IN VIRGINIA
New Jersey Credited to Cleveland
Terrific Nitro. .Glycerine Explosion.
rHEBATTLEGROUND NNEW YORK
The Increased Hopefulness at Demo.
cratic Headquarters.
METHODS xHRLoYED-THI QUESTION Or vor1
TRADING.

NEW 1ORK, NOV. ON the last days OF the
campaign q change of feeling has come over
the people at democratic headquarters here,
regarding the result of to-morrow's contest in
this state. In all the early part Of the can
vass they were faint-hearted. The future
looked very doubtful to them. The cry Of
Stree trade" had been raised in the interior Of
the state,, where most Of the manufacturing
interests lie, and employers Of fifty, a
hundred or five hundred men were
daily coming out for Harrison, with all
that that implies. Even in state
where labor is ostensibly as free as in New
whatever the natural bias of his mems not .
thing to be recklessly invited by any means
Against these apparent odds the democrats had
nothing in particular to show. A few business
men OF some prominence were quoted as de-
claring that trade had held up well during
Cleveland's administration, and they thought
it would be wise
TO LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE,
but that did not count for much, as the class
who propose merely to stand still and change
nothing are not the class who make converts
As time passed on, however, it became evident
that the republican ammunition was giving out.
They had announced their conversions so early
that the supply was about exhausted before the
real fight began. Then came the demo-
SAoso euIu. lucy beub some OF tQou
best orators through the state. Instead
OF frittering away their money in
vain shows they went quietly to work
TO organize their party in every town and ham,
let where there was q post-office for q gather
ing point With their literature and their
oratory they penetrated districts rarely or
never worked in before. They manned a canal
boat with good stump-speakers and visited
with 1t every little village which could be
reached by the network Of artificial waterways
IN the state. They made two especial efforts.
One was to prove to the manufacturers and
their men that the Mills bill was not a free
trade measure, but designed chiefly for the
benedt OF consumers of raw materials; the other
was TO convince the farmers that high tariff
was inimical to their interests tax upon their
incomes without compensating benefit. In
both cases they
HAVE NET WITH A aREArxs SUCCESS,
they think, than their most sanguine prophets
ventured to predict at the opening Of the con-
test. Besides, the internal quarrelB of the
party in various places have been healed up.
In Albany all factions are working together
harmOniOusly; in Cayuga County they have
thrown both the old factional leaders over and
closed up their ranks under new and younger
joint management. In Chemung, where the
Irish and workingmen's vote gave trouble four
years ago, there is peace and good will now.
In Erie, it is changed; there is better feeling
since MIR. Cleveland left the city for good than
while he still retained q nominal residence there
In Monroe, the old quarrel with the Purcell
| boilers has been healed over. and the demo-
Gratis expect to gain about $500 over 1884. In
st. Lawrence, the democrats have arranged to
| bring out their full vote, and the Irish contin-
gent is back In the ranks. In Steuben, where
the Soldiers Home has given some trouble in
| former years, the decision Of the Court of Ap-
peals, disfranchising it's inmates, is expected to
| result in a handsome cutting down Of the re-
publican majority. In short with the gains
made in these quarters the shrewdest demo-
| cratic figures count on keeping the republican
majority M north OF Harlem River inside of
10000, which they say will be easily crushed
| under the democratic majorities in New York,
Kings, Queens, Suffolk, and Richmond Coun-
ties, leaving the state democratic by, say, TO-
600 to $1,000 votes.
This is on the national ticket only. On the
| state ticket Hill is booked to furnish a much
handsomer showing. One gentleman who has
made trip through the state, carefully noting
all he saw, reports that the liquor interest is
UP IN FULL FORCE FOB HILL,
and that this is the case, not only in the cities
but at every petty crossroads tavern. "Liquor
dealers" says he, "who have been consistent
republicans from 1856 till the present time.
have vowed to defeat Miller if they can; and
the names OF those in the whole state who re-
on a schoolboy's slate. It is strictly business
with these men. They believe they have got q
life-and-death fight for. their trade on their
hands, and they must win it or step out.
The one thing that is causing the democrats
serious uneasiness now is the getting out of
their full vote south of the bridge. It is there
that the bulk Of the trading will be DONE II any
| is done; but trading is hard thing to ferret
out, and q harder thing to punish. In these
days Of triumphant mugwumpery q man may
vote for the candidates of ten different parties,
If he chooses, and nobody can call him to &C
count for the inconsistency. Just how strong
the honest mugwump element is now in its
home-New York city-and how many men are
there who, though usually full Of strong parti-
sanship, are proposing to play mugwump for
one day only, are questions which cannot be
settled till the returns are in and tabulated for
ty-eight hours hence.
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