Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-14

Special Correspondents Of Tur rvr~r~e STAR
ALBANY, NY, June 13.-Thc Nov .mber cleo
ton IN New York state this year is to turn al
most wholly on national issues. There are no
state officers to be elected. an occurrence that
comes only once in six years, and the only Of
nee for which the whole state will vote will be
An associate judge of the court Of appeals. an
Office involving no partisan issues Accord
ingly, neither Of the parties expect to hold a
state convention this year. But the state will
elect its delegation of "a members to the House
OF Representatives and also an assembly Of 1913
members, who will take part in the election Of
United States Senator to succeed the Hon.
william NJ. Evarts. 1t is a foregone
conclusion that Mr.. Evarts will in no
event be his own successor, and as vet the can
Ssss FOR the position has not assumed definite
form. The state senate, which holds over COM
prises 19 republicans and Is democrats The
present assembly consists of ~ republicans
and 90 democrats. 1t requires 81 votes on Joint
ballot to elect a Senator On this basis the
democrats must elect IS members of the new
assembly In order to capture Mr. Evarts' seat
III the senate, while the republicans can win
with 81 assembl ymen. The words ION this
basis are used advisedly, for there is some
likelihood that whichever party has a majority
| IN the assembly (65 votes) NAV proceed TO elect
Mr.. Evarts successor The feeling in tLis state,
even among republicans. against the unseating
OF democratic Congressman at Washington this
year is much stronger than Is probably realized
AT the national capital. and if the opportunity
FOR retaliation should be open to New York
democrats some hot-headed leaders would adj
wise that course. This feeling has been inten-
slned here by the fact that the seats of two
democratic state senators. each of whom had
5000 majority, are contested and the contests
Will be voted on in January. Should the demo-
Gratis have 65 votes "a majority in the assem-
bly,, and should there be any grounds whatever
for contestlng the seats of republican assem-
blymen. democratic United States Senator
from New York would probably be a result If
they have 68 votes democratic United States
Senator Is assured.
THE SENATORIAL sTRUGGLE.
But under the present superintendent of as
sembly districts the only hope for the election
OF slxty-hve democratic assemblymen lies in
the operations of the new election laws of the
state and In the strong probability that ex-
Senator Thomas c. Platt will be opposed by ex-
Senator Warner Miller and Chauncey NJ De-
pew in his effort to secure control OF the assem-
bly, and eleA himself TO the United States
Senate or designate the man to be elected
Politicians OF both parties are agreed that the
new election laws will operate to the advantage
OF the democrats In this state as they have
elsewhere. and there is no friendly feeling en-
tertalned for Senator Saxton. who secured
their enactment. by the republican leaders
from Warner Miller and Thomas c. Platt down
through republican Congressman and republi-
can assembly candidates to the ward workers.
The new laws require a registration of voters
all through the state for the first time and this
Is acknowledged to be for the advantage of the
democrats The general features of the Aus
tralian system are as well understood IN Wash
| ington as III Albany. and it is believed that they
will greatly reduce the expenditure of money
at the polls, by which many assembly districts
and some Congress districts have been carried
of late years.
Everything now points to a bitter contest be-
tween Thomas G. Plat and his republican op-
ponents, headed by Warner Miller and Chauncey
N. Depew, for the control of the next assembly
If Platt shall really enter the race for United
States Senator himself as many now assume
there can be Lo question that the democrats
will carry the assembly and elect Senator
Evarts successor There is substantial reason
to believe that in due season Platt will announce
that he himselfwil not be candidate satisfy
ing himself with controlling the choice. and in
that event State Senator J. s. Fassett will be his
preference. The supposition that he cannot
under the Constitution, be chosen is an error
1t Is reasonably certain that Plat will have a
majority in the assembly caucus and that no
one. except Chauncey NJ. Depew, will be strong
enough to oppose him or his choice in the joint
republican caucus for Senator. Warner Miller
is out of the question and Evarts is not men,
toned as a possibility.
THE CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION.
The delegation from New York in the House
of Representatives stands 10 republicans to Is
democrats Cor did SO stand until the recent
death of WILDER, republican,. The democrats
will certainly tie the delegation az to I'D and
will probably have majority. Only one of the
hfteen districts now represented by democrat
is IN any danger TO that party The thirty
third district represented by Wiley, democrat.
is a republican district, and Wiley was elected
In the presidential year through republican
dlssensions. The same dissensons still exist
and have indeed been aggravated by the Presi-
dents appointment of Maj. Low as customs
surveyor at Suspension Bridge. In an off year
1t will be easier for democrat to carry the
district than IN a presidential year, and if
Wiley consents again to become candidate he
Is reasonably certain to win. The democratic
night Will be conducted In seven districts now
represented by republicans. The twenty
fourth. represented by the late David WILDER,
is a strongly democratic district and is sure to
elect democrat. 1t is common report that
S75, 900 went into the district for Harrison and
WILDER IN 1888, and 1t is an easily demonstrated
fact that from $50 to $40 were spent for indi-
vidual votes. The fifteenth district elected
Stevers, republican, by IA votes in 1888 and
Will be regalned by the democrats Bacon, the
democratic nominee in 1888. had to meet the
money of the sugar trust, which re-
sented his course as chairman of the
committee on manufactures of the Fiftieth
Congress in its trust Investigations. and also
na0 on nand trouble about small federal patron
age. The district will return a democrat this |
year. The twentieth district. represented by |
John Sanford, is VIGOROUSLY the most corrupt |
in the state and even larger sums are spent in |
it than in the twenty-fourIh. For a dozen |
years it has been debauched by candidates |
with large means and political ambition The |
democrats believe that the new election laws
preventing corruption and intimidation of en- |
ployes in the manufacturing towns of the Mo- |
hawk valley will give them this district but il |
Is so long since the district has cast an unpur-
chased vote that it is hard to estimate a result
If ex-State Senator John Foley will accept the |
democratic nomination chances would favor
his election. Sanford will probably be renom- |
mated.
The seventeenth district, represented by |
dition. 1t is a republican district but is held |
up to Its late figures by the liberal use of |
money. Knapp will not be renominated, the re- |
publican nominee going to Ulster county. |
probably to Jacob Lefevre. If the democrats |
nominate State Senator Linson he is reasonably 1
certain of election.
IN GOV. HILLS HOME.
The twenty-eighth district was cut out as a /
close republican district where a good demo-
crat could WIN, and Mr. Floods predecessor |
was democrat. 1t is the home district of Gov. /
Hill and also of State Senator Fassett secre-
tary of the republican national committee and |
will be the scene Of hot fight Flood will |
probably be dropped by Fassett. Money has |
been freely used by both parties in the district,
and the result there this year will be a good |