Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-11-01
NEW YORK CALLED CLOSE.
LITTLE BETTING ON RESULTS IN THE
EMPIRE STATE.

The Last Loud Note OF the Campaign
Sounded-Figuring That Is Being Done
on Both Sides-Equal Work for the Cam
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NEW YORK, Oct. 31.-[Specia,. 1.-The last
loud note of the campaign has been sounded
tonight, and both sides are now preparing
to close up their lines and get their armies
in fighting order for Tuesday. What the
result of the great battle will be it is i'm
possible for the impartial onlooker to guess
with any certainty, for in spite of the cen
fidence which each side processes to feel,
the honest conviction of all is that the mar
shaled armies are so nearly equal In
strength that the victors will win by a
plurality not exceeding q, 1000, and perhaps
bv less than half this humber.
The leading Democrats here positively
assert that the Republicans will not come
down to the Harlem river with more than
$4,000 majority over Flower, and that 1t
will be met here by Democratic majority
OF from $4,000 to 10000. They base tins
estimate on the belief that Richmond and
Kings counties will roll up bigger Demo-
cratic vote than ever before, that the he-
publican vote in Suffolk county viii be cut
down to insignificant proportions, and that
the Democratic ranks in this city have re-
ceived large accessions from Republicans
because of the Worlds Fair issue. They
point to the ironclad Twenty-frst Assembly
district as q place where they will gain
largely in strength because Mr.. Flowers
New York home is there, and profess to
have certain information that the Eleventh
and Seventh districts, both of which are
largely Republican, have given evidences
this wear of Democratic tendencies.
The Republicans assert just as stoutly
that they will bring against this city
plurality for Fassett of between 20, 600 and
90, 200, and that the Democrats will not be
able to roll up in this county more than
$4,000 plurality. Some of the more san
guine of them are confident that the Demo-
cratic plurality here will not exceed 10000.
They say that ethe, Democrats of Kings
county are disgruntled because of the de-
feat of their man Chaplin in the State Con-
ventlon, and that many of them have de-
termined to make Mr. Flower pay for this
slight by doing all they can to defeat him.
They claim that Richmond county is threat
enirg to throw off its Democratic yoke, and
that the County Democrats are in line with
them They stick to this statement in
spite of assertions to the contrary made by
many of the leading County men, and try to
prove it by the fact that in many of the
districts where the vote is close the County
men have not named candidates. No matter
what the purpose of the County was in
this move, the fact is their candidates will
draw largely from the strength of Tammany
and thereby increase Republican chances of
victory.
The work done at both the Republican
and Democratic headquarters here has been
about equal, and the fight has gone on with
varying success The lack of any large
amount of betting by sporting men who are
always on the lookout to lay their money is
perhaps as good evidence of the closeness Of
the contest as anything else.