New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-29
MR.. FASSETT AT WATERTOWN
A MAGNIFICENT GREETING TO THE REPUB-
LICAN STANDARD-BEARER
ALL THE LEADING MEN OF NORTHERN NEW:
YORK ON HAND TO DO HONOR TO THE CAN:
DIDATEs-MR. vRooMAN JOINS Mr.. FAs-
sETT AT UTICA-A GREAT SPEECH IN
Mr.. FLOWERS SUMNER HOME.
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| -isy TELEGRAPH TO THE rRrBusgI
| WATERFOWL Sept. 2s.-Few Republicans of thi1
generation have received heartier welcome In
| Northern New-York than received to-day by
j. Sloat Fassett, the Republican candidate for
| Governor and in no place was this welcome sur
passed in cordiality by this city Of Watertown.
! the home OF Roswell p. Flower. the Democratic
candidate for Governor Mr.. Flower may he liked
here personally, but his political opinions have
never been those held by most of the voters
| in this part of the State The voters have been
un1inchng Republicans and they do not intend
this year out Of personal respect to Mr.. Flower
to vote in support of political doctrines of the
Democratic party which they detest
| Mr.. Fassett began his electoneering tour In
the interior of the State by departing from New
York at o'clock last night and iourneying to
Utica. 1t was after midnight when the train on
which he travelling arrived at Utica. Greatly
TO Mr.. FasSetts surprise he was greeted by 200 or
300 of the leading citizens Of Utica, who. headed
| by brass band, had marched to the depot at
that late hour to welcome the Republican
| leader in the campaign Mr.. Fassett made a
brief but excellent speech upon the issues of the
campaign, and then took rooms at the Butterfield
| House, where he received other visitors. This
morning John W. vrooman, the Republican candi-
date for Lieutenant-Governor, arrived at Utica
from Herximer and sought out Mr. Fassett at the
| Butterfeld House. All the morning hours Mr..
| Fassett's parlors were crowded with voters OF
| Utica who desired to see and talk with the
| Republican candidate Among the Utica visitors
were ex- Congressman Sherman, Senator Coggeshall.
| Charles w. Hackett, Sheriff Wheeler, John Cum
| ningham, editor of "The Utica Herald; Theo-
dore b. Davis, Taliesin Evans, and, in fact, every
| leading Republican. Ardent interest was shown
| in the campaign, and all gave information of the
excellent condition of the Republican party in
Oneida County. This afternoon at o'clock Mr..
Fassett and Mr.. Vrooman, accompanied by Colonel
Archie E. Baxter, of Elmira, and Charles A. Ball,
of Allegany County, set out for Watertown by a
| train over the Black River branch of the Rome
Watertown and Ogdensburg Railway.
WARMLY WELCOMED ALONG THE LINE.
The electioneering party received warm well
| come all along the line of the railway between
| Utica and Watertown. There were crowds OF
voters at every station who called for the next
Republican Governor" and Mr.. Fassett was COM
PEELED to make speeches at Boonville and Carthage.
There were several hundred people at the depots at
the places mentioned. Mr. Faseett's speeches were
brief and to the point, and were applauded at
| every place. As he was about to depart from
Utica Mr. Fassett made this tit little speech from
| the train steps:
ception that the people of the city Of Utica have
extended to me- and yet hardly oSao take 1t az s % 80 asn
dnce You have tp the pfnsipss OF ,,R tne Regaocaa %
ssvss gSvsrnmeat e nr TSas T IS the ssue ts fall shall
have good or bad government! The answer to that
could see every citizen of the state this fall and talk
with him toface for . know IT., that at heart every
| In the struggle against Tammany Hall.
| Speeches then followed from John w. Vrooman,
Colonel Baxter, Congressman Sherman and Sena~
| tor Coggeshall
| MR.. FAssETTS PLEA FOR GOOD GOVERNMENT.
| Mr.. Fassett further developed his theme at
| Lowville, saying:
have only a short message, and can say 1T
government, and good government interests every
citizen. For nine years the Democratic party has
of ofa the '0istS state Government and the different
administrative bureaus OF the state government
| ir the Executive Department and The other
they we're when our pemocrac friends took possession
The departments Of state the different bureau tne
Soei The Statements ne are all taken from the record and
the the year year 1sSo @ If anyeody denies i disputes Il
they csly have to ask the stale Controller He Is
statement Mpplauss Now there is mo no man ian
farmer whose land cannot be sworn ont Of sight or
the small homeowner, whose little house and lot s can
are the people that appreciate what the Republican
party has done & In the he last en raS we aW aye @
corporation Tax law the Collateral m Inheritance law law
produced, with what they win produce this year an
income Of s22, 100000 and have 70 that extent re ne
state from the burdens Of taxation. Every one of
these bills was Republican in inception and in con-
that the credit for this result sprnng from these bills
belongs to the Democratic Assembly which had nothing
bill from which yet no income has been derived
thew v have Committed and take the credit for every
virtue which we have exhibited IN the last ten Years,
| for 1t, and would not II there was
There very good and honest Democrats, but
Ehe only people in power now va are Is%many Demo
cratic State Committee or ON the Democrauc state
a Hatm There Oh cn T' e Tas no p s
anything about R pensions G in ,s their Their
cryGe Cp FenGns Sf s? of
Tammany from beginning to end, The state ticket Is
hsS nSr the T mark Of Richard Croker on his forehead
was not admitted to the state CONVECTION Mr. Tihsn
got the Of FeprmsT & for refC%ns the canal canal
cratic party as corrupt alliance between Iamma..y
old Democrat like LucIus Robinson in 1872 when Tam
many Hall assassinated him him before the people.
Ta ssrs d rSD sHd took " up the ae init IN Which
N Sxe Rn eSeg T r s Ae$
intelligence Of the people in this part Of the State as
have in the aroused intelligence Of the people
In every part Of this state and when you meet
the issue OF Tammany Hall against the State am
when votes come in the tiger will not be
top. prolonged applause)
A ROYAL RECEPTION AT WATERFOWL.
Mr. Fassett's welcome at Watertown was a royal
one There were thousands of people at the depot
and in the surrounding streets In point Of at
tendance at the reception of candidate it was
far larger, to every ones surprise, than that
given to Mr.. Flower on his return home from the
Saratoga Convention. 1t was the grandest politi-
cal demonstration ever witnessed in Watertown.
Leading Republicans were present from every
county in Northern New-York. Among the num-
ber were Senator George b. Sloan, of Oswego:
Charles A. Chickering, of Copenhagen, former
clerk of the Assembly: III. A. Phillips, of The