The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-10-16
The New York Contest.


TT Is q tremendous political battle that Is on
In New York. Mr.. Fassett, the Republican
C candidate, Is making superb fight and driv-
Ing home the Tammany Issue, In way thai
must have convinced the Democrats OF the
folly and wickedness of the action OF their
state convention In this matter. II 1t does
not lose them the state, 1t Will be due to
nothing but the debility from the Republicans
long career of wrong In the state. The DEM
ocrats are rallying In great force, however,
considering all their encouragement, speak
ars being sent out by the regiment to every
town In the state and from now until tho eve
OF election the effsrt and the din will be un-
ceasing.
But for the Tammany issue, the result
would be certain In an avalanche against the
Republicans. Their record In the state Is one
of unspeakable meanness. They have devoted
their entire energies to peanut politics
against Gov. Hill. They have for 10 years
defied the constitution OF the state In refusing
to make reappointment to give 1t an honest
representation, and have thus disfranchised
hundreds of thousand of citizens, and re-
tanned control Of the legislature against the
peoples will. They raised false issue to
rob New York of the Worlds fair. They
have In collision with the worst of the DEM
ocrats, by meddling from Albany for the sake
of plumber and nothing else, imposed fearful
misgoyernment on New York and other
cities.
Decent Democrats were repealed In great
number by Tammany's riding of the state
convention and have reason for alarm and
disgust at the prospect of Its ruling the party.
But where the alternative is Plat Republic
canism 1t Is impossible to predict results. Inc
bolt Of Lieut.Gov. Jones, and OF MT. El-
richs, the states member on the Natlonai
Democratic committee, as well as the home
fight against Sheehan in Buffalo,are ominous.
The Mugwump Evening Post and Harper's
Weekly have come out against the Democrats
and are followed by influential German news
papers, the New Yorker Zeitung and the
New York Harold and the Oesterreichisch'
Ungarische Zeitung, the German illustrated
weekly of New York, which all make the
Tammany issue the decisive one. 1t looks as
If they would have big following among the
German Democrats.
The situation Is serious enough, so that eX.
President Cleveland has taken off his coat,
presiding over great Democratic meetings in
New York and Brooklyn and speaking ear
nestly and forcefully on the duty of Demo-
Gratis to support the ticket, because OF the Inn
portant bearing the result will have on the
presidential election next year and the cause
Of tariff reform which is involved In the fate
Of the party. He argues, as Is true, that Mr..
Flower and the rest of le TICKET are person.
.lly worthy of support. But he hasn't I'M
lertsken to Justify the Tammany business;
,e ignores 1t. He and Gov. Hill were both
present at the New York meeting last week.
Their greeting was a cordial one, he intro
iuced the Governor handsomely, and after
Yards entertained him at his house. The
wo men again showed they were too Dig FOR
ealousy, and there Is no reason for either
Hill MEM or "Cleveland men" In the party.
,ov. Hills speech was magnificent one.
efficient for a whole campaign In Its treat.
1ent of both national and state issues and
ewerful In it, arraignment Of Fassett on I
ne labor question.
One thing that ought to help the Demo- 6
rats is an outrageous attack that has been !
lade on Mr.. Flower as 'copperhead" DUR
70 the war, based on the affidavit Of . worth.
So fellow whose word Is worthless accord.
g to abundant testimony. The leading he.
over their own signatures as . base false =
,od.
John r, Fellows admits that II the election &
ere to take place now Fassett would win. &
ut the next three weeks may change the =
Ce of things, | i.