The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-11-27
VOTING INTHE NORTH WOODS
CARRYING A HERKTMER DISTRICT FOR
CLETELAND
Democrats Were Divided and Discouraged.
mt They Got Together on the Force
nri-Getting Out tho voters-,rhe Use Of
Money An Animated Voting Place
whoop! When The suns News Cnoe.

WhOop. Nhcu The suns news Cnt0c.
SoRrnwooD. n. Y. Nov. 25.-"There wasn't
no files on It. nor q punkie. or nothin II was
A. smooth an slick as n schoomnrms check"
said Uncle Jimmie Reyes last night. referring
10 tho Democratic canvass in this particular
eorner Of the Adirondack wilderness. Because
Uncle jimmie told the truth. and because tho
story OF how I've done 'em up brown" ms
Jimmie added. illustrates political work in all
The backwoods dictrlcts. the dolngs hero
sbouts may be worth tho telling.
The condition OF affairs politically In Dis
trct Of the town OF Poland. Herkmer county
whom the canvass opened. was about as dis
souraging for tho Cleveland men as It could
sossib!y DO. In spite OF the fact that tho dis.
trict was naturally Democratic By few votes
ona full POLL Cleveland as n President had
not pleased tho backwoods Democrats alto.
sethcr They believed him capable and thor.
surhly honest. buta crank. to put itfrankly on
tho civil service question. SO far as they
knew personally. the Federal of1iceholders
who wore In power whom Cleveland
was elected. those offlcehoders were
political trckstors who had obtained
o.ycc tocauso they had shown ability
az tricksters. Tie Republican ofllccholder
west Of the Adirondacks wero. without
exception. men who had boon guilty OF bribery
and all manner OF political corruption. 1t
was me Known CoITupion OF tne lCuuOTS OF
the Eernbican party that made the Kepubli-
csu iirnde against rammnny Hall In the
Flower ass.;t canvass fall so Nat in northern
New York. The idea that any sort OF reform
d4mand.i that these thieye- ttho torn is used
fyiS.diyl he kept In OIL &C alter n Demncrat
the l:usc,ls Out" dis.ustel the men who had
ever SINCE tho war boon lighting against the
odd w"icn Esderal patronage had given to tue
When Cleveland was nominated in 1883 the
splendid record his AL ministration had Jade
H., ~ md ut tln.r f..nft
POT enough to awaken the cnthusn sin Of tho
hcmocr%tic, rank and file: who had from Us to
downing Of the nsolcni rasculs who had open
" hoaste! Of their success in corrurtinC tho
Cleveland may havo lcen beaten by men OF
the Tnmmany Hall strine in lSSS. but there
ST. in the dsIct of the toWn Of
lo.inL. hSrk,Rer county. rs there was in de
S Worth telling betause this distr ct ii lus.
others M this way. Moreover. ten new Re-
Purl,can votes were brought into this district
nf G'IS SrSssH tna
methods. There were anti-snaprers' swing.
along the West Canada Creek as We'll as
aanonG those WHO yield the shears in the safe
vaults rev s xSak city y w1 as1 D6 x
have Senator Hill dominated than was johnny
Isps saw Of MtS Tss rho Si
Mr. 1t H'v the chicas S
a Of fHs 20 Is the w"rfnE
nor more .han two months the apathy on. IL.
tri"%ph indssd fm june sf nn
I'll ste, the st e 3etonsr there no rsa
Ss Would Ss sr' t" ' ros Tssy
read sS tn the H taI ESSAYS in the utca oss
aHurovsa Ss they aS eSen
pGties Cd. the references fer. made to the Fore
T. West Canada stu water. Hore, was a new
before he decided what to do. He tackled the
lqninarisy Of ths Republican, party Doc
nnju-t to hear what the crit ers had got to say"
Doc Mnrey is man who has the courage t"
Doe sai he Fo?ssy bill i'm Was h ias the
Issue he was looking for, Tho negroes OF the
ss and hsw wd Sh t. Back,
Msoohisman Ike to have the mill owners OF
hlnck;e H and forestLort do asthe great plant,
o ~ mnonA. Government ought to take charge
= H. GThr s F onS f hi w %sFs
by md by-it was about the middle OF octo-
the Force bill with their mental can't hooks
tssr F'rssI pp6ss hs HIk bean to st and
Ticket peddlcr at the p ais 10y years and by his
Of knowIa nh.s Il HT ,h an PssnmntIon
EMild- hammered Democrat, ,Gtn any man in
,e nr. ronnty; snp"Se DOG Mory had tho
had heretofore 6udozcd only For For men n.r Iv
thirty years the wha-haiGed Democrats had
ocehodors and now it was ,iain t stIGn
Leans only awaited the opportunity to assume
ns ,esa rpwer TO- arrest as we'll as mentally
IL Cleveland wins hen bring Ganndtyn
Ir lumber RI ma Canadian butter ana ch".se in
adrif "or r'e Wlsrn u y"Hr market Go? said
,n "1 p% H 'aaIse ,"a ,hsta.iii hs a. repel
Eight for tho right TO vote %
hn I'M %, Democrats got together at once ther
needel ~ %o%lork cty il one wMnt TO T tas
Som iri.nd he Jumps On u ear. and a half an
door IY Hero tie s,ricts are from Tss fi SIX to
!.m mics rf .o4G' the roads are deep with mud.
e" hSs the n5uss % IN. ,4sss
ssys gone into S@1 H. wo he ,1 pds s, ,neS
IN, sna me press "t work IN saile Of 'iistan"e and
ns iari %I ,p f., every nco.rat terl and
crat This is light for the righi 10 ' votn.;
.ppearsd from tho party. Eut TILT N waa NOT not
III. Democrats had got to be brought to the
Ing Upland fields: Others were skdiiiins l5ss:
interest concted with public d,ltv and som sonic,
thtn2 must he done to make public duty para.
mount The two men to whom tho Democrats
TOOK IN this district are j. O. Carpenter Mt III,
ruth end AMI Justice Of the Peace Johnnie
SSS StT u; at the north. This Is the way Dous.
HAIL clock on the day before election he
t"pm Msr s,nart. paced gray mare to light
wara III and with a Sun reporter started 10.
town " " 4fes'eiertown. as tho north end OF the
farming tt3I sIIHidd, !, called. Wheelertown 10 a
s. !s%,s miles ofani Johnnie's mission VAS TO
known as voter vote, there except three who wers
driven Two an ri Meruhl cans. Before lie had
sRo stI'a az that alterloon 1t Was nc not
aud cold, md touring wintry rain. raw
roads Is ra HSSy those, rough and 0I muddy
were twenty.thrsssae n I. but not a house-thers
Nse sG had 9Hf nSus ,Ss snd he
sthome tho o r'ye fey T ts voters to stay
baGnsrs nas fo Met LETT
had about So "FfiStw n. mt, 4 tbs Kind oh19s
money was churact"TIst'" ' mp ,, o. usins lhls