The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-09-22
Gov. Flower Says They viii Carry
New York bY $4,000
Majority.
10 Familiar With the Condition
Of Politics Ia the Empire
State
Coneress,uan Fitch Also Givss Encour
aksmsnt to tho Cause Of Democracy
-This 10 Democratic Year.

New York, Sept. 91,--"NeW York stat
will 90 for Cleveland BY $1,000" said Gov
Roswell r. Flower at the democratic nj
tional headquarters Saturday Afternoon
MI. Flower came 10 the headquarters abor
II O'Clock and remained in conference wit
Chairman Harrity. Gen. Smalley and Do
M. Dickinson for An hour and = half. BIZ
fore leaving the governor made his contri
button to the democratic campaign fund
handing Chairman Harrity his check for
considerable amount. Gov. Flower did no
desire the amount OF the check TO be mad
public, and those who knew OF II, of course
respected his wisheR II was the governor
hrst visit to headquarters, and he brouRh
encouraging news to the managers. H
was in the best Of humor. and allowed Gfsa
interest in everything pertaining to th'
campaign, and especially to the campaig,
In New York state.
II have been in pretty much all sectionI
OF the state during the last elk weeks" sait
the governor, 'and ! find considerable luke
among the republicans. In thu
strong republican counties this 10 partition
larly manifest. II looks "a though the
democratic victories of 1890 and 1891 would
be repeated this year. know Of no d,ssen-
sions among the democrats here; they APP
pear to be united and earnest for the sue
cess of the party. The elections in Yer
mont and Maine have given me much en-
~couraRement. They show q remarkable
apathy among republicans toward the cam
paign. If such apathy il as prevalent
throughout the country - il seems to have
been in these states there will be no doubt
of democratic success. New York will give
Cleveland SO 1000 plurality"
Congressman Ashbel p. Fitch was inter
viewed at headquarters later in the day.
He talked very Interestingly of the outlook
and predicted a sweeping victory for the
national ticket. II have been round
among all classes Of voters in New York
CITY," said Mr.. Fitch, land have seen the
work of organization which has been going
on for the last two weeks. Here in the city
the democracy Is arranging the most COM
plete and decisive victory over it's oppo-
nsnts in all its history. There has never
of strength. Iammany hall, never before
so strong in votes or in leadership AZ nov,
is REINFORCED in the contest BY the demo-
Gratis Of every shade Of opinion, by this indie
psndsnts of every class, and by the almost
unanimous support of the German vote,
which always before has been more or less
divided. and partly republican. The man
nef in which the republican party in the
state and nation has treated this city has
made the vote here more and more demo-
cratic every year, and We will give an unex-
pectedly large majority for Cleveland this
year. The republican campaign in this city
is slow and tame. Il has been put in The
hands of men who are accustomed to or
GanizinQ defeat. Most of them seem to
have been chosen on tho principle that a
man who cannot get himself elected to
anything is the best person to arrange to
elect somebody else.
1.-THE course of Gov. Flower in the last
two weeks has helped us very much in this
city. He has shown manly energy and de.
cision such as our citizens admire. In fact
all the democratic officials are doing their
work against the danger of cholera in the
most energetic and satisfactory way, and
the city is proud of them. When all Of this
is followed by the speeches of Gov. Hill and
Carl Schurz in this canvass our opponents
will probably discover that the men who
made New York democratic mean to keep
it democratic. The free trade scare has as
little effect here a. it seems to have had in
Vermont and Maine. People who talk
about its effects here seem to forget that
We carried our state on those issues in the
congressional election of 1880 by 80, 900, and
elected twenty-three out of thirty-four con-
Rressmen, and that in the election last year..
when We had nearly $1,000 majority in the
state, our candidate was a congressman
who had voted and spoken against all the
Republican tariff legislation"