New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-05-15
FOR THE FALL CAMPAIGN.
THE DEMOCRATIC LEADERS TALK OF
WINNING EASILY.
WILL THE PEOPLE RESENT THE INFAMOUS
GERRYMANDER OF 1892 AND RE-
BUKE THE REGENCY'i

bukE THE REOENOt
PROM TIE REGULAR COMMENCEMENT or rnE TnBuvv.
AIb. nv May l4-The headquarters OF tire Democratic
State Committee ostcnsiby closed. Every fall
they established at the HOFFMAN House. In New
York. During the rest OF the year people who arc not
making livelihood by politics undoubtedly Imagine
that the committee. not having any apparent business
do, Is resting from It's nrduous lnbors ana has no
official home. AS matter Of fact II has now perma'
nent headquarters which will be found IN the sts'e
Capitol In the Of Charles r. Dc Frecst. clerk
NJ the Assembly and Of the Democratic state Com
mi,tcc.
Here In n big safe the documents OF the com
mIttec Here the active men 81 the " machine OF
the Democratic party come for instructions. Mr. DC
Frcest nearly always be found In his ONCE ann
he has "a telephone which connects the headquarters
with David B. Inns house. between Albany ana
Troy and with Edward Murphy. jr.'s bouse In Troy.
Then In another part Of the Capitol another highly
important member OF the "machnc." Governor
Flower. can be- consulted at any time. While the
Legislature Is I'm session william T. shcehan the
chairman OF the Campaign Committee OF tile Demo
cratic State Committee. who also has room In the
Capitol can bc reached at any time. Even when Mr.
ShecIlan Is I'm Buffalo no Is accessible; for Mr. DC
Frccst has only to step into the lobby Of the As
scmbly Chamber and there hc finds long distance
telephone, which he frequently to have chats
with Mr.. Shcchan
II is earl, In the year, but Mr.. d" Frecst already Is
making plans TO elect a Democratic majority IN the
next Legislature. Apparentl, his chief thougn' a'
pre.cnt Is about the senate. Speaking OF this Few
days ago he said TO The Tribune correspondent:
"The Senate will be elected for the first time uhd'r
the new npportonment OF the Senate DISTRICTS j"
nv Judgment we shall elect eighteen OF the thirty-two
senators. ard possibly we shall elect nineteen
Mr. De Freest here took up his Legislative MANUAL
and looked at the map It contains OF the new senate
Districts lie could not bu. smile With Satisfaction
rs no rozed mon the result OF the Democratic gerry
mander Of the Senate Districts year ago. Inc map
plainly showed that the Democratic cities OF
and Droollyn had recev, nearly majority OF the sen-
ate Districts and that Republican rural counties were
nocbed away nv the alfdozcn In various Senate
Dis,rcts The vote cast In each Of the Senate Dis
trIcts last fall also showed that 1t Will take more
voters In the rural parts OF the State TO elect sena'
tor than it will to elect one I'm New-f0k and
Brooklyn.
Most OF the Senate Districts OF NewYOrk and Brook
lyn contain only about 10000 voters whereas IN the
interior of the State they average 10000 voters
in the XXIst Senate District containing he counties Of
Essex Clinton, Franklin, Washington. Warren Fulton
and Hamilton the Republicans and the Democrats
together cast last fall 53373 votes and this estimate
does not include the votes cast for the SOCIALIST LABOR
and POpuIIst candidate for President. In the ANild
District which Is composed OF the counties OF 81.
Lawrence Jefferson ana OswegO, the tOtu vote cast
was 5311l
al Think said Mr. De Frecst. refectivey looking
at the map OF the Senate Districts, "that the Dem
ocrutc party will carry all OF the I'VE Brooklyn DIS
rlcts but one which will make four to start with, the
Long Island District which makes ive the nine New
York Districts, which brings up the total TO
fourteen, the XVIII, XVIIth NvIIIth AlNth ana
NXXth Districts which makes nineteen distnc's
But gerrymanders have been OverthrOwn before thls
rr.. ,lo lie ka thama IDpre
Is revolt In the Democratic party itself; as witness
the resistance to Sheehan's tyranny In BufTalo Inc
Democratic party, moreover. is not In healthy con-
dition In Albany County; nor In New-fork county
all powerful as Tammany Hall now appears to be- II
would be strange, indeed, II the Republican party
should not capture Of the Senate districts OF New
York two in Kings County and one In Erie County.
In the table which follows will be found the vote
in the various new Senate districts In recent years.
The New-York, Erie County and Brooklyn vote Is
that given for Fassett and Flower Outside OF New
York, Erie County and Brooklyn the vote Is that gwen
for President last fall The Brooklyn districts are
the Id IIId WITH, With and With; the New-io ais
trIcts are the With, With, IXth Nth, Xlth, Nitn
XIIIth XVIII and XVIII: the Erie County districts
are the XXXth and XXXIst. startling difference
in the total vote Of the rural districts and OF the city
districts is shown.