Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-06
Young Reformers at the Polls in
New York.
STORM CAUSED REPUBLICAN FEAR
It Has Passed, Leaving the Weather
Clear and Cold.
P OLLING A BIG VOT E


NEW YORK, November 6-The election
opened this morning with every indica-
ton of very heavy vote The weather was
clear and the air crisp. Early voters came
out with thick overcoats buttoned high
about their necks. The good government
| watchers, with an ardent enthusiasm, were
at their posts at the hour OF the opening
of the polls, their blood warmed by conf
dence of victory. The election is proceed
ing in the most quiet manner possible, and
there Is evidence of intense earnestness.
Apparently but few men entitled to vote
will fail to do so, and 1t is almost impos
sible for any sort of fraud to be perpe-
tl'ated. This Is the first election in this
city without federal election officers at the
polls.
The places of the federal marshals are
| taken by enthusiastic young reformers.
| There is every reason to believe that the
| work of these watchers will be much more
| effective than that of the marshals ever
was.
1t was an open secret that the marshals
| in the down town districts watching Tam
| many work ers in '92 were Tammany men,
or men who feared Tammany. The young
| reformers now on hand are earnest il not
| skillful No one ever saw more persistent
| workers are making to keep up the courage
Of their followers and to get every Grant
vote into the ballot box.
Grant himself assured his people last
night that he was confident of success and
urged them not to let any thing discourage
| them during the day, but to keep up their
work until the polls closed. The overconfi-
dence which the republican state commit
tee displayed during the campaign does
not possess either republicans or indepen-
dent reformers In the local contest. Feel
| ing that they are surely going to win. they
are working If their lives depended upon
getting every possible vote. On account OF
the great multiplicity Of ballots AMI the
difficulty which even educated men have
| in making up Just the ticket they want out
| Of the miscellaneous bundle Of ballots, the
voters are hurryirg to get into the booths
| as early as possible.
| The reports of bad weather and muddy
| re ads in the country render the republi-
| cans a little anxious that they may not
| get out quite as full vote as they an
| ticipated but If intense interest in the re-
suit can draw men to the polls there is
| no likelihood that any amount of bad roads
| and bad weather can greatly reduce the
| vote this year. There considera-
BILE activity In betting last night and
| there is again today, but it is nothing
| it was in 81 The odds against the demo-
Gratis instead of growing less have been
made greater under the pressure Of bet
| ting Many Of the men who are in the
habit of betting on the democrats. some
| who made large winnings In 92 and never
| quit betting long as they could find
! takers, are not at this time making any
| bets. Some Of the race people who came
| on from Washington to bet on Hill and
| Grant have wound up by betting against
| them or not betting at all. few men
| like Dwyer are promptly putting their
money on Hill and Grant at heavy odds,
but they appear to do it under the true
gamblers instinct to make venture on
odds. The democrats who have had the
direct management of the campaign insist
| that Grant and Hill will be elected.
| The Tammany leaders seem to have more
| confidence in this claim than do the state
| committee men. Outside the upper circle
| of democratic management the very gen.
| eral feeling is of expectancy or fear Of
| republican victory. The rank and file of the
| democrats, men who simply cast their votes
| and put their faith in the manipulation
| and management of others, do not generally
| express confidence
! 1t cannot be fairly figured out on the
|
| will be defeated in the city, but the prophets
| are all affected by the feeling that the gen.
eral atmospheric conditions" are unfavor-
| able to democratic success There is some
apprehension among democrats who have
to take the say-so of their committee OIL
| faith without knowing the information on
| which the statements are based that maybe
| the committee have overestimated Hills
vote in the state above the Harlem. This
| apprehension is excited by assertions OF
| some travelling men that all along the line
| of the New York Central through the state
| they have found great dissatisfaction
| among democrats. The fact that the vot-
! ing is now in progress which is to decide
| the soundness Of their Judgment causes the
prophets to suddenly become conservative.
| J. p. Nj.
Favorable for n Big Vote.
| NEW YORK, November 8-Conditions in
| eastern New York are favorable for the
| pollil of a large VOTE the storm which
| ragged all yesterday and laY night having
| passed over. The weather 90 cold and the
| day clear, with a sharp wind blowing. Re-
| ports received up to noon show tlIat in
| central New York the weather is fair,
though cold, while in the western part of
the state there is some snow which may
affect the vote.
| At Troy voting is progressing rapidly and
| without special excitement, even where, at
| the municipal election last spring, there
| was rioting and bioodshed. In this city the
| interest in the state and municipal contests
| overshadows that Of Congressman. Divi-
| sions in the democratic party in New York
| city and Brooklyn may possibly result to
| the advantage of the republicans in some
| cases. Two years ago a solidly democratic
| Celega ton was sent to Congress from New
York, but subsequently, through the resig-
nation of Col. Fellows, a republican, L. E.
| Quigg, obtained election.
This year the regular or Tammany demo-
| cratic candidates are opposed by state demo-
| cratic as well by republican nominees
| in seven of the nine city districts. Similar
| conditions exist in three of the five Brook
| Ign districts. The strength of the state
! democracy candidates is entirely conjec-
| turaL 1t will be we'll to remember. how
| ever, that in none Of the nine city districts
| " as the democratic plurality two years ago
as small as 6,OOO, while in one instance it
| was II 500. At the same time there may be
a straw in the fact that Quigg, republican,