The record-union., 1894-10-29
FIELD OF POLITICS.
SUNDAY A DULL DAY WITH NEW
YORK POLITICIANS.
Republicans Figure Out a Majority of
Forty Thousand for Strong
for Mayor.
Special to the REooRD-UNIov.

New YORK, Oct. 2S.-Sunday is al
ways a quiet day with politicians, and
dullness was the feature at the political
headquarters in this city to-day. The
work of correspondence was carried on
as usual, but there were few visitors and
no signs of activity except at the Grant
headquarters, where Grants letter of &C.
ceptance of the Tammany nomination
was made public.
Colonel Strong's headquarters were
closed during the day, and Colonel
Strong himself was not III evidence ex-
cept TO few of his closest supporters.
AT Republican headquarters a dispatch
was received from Albany and was at
once given out. The dispatch says, in
part: "Ihe campaign work which
should be done by the Democratic State
Committee has been forced upon the
State Department and paid for out of the
State Treasury. These documents are
printed by State Printer James b. Lyon
and large force of department clerks
are taken from their duties to the State to
give out individually Hilps campaign
documents"
The very large registration of voters in
this city has been the subject of discus
sion and speculation to a great extent.
At Democratic headquarters there was a
large registration. Francis NJ. Scott said
that in his opinion MIR. Grant would not
get moro than 1000 votes. He believed
the socialistic, labor and Populist vote
would not be over $4,000, which would
leave IN the vicinity of 100000 votes to be
divided between Grant and Strong. This
was the substance of a computation made
by the various leaders early in the day.
The recent arrest of several hundred
men for alleged fraudulent registration, it
is believed has been deterrent upon the
voters coming out.
In Democratic circles the starting to-
morrow of Governor Flower on a tour
through the State in the interest of the
Democratic ticket is raising much in
terest, because of the master stroke the
Democratic Chairman, Thatcher, has
made.
There has been disposition on the part
of the various organizations here to make
public their allegiance to their respective
tickets. To-day, however, the Executive
Board of the Grand Lodge of the Inde-
pendent Order of the Sons of BENJAMIN
resolved not to permit the use OF its name
in connection with politics. This decision
was arrived at in meeting of the board
to-day, at which resolutions were adopted
repudiating any attempt to make use of
the order for political purposes. This ac-
ton was taken because it was said an at
order as opposed to the candidacy of SEN
ator Hill.
GOVERNOR WAITE SPEAKS AT CHICAGO.
CHICAGO, Oct. Ex-Governor Waite of
Colorado addressed large open meeting
in the Lake Front and spoke TO large
audience in IattersalPs Pavilion to-day.
When Governor Waite reached Chicago
this morning he was met at the depot by a
delegation of several hundred Populists
and a brass band, aud was escorted to the
Grand Pacific, where he held an i'm
hour. At O'Clock the band headed u
procession of 1900 peoples party men
and escorted the Governor to the Lake
Front Park. At Columbus monument a
large crowd was assent bled. He spoke
for half an hour.
This This country uE is passing through
any in its history" he said. ''Five
million men and women are out
of employment Those who are
at work are receiving less wages than
ever before. At the close of the war and
the years succeeding we enjoyed unex-
ampled prosperity. We then had nearly
81 ,000, 100000 of money in circulation.
The Republican party and its leaders in
Congress, in dictation to the Wall-street
bankers, set about Withdrawing money
from circulation. They contracted the
currency until depression followed. Last
year, in the midst of untold suffering and
closed-up shops, due to the contraction of
the currency, President Cleveland as
Sembled Congress for the purpose of hav-
ing it repeal the silver law, which
plunged the country into still deeper dis
tress. All the legislation of the past
twenty-four years of Republican rule and
that of the present Administration has
been for the corporations, the capitalists
and the moneyed class. There has been
but one piece of legislation in favor and
for the benefit of the people, and that was
when Cleveland sat up for nights to veto
the individual pension bill. The Demo-
cratic party has done something that its
predecessor would not dare to have done,
and that was the issCiug of $50, ,000, 900 of
gold bonds. This was done to benefit the
lenders of Wall street."
In the evening Governor Waite was
escorted by a brass band to the hall
where he was to speak. About 5000 peo-
pie had gathered TO hear him, and there
were loud cries of Waite, Waite, Waite
for 1896"
The Governor was given rousing re-
ception as he advanced TO begin his ad-
dress, and it was some time before he
was allowed to proceed. His speech was
an elaboration of his talk of the after
noon, and consisted chiefly in censure of
the Democratic and Republican parties
anil arguments to show that the welfare
of the people demands that The Govern
ment be intrusted to the Populists.