The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-10-30

the state Some of the wagcrs ON the
Result of the Election.
New YORK, oct. 8,.-Nctwithstandna
| the quiet appearance ot the different palit.
! ical headquarters bon tis city durins most
! OIL the day, % great G,~, IF active political
! work was i'm progress nolh thcra and out.
| side, and there is mo- doubt that thrlrndcrs
! OF all the organizations are fully aliyc IN
| the fact that only a week remains before
the day of election All still express the
utmost confidence i'm the success of their
| respective tickets So far as the city is
concerned the Tammany men place great
reliance on their thorough organization.
ana even their opponents admit that the
full Tammany vote will be polled The
adhcrcnts of the committee of seventy
ticket base their firm belief i'm winning
upon the conviction that there will be. re.
gardless of ordinary political methods an
uprising of people such as overthrow
Tammany rule i'm 1871
Men who seldom take an active part in
politics are laboring to make converts of
personal friends and there has seldom
been a campaign in which there were
more private political discussion. Perhaps
the most important incident of the day
was the attempt of an evening newspaper
to implicate Colonel Strong in an old mat
ter involving leanings towards the A. p.
A, and his prompt denial of any inten-
tional participation in it.
Among the speakers from other states
whose services have been secured for the
closing efforts of the Hill Democrats in
New York are Chauncey f. Black, the
latest Democratic lieutenant governor of
Pennsylvania, and James Kerr, clerk OF
the house of representatives The speaking
campaign is to be continued up to Satur-
day night all over the state and the num-
Der of meetings held in small places up to
that day will be beyond precedent in any
state campaign of similar duration.
Last evening the Democratic committee
gave out a statement which declares that
"at the last session of the legislature the
Republican majority refused to pass bill
appropriating sufficient money to con.
tinue work on the state capitol mt Albany.
although persistently importuncd to do SO
by hundreds of unemployed workmen. be-
sides various trade and labor organiza-
tions of the state and goes into long de-
tails in regard TO what is termed the in
Justice of this action.
1t was mt state Democratic headuuartcrs
that John NJ. Sheehan, president of the
Sheehan club Of the Twentieth assembly
district, had sent i'm his resignation from
Tammany Hall, and he and the members
of his club, 1lS in all, have joined the state
Democracy organization of the district. p.
w. Cremin is chairman 1t was also an
nounced that A. j. Reilly, of the same
district, has resigned from Tammanv
Hail. and with twenty other voters had
joined the state Democracy organization.
A statement was issued from the state
Democracy's headquarters quoting Will
lam r. Grace i'm regard to Colonel Strono's
present position i'm the question of the A
p. A., and secret societies in politics. Mr.
Grace says relative to this:
"Colon.' -. mo- assured me that b, ,,.,s
in1c1.hly s2uscd totheinnuenceo to of secret
societies i'm P Utics; that he had mo- svm-
pathy with tho who desire to disfrnn.
chise voters, OF . prevent the election TO
Office of citizens ON account of race orrelip-
loGa belief, 7 recall also that i'm a cnnvcr-
soi,H IN Colonel Strong i'm regard to
the pubuc charities of New York he told
me that he had written letter to the late
convention opposing an
to the constitution which i'm "A
very unfair way proposed to deprive Catb-
olic and Hebrew charitable institutions of
their appropriations for the reason that