New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-06
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LOOKS LIKE A LANDSLIDE.
REPUBLICANS FEEL SURE OF VICTORY AT
THE POLLS TO-DAY.
THE DEMOCRATS IN A STATE OF AFFECT De
sPAIR-HILI.s HEADQUARTERS CLOSED AND
THE LIGHTS OUT - TAMMANY SEES

ONLY DEFEAT BEFORE TT.
AS the time for voting approaches the Repub
licans are growing more confident OF success. II
il has been possible to add to the feeling OF Ger.
tainty with which the supporters Of Norton Sax
tOn Haight. Strong and the rest of the ticket
have viewed the situation for the last ten days.
On the other hand, the dependency and distrust
which pervade the Democratic and Tammany
ranks have been marked by the most casual OBJ
server. Democratic hopes went down to zero
yesterday although a feeble effort was made to
put on a sickly sort of confidence which was both
amusing and p.tifu Not in twenty years at
least has this once great and powerful political
organization been reduced 10 such a state OF un-
disguised distress.
The Hill-machine State headquarters were
closed up. deserted and cherries last night. the
total abserce of ray Of light about the apart
ments in the Park Avenue Hotel where Mr.. Hill
made his long and futile struggle for Demo-
cratic harmony" was symbollcal Of the condi-
ton of tie Democratic heart. At the Grant
headouar.ers in Union Square managers, clerks
and messengers maze pretence Of keeping up
the struggle. but il was plain tnat the eNpeC.a'
ton of victory had long since departed Inc
news which occasionally came in from d'Heren'
districts indicated only the dreaded hepuphcah
landslide which they had tried to make them
solves believe was not coming. but which thcy
at last had been forced tacitly to ADMIT was
coming to swallow Tammany root ana prahcn'
chairman Heckett at Republican state Head
quarters said that everything was in readiness
ard the people going to elect Mortoh anu
Saxton by a magnificent majority.
"suppose 1t rains" put in a caller who dreaded
bad weather
That will make no difference" was Mr.. HACK
90 ranlv. SHOULD it ran throughout the State
inst as hard as it is raining here now. nave no
f,,rs a. the result Unless X rains so hard tnat
/ tho road, become impassable in the country, Re-
publican Success will not be endangered Mr.
Hackett said that careful estimate from re-
ports received from every county in the STATE
gave Morton a plurality Of 10000 lie oeheVeu'
however that the whole Republican state ticket
would win by a much higher figure. Inc esu-
mate referred to by Mr.. Hackett conceded 10
/ Hill a plurality of $1,000 in this city, wnich -
greater than most moderate and careiui pom
tcians allow him here. ., 4.
Tamnanv Han il beaten after resortng 70
every POSSIBLE trick and device which unscrupu-
| lous men could invent The Tammany Haiaset.
have been supplied with unlimited suHls VI i,o"eS
and they will not hesitate 10 make use u II -
day in efforts u purchase the assistance Oh .ne
cessation Of work on the part Oi supPol " S
Union ticket. Tammany was never 50 uesPei a.. a.
Its pace-holders and hangers-on VINO are III III .n1
receipt Of $50. 1000 year in saar.es ana per.
| nuistes aone which by stealing ana eSloIt.oH
thev are able tpfdOuble annually, VIII not iet ho
! NJ ther opportunities without a fearful and Dill
! ter struggle Those men have been getuhg rap,
| idly rich while their neighbors nave oeeh oonssu
! 70 meet the changed conditions which Democrauc
hard times have brought TO the country. ~,
| rings which have been absorbing the Immense
sums which the city has been paying our IN .,i'
! gu.se Of contracts for piers ana pu1hheau,
| dredsirg towing school buildings, cou'e
buildings, street paving, viaiucts, suppLes
Of every conceivable kind. are all at work ,ry-
Il
some Of their ill-gotten gains. hoping 10 corutt
enough voters u prevent the concentration
which the people Of New-for are puma 1g pro-
loss Cang of rammany robbers. Al their money
and their hard work and the desperate schemes
they have undertaken and put mt eNe.u''o" s VIII
not stay the tide If popular indlgnatoh.
If was not believed lost night that Grant
would carry more than ten at the outside OF tne
thirty Assembly districts. and these VIII rr, sme
him a meagre plurality compared u Whal iaiii.
many received last year These districts are not
likely II give more than 10000 against str"h''.
on the other hand. 1t is estimated Una. otpU"s no
will carry the remaining twenty districts py
nluraljtv Of not less than 10000 and II the ex-
pected Increase Of the Republican vote other"lse
called the landslide is realized tney may may e. rt
10 i5 600 o. 10000 Strong's plurality over Irane vi am
i'm no event. it IS estimated. can falI oeiow -oooo'
II may exceed 10000. ,..
we're disposed to concede the election OF ieHuei
| :, oui.y the Republican candidate IN inc
XIVth District. Of Philip B Low over senator % ~
Cantor and X. q. Monroe, III ."c - ~ - =,
Dhart Chcsehrough over Colonel George b.
Mcclellan and George Walton Green IN the
XIIth. colonel r. C. Shannon is making nard
fight In the NIllth and is pressing amos .; I'm
,nings closely A j Campbelrs friends also as
gert that he is making serious inroads on tne
democratic strength in the Nth Ford Mitcheii
and E.idman all making gallant n2h's' 49,
The Republican project of capturing eight or
ton members of Assembly in this city is good.
! If some only of the predictions Of republican
candidates and their friends in eighteen or
,"nnrv Assembly districts are realized, half the
delegation from New-York VIII De IN aeco'u
with the next Governor