New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-10-24
WHERE CONKLING RULED
,,D, WILL ROLL UP AN OLD-TIMH
REPUBLICAN MAJORITY.
,.rp NuLERs FORCES ACTIVE IN HERKIMER
. POPULAR CoNGRESSMAN-AssEM-
BLY, CANDIDATES.
BLY, CANDIDATES.
.-.rr CORRESPONDENT OF rnr -MnrxE.l


oct g2-Repubican prospects are bright
w" ,ba territory covered by the counties of
WIN" 1 ucrkimer which together compose the
Onelrt Corrress District of this State II is Re
49, mart Of the State. no doubt. but its intel!i-
pun nd independent voters are subject. like all
gen ,,oters of this class TO the general causes
-" - affect elections, and II majority OF them
VIM ,o.idsd TO vote for the Republican State and
h N,orol candidates it is because they think they
will be actihs III ~
~. such a choice
m ~ Conklng fostered for years the Repuoli-
.ar,v within the limits of Oneida County,
ca" nn warner Miller, In the neighborng county or
,,rimer still lives to see the strong RepupHcah
r;zatjon which he began TO create While chair-
0' ~ the County Committee doing earnest ana
n.hls work for the Republican party. "Conklins
N"i and Miller men" actively az work Tor
~ panublcan party this year in both countess
' enc election returns upon the night OF Eiec-
49,, nav will disclose a large Republican majority
.b county. Il have never known the Republ-
" n.rtv so united in oneida County since 1880
|a congressman Sherman to-day. and his state
Co., was confirmed by all the other Republican
,so-s Mr. Shermans statement IS significant.
80 the long and bitter struggle over the election
- ,sS, Of A successor to Roscoe Conkling as United
GATES Senator the Republican party in ONEIDA
county was badly disorganized for years Grover
CLEVELAND even had the fortune to carry the county
in
chat was the lowest vote recorded by the Repuoli-
e1n Marty because of Republican dissension. In
,SS BENJAMIN Harrison received plurality OF lSoS
votes in the county And in 1898 the RepuoIlcah
candidate for Secretary Of State had plurality oil
900 votes in the county. As for Isaac H. Maynard
the Democratic candidate for judge OF the court
Of Appeals with a record of stealing Senate DIS
trct behind him he was beaten by plural'y
of 259S votes What will be the plurality in Oneida
County against David b. Hill. who did not merely
steal Senate District. but entire Legislature!
Competent observers here think the piuTahN
against Hill will be greater than that against MAY!
nard since Il recognized that the latter was only
an agent in the preparation Of this crime, "hiie
Hill was the principal With united Republican
party as CONGRESSMAN Sherman states. the ma
jor,y against Hi in Oneida County ought to be
4.UI.
REPUBLICAN WORKERS
The Republicans who have been prosecuting with
great energy the Republican campaign in Oneida
and Herkimer counties are Warner Miller ana
Palmer NJ Wood OF Herkmer County. ana CON
gresham James : Sherman. State Engineer camp
bell W Adams. John c. Davies, Deputy Attorney
General and Senator Henry J. Coggeshall OF
Oneida County They have made most sys-
tematic canvass Of each county. have put actively
at work every Republican of influence. and they
intend to roll up a big majority for Morton. SaNton
and Haight. The Republican State ticket is re
gardei as a strong one and il has been sustained
in both Oneida and Herkimer counties by the
nomination of unexceptionable candidates for county
Offices and for Assemblymen. Added 10 this. the
action OF the Republican Legislature At Albany
last winter in lowering the State taxes has greatly
peased all taxpayers-the farmers especially, VINO
have been hit hard by the reduction In the tariif
on hops eggs and hay by the Wilson Tarif bill.
The reduction in State taxes made by the Repub-
lican Legislature In the whole State was sl,262 80
The reduction OF State taxation in this county OF
Oneida and neighboring counties follows: