The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-29
BLUE FOR TAMMANY
STATE DEMOCRACY,s VIEW OF THE
DIG REGISTRATION.
Leaders Believe thai Strong Will Be
Employees Working for Hill.

NEW YORK, Oct. 2~S.-Sunday is always
a quiet day with politicians, and dullness
was the feature Of the political headquar-
ters in this city to-day. The work of cor
respondence was carried On as usual, but
there were few visitors and no signs Of
activity. except at the Grant headquarters,
where Mr.. Grants letter OF acceptance Of
the Tammany nomination for Mayor was
made public. Colonel Strong's h~eadquar-
ters were closed during the day, and
Colonel Strong himself was not in evidence
except to a few Of his closest supporters.
At Republican headquarters a long dis
patch was read from Albany, and was at
once given out for publication. to the effect
that the employees in the State departments
there were employed in preparing and dis
tributing thousands Of campaign documents
in the interest Of the Democrats. The
dispatch says In part: "The campaign
work which should be done by the Dem
ocratic State committee has been forced
on State departments and paid for from
the State treasury. These documents are
printed by State Printer James B. Lyons.
and a large force of the department clerks
are taken from their duties to the State
TO shove out, In individual envelopes, Hills
campaign documents"
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this city has been the subject Of much dis
cussion and speculation with both old par
ties. each claiming the advantage from
the additional votes that will probably be
polled on election day. At the State DEM
ocracy headquarters. on Twenty-third
street, there was a general feeling OF Ella
ton to-day over the results of the registra-
ton. The leaders agreed in saying that 1t
meant the Overwhelming defeat OF Tam
n0y- IL E.A i. NJ 49,. It'd 4hnr In
his opinion Mr.. Grant would not get more
than 100000 votes. He believed that the So
cialistic, Labor-Populist-Prohibition. vote
in the vicinity of 245, 0C0 votes to be di-
v1ded between Grant and Strong, thus al
lowing 5000 plurality for Strong. This was
the substance OF a computation made by the
various leaders early in the day The re-
cent arrest Of several hundred men for
lieved. had a deterrent effect, and the
large registration is considered a big in
crease In men entitled TO cast their ballots.
District Attorney John r. Fellows to-day,
however, expressed himself as not at all
surprised at the registration. He thought
there was nothing extraordinary in it, and
TO be derived for either side from 1t.
Corrections made in the returns to-day
shows a total registration in the city of
800, 931, the largest registration ever re-
corded In New York. The largest preceding
was that of 1892. which reached a total of
3O9. OPS. The registration of 1898 was 265. COS.
among Republicans centers in the appear
ance of ex-President Harrison on Wednes-
day evening next at Carnegie Music Hall.
In Democratic circles the starting to-mor-
row of Governor Flower on a tour through
the State in the interests of the Demo-
cratic ticket is raising much interest be-
cause of the master stroke the Democrats
claim Chairman Thatcher has made in Sc
curing the services of the Governor on SO
important a mission.
There has been a disposition on the part
OF the various organizations here to make
public their allegiance 10 their respective
tickets To-day. however. the executive
board of the Grand Lodge of the Independ-
ent Order Sons OF Benjamin, resolved not
TO permit the use of its name in connec-
ton with politics. This decision was ar
rived at at a meeting of the board to-day,
at which resolutions were adopted repudi-
ating any attempt to make use of the order
for political purposes. This action was
taken because 1t was said an attempt had
been made to represent the order as op-
posed to the candidacy of Senator Hill.