Birmingham age-herald., 1894-10-07
NEW YORK POLITICS. Brief Resume of the Great Battle
 Now On.
HILLS ABLE LEADERSHIP
Called Into Play and Reconci!- iation Must Be Eff ected.
 The Result in Doubt.

To the Age -Qerald:
 NEW YORK, Got. 4.-The conditions of New York state and city politics are more than usually interesting, and marked by more than the interdependencs of munich pal and state politics.
 The two great parties have each placed their strongest men at the head of the state tickets, aud the masters of state organiza- ton on both sides were never more alive to the strength of the opposition.
 T. o. Patt is in full control of tie re- publican state macnine, and David B. Hill is at the helm in his own behalf, and the battle of the giants will soon be on.
 In the country there is no feature to the campaign. The repu ublicans will probably come to Harlem river with their usual ma jority, but it is doubtful if they will be able 10 hold majority greater than the normal, as Hill has already effected recon ciliation between the regulars and the anti-snappers in the up country centers, and he is in this city today using all his re- sourceful tactics trying to force Tammany to do what he is said to have tried and failed to secure at the Saratoga convention, and that is a union of the Fairchild Grace element In this city with Tammany in the support of the state ticket.
 New York city and Brooklyn is the real u, u now skillfuily maneuvering for advantage in recruiting their armies, building de- fehses and fortifyng for the battle of the bqllots in Novem Der.
 The conditions are unique and never more uncertain, owing to the defeat of the democrats in the last state election and the moral crusade inaugurated by Dr. Park hurst and now being prosecuted by the Isxow com mmittee against the police de- partinent of New York city.
 The defeat of the democrats in the state last year was traceable to several causes. In the first place, the nomination of Judge Maynard for the bench was a stupendous political blunder. Whether rightly or wrongly, Judge Maynard's course in the matter of election returns was against the moral sentiment of the state, and more than 200, ,000 democrats repudiated his nom- ination Tor judicial preferment by staying at home and refusing to vote, and still others of the bolder independents openly fought and votsd against the ticket on Mhynard's account.
 Ia the second place, the country was studying the .sobiect lessons', of 1893, and wae in revolt at tue course of financial and tag fl Legislation.
 adustries were dead ,, and idle.men and blame for their suffering and privation at the, door of the ruling administration at Washington. The great mass of the Amer icah voters have learned to depend upo governmental and legislative action as the changing contingency on which the in shall live or die. The never ending agita- tioh of the questions of financs and the tariff gives just ground for this feeling, and the loss in billions of wages and 1n- creased debts and interest and decreased land values, the unprecedented low range of all agricultural products and of the prod- ucts of the mines aud industries of the country is the simple home truth that gives justification to the sense of resentment which has led to revolt in all the state elections held in the past year.
 Things have gone wrong and the Amer ican habit of exercising the right to regis ter kick in the quickest, easiest and simplest way has found expression at the ballot box, and whether right or wrong the kick has been made where the toe of the boot of the American voter could Iand with certain effect. Unfortunately the democratic party was in position to catch the toe of the aforesaid boot, and it has caught it right along at every opportunity since the sons of Uncle Sam have been in the kicking mood.
 Some improvement has come, and busi- ness is in some degree better than 1t was; confidence is in some degree restored; there are fewer hungry men and women, not SO many free loaf funds being collected for the starving people, and not so many soup houses are required for the people as were necessary when.the last election was held in New York; there are fewer idle men. Just how much influence this partial change will work in the coming election is the one silent and unknown factor. < The effect of national legislation is being averted as far as it can be by the New York democracy in the very clear and ringing arraign nment in its platform of the national republican administration, and of the thirty years of republican legislation. which is to be followed by a campaign of ed ucation through the press, from the platform and through the channels of party organization, and if this were all the tactful and resourceful leader of the demo- cratic ticket, David B. Hill, would proba- ply win, notwithstanding the fact that Platt and his vigorous organization is us- ing all the ingenious arguments at his easy command to assail the democratic ad- ministration for it's incapacity and demo- cratic Legislation for it's follies in the tariff bill.
 TAMMANY HALL AS A FACTOR.
 The great difficulty, however, iu the sit uaJion is the fact that, Tammany and it's administration of the municipal govern ment of the city of New York is on the de- fensive, and unfortunately the moral sen- timent of the city is more than for many years arrayed against 1t.
 The admitted facts in the disclosures in the police department of the city has afoused public sentiment to degree where many thousands of accessions from the Democratic ranks, 50 far as the municipal ticket is concerned, and the revolt IS likely to assume such proportions that 1t may cause another Waterloo to the state ticket unless Senator Hill shall succeed in forcing Harmony by securing the printing of the names ofthe state ticket on the reform