New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-10-17
ALTGELD NEAR THE END
EXTINCTION OF AN UNsAvoRY PUBLIC
-- CAREER ASSURED.

LEAVING lGL1 NhN'"H"h
IN u.LINoIs-1HE RISE IN WHEAT
AFFECTS THE CAMPAIGN.
IBY TELEGRAPH To THE TRiBuNEl
Chicago Oct 16--Governor Altgeld has gone
20 New-York to make speeches on an invitation
which Tammany repudates. Precisely what he
seeks to accomplish by this step is open to con
lecture. A few weeks ago he loudly boosted
that he would live to pull Bryan through" In
Illinois. To-day II looks as If he would not
only fail Ito pull through" himself, but he
beaten by majority such as no candidate for
Governor was beaten by before. The Republi-
can State Committee claims that Illinois VIII be
carried for Mckinley by nearly 100000 Less
cautious judges Of the situation estimate the
majority for Mckinley in Cook County alone at
$4,000 and in the rest Of the State at no less
than $1,000 giving a total of $4,000. The least
sanaune estimates figure on a Republican ma
tority of $4,000 for the State. Even Popocrstc
campaign managers admit in private that the
State is lost to Bryan.
The probabilities are that Altgeld Will run
slightly ahead of Bryan. This is largely based
upon the belief that many German voters will
give him their support for sentimental reasons.
A. small number of people who are opposed TO
the free coinage of silver but yet approved his
course during the great railroad strike, may
also do so. The support of these people may
put Altgeld ahead of Bryan by about 10000
votes 1t will not be sufficient, however to
bring about the election Of Atged and McKin-
lev. a result more or less freely pre- licted some
time ago. upon the supposition that the cam
patgn would develop material to trade on
This, it has been proved conclusively. was an
illusory hope. The Republican majority Will
he TOO large to make a dicker in votes either
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cratic headquarters indulge in a graveyard
whistle by declaring that Governor Altgelds
absence in New-York at this critical time is to
be interpreted a certain sign that he, the
Governor feels absolutely sure of carrying the
State or else he would not leave it upon
bootless and Quixotic errand into 1.-The enemys
country" The most natural construction to
ba placed upon the Governors absence is. or
course that he has about given up all hope, ana
that he returns to Chicago to play weeks
engagement only for the sake of appearances
and to save his machine from falling TO pieces
altogether.
NO ANSWER TO Mr.. FORMANs QUESTIONS.
Governor Atged has been making great
many speeches in the course of the last rev
weeks but in none has he answered any OF the
questions asked of him by Mr. Forman, MS
competitor on the National Democratic ticket
Mr. Forman has asked Mr. Atged. over and
over again, II he has not borrowed state funds'
II he was not assisted by Hinrichsen and Durfee
in taking I'D his due bills: if he did not permit
the vaults OF the State Treasury to lie opened
between the time of the death Of the Treasurer
and the qualification Of his successor. contrary
10 law: il he did not appoint as Treasurer the
son of Ramsay, who was defaulter: If he did
not remove the Superintendent Of the Illinois
AsylLm for Feeble Minded Children because he
would not lend Altgeld the funds Of that insti-
tuition; If he did not ask for the resignation OF
the Treasurer of the Anna Insane Asylum Tor
a similar reason: IL ne has not borrowed num-
dreds Of thousands of dollars and paid interest
thereon at and ! per cent contrary to law;
and lastly if he has not permitted large sums
Of money appropriated for the maintenance OF
State institutions 10 be Withdrawn from the
Treasury before It was needed. to be deposited
in his pet banks.
These are the questions Mr.. Forman has asked
and Mr. Altgeld has failed to answer. The
people Of Illinois naturally worked up over
this matter. They have been hearing Forman
make these charges all over the State. They
have noticed that AltCeld makes no attempt
to answer them. Voluble to everything ese
he Is as silent as a clam on these grave accu-
Stations against him. And yet there is nothing
the people of Illinois are more curious to find
out about than this. and though appeal after
appeal Is fired al Altgeld he cooy takes the
train for New-York and keeps his friends
guessing as to the truth or falsity Of these
charges 1t Is a strange indifference on his part.
THE BOY ORATOR" COMES WHEN HE is
CALLED.
But Governor Atgeld is strangely Indifferent
to public opinion. He seems to think that he
IN above referring to such accusations. 1t
IL noticed too, that since the Chicago COnven-
ton, a body almost controlled by him. he has
assumed lordy airs which make it difficult for
pcople to get along with him. He assumes to
have acquired proprietary rights in Bryan. for
instance, which he is at no pains to conceal,
and the display of which serves only to irri-
tate the boy Orators" friends. Thus il is re-
lated that while sitting in his room at the Cliff
ton House on his last visit to Chicago. Bryan
was suddenly called by the ring Of the telephone
ana stepping to the instrument the following
words dropped from his lips:
Hello, hello! Oh. beg pardon, is that you.
Governor? Yes. At the Unity Building. you
say Yes. will be right over to see YOU Good
by"
And much to the surprise OF the circle of
friends gathered in his room. the Democratic
candidate for the Presidency Immediately took
his cane and hat and marched over to the office
of Governor Altgeld in the Unity Building. on
Dearborn-st. whittier he had been summoned
1t Is not surprising that man who can order
Presidential possibilities about in this fashion
should occasionally be discovered by his friends
walking with his head In the clouds.
A RADICAL EXODUS TO AFRICA
The Altgeld candidacy serves every now and
then to revive the memories Of the Anarchist
troubles in Chicago. A pathway straight 10
johannesburg in the Transvaal is being cut by
the old radicals, and 1t is said that If the exodus
keeps UP for another month this city will see
the last Of the men who in the past were called