The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1897-10-24
FORECAST OF THE RESULT
The QuadranguIar Fight is Be-
tween Two Factions.
MACHINE VS.. ANTI-MACHINE
Tammany Will Elect Van Wyck, and the
State viii Again Be Found in the
Democratic Column.

Special to The Age-Herald.
New York, Oct 29.-The. week in New
York city politics can bass be expressed
by the old adage that birds of a feather
will flock together To the Impartial
observer the greater subdivisions In the
quadrangular fight as to candidates can
be designated as the machine" and the
"anti-machine elements" in New York
politics.
The lines of political organization of
the machine side are repces :nted, on the
one hand by democratic Tammany Hall,
and ON the other by the republican Platt
machine.
The anti-machine people arr represent
ed on the one hand by republican Mr.
Lowe, and on the other hand by demo-
cratic Mr.. George, who has not shown
the wisdom to leave unsa.d his single
tax tn sories in the canvass. The Tam
many machine, of course, all the world
knows, is represented by the Van Wyck
ticket. The Platt machine is represent
ed by the Tracey ticket.
A call at th= headquarters of the
Tracey ticket disclosed the fact that
they are fighting desperately, aided with
all the sinews of war.
Talking with the followers of Mr..
Lowe, who prate about their represent
ing home rule found that the bitterest
reese ntment among tn quasi mugwump
element that is uppermost in the support
of Mr. Lowe, existed against Senator
P1att and his machine and tha republi-
can administration at Washington.
They freely charge that the national COM
mittee has contributed literally from it's
exchequer, and that state and city cor
porations are large contributors, not
only to the Platt machine, but to Tam
many as WILL.
To the onlooker 1t would seem that the
George people have little if any organi-
cation. but large element of the float
ing and labor vote appears to have a
degree of sympathy for the single tax
apostle. Tom L. Johnston seems to be
the dominant force in his support, and is
manager of his campaign.
AT Tammany headquarters there is an
air Of confidence, and abundant evidence
of thorough work, which portends sue
cess, on election day.
The Henry George movement, in my
judgment, has been swept off it's feet
by the trade mad. on the county ticket
with the Lowe people.
1t is freely charged by the anti-ma-
chine element that an understanding has
been arrived at bstween Mr.. Croker on
the one hand, representing Tammany,
and Mr.. Paltt on the other hand, repre-
senting the Platt machine, that Tam
many Hall shall have Greater NV York
in November, and that Mr. Platt shall
elsct his state ticket, but how far this
arrangement, II true, can be made effec-
tive, remains to BE- SEEN Tammany
Hall Is accredited with having all the
funds necessary for campaign purposes.
and 1t is believed that the suspicion is
we'll founded that the great corpora
tiors in New York city and the stats
have made contributions both to Tam
many and to the Platt machines. Ger
tain1y 1t would seem that the rumor that
there is an understanding between
Croker and Plat is q natural one. by all
outward signs the Van Wyck ticket is
now well in the lead. and the smart
New Yorker will not risk more than one
dollar against three that Tamnany will
not win and the Judgment OF your cor
respondent is that Van Wyck will lead
and win In November.
Secretary Bliss, Mr.. Butterworth and
the whole national republican party is
working for Tracey, and on the other,
the wealthy and independent republican
and mugwump vote viii be cast for
Lowe, and most probably vote the DIM
ocratic; national ticket IN 1860. New
York Will again be a5dsmocratic state.