The evening times., 1898-10-19
BELMONT Sees VICTORY
His Confident Letter Read at
Tammany Halls Meeting.
LAST NIGHTS GATHERING
Colonel ROoseveIt's Record on the
Labor Question-one of the Mag
tstrates Appointed by Mayor
Strong Gives Captain McCuIIagh u
Knockout Blow.

| New York, Oct. 19.-The Tammany
| Hall ratification meeting last evening
| gave solid utterance to one thing. 1t
! showed that the organization is stronger,
more firmly united and better equipped
| for work than il has been for many
/ years. 1t showed that there are no dif-
ferences between Democrats and that
! every man in the party who has ever in
terested himself in giving practical work
! in the cause of party success, great or
little though his influence be, has his
shoulder to the wheel with no intention
of yielding particle of energy until the
closing of the polls on election day. 1t
was an inclement night for men to be
out, particularly for those who were
unable because of the multitude to get
into the hall and were forced to attend
the out-of-doors overflow meetings, but
voters were there in solid masses.
Predictions of "a Triumph.
Never were speakers more confident in
their predictions of victory next month
! than were the orators last night Elliot
/ Danforth, whom many had expected TO
be nominated at Syracuse, struck key
note when he said that the State must
/ be ruled by sense and not sentiment; by
! thoughtful forethought and not by hys-
/ teric echoes of the cheers given by
! charging soldiers on San Juan Hill. he
was confident of Democratic victory.
and in this respect there was not an Ut
! terance that differed with his.
A letter was read from Perry Belmont,
who said: Mr. Van Wyek is as certain
10 be governor of the State of New York
as is the fact that the present governor
! is not candidate for reelection. While
we Democrats are demanding low taxes.
home rule and uniform charter proyis-
! ions for all cities of the same class the
! Republican party is vulnerable on many
! issues, upon any of which it would meet
overwhelming defeat; the force bill, the
Raines law, the National Guard, the in
famous and already admitted canal
frauds II is not the first time there has
been an exposure of this kind in New
York What GOV. Tilden did in 1875 and
1876 by the Investigation Of the canal
ring and The punishment of the guilty
political party, Gov. Van Wyck will do in
! 1893. with the help of a Democratic legis-
lature.
These words are very significant. Mr.
| Belmont has not been in the habit of
/ forecasung events without solid
( grounds for his convictions, and results
have generally proved their verify.
Roose .cIt an ERemy to Labor
Managers OF the Democratic campaign
! are attacking Col. Roosevelt on his labor
record. A statement was issued yester-
day from headquarters showing how the
colonel failed, while member of the as
sembly, to vote for important legislation
favored by the labor unions of the State.
Ii declares that on February 13, 1883, he
voted against advancing what was known
/ as the convict labor law, and also voted
10 defeat the bill upon its final passage In
/ the assembly on February q, 1883
The statement details the efforts which
| We're made by the workingmeu and the
| labor unions throughout New York State
TO secure the passage of the law TO pre-
| vent conyicts in the State prisons from
| manufacturing materials and supplies
The statement also alleges that Col
Roosevelt on Friday, May l. 1883, AS
shown by the records of the vote in the
I assembly journal, page 1888 voted against
the senate bill to provide for submitting
| 10 the electors of the State the plan TO
abolish contract labor in the State pris-
ors. The circular continues as follows:
Labor people united and urged the
passage of the bill. II did pass the
Senate but was defeated In the assem-
bly, by a vote OF IS to 3, and Roosevelt
voted squarely against it, besides fight
ing IL in the committee.
These two bills We're the only i'm
portant ones which organized labor had
introduced in the legislature in 1888, and
4 Roosevelt not only voted against these
labor measures. bu: sturdily and steadily
fought them at every point. At no time
did he champion the cause of labor. He
showed his antagonism every time a la
Dor measure came up. He openly defied
the labor representatives, and gave them
10 understand he was not in sympathy
with anything that would ameliorate the
condition of labor. Now he poses the
friend of the wage workers, but his as
| sembly record is against him. Can organ
iZed labor support such man?
IF he was an enemy of organized la
| Dor in 1888 he is today and cannot be
| trusted by the workingmen.
a NcCuIIngh Theory Exploded.
Magistrate Kudlich. who is one of May
or Strong's appointees. in the Essex Mar
! ket Police Court yesterday. gave decis-
ion which made Supt. McCullagh speech
less with astonishment, and which, if ii
is not overruled is likely to have a tre-
mendous effect on registration in the
lodging house districts. He ruled that a
man who paid for a room in a lodging
house one night more than thirty days
before election, and declared that the
lodging house was his place of residence
had the right TO register and vote
This decision was made in the case OF
Louis Harris. who was arrested by one
of McCullagh's deputies when he pre-
5ented himself for registration. Harris
who is thirty-two years old, hired a