Evening star., 1898-11-07

straight in the face. The beer and uouor
interests in the upstate cities were com
pihed solidiy against Roosevelt and that
In Rochester, Buffalo, Troy Syracuse and
other cities the ticket was going to be bad
ly cut.
This brewers vote and the votes under
the influence of the brewers, which has
oeen with US in these sections, is organized
against US now" said he. Money is be-
ing put up freely and it is going to cost
Roosevelt lot of votes. Every bar room
and beer saloon up in that section is a
democratic headquarters"
He said further that along the line of the
canal the canal issue had been used very
effectively by the democrats and would cost
many votes to the republicans. He said
that his only hope to overcome this was
that gold democrats would vote for Roose-
welt. Unless Roosevelt got a good-sized
gold democratic vote, he said. his majority
upstate would be greatly reduced. For
instance, in Monroe county, which the re-
publicans claim by 5000. he said he did rot
see how they could get more than 300,
and that they would probably lose Erie
county. Altogether, he took very gloomy
view of the situation, going into great de-
tail as TO his reasons, and winding up with
an expression of belief that Roosevelt
might be saved by big republican gains in
Greater New York.
Summary of the Situation.
After all the claims and the expressions
OF anxiety are sifted down, the best indica-
ticns are that Roosevelt will get an ex-
traordinarily large rural vote, and will get
a considerable democratic vote in parts of
Kings and Queens counties and in New
YORK city, and will lose good many votes
IN Buffalo, Syracuse, Roc hester, Troy and
Albany, that are usually republican. The
losses IN these places may be made up for in
a measure by the votes of young men who
go 10 the polls for the first time this year.
1here is no doubt about Roosevelt being
popular among the first voters in Grea,er
New York, ana it Is fair to assume that
the SAM sentiment extends to young men
up the state.
The claim of republicans that Roosevelt
Will get many Tammany votes here on ac-
count of the unpopularity of Croker with
certain elements of that organization, is
probably rot well founded. The Tammauy
vote is well under control. Whatever demo-
cratic votes he gets will be cast by demo-
Gratis who do not belong to Tammany
mostly young men who have not voted be-
fore, and he may expect to g=t pretty
Sood Irish vote that is not entirely under
Iammany influence 1t is said that he will
get a considerable vote of this class in
Kings county. Democrats tell me that
Roosevelt is popular among the Irish be-
cause they like a fighter.
Fight in Quisg's District.
1t is curious thing but neither party in
New York seems to take any interest in
the cor grcssicnaI election. Democrats
claim all the New York city districts. ex-
cept that now represented by Cuigg. There
the fight is very hot and both sides are
anxious. They also claim all but two in
Brooklyn and the West Chester or six
teenth and the Albany district and put
the Troy and Buffalo districts in doubt.
The republican state committee processes
to have very little Information as to the
congressional districts. Republicans as
sociated with the committee say that Qufgg
and Perry and probably J. NJ. Mitchell will
be elected in New York city, Beiford and
Bennett certainly in Brooklyn. and that
the democrats may carry the Albany, the
Troy, he West Chester and the Buffalo
district, that is, the twentieth the nine
teenth, the sixteenth and the thirty-second
In New York city they concede the proba-
blity of the democrats electing Muller in
the seventh, Bradley in the NINTH Cum
mings in the tenth, Mcclellan in the
twelfth, Sulzer in the eleventh and Rup-
pert in the fifteenth, with a possibility of
Riordan in the eighth. The democrats
claim that Levy's election in the thirteenth
is certain.
AS to the legislature, the democrats make
no serious claims to it. They simply say
that they might get the legislature if there
were landslide, Van Wyck being elected by
a very large majority. They generally con-
cede that their own claims for Van Wyck
would not necessarily carry the legislature.
This is, of course, all the unofficial claims
and admissions. Generally, the republicans
seem more confident than ever of Roose-
velts election, and the democrats are rely
ing almost exclusively on the assurance of
Croker, who doesn't let down a peg.
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