Evening star., 1898-11-05
PARTY LINES DRAWN
Personality Of Candidates Will Not
Decide in New York.
EFFECT ABOUT EVENLY BALANCED
The Result Tuesday Will Settle
States Place Politically.
ROOSEVELT CLOSING CANVASS


New York has got down about as close to
| party lines this time as it ever does. New
York can safely be put in the list of repub-
lcan states hereafter If Roosevelt is
elected.
The issues in the campaign while numer-
Gus, are not broad enough to cover the
whole state. They have to be punched. and
then the upshot of it is that the democrats
are on one side and the republicans on the
other with very small floating or erratic
vote to be considered. Practically all dem
ocrats who have not resolved to be classed
permanently as republicans or at least to
sever forever their connection with the
democratic party. are going to vote for Van
Wyck. The men who in the last presden-
tial election called themselves gold demo-
Gratis are for Van Wyck. Only those who
cropped the name democrat are against him.
Ihe question, therefore, is whether or not
New York has become a republican state
IL the democrats do not carry it now they
cannot nope TO do so on presidential cleo
tioh. lhey are stronger by reason of the
absence of direct nationa, issue Manv
of those who are supporting Van Wyck
would not vote for a democratic candidate
for President.
Van Wyck Personally Popular. .
Contrary to the general opinion outside
the state, Van Wyck's personality counts
1or as much among the class Of men who
nave big interests and who often. if not
usually distrust the democratic party, as
does Roosevelt's war record count with the
younger and more mpressionable element
me i ne ich-fa!ked.of money power and
corporation combine" is not opposed to
van Wy,h. Other considerations aside
trey prefer him to Roosevelt; but for the
most part men of this class will DIVIDE On
the old party lines of "befcre 'D6'
Inc situation is therefore
no serious dfs& ffection apparent in either
rarty. What there is, is Individual and not
by class. "
The reports received by the republican
committee state that in the various pra-
c'ncts two or three or five or a dozen DEM
oerats In this precinct or that are going to
vote Tor Roosevelt, on account of their on
position to Crokerism; but practically none
OF the democratic vote is affected by ma
tonal issues. Where the disaffections ara
reported theI are on account of local CON
s'deratlons, Chiefly of a personal character
IN the city of New York there is no evil
dence of republican disaffections even Of
this minor character. Each party claims
that there are dfsaffections in the other I'm
the state, but again, not disaffections bt,
class. Probably both are correct III Their
c!alhlS In the rural districts these indi-
Vidual disaffections are probably confined
to democrats exclusively. In the cities tbev
are on botl sides.
Along the Canal.
dred and eighty, I belieye-perhans tho
republicans will lose more of their votes
than Will the democrats, for the canal
question is a live one with the peonle di-
rectly along the line 1t is rot so much \
moral question as one of 'self-interest The
expenditure of a large sum of money ex-
traVagantly, or even dishonesty would
not necessarily excite a general indignant
protest. a certain amount oc dishonesty
vital question seems to be whether a share
OF IRE squandered money goes into the
communities along the route.
1t is said that the chief reason for com-
plant now is that very little of the money
alleged to have been squandered found its
way into the trade of these cities and
towns. 1t is questionable whether in To-
caites far enough away from the canal
to make the issue merely a moral one it
will count for much in the campaign The
view Of the voter will depend much upon
the party he belongs
The personal liberty, or excise issue, cuts
some both ways i'll the larger cities and
benefits only the republicans in the rural
districts. The democrats have been care
full not to send any literature On this SUBJ
1ect into the rural districts. In the cities
they probably derive net advantage
since. while some votes will be lost on the
ground that a curtailment of license is
beneficial to the community. there are
probably more who resent any Interference
1t is mistake. however to assume that
the German vote is going to be gathered in
as whole on this issue. II was 4 political
mistake for the democrats to single the
Germans out particularly as the class that
demand wide-open'' town. The fact is
that the personal liberty people are not
distinguished by nationality. nor do all
the Germans sympathize with the wide
open town proposition. Those who do
rot. resent being classified by nationality.
therefore, by max ng the classica ion the
democrats lose some of the German vote
they would otherwise get
Croker Lacks Frankness
1t is said that Croker has not been en- |
tirely frank in his defense against the
charge of trying to control the judiciary, !
which has grown out of the failure of the
democrats to renomnate Justice DAILY He
has disclaimed any personal influence in
the matter, and charged Daily with being
a corporation man. Some democrats say !
that If he had given the real controlling |
reason for the dropping of DAILY the party |
would not have been as much hurt bv the |
issue that been made of it by the bar as
sociation. This reason, it is said was that |
DAILY was not general enough in his dis |
tributon of refereeships. Being appointed
referee by the court is a great help to |
young lawyers when their practice is not |
quite enough to pull them through 1t is |
said that DAILY instead of distributing these |
favors, gave them always to just two men, |
friends of his, and never gave any of the |
struggling young lawyers show and 1t |
was for this that Tammany turned him |
down.
AS Senator Aldrich said yesterday, there |
is little doubt that both parties are sincere |
in expecting victory on Tuesday. The re- |
publicans have not been quite as sanguine
in truth, as the democrats, but they are /
gaining confidepce and are going to the fin |
ish as if they had no doubt of winning.
They undoubtedly suffered some disap-
pointment as to the lasting strength of the |
soldier campaign. Other soldiers, and the
friends of other soldiers. do not seem to
take to the idea of Roosevelt being made
such a hero of. But recovering from this
disappointment Mr.. Roosevelt's supporters
are now basing their hopes on more SUBJ
stantial grounds. Confident of big vote
up state they are making a good fight to
reduce the democratic majority this side of
the Bronx, by a telling canvass in Kings /
Queens and Richmond counties
Campaign is About over,
The work of the two campaign committees
is over, and the campaign viii lie wound mn
with whirl here tonight. Roosevelt is go
ing through the Bowery tonight. Last nigh,
there was IL rousng Italian parade and
demonstration in front of tie Fifth Avenue
Hotel in his honor. Roosevelt was on The