Evening star., 1900-10-16

in that aristocratic section of the city who
is willing to vote for the democracy of
Bryan and Croker except, perhaps, o. III.
P. Belmont. But the key to the situation
here, said before, is really held by the
proprietors Of the saloons, the shops and
the stores on both sides of Central Park.
Here the evidence is not so overwhelming
in favor of Bryan. The leaders of thought
and action, the centers of wealth, fashion
like 5th avenue excepted, divide more
evenly Flags and banners fly for Mcktn-
ley and Bryan on the back streets with a
broad impartiality. Some men are even SO
catholic in their political views that they
hang out banners and pictures in favor of
both Mckinley and Bryan. AS one jour-
neys northward toward the Harlem river
the ratio of Mckinley supporters increases.
The City il Democratic.
One thing, however, Is certain. New York
city cannot be depended upon to support
Mckinley. 1t is Bryanite to the core. 1t Is
believed 1t will even send a free silver rep
resentative to Washington from the Wall
street district. But for the fact that both
republicans and democrats agree that
Greater New York is lost to Mckinley, it
would be absurd to even think of the demo-
Gratis predicting hundred thousand plu-
rality for Bryan. when only four years
ago Brooklyn and New York were rs safe
for Mckinley as Maine Vermont. But
the thirty-six electoral votes of the empire
or Long Island either, for that matter.
Save for eruptions in spots like jamestown
and Niagara county, the wild theories of
the farmers alliance which now hold the
metropolis of the western world in the hOl-
low of their hand have not made any in
roads UP the state. Erie county, in which
Buffalo is located, is doubtful. But Albany
and Troy and Rochester and Syracuse are
swinging back into the republican column.
There is not the slightest evidence to show
that Mckinley will stop at the Harlem
river with less than a hundred thousand
plurality. Can Croker and Bryan pulling
together go up to the Harlem with a hum
dred thousand plurality? Not unless they
can turn the Tammany machine IL the GEN.
trail and northern portions of the city into
organizations as radical and as anarchis-
street. Can they do this? Not so long as
they have the wealthy, scholarly, culti-
waited governing classes who live on upper
9Th avenue and on Morningside Heights to
deal with Not even Croker's aristocratic
democratic club, located on 9th avenue
under the shadows Of the cathedral, would
stand for that kind of democracy. The
Bryanite raid on the empire state will stop
at 14th, or at the very worst at 23d street.
The Situation Upstate.
AS to the situation upstate, Col. Lowell
H. Jerome, who was deputed by the repub-
lican national committee month ago to
test the popular feeling throughout the
state, has reported at national headquar-
tiers. He says that he has visited more
than half the counties in the state, and has
talked with politicians ''of all stripes and
shades"
"As result of my inquiries" he went en-,
II have no hesitancy in saying that the
upstate republican vote will equal If not
excel that OF 1895. The republicans are all
working especially hard to get theirs out.
All their organizations are completed, and
are in splendid working order. There ia
absolutely none Of that feeling OF apathE