Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-10-26
Democrats Maxine desperate Effort
to Garry the District.
REPUBLICANS ARE WORKING, TOO
Figures Based ogbe Late Election
for Mayor.
DEMOCRATS Csc COERCION
special Correspondence of The Evening Star

| Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
| NEW YORK, October %, 1900.
| There will be desperate effort in the
| closing days of the campaign to swing
| Brooklyn into line for Bryan With this
| object in view Bourke Cochran will be sent
| over there after the Bryan meeting of Mon
day. and he will address several meetings
in Kings county The republicans are brac-
ing themselves to meet the attack. They
feel that they have the county safe for Nc
Kinley now, and they are going to work
| like beavers to keep 1t so. Gov. Roosevelt
| will be in Brooklyn on the night chosen for
| the Cochran attack. Roosevelt is to close
| the campaign for the republicans and Cock
| ran for the democrats They will be the
| two giants on whom The republicans and
| the democrats rely to make the final strug-
| gle in Kings county Both are to be in
Brooklyn on Friday night of next week.
| Arrangements have been completed for
| the monster demonstrations of Roosevelt
and Bryan tomorrow and Saturday nights
| respectively. The Roosevelt reception prom
| ises to be the greatest event of the kind
| ever seen in this county. The center of the
demonstration will be the Madison Square
| Garden, which will be the scene of ire
mendous rally. Republicans from all parts
Of the county will be here. The feature of
| this great movement is to be eighteen big
| street professions by torchlisht The SER
| vices of half a hundred brass bands have
| been engaged for this part of the demon
| ration alone. Other brass bands will be
inside the garden. as well as the outdoor
| meetings. Gen. Francis V. Greene presi-
| dent of the county committee, will preside
| inside the garden, and the speakers will be
United States Senator William P. Frye of
| Maine, Solicitor General John K Richards
| Of Washington, Charles s. Fairchild, ex-
Secretary Of the Treasury during President
Cleveland's first administration; ex-Gov.
| Frank s. Black State Chairman BENJAMIN
| r he
| governor. and Gov. Roosevelt.
| Bryan Reception Program
For the reception Of Mr.. Bryan on the fol-
| lowing night, the program will be practi-
| cally the same as that carried out on the
| occasion Of his last visit, little more than
a week ago. The democratic presidential
candidate will come to the city under the
auspices of the National Association of
| Democratic Clubs.
Mr.. Bryan will make his first address of
the evening at the athletic club Coroner
Antonio yucca will preside at this meeting
and the audience will beucomposed almost
entirely Of Italians.nL Leaving the athletic
club, Mr.. Bryan will proceed across Astor
| place to Cooper Union, Where he will ad-
dress the German mass meeting that is to
be presided over by Louis Weyland. Mr..
| Bryan will not speak first at Cooper Union,
Of Chicago; DR.. Hebron, the great German
| orator of the west, and Congressman Sui
ger There will be very large, chorus of
male voices and hundred "yodelers.' Be
fore Mr.. Bryan reaches Madison Square
Garden the meeting will have been called
to order by Arson Phelps Stokes. The star
speakers will be w. Bourke Cochran, Sena-
tor Wellington of Maryland and David B.
| HILL Mr.. Bryan is. due lat the garden at
$50 o'clock. About 1870 clock he Is to be
driven to Madison Sauare Park. where
| meantime Mayor Josiah Quincy of Boston;
Augustus Thomas, the playwright; John M.
| Tomlinson, the Alabama lawyer; Franklin
Quinby. Walter M. Chanler, Congressman
| William sSulZer, George W. Savage, sec
rotary of the Young Mems Democratic
League; Isaac. B. Smith. Horace Greeley's
Son-in-law, and Thomas F. Conway, the
democratic candidate for attorney general.
will have spoken. Mr. Bryan will address
two outdoor gatherings in the park
Figures on the Campaign.
The figuring stage in the campaign has
been reached, and while 1t is hard to esti-
| mate the vote of Greater New York, the
following forecast, made by a well-known
| New York city politician. is interesting:
Taking the Van Wyck, Low and Tracy
vote of the election of 1897 as a basis. it
would seem that the chances of Mckinley
carrying the county are better than those
of Bryan. Van Wyck polled 1865, Low
| 77,21O and Tracy 1854. making a majority
for Van Wyck over the combined vote IN
| New York county of Low and Tracy of TO-
622. All of the Tracy votes were solid.
rock-ribbed republicans which will GER
| tainly go for Mckinley! The Low vote was
that of independent republicans and hide
| pendent democrats. All of the Independent
| republicans will vote for Mckinley, and there
certainly will not be more than 1000 Of the
Low vote which will go for Bryan Henry
George, jr., received 1900. OF this num-
Der add 1900 to Bryan. If Bryan receives
| all the Van Wyck votes. the 1000 Of the
Low vote and the 5000 Of the George vote,
1t would make his majority about 26.OOO on
the basis of the vote polled in 1897. OF the
vote Van Wyck received there were at
| least 1900 cast by the sporting fraternity
and the theatrical interests because they
| believed in an open town. These people are
now all very prosperous and want condi-
tfons to remain as they are. and therefore
| will vote for Mckinley. There was also
| large number of business men who voted
for Van Wyck who believed in having at
| fractions Of all kinds in the city of New
| York that would bring their country GUS
toners here to see the town. This business
interest almost to a man Is for Mckinley.
What the Registration Shows.
Another element that must be taken into
consideration, the abnormally large in
crease in registration, is certainly anti
| Tammany in its character. The Tammany
Hall vote is registered every year, whether
| 1t be general election an of-year elec-
| ton. The vote that does not come out, as
a rule is the business mems vote. This
year that vote is coming out, and every one
| knows what that means. While of the two
| Tammany Is far stronger as a machine.
still the organized business of the city Is
stronger yet, and this interest Is all work
| ing for Mckinley. In 1895 there were q
great many men out of work. and today
there are comparatively few, Take, for in
stance, the painters, trade. In 1895 and
1896 there were fully 1000 out of $500
members out of employment. This year
there is not a single, Jpepber of the union
desiring work who 1snnof engaged. Natur-
ally man having eHpIayment and doing
| "a change.
strongest element q3f the whole situation
which inures to the bepsfit of Mckinley is
| the undue prominence shown by Croker in
| taking the whole management Of the cam
paign in the state In his own hands. 1t
makes anti-democratsr feel that the election
of Bryan will mean the giving Of the fed
eral patronage to rCrokeH to the detriment
Of the anti-Croker dsmecEats There are in
York any number Of pptircroker democrats
who can see in the defeat of Bryan in this
are going to take Advantage Of this oppor-
tunity. There are, many other elements