New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-18
NEW-Y0RK STATE SAFE.
REPUBLICANS IRE LOYAL.
Congressman Dzcight Says Demo
cratic Boasts Are GrondLeSS.
IFRoN The TRIBUNE rUREAU.l

! ecy tonight at the Arlington that the Re
! publican plurality in New-York State next fall
would be of old fashioned proportions. and that
the Democrats in the approaching campaign
! would be defeated with comparative ease in
! New-Yorlz State.
| Congressman Dwight represents the XXXth
| District composed OF the counties of Broome,
/ ChenanGo. Cortland, Tioga and Tompkins. He
! Is a close personal friend of Senator Plat, Gov
ernor odell and the President and he attend
! ed the Cabinet dinner tonight. Mr.. Dwight
said:
hear good deal Of talk from my Democratic
/ friends about the decentralization of the Repub-
/ mean machine in New-York State. and about
/ now easily they going to defeat next
! year I have taken good deal of pains to talk
! with every Republican that I know ABOUT his
/ own attitude and about the attitude Of his par
ocular friends. Many Republicans bring rumors
! OF now some other Republicans are going TO de-
| seFt the party, but when I talk with the men
! under suspicion I find that not for instant
ticket. Our Democratic friends will find them
| selves up against the same solid effective or
gantZatiOn in 1904 that hiss run over them with
great regularity IN New York state Tor the last
ten years.
In 1880 the ConkIing-Platt men and their
coleaSUes, making up the immortal 500 de-
handing Grants nomination, went to the Presi-
Dental convention and were captured by the
Sioux. When they came back the air was full of
wrath. and eight out of about every ten Re
publioans declared in favor of the Democratic
candidate whoever he might be Republicans
everywhere said that the organization had gone
10 pieces and that the Democrats would nave
a walkover. I recall that after a great deal or
angry rluttering on all sides, Senator Conkling
made his celebrated trip 10 Mentor, after which
he Unqualihedly Endorsed the nomination of
Garfield Then Garfield swung across the
southern tier Of New-Hork, IN company with
Senator Plat and other Conkling men. and
before our Democratic friends realized it all
the ragged gaps had been closed up and we
presented a solid front TO our antagonists.
That was not all. We elected Garfield that
fan and carried the State of New-York by
1 III, ~TYr Il
OUTLOOK N NEW-YORK.
The outlook in our state now that We are
upon the eve of another Presidential election,
is ten times more hattering than it was in 1880
Certain people have done their level best in
and Governor OdeH. It strikes me that they do
this because primarily they wish 70 injure
President Roosevelt and il possible prevent his
nominate They have failed in their attempts
and will continue 10 fail. In his long record as
a Republican leader in this State Senator Platt
has never advised the Republicans TO knife the
ticket.
I don't know who the Republican candidate
for Governor Of New-yoUk will be next fall I
doubt if anybody else knows at this time. I do
know. however that when the time comes to
nominate him the convention Will pick out a
great big patriotic Republican in whom the
people of the State viii have absolute confidence.
Along with him viii be nominated State
ticket.
Now. not all the candidates on that State
ticket may be admirers Of President Roosevelt
or Governor OdeU but they viii be great ad-
mirers Of themselves, and they viii work for
their own election and the election of the ticket
as whole with undiminished zeal Along with
them Will he full set of Presidential electors
ana alterates and electors at large every one OF
whom Will be anxious to win by handsome
plurality More than that. in fifty Senate dis
tricts will he fifty Republicans who. while they
may not be dead in love with the State or
Presidential tickets. Will be enthusiastic for
their own success, and with old fashioned ardor
viii work early and late 20 out the fun party
vote. Add TO this the efforts of the 100 caudi-
dates for Assembly and various other candi-
Z Il taE ali
/ TO anticipate that the Republican organization
in the entire state viii be found united and en-
thusiastIc-
Up THE STATE
Then there is the federal side Of the question
Pretty nearly every postmaster in the State Of
New-York is Republican. Perhaps 80 per cent
of the rural free delivery postal employees are
Republicans. The postmasters who have been
in Office since 1897 are going to work just as
| hard for the ticket they did four years ago.
and for every federal position there will be
three or four aspiring men who will expect that
after waiting eight years for postmastership.
their patience viii be rewarded For these rea-
sons among others the Republican organization
( in Network will be in just as good fighting
I trim it
of the State. ! can say tTuthfully and positively
that the reorganization miCTObe has terrors
for II does not find a Judgement in our
blood We are recognized all the while We
love the Republican party its record and its
platforms. and we are lust anxious TO per-
petUate its contro! as We ever We're The imam
cial depression prevailing all over this country
from 1893 10 1897 dose of medicine
the people up the State which still tastes bitter
The solid prosperity since 1897 has shown US
the difference between simon pure Democra tic
and simon pure Republican administration. The
before and after experience abldes with And
It VIII abide with our financial brethren in Wall
Street. Let them set over against the generally
satisfactory and wholesome experience of the
last six years the fantastic dreams of men like
Liveruash, Of California, and Baker, of Brook
Ign, who week by week in the House Of Repre-.
sentatiyes exploit The doctrines of the free soup
period of American Industrial history. That OBJ
iect lesson will settle il for them. They will
not Jump out Of what possibly they may deem at
present TO be The financial frying pan into the
fire.
have given considerable time of late to in
vestigating the feeling in the Northwest. where
President James J. Hill OF the Great Northern
for any reason whatsoever is directing anti
Republican auti-ROoseve3t propaganda. The
people Of the Northwest have taken pains to
mental questions. That feeling is strongly Re
publican. ans Mr.. Hin is not doing anything TO
disturb II. No doubt this same drift of sentt-
ment will be revealed in any section Of the
country where our Democratic friends think
thew have discovered Republican decentralization.
Furthermore. we are having our hard shedding
now and Il isn't very hard at that. Our Dem
.lcratic friends are perhaps getting q good deal
OF fun out OF il. Theirs viii begin when snow
shoes are laid away. We viii have our fun at
their expense a. about the time the dove OF
n,eace attempts TO stand with one foot resting
on William Jennings Bryan and the other OH
Arthur Pue German.
r5erhaps it is Just as well for the country that
10 have our laugh then. They cannot point
with rride 10 any platform on which they have
stood IN suv campaign since 1860. 1t is fortu-
80 thing for The people of this nation that the
Republicans are not confronted with a difficulty