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tions had been made. and slight odds
were given on him right down to III,
eve of election. Yet Tiiden beat
Hayes and Cleveland defeated Blaine.
BcttOrS Were Fooled tn the Last.
In 1883. as already said, the final
betting was strongly in Cleveland's
favor. yet Harrison won the election
In 1892 Harrison started cut in the
lead, and was neck and neck with
Cleveland when betting ceased. David
Martin and John l. Hill. representing
the republican national committee.
tried 10 keep up the Harrison bluff TO
the last, pretending to offer 100000
on the republican candidate at mid
night of the eth of November, few
hours before the polls were 10 be
opened. II is impossible TO predict at
this time what may happen between
now and Nov. tending 10 improve or
weaken the democratic prospects. but
friends of the democratic ticket should
not allow themselves to be influenced
by fake betting or by extravagant
claims put forth either in Wall street
registration shall nave been complet-
ed in New York. and the democratic
national committee shall have made its
final summing up. the real betting on
the election will begin. Even then it
may prove a false guide as il did in
1888 and other years. but the one fact
! that stands out prominently now is
| that there is nothing in the situation
70 warrant odds on Roosevelt.
Whenever an offer of heavy odds
on Roosevelt has been made it was
either fictitious. was inspired by the re-
| publican managers or was made by
! reckless enthusiasts who have no bet
tier basis for their judgment that the
IprepOSterOuS claims of those managers.
New York the storm Center and Pivot.
! 1t is becoming more and more evil
dent that, no matter what the Roose-
welt people may say, New York is still
| the pivotal state. While it is true that
| it can easily be shown on paper that
| the republicans could elect their tick
| ct without getting the 80 electoral
votes of New York. the feeling is fast
! becoming universal that the party
which carries New York will triumph
! in the country. If the trend of senti-
| mcnt in New York continues for the
next two weeks 10 grow in favor of
| Parker as ii has grown in the two
just passed. the state will be carried
| by him by plurality so large as to
| inevitably place Connecticut and New
Jersey in The democratic column And
a large democratic plurality in New
| YoTl, has always been indicative of a
| like result in Indiana. The claim that
| Roosevelt will win in New York is
the grea, majorities by which McKin-
| ley carried the state four and eight
years ago. and the common knowledge
! thar the republicans have a perfect or
ganiZatiOn and an enormous corrup-
| ton fund. Thinking persons know that
party lines were obiterated in New
York in those years and that thousands
and tens of thousands of democrats
voted for Mckinley who now are ac-
lively at work for Parker Ninety-fve
per cent of the SO called gold demo
Gratis" are known to be back in the
democratic party.
The pOpulist movement in the state
is apparently of little moment Mr.
Bryan's friends. save a few radicals
here and there. are for Parker. includ-
ing such men as Henry George and
Norman +. Mack. II has been proved
that the republican state machine is
behind the Watson scheme. and that in