The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-04

through the theater. but others came
BY door thar opened directly upon
a back street. business certainly was
rushing for him there at II O'Clock,
hut he met his lieutenants and attend
ed to their errands methodically and
calmly. They stood around waiting
turns. and he went about among
them, never becoming seated.
The close of this campaign is like
the wind-up of a football game or the
finish Of a horse race said he.
"A Garrison finish p
"a Garrison finish" repeated the
man who has attended q race or two
himself. A smile lighted up his lean,
i1npaSSiVe countenance as he said it.
u know nothing about the situa-
ton i'm New York" Mr.. McCarren,
continued, although | hear the Dem
ocratic reports are very good from
New Jersey and Connecticut We
shall carry Brooklyn by a good ma
iority. The entire city will roll up
a very big Democratic vote; the State
will go Democratic on State and ma
tional tickets
I'VE always make a vigorous cam
paign here in Brooklyn he added.
and that is what We are doing right
now. Trusts and COrtC!youism are
the issues we are driving home.
Judge Parker is emphasizing them
very effectively, and the voters are
taking notice Of them.
Hugh Mclaughlin TabOces Politics.
Some two or three blocks away from
this office, where Senator McCarren,
slender and neatly attired, was all ac =
tiVitv i'm supervising a Brooklyn cam
paign. was a heavy set man in the
luxuriously furnished parlor of his
brownstone es,dence. He was in his
shirt sleeves. His Weli-rounded head,
with its white hair and white side
whiskers, were reminiscent OF the
NoCdcuts one sees of Charles Sum-
.ner. He shuffled rather than walked,
and his manner was probably more
grouchy than he intended it to be.
This was Hugh Mclaughlin, onCe
the Democratic boss, whom McCarrcn
deposed.
1.-THE papers are too full Of suicides,
and murders. and shootlnSS for dlSap-
pointments in love to make it worth
while to discuss politics" said he adj
herring firmly to his statement ana
speaking somewhat enigmaticalIy.
Mr.. Mclaughlin, before returning to
his cOzy corner, warmed to a little
anecdote about an Irishman named
mike" who said the world treated
him better than the people in it.
Parker's Stanchest Champion.
But of more interest just now than
McCarren or Mclaughlin to people in
the greater city are DR.. st. Clair Nc
Kelway and his aged statistician, who
is preparing a final poll of the cleo
ton Dr. McKelway, editor of the
Brooklyn Eagle and many years the
intimate friend of Grover Cleveland,
is largely sponsor for Parker, whom
McCarren worked so earnestly to
nominate. Following his rule in such
matters, DR.. McKelway declined TO
give a political interview. He says
edtorially all he has to say on such
topics But it IS known that he is
very confident that Parker will roll
up surprising vote in Eastern States.
The Eagle office, always conservative,
feels certain of New York State. also
of the commuters in New Jersey and
Connecticut oVerturning all Republic
can calculations. Conditions have
changed greatly in those two States
since 1892. Thousands of commuters
fnsm New York have gone there to
dwell and in sufficient numbers, it is
claimed to hold the balance of power
1t is to secure their votes Parker con-
scented to make speeches outside this
State.
\ FOrecaster with Record.
The Eagles statistician is William
c. Hudson. an aged man, who was
many years political writer. He has
a method of computation all his own
and largely secret, but his accuracy
in forecasts is little short of wonder
full. He was making polls as early as
1882, when he foretold CleVelandS
election as governor by a tremendous
majority. His figures were only few
thousand under what the vote ac-
tually was. Last year, when every
body else went wrong by fCrecasting
Lows reelection, he figured it out
that Mcclellan would even carry
Brooklyn. something that was sup
posed impossible. His figures We're
So surprising that the Eagle feared
to print them and required some modi-
fication. The old man Indignantly
locked his original estimate in the
safe, and after the election had Vindi
Gated him in every particular brought
them forth triumphantly. This time
he has been given free hand. and
the paper will print his conclusions,
whether they favor Democrats or Re-
publicans. His dual forecasts will be
entirely separate from last Sundays
figures, which made the Democratic
politicians jubilant. He has hidden
himself away this week somewhere
been sent to 5000 voters in New
York city proper and to 10000 voters
IN BROOKLYN. On the returns from
these he will base his statements of
the outcome.
Mr.. Hudson is by no means an OBJ
scure man. He is widely known
among prominent New Workers and
was State railroad commissioner
under Governor Cleveland
One of DOckery's Stories.
At the Fifth Avenue Hotel TODAY
was Representative Foster. the Yer
| mont orator, whom the national COM
mlttee has sent around the circuit
lie has journeyed as far West as Mis-
souri,, where he learned an anecdote
from Governor Dockery. 1t is about
the farmer who killed a deacon's dog.
with the sharp end of pitchfork, and
Who when reproved because he didn't
use the blunt end, retorted that the
dog didn't attack him with blunt
emf.
Il supposed the anecdote was new"
SAID Mr.. Foster, "but the funny thine,
about it was that Dockery had been
using it TO justify his vigorous attacks
upon the Republican party. He pre-
coded me at two or three meetings
and | adopted the same story to show
why | sailed vigorously into the DEM
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