Year: 1875

The Independent voter has become terror TO the pro-
fessiona politician tins year than before and
in section Of the State have obtained better evil
dence OF this fact than this district The counties OF
Cayuga and Wayne have always been strongly republ-
can and il only but very recently that any candidate
not thoroughly died in the wool according the repub
lcan process able to either county
respectable support outside OF his political circle
But things have changed greatly OF late years and al
though the two counties always be relied upon in
time OF danger TO the party to give each large repub
can majority the old feeling Of sticking to party through
thick and thin, who the candidates may be or
what the issue has away, leaving every election
day in most of the towns and of the way places
mote from the towns goodly number of republicans
who vote as they please, regardless of what the wire
pullers may say or the managers threaten This nde
pendence not brought about by any great number of
republicans in Cayuga Wayne suddenly falling in
with the democratic party any Of its pet principles
but differences to local issues and local candidates
were the first underlying causc and every politician
knows that after of the faithful gets into the habit
for two three elections of voting against the regular
candidate OF the party for some local Office he soon
begins to look around for himself during a campaign,
and docs not his won't take tor granted that
because certain candidates nominated and certain
platform is adopted by his party, he, matter OF
course must vote with the party As result Of this
lnucpcnuenCc-Ilaue
stances must confess more like spite and disappont
ment at being staken care of''-Wayne county has
since 1872 been rather uncertain legislative
candidates. and far in 1878 defeat the two
republican nominees for Assembly and, though giving
200 republican majority for the State ticket
gave Cuyler, the democratic competitor of William b.
Woodn for Senatorial honors majority Of S97
Cayuga up the present has been less open the in
fuences Of the ''dscontented,n as the republicans
who always go the whole hog republican can
ddates call tho Independents who won't go and do
likewise when they wanted But the indications
in the two counties just that Wayne county
will not have the almost exclusive credit at the coming
election of doing all the opposition business within the
party lines


WOODEN AND CANDIDACY.


need scarcely tell you that Mr.. Woodin Is again IN
the field for Senator, but it may be news to some
people outside of this district know that his candi
dacy has given occasion to the independent element
anosg the republicans to be up in arms against him
once 1t may be remembered that two years ago
Mr. Woodn elected by the Insignificant majority OF
ass. This fearful fall from the majority he
ceived in 1869 of upwards OF 1000; and when it is
taken into consideration that Dewitt Parsha who
liberal republican, got 79o votes it not to be
wondered at that the woodin blessed their stars
the day after election that there had been three cand
dates in the field. What really saved Woodin in that
election was not the tremendous aid no given by
all the government officials or the questionable
methods adopted in some parts of the district to level
the barriers that were thrown up in his path by re-
pnbsscans, but it was democratic aid and trickery.
Cayuga county wanted great many things that year,
among others arsenal at Auburn, for which
appropriation would have to be made by
tho Legislature, and at the last moment
this Of the potent arguments used by promi-
dam uhnh had hair Tot toi
duce democrats to vote for Woodin His two oppo-
nents Wayne county men, and the idea that
neither Of them would be Of any to Cayuga county
to obtain what she wanted forth with such skill
to win TO his side many who had intended to
oppose him to the bitter end. Not only this, Il. 7.
Ross, the father of the present candidate for State
Treasurer tho democratic State ticket, and even
Charles n Ross himself said TO have, in under
hand way, given Woodn just that assistance which he
needed the most to win BY this assistance, combined
with the notion nstied into the minds Of some that
Parsha and not Cuyler stood the best chance of de-
feating Woodin and by the circulation of which i'm
preston Cuyler's vote was prevented from being
greater than woodns the Senator's return to Albany
secured. But Wayne county cast her vote, by a
good majority against him, notwithstanding and there
after election, 1t stood proof that the ndcpend-
cnts in that county had remained proof against temp
taton 10 the end. The question arises, things
be managed this year by Woodn and his hackers
to appease those republicans who came so
defeating him two years agoP Certainly
Woodn candidate Is open to
the same objections that were made against
him when no before. Republicans who op-
posed to him to day tell the story those who
fought him in November 1873 told then, and they
the same arguments they used then. They point to
the fact that when, in 1862 he first talked Of





why he would not like accept the nomination,
that he could not afford to give up his position Sur
rogate of the county-hs living, in factto 60 to AL.
bany and there pay all his expenses above the
State pttance of $500 year But he did get nominated
and he did accept and now ho is considered wealthy.
"He is not only wealthy said an independent re-
publican to me in speaking Of him. 'but he has money
TO loan now, provided good security is given" sug-
gested that he might have got wealthy by being lucky
in stock specuations real estate. 'Well." the
caustic reply, ~ believe that one of Tweeds
to where he got his mllions-that he mado
in Stock and real estate and he then added GA man
to speculate In stocks ana real estate must have con-
siderable money to begin with It's very strange that
a man in county like this could become wealthy in
three four years without tho becoming known
to his neighbors if it not criminal"


1t this style of argument coupled with the
cusaton he two seemed to 60 togethcrl that Woodin
had voted for nearly all the iniquitous measures
Tweed was interested in, which hurled at him in
the local press and on the stump when Cuyler his
opponent and It is this style of argument and
tion which is being made against him. Rightly or
wrongly, he was classed among the i've Senators
who, Judge Davis openly declared at public meeting,
had been bought up by Tweed Since the election
that declaration made four OF the five have never
come to the surface of politics. and the dem and
republicans III this district believe that because they
failed In 1873 TO get rid Of the nth that is no
why they should not try again have mentioned
how, by


POLITICAL TRICKERY,


Woodn was saved them so II Will be i'm place to show
50 Tar as can from my study Of the situation in tho
district, that the same trickery and means are not
likely TO be applied this year IL Is that Woodn
has "ouilded wol' for success but whether he has
builded better than he knew quite different thing
He managed to get tho Saratoga Convention
70 nominate two mon from his district on
the state ticket, and, with impaTtality
which the sorehonds In MnYnn county ennnl 1nlv 10