Year: 1875

ray, .He's nice old man." and tho young men
say, "He's . good fellow Then the republican
record OF each OF the three countless for years
broken is no obstacle TO overcome and the fact
that Mr.. Schuyler was defeated for the Assembly
in Tompkins county, November, 1877 al, ana was
publican candidates in the field does not augur well
II the republicans hold their own In the Senatorial
Tight from all present indications they most assur-
edy will II Mr. Schuyler is to draw heavily enough
from the republican vote 70 wipe out the majority nat
lay between him and Mr.. Selkreg he must do u ~ hs
county-Tompkins The three counties combined
gave l20 majority for Dix in 1872 but Az Tor sekreg
Tompkins and Tioga will undoubtedly each send re-
publican to the Assembly, but there Is bare chance
that 4 A. Ford, democrat, may win against Marvin
Cannn, republican, in Broome county. IL 10 appar-
emily square fight between city and country, Ford
being city man and Cannif ruralite IL Is believed
by the republicans that Ford will carry this city, but
that he cannot carry enough districts in the country to
elect him. The democrats think otherwise, and my
own opinion is that they think right


THE STATE TICKET.


There will be much larger polled In the three
counties by both parties than there last year. and
y - apparent that the democrats will give very good
account OF themselves The republicans say they will
give much larger vote against the Tden ticket than
they did last year. but the indications not all point
that way The Tilden policy has taken hold OF good
who may change the grand considerably In this
district as in every other / have visited there
arc democrats TO be found in almost every town
ship who are In bad humor about republican
heading the ticket and numbers who for some
other appear to have the most nveterae dis
like for Mr. Tden, and they are not Of those who
before Tlden's raid for reform in any way dependent
upon the Canal Ring for their opinions their liveli
hood But most Of them will in the end no doubt vote
the ticket simply because II is the ticket of the party
Mr.. Bigelow's WILL II is certain, undergo
merciful scratchng-that is If many democrats act
election day the way they talk now, and Mr.. Farchild
will be treated after the fashion Fairchild is be-
yond question, the most unpopular man on the
ticket in every county / have visited Bigelow
is 10 be scratched, far as | have been
able to learn principally by those democrats
who won't vote for a republican at any
price. They have nothing to say against him
other than that he Is republican-his they insist
upon-and that he fosted the ticket by Tlden's
influence the exclusion of lifelong democrats who
would have headed the ticket with honor But Fair
child promises be slaughtered not only by bour
bon element who are mad as March hares at Tilden's
dctation at Syracuse, but by democrats Tden men
not who Will scratch his to revenge themselves
upon the Governor for treating Judge Pratt the way he
did. Said old farmer to me to-day who had 'ust
dropped in" from Kirkwood, few miles out from
here:---


'I'm for reform and agin the canal thieves and all
other kind o. thieves but when we've got to put
publican tho head Of the ticket it's pretty hard amt
IL? Yet when on to that we've got to set aside


like Judge Pratt for that air school boy jis becos
the Guvnr says So amt there nary time. Nuthcr
is any other good democrat reckon"


The total for Governor last year in the dis
trict % GIG, Of which IL S73 republicans.
This Is about the nearest the democrats TO
carrying IL a whole but the indications are every
where apparent OF much larger vote than last year,
even the wise prophets of both sides may find them
selves considerably out of the way in their calculations
the day after the election.