Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1882 — NEW YORK. [ARTICLE]

NEW YORK.

The Political Situation—Jubilant Democrats and Despondent Republicans. [New York Cor. Chicago Times.] The political contest opens in this ! State with 'union in the Democratic I ranks and with bitter feeling and much i dissension among the Republicans. For j once a Democratic convention did a wise ! thing at the critical moment, and there ; is every prospect that the device adopted at Syracuse to secure harmony will ; serve its purpose for the present canvass, and bring to the ticket the united Demj oeratic vote of this city. The immense ’ vote of the State of New York is so | evenly divided between the two great i parties when both are united that a contest between them on equal terms is al- ! ways doubtful. Unfortunately for the j Republicans it can not be claimed that | they are at present heartily united and | in a position to exert their full strength, i There is a very ugly feeling among the j Cornell men, who urge that they were | defeated by forgery and bribes. The Albany Journal and the New York Times all but bolt the nomination, and the Buffalo Express, it is said, will sitp--1 port Cleveland. The Utica Herald, the Syracuse Journal and the Rochester Democrat can not give very enthusiastic support to the ticket even if they pre- ! tend to swallow the dose. The Times and the Tribune of this city say more in praise of the Democratic ticket than they sajd of the Republican nominations. The Times says: “The nomination of Mayor Cleveland, of Buffalo, for the 1 office of Governor, is likely to prove one of exceptional strength and popularity. He appears to represent not only the better element and higher character of the Democracy of the State, but, partisanship apart, some of the best qualities i of onr civic and political life. He seems to belong to the type of rising public men of which Comptroller Pattison, of Philadelphia, is another Democratic example, and Mayor Low, of Brooklyn, is one of whom the Republicans are justly proud. It will be as well to admit his merits and his strength, face the fact that he will be a hard man ! to defeat in such a canvass as is now ; fairly opened in tills State.” The Tribune says: “The nomination | of Mayor Cleveland means hard work ; for the Republicans. Yesterday's con- ; vention means a united Democratic party with all that that implies. There | must be a united Republican party to face it, if the Republican ticket is elected tills fall.” many Republicans are disgusted with the part Jay Gould took in the defeat of Cornell. As a political boss | they have even a less liking for Gould than as a Wall street speculator. They believe that Folger owes his nomination mainly to Gould’s influence, and 1 they look upon this fact as so significant ; and dangerous that they will either vote i for Cleveland or will not vote at all. The Democrats are jubilant over the situation. They claim that Cleveland will draw a great many Republican votes in the western part of the State. His is the section of the State that has been strongly opposed to Coakling. Nearly ; all the Western New York delegates, with the exception of the Buffalo city | representatives, were strongly in favor | of Wadsworth ov Cornell, and hot 1 against Folger. Folger's own home went against him.. It is argued, therefore, that the Democratic candidate will make large gains west of Cayuga, in a region that goes strongly Republican. ! Many Republicans say the administration has made a grave mistake, and that if Folger is defeated, as he probably will be, it will be the death-blow to I Arthur’s aspirations for a second term. Despmnlcnt Wall from a Kepubli an Organ. The Albany Evening Journal, the old Central Republican organ of New York, t ikes a despondent view of the political situation in the Empire State. It says: The result at Syracuse has considerably increased tli’e responsibility of the | gentlemen who controlled the Saratoga I Convention. While Grover Cleveland may not be the man who could poll the | biggest Democratic vote next November, he is certainly the one Democrat of ! all named at Syracuse whose candidature would best appeal to Independent Republican sympathy. From a purely partisan point of view measured by the test of getting out the whole Democratic vote—his nomination does not seem so strong. If to fire the Democratic heart was the thing lesii ed at Syracuse, G en. Slocum was the man. If to insure splendid party organization with well-greased cogs was the aim, Banker Flower was the man. Both of these important considerations were put aside, and their representative candidates laid on the shelf to make room for the theory of capturing Republican votes, and for' "the candidate judged most likely to effect that capture. It is wise to look at the nomination in this light. The Democrats have explicitly invited the Republicans who do not relish the machine outcome at Saratoga to vote for a reform Democrat who was nominated by smashing the only semblance of machine existing in his party. It is idle to shirk this question. Nothing but sheerest folly could prompt the course'of pretending not to know that Cleveland’s nomination is a direct bid for Republican votes, and that there is danger of the bid being widely accepted. This is not the year for a “rally-round-tlie-flag-boys” campaign. The old fife and drum literature will fall very fiat and cold this autumn. The situation must be looked in the face and frankly discussed. All the results to be desired may not be reached bv this discussion, but there is at least a chance of it. ’To “go it blind” in this crisis would be as certain destruction as to walk with-bandaged eyes on the brink of Niagara’s chasm. Judge Folger i 3 at the head of the department at Washington which has been the most reckless agent of a chance administration’s crusade against Republican sentiment and selfrespect in this State; and, although he j is the nominee of tht? convention, lie is in a position which is condemned ontspokenly by ten of the chief Republican dailies in the State, and repudiated by almost all the great Republican dailies outside. If tlipre are means by which these loads can be lifted from Judge Folger’s candidature, they cannot be adopted too soon. -If it is possible to restore Judge Folger to the position he occupied iai the heart, of, Republicanism two years ago—to wipe' from the mem-

ory of Republicans the things which have happened since July 1, 1881 —the work cannot be begun too swiftly or vigorously. We confess we do not know how it is to be done. Doubtless the gentlemen who went to such lengths at Saratoga to procure Judge Folger’s nomination will be able to suggest some way of turning the hands of the Republican clock back fourteen months, and restoring to the Republican nominee the prestige he enjoyed when lie last carried this State." We await their announcement of a solution of this lem with profound anxiety.