Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1908 — CONSIDERING NEW YORK. [ARTICLE]

CONSIDERING NEW YORK.

In 1892 Mr. Cleveland received enough votes outside of New York

state to elect him to the presidency, but he also carried New York, though the state opposed him in the convention. It is confidently expected that Mr. Bryan will have enough votes to elect him without counting New York. But New York supported Mr. Bryan in the Denver convention, and there Is reason to believe that It will give him Its electoral vote. On this subject the Cincinnati Enquirer (of uncertain politics) says:

New York state is no Republican Gibraltar. The Democrats know it and wise Republican politicians doubt it. The last test of partisan strength was in 1906, and then every candidate on the Republican ticket was defeated save Governor Hughes, and he only saved by Democratic votes. He was solidly supported by the state Republican organization, vigorously aided by the national administration, polled all the votes both could command and yet would have failed of election but for the Democrats who opposed Mr. Hearst. Has Governor Hughes by his administration strengthened the Republican party in the state since 1906? Has the terrible money famine of 1907 and the resultant depression of trade bettered Republican conditions in New York state, or in any other state, since it was inaugurated? Let Republicans consider these facts.

If farmers who are prosperous in lowa, Wisconsin, Indiana, Kansas and Nebraska are weakening in Republicanism and showing tendencies of affiliating with the Democrats, what of the men out of employment in the industrial centers of New York? What of the hundreds of thousands of voters on half time or quarter time or no time at all, with families short of everything that goes to make up civilized comforts? Are they Republicans this year? With the metropolitan press and leading financiers for three or four years stoutly opposing policies of the Republican administration, has this strengthened the party in New York? We doubt it. The Democrats frequently blunder, but the result in November may prove that their managers make no mistake in storming “the enemy’s country.” Enemy’s no longer, possibly. They have had no such chance since 1892, and then they won out.