Show iEN YOKKS DEFEAT tl XEW VOKC CITY is a vast Djma S erotic sfroughoIJ To hold the g t Vyorld Fair In that city In 1S02 would give the latter great prestige and that too in a presidential eler tion year Thus In brief is ex S S S plumed the defeat of Xew York in the contest for the great exposition In other words Itcpublican Intrigue gave the prize to Chicago Senator Platt of New York Is freely charged by the press of his State with treachery and with kacriflciug patriotism to partisanship I That i t political reasons gave the uiiusmoa 10 unicago Is probably true and shout hov thoroughly intermingled in-termingled with all our aflalrs I as a nation political interests have become S be-come But an Independent Xew S York journal suggests that the people S S peo-ple of that State will remember S this blow to it prestige and tho political leaders and organizations resjionsible for It andS and-S that they may take occasion to S S v avenge the injury I may thus S happen That an eltbet the reverse of S what the 1 tlO Republican manatee HOJWI for may loilow tisis slight ot S the great Atlantic metropolis andS and-S that the giving of the WorldsTair 1 t its western rival may make II and the whole of the Empire State S 55 more inclined in favor of the Democratic Demo-cratic party than if Gotham had beaten Chicago Se for as can be Judged the rea S S tire strength of the two jartlo has not changed much since the last S SS Presidential election and should I Hew York State S strongly Democratic Demo-cratic In 1S92 that party would bo Iry b i likely to win Hence the Reue possible llle I I effects upon national politics that S may g outof Chicago success I |