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Show j IN NEW YORK TO-DAY. f So far there is no definite news as to : the result of the election in New York. j The indications are that Hill has tarried : j the State, but it may be that Davenport I - has; in any event, the contest will be I f close, and fought upon party limits. It j has been sought by some to prove that . the way to endorse Cleveland's Adminis- : f tration in New York this fall is to vote i ! for Davenport. From all accounts Mr. ; i Davenport is a most worthy man person- j ally, and one who is honest and sincere 1 1 in his adherence to the reform move- ; i ments of the day. It has been 6aid I I that Governor Hill was a spoilsman, ! but the charge was never substantiated, I and was not because it could not be. ' Governor Hill was second on the great i f reform ticket of New York three years ago, I and even ran ahead of Cleveland. Then ; ; lie was supported by the Independents, I . : and since he became Governor, through I j. the election of Mr. Cleveland to the Presi- t dency, his official life has been a contin- i I uation of Cleveland's policy. Had Gen- f : eral Carr been placed first on the Repub- I lican ticket, the probabilities are that the S I Independent vote would have gone to the j support of Hill. It is but natural that the j I Independents should support Davenport j j for he is personally unexceptionable and j a Republican, and it is from the ltepubli- f can ranks that the Independents in New York State came. Their sympathy is with I that party, and when that party puts up a I j man whom they endorse they will vote i for him. f It must always be desirable to have the I Democratic party win, and especially is I , this so in the State from which the Pres- I , f; ident comes. Even if the election in j fr New York to-day were to be in favor of f the Republicans, it would not be a con- I I, demnation of the Administration, because If in the Presidential election of 1884 great j ; numbers of the Democrats voted for 1 . Blaine in hopes of defeating Cleveland, 'jl They did this because Blaine was a spoilsman ot the Tammany type, and be- I cause Cleveland was a reformer and an anti-spoilsman.' The election of the Re-, Re-, . publican candidate for Governor of New York in 1885 would be almost the same r . thing that many of the Democrats of New .York City desired in 1884, but desired on a larger and far more dangerous dan-gerous scale. Cleveland is making his own endorsement, and when 1888 : ;, rolls around that endorsement will bo j ', nation wide, and there will not be a mem- i ber of the Democratic party who will not l ' feel proud to say that Cleveland is a Democrat, and he has been true to him- ! ' self and his party. And if he shall be ;' renominated in 1888. the Mugwumps will j I rally to his standard as one who has kept his faith with them. |