Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-13
CuMPLACESi' PROPHECY.

CuMPIACESI' PROPHECY. |
And How Is Looks After il Has Happened |,
The Sasacity OF Gov. Foster Qsoted
High Before Election.
The following letter from Cleveland APP
peared in the Chicago Tribune on Tuesday
morning. It gives its reason for great
faith in Fosters predictions and in view of
the result it makes interesting reading.
There is NO man in Ohio who is better
qualified to judge of the probable out
come in this state than Gov. Charles Fos-
ter. He has been in position in this
state for many years to know what is done
and how it is done, and is one of the
shrewdest calculators of chances in this
country. In 1880, when almost every one
was discouraged over the outlook in Ohio
and Indiana, believing that the October
election would go Democratic, 1 took par
ticular pains to see and interview the gov
ernor On the outlook. The result, as sent
to the Tribune, was substantially that the
Democrats were overconfident and that he
was glad of it; that it was best that they
should be, and their defeat and discomft-
ure would be the greater on that account.
He said that the canvass was being made
in both states by school districts; that he
had been in Indiana and was prepared to
say that it would go Republican unless all
human calculations were at fault. He said
he had seen figures that showed conclusive
ly that there would be fair Republican
majority. He said substantially the same
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verified as all the world knows.
LAST YEAR,
when he was running for governor. it was
considered by all that there were elements
in the canvass that were much more diff
cult to estimate than usual. Statements
and estimates were received from all parts
of the state, and a few days before the
election took place they made their esti-
mates and sealed them, each one remark
ing that it was the most difficult campaign
they had ever attempted to figure results
upon. The figures we're as follows:
Gov. Fosters estimate, 1000 Republi-
can majority.
Republican majority.
Secretary Donaldson's, 1900.
The result was Fosters majority was 25.-
coo.
I cite these facts to show that the gov
ernor is safe, and rather conservative than
otherwise He said of the present outlook
to me to-day: ''We have the same chair
man and secretary of the executive COM
mittee that we have had for many years
past.
THEY ARE EXCEEDINGLY COMPETENT.
Mr.. Nash has about $4,000 men in the
rfo!o no &c
these are essentially the same as in years
past. They are accustomed to making es-
Inmates and figuring closely upon every
vote in their respective localities, and from
figures received in years past from these
men we know about how to calculate them.
From these reports 1 am led to this con-
clusion: We shall lose 10000 votes in
Cincinnati and 5000 in Cleveland. I con-
slider this liberal estimate of our losses
In other parts of the state the gains and
losses will be about equal. I get this
from the best OF sources and feel that it
is reliable. We shall lose some in the
smaller cities, but shall gain largely in
many of the rural counties. In several of
these counties, where there have been sew
eral hundred Prohibition votes cast, there
is no ticket in the field this year. I have
had fears all along about the vote
IN THE NINETEENTH DrsT1cT,
which is very solidly Republican. They
have way up there in such years as this
of staying at home and sort of letting
things go by default. They are generally
very busy with their potatoe-digging and
corn-husking, and seem to consider that
of more Importance than getting out to
vote. They know that their representative
will get elected anyhow, and so get care
less. l hear, however, from later accounts
that there is good deal of feeling on the
subject of the election this falI-that the
impression is out that it is important that
every Republican should vote. If that is
SO we can count on some additional votes.
"From all that we can hear, and 1 have
taken great deal of trouble to gain the
facts, the Democrats are everywhere put
ting their energy
UPON THE CONGRESSIONAL CANVASS.
They seem willing to let the state ticket go
if they can elect fair share of their con-
gressional candidates. In their calcula-
tons they are bound to be disappointed.
We shall get all the congressman we count
ed on with possibly two exceptions. I do
not wish to publish the names of these, as
1t might do them an injustice. I think
Brigham, of the Defiance district, will be
elected. He is very popular in the country,
as he is a high official in the Grange. He
is not so popular as he ought to be in the
towns, but the Republicans will nearly all
go for him after all. Hart and Schultz
will pull through. Gen. Keifer will come
in with flying colors.
II have no doubt but Everett will be
elected in the new Twenty-frst district:
the Twentieth dc not consider so secure.
l do not exactly expect that King will beat
Frank Hurd, the Free Trade Democrat in
the Toledo district, still he stands chance
to do so.
Table Manners of Children.
From Bill Nyes Boomerang:)
Young children who have to wait till
older people have eaten all there is in the
house should not open the dining-room
door during the meal and ask the host if
he is going to eat all day. It makes tho
company feel i'll at ease and lays up wrath
in the narenfc boort