Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-11-06
the ELECrIOS OUTLOOK.
The situation I'm New York,
PennsylvRnis and Virginia.


WASHINGTON, November All Of
sudden, within the last two days, the
Republicans in New York have come TO
the conclusion that they are going 10
carry New York. Well, perhaps they
are, nobody knows; but IL they do il win |
settle one thing in politics hereafter, and
that is the cry Of few leading Democrats |
in the West and South that the Demo- |
cratic party can not elect a President !
without they nominate New York man. |
Ifthe Democrats do not carry New York |
Tuesday by good majority they will not
carry it in 1884. II will be Just as we'll TO |
lose the State now and be done with il. |
Then the Democrats will nominated oseph |
Mcdonald and elect him by the votes Of
the Southern and Western States. New
York politics are disgusting to all true and |
loyal party men. The constant pickering,
snarling and fighting going on amongNew |
York Democrats is disgraeeful The idi- !
ocy Of the Governor OF as great State die
tating who OF who should not be nomi- |
mated for State Senatorl II shows how
little some big men can be, and how lack |
ing they are In political sense and discre-
ton. But these New York Democrats
always managet 10 have something TO quar-
rel about right on the eve Of an election
If 1T is not one thing II is another If il
is not Mr.. Tilden Il is somebody else. The
news from there to-day is bad for the
Democrats. The Sun admits that the
State ticket is being traded for Aldermen,
and the New York city Republican press
boast Of it and give particulars Of the
trade. Each Of the halls are charging the
other with treachery, and so II goes. The
Democrats now concede the Legislature
TO the Republicans but expect to carry
their State ticket through They will be
entitled to no credit for that. New York
State is Democratic by $1,000 majority
every time, and all the time, if these
spoil hunters would stand aside, cease
quarreling and let the honest masses vote
as they please. The New York Sun would
do we'll to turn its batteries on some
of the characterless. desperate politicians
who run the party IN New York to graft
fy their own selfish ends, and for purely
mercenary purposes. If the party could
rid itself Of these treacherous scamps
the Republican raseals would soon have
to go. Politics are red hot and still heat
ing. Like darky in a campmeeting in
old Virginia-they never tire. If they
keep on stirring the fire under the boiler
II will burst sure, and somebody will get
hurt. There is no use of Disgusting the
fact that both sides are warmed up 10
fever heat and are ready for anything.
Malone has got the negroes in bad
and insolent condition, and the white
Democrats swear they will not be run
over. The Gods truth Is that the cam
paign in Virginia is really not political.
| On one side is grouped wealth, culture
honesty and intelligence. On the other
is poverty insolence, dishonesty and illit-
eracy The good men of the State are
fighting 10 wrest the law-making power
out of the hands of a bad and unprincipled
set of scallawags who have brought dis
honor upon the State, and who would
build up their desperate fortunes at the
sacrifice Of the States honor and credit.
The credit ofthe whole country Is at stake
In this Virginia campaign, for as it results,
so will credit or discrcdit follow. Malone
and his gang of pimps, or bread and but
terlhangers-on, and ignorant blacks should
be beaten, and they will be If there is any
chance, but the situation Is not encourag-
ing. The battle is not always with the
just and right in this country. Malone
Is well entrenched and heavily bloclIaded.
/ The election interests the President more
than any event which has occurred since
his administration began. He is deeply
anxious that Malone should be sustained
at the polls by decided majority. In
such success he sees the only hope of
handing over his office to a Republican
successor. The reports from the State to-
night are alarming. They say both sides
are arming in many localities In tbeState
and much blood will be shed Tuesday.
There is no doubt Of great excitement over
there, and also great fear of bloodshed,
but it may be in this case, as il has so
often proved, that when riot and blood
shed are most expected they do not occur.
The Richmond State of yesterday says
There Is certainly a grain Of comfort
out of the New York mess TO BIZ found in
the news from Pennsylvania. A dispatch
from Harrisburg says: Unless the signs
fail, the Democratic ticket will be elected
on Tuesday by not less than 10000 ma
jority. The Republicans are Struggling
in from their stumping engagements with
less confidence than when they started
out. Senator Hughes, of Philadelphia,
said here, on his way home, that he had
no hope of Republican success, and NJ. G..
Quay, the most experieny ed and accurate
estimator in the party, has given up hope
anu hDhuuOutu NOIks "a lthulnk INtluU-
! lican, high In the councils Of the party
here, and personal friend of the Gamer
ons, says tonight that the party is beaten,
and estimates the Democratic majority at
from 1000 to 10000 The result will show
some curious figures. Heretofore Alleghe-
ny and Philadelphia counties have given
an aggregate Republican majority of
from 2j,000 to 5000. This year they
will not foot up more than 1900. The
Republican majority in Lancaster has
always been relied on TO offset the Demo-
cratic majority in Berks. This year Berks
will give 1000 to the Democrats while
Lancaster will fall below 1900 for the Re-
publieans, and York will roll up enough
iorthe Democrats to match that Luzerne
county has for years been field for sue
cessful Republican manipulation. This
year Senator Cox has made a personal
canvass Of the county for the Democrats.
with the view of getting out a full vote of
that party. During the war when Luzerne
and Lackawanna counties were united,
the Democratic majority ran up to 5000 or
600O THIS year the old figures will be
reached Northampton, Lehigh, Oolum-
bia, Carbon, Pike, Monroe, Schuylkill,
Wayne, Westmoreland, Fayette, Greene
and other Democratic strongholds have
baen worked nm so that old fashioned ma