Daily Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1876-1884, 1884-10-02

adroit short speech at Augusta, the
night after the election, in which he
stated that he had not voted on the Pro-
hibition Amendment proposition. for the
reason that il has no connection with
national questions, and cannot be made
any other than n State issne, may infu.
encc voters in Ohio TO vote for him in
November, who, but for this disayowel,
would have voted against him. A very
potent element in the Ohio October
election is the combination Of brewers,
distillers and saloon.keepers against the
small but intense squad Of Prohibition.
lists; and il the vote Of this combination
shall go solid against the Repnbli-
cans next month, IL is next to a GER
tainty that Newman, the Democratic
candidate for Secretary Of State, will DO
elected. Bnt 1t by no means follows
that the November election must go the
same way; for the liquor question is un.
derstood by the brewers, distilleTs and
saloon keepers OF Ohio to be exactly
what Blaine in his Augusta speech de-
clared IL TO be--purely State question.
to be decided each State for itself. We
incline to the view that Ohio will go
Democratic on the lith Of October, not
withdrawing the great struggle the Ro-
publicans are entering upon to save II;
but that in November the votes Tor
Blaine will probably exceed the Repub-
lican October vote by anywhere from
10, 600 to 20, 900.
The real situation in New York is now
about this: butler has secured fol-
lowing of not less than 5000, chiefly in
the city and in Brooklyn. Probably 20
per cent, or 81, 800 OF these Butterflies
are drawn from Cleveland, and 30 per
cent from Blaine. This gives loss of
80, 500 to Cleveland aud %, 500 to
Blaine; clear gain Of $4,000 to the
latter. Tammany is supposed to control
$4,000 TO 60,000 votes in the city
and Brooklyn. Tammany has, at
late hour In the campaign,
formally indorsed Cleveland, and two.
thirds Of them will vote for Cleveland.
Where the other third votes land,
II is common belief that at the farthest
all. here is still another loss of Is, 900 to
20, 200 to tho Democratic ticket in the
State of New York. Call it $4,000, and
with the loss that will go to Butler from
other sources, we have total OF $4,000.
There Is yet another loss to be consid-
erod-that of part of the Irish vote.
which hitherto has nlwayn been Demo
cratic. 1t is impossible to more
than approximate this detection. 1t
may reach $4,000. 1t may not
exceed 10000; but whatever it
amounts to, it will not only be that many
votes from Cleveland, but that many for
Blaine, and thereforea double cut against
the Democratic ticket. 1t may not be
extravagant to estimate a gain of 10000
votes for Blaine in the State of New York
from this source; ana in this estimate
we IRE carefully considering all the
latest and most reliable information
on the subject. The grand aggre-
gate of all these probable Democratic
losses is 50, 900 in the State. Some of
the Democratic. but anti.Cleveland pa.
pers, place it still higher. To offset this
loss, Cleveland has the Independent Re-
publican vote, whatever that may be.
We hardly think it will be sufficient to
give him the state; and we warily in
cline that to Blaine must be conceded
the &c Electoral votes OF New York,
unless something transpires out of tho
common to head him ofi.--San Francisco
Neps- Letter.