Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-10-04
R.9F. DEL VALE,
of Los Angeles.

R.9F. DEL VALE,
of Los Angeles.
The Drift of the Political Tide.
Enough has cropped out through the
dispatches of tho Associated Press TO
show that the demonstration in honor Of
Grover Cleveland at Buffalo day before
yesterday was tho most memorable thing
of the kind ever chroncled in the history
OF that city. Tho whole OF northwestern
New York was on hand and Builalonians
were delighted at the opportunity oil nc
claiming their illustrious son. The can
vass is now taking on shape witch nd
mits of an intelligent observer making u
pretty fair estimate of tho political out
look. To begin with, the Democrats,
while hopeful of Ohio, aud determined
to make q monumental struggle there,
decline to accept the Buckeye State as
the battle-ground. They assert, most
logically, that If the Republicans fail to
carry Ohio, it is Democratic walk
over, while the Democratic campaign
depends upon the States of New York
and Indiana. No Democrat of any note
has claimed any exceptional strength for
Gov. Cleveland in the Buckeye State.
lie is comparatively unknown there,
while no public man of the day has had
closer affiliations with the people Of
Ohio than Blaine. Governor Cleveland
has in that State simply the strength
which is derived from singularly pure
and patriotic record. while Blaine has
laid claim to the mantle of Garfield; and
no will unquestionably, in the West
ern Reserve, rally his party as no
other Republican candidate could. To
still further complicate the situation
for the Democracy there is some little
dissatisfaction among the liquor men at
the character of the legislation which
followed the struggle OF last year, in
which the Democrats elected Hoadly by
a plurality of some twelve thousand.
Republican hopes are still further oxct-
ed by the fact that the Democratic
House of Representatives failed to re-
store the duty ON wool, and an agita-
ton to that effect had been n loading issue
in the Hoadly campaign. The third ele-
ment of weakness in the Democratic cam
paign in the Buckeye State is II certain de-
fection-not nearly 30 large MS is report
ed, however-in the Irish vote OF such
cities as Cincinnati, Cleveland and Tole-
do AT the very worst this will amou mt to
only few thousand. We attach far
more gravity to each of the former reas
ons, which may possibly result in Re-
publican triumph.
Such are the causes which, while they
are making splendid campaign there,
have induced the Democratic manage rs
to rest their hopes OF glorious success
on other States.
The real battle grounds of this Prcsi-
Dental election are to be sought in New
York and Indiana, and the fayorte sons
of both those States are leading the
Democratic hosts. With the l53 cleo.
toral votes of the South, the 80 votes of
New York, and the Is votes OF lndi-
ana, Tilden and Hendricks would
be elected with three votes to spare.
Democrats have every reason to look for
phenomenal victories in both the Empire
and Hoosier State. In the first Grover
Cleveland has proved his eNcep-
tional popularity by majority for
Governor which has never been rolled up
by any other American citizen, while
the invincible popularity of Thomas a.
Hendricks in his own State is PROPOSE
ton which is oheerfully admitted by
every one at all oonversant with affairs
in Indiana. Just as surely as Samuel j..
Tilden carried New York in 1876 will
Grover Cleveland carry it November
next, and Hendricks was not greeted
by a larger majority in the same year
of grace in Indiana THAI will be
rolled up mainly by his matchless
campaign efforts thisyear. In adj
dition, we have such reliably Dem o.
cratic States as California and New
Jersey to fall back upon, even ad.
uniting that we shall reap nothing from
the fusion already accomplished in
Michigan aud Iowa, and that which is
about to be consummated in Peunsyl-
vania and other States.
The drift is unquestionably Demo.
cratic in the great pivotal States. Never
was a national campaign in the past
handled with the vigor, knowledge
of detail and unfagging purpose
of the present on tae Democratic
side. We were promised an aggressive
campaign on the part OF the PIumsd
Knight, and the greater portion OF the
time of Republican orators and the space
of Republican newspapers are taken up
with lame defences OF the serious moral
and official delinquencies of their caudi-
date for President. With a last flicker
of his old time audacity Blaine said to
the reporter of the Kennebec journal
that all he desired was that the people
of the United States should read the
Mulligan letters. But the organs OF his
party dare not publish them and the
campaign of aggression has developed
into the most miserable defensive strug.
gle ever recorded on this continent on
the Republican side.
Yes, the drift of the political tide is
decidedly against our Republican friends.
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POPULAR opinion is crystalzing on
the proposition that it would be very
hazardous thing to allow the municipal
advertising to be done in some obscure
weekly sheet. The people want to
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