The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-11-03
DEMOCRATIC VICTORY.

nxed upon the great National contest that
will occur in the United States tomorrow
The contest is between two great men who
are the standard bearers Of two great par
ties. It is noble struggle, which while
it calls forth much that is mean and low,
and generally bad in human nature, should
evoke feeling of pride and patriotism in
every American heart. To morrow the
adult males, the people, of this mighty
nation go to the polls and elect one man
who during the next four years shall rule
over them with power greater than is
welded by the monarch of the British
Empire. The fight is very nearly an even
one. The democratic voters, if left to the
exercise of unbiased feeling, we believe
to outnumber their opponents to an extent
sufficient to elect their candidate by a
grand majority. But the republicans,
long entrenched in power, backed by a
great army of office-holders distributed
throughout the country in places of power
and influence, aided by abundant supplies
Of money contributed by those whose di-
rect business interests demand their con-
tinuance in power-handling such lev
erage the republicans can raise their
strength toa equality " possible supe-
riority to that of their opponents. The con.
test is close one. In the electoral college
will be 4O1 votes. OF them Cleveland can
count with reasonable certainty upon 1853
Blaine with equal confidence upon 1872.
Thus 66 votes are counted as doubtful
SO from New York, Is from Indiana, 9
from New Jersey and from Connecticut.
Should Cleveland obtain the votes of New
York and Indiana or the votes of New
York, Connecticut and New Jersey he
would be elected beyond peradEenture.
On the other hand should Blame carry
New York, in addition to the 1872 votes we
concede him, he Is elected Or should he
carry Indiana and either New Jersey or
Connecticut he would doubtless he the
next president. New York, we believe,
may be counted upon by the democrats;
New Jersey and Connecticut being so
closely connected with the Empire state
by business and social sympathy will fol-
low in it's wake. Indiana is more doubt
full than New York. But it is said, and
truly we believe, that Thos. A. Hendricks
was never defeated in that, his own state.
He is on the ticket with Cleveland, and it
will be strange if he suffers his own state
to defeat him. So the world anxiously
awaits. the issue. The struggle is a
gigantic one. The times were 'ipe for
a revolt against republican party admins
tration, and when the chicanery of Blaine
and his friends foisted him upon the re-
publican convention. great cry went up
from every part of the nation against the
outrage of nominating for the presidency a
man whose public career had been
marked by the grossest scandals,
a man who at the head of this nation
would mark the administration of our
country and the country itself as being
by corrupt influences. To
counteract this influence the democrats by
the two-thirds vote of their convention,
of the most eminent men of
their party, nominated the governor of the
greatest state of the Union, man who in
that and many other public trusts had
borne himself as purely and spotlesslv as
the sunlight. The republicans were
They concentrated and organ
lied their mighty power. They called
forth Blaine himself and, because he was
a professional and experienced stump
speaker and political juggler, they sent
him into the doubtful states to patrol
them, speaking and working personally in
every town on every line Of railroad. He
brought up the tariff question and him
self and every Insignificant republican
stump speaker throughout the Union is
falsely urging upon voters that the demo-
cratic doctrine is one of free trade. This
,ry, though untrue, has had its influence.
The eastern states are not yet ready to
throw off the incubus called protection,
and many democrats may be won from
heir allegiance by the canvass on that