Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-10-14

continue to do so up to the very hour
of voting. AS It is, Republicans gem
orally are claiming all the way from
10. 900 to 25 600, with the average of
figuring at $4,000. Underneath the
figuring are some facts that they must
all look at.
Influences are and have been at
work that encourage the Democrats to
look for large reduction Of the Re
publican majority, which the more
hopeful OF them even look to wipe out
altogether. Foremost among these in
iiuences is the MISUNDERSTANDING
can movement against the Republican
candidate, caused by his general bad
character. These Independence whose
votes have hitherto swelled the Re-
publican majorities, are active and UNI
compromising in their war upon the
man whom they regard as an unfit
representative OF American statesman
ship. They are well organized, and
their strength is reckoned at 10000 or
more votes.
Another factor which is expected to
contribute to the Democratic vote is
the German element, powerful influ-
ence In Ohio. The Germans were sup
posed to belong exclusively to the Re
publican party up to 1882, when
the position of that party on
the liquor question and its
pertiality for prohibition drove
large numbers of them over to the
Democrats, and gave a Democratic ma
jorlty of 10, 600 in the election of that
year. AT first it was claimed that the
German mutiny would quickly sub
side, and as soon as their pique wore
away, they would return to the Repub-
licans. But they helped TO make up
Democratic majority of 1000 in 1888,
and their well-known dislike of Blaine
justifles the general belief that they
will vote with the Democrats this year.
Carl Schurz has done some effective
work among his countrymen in Ohio,
and claims that the great majority of
them will vote against Blaine. If
they do so, the Democrats will gain
from $1,000 to p 900 votes from this
source.
The liquor interest is indirectly aid
ing the Democrats, by fighting the
Republican party, on account of the
Sent license law passed by Republi-
can legislature, which imposes a gen
eral tax of 5000 on each saloon in the
state. The organization of the saloon
keepers means that taey will cast all
the votes they can control against
the Republican candidates. And,
enough, while the Republic
cans are opposed by the liquor interest,
the Prohibition vote for st. John will |
also cost them thousands of votes, as a
great majority of tine Prohibiticnists
are men who have been Republicans in
the past.
The agencies that have been noticed |
all are working to favor the Democrats,
either by swelling their vote OF by de-
creasing the Republican vote. There
are others that favor the Republicans.
Chief among these are the wool
who are incensed at the re-
fusal Of a Democratic congress to |
restore the tariff on wool, and the
Irish detection, which has been art
fully worked up until it amounts to
the loss of a good many votes to the
Democrats. The Democratic loss from
these sources will not compare with
the Republican losses. The only hope
of Republican success, and their chief
dependence, is the lavish and
INSCRIPTIONS use of money. They
have an immense corruption fund,
and in the largest cities and among
the squalid victims of poverty in the
mining regions no argument is SOL
powerful as crisp five dollar bills.
Dorsey boosted that he bought Re-
publican majority in Indiana at the
rate Of 81, Times are harder now
than in 1880, and money will be more
effective, because it will be more
needed. Negroes have been imported
and colonized for Republican use from
Indiana and Kentucky, and from as
far away as Virginia. BY these means
negro colonization and outright pur-
chase of votes from the needy-the Re
publican losses may be offset and their
majority maintained. In no other
way can II be done; and II they carry
Ohio to-day they will not have the
same means in November, for their
money and imported voters will be
required in other states.