The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1884-10-14
New York World, <th-l
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week from to-day.
If Ohio State should be carried by thF
Democracy or give only very meagre
Republican majority Mr.. Blaine would L.
practically out of the fight. An ordinary
Republican victory, such as the Repubtl- 4
cans have commanded in Ohio in the O,
tober election Of every Presidential year
since and including 1856, aud such as thu
corrupt use of 81, OoO, 900 is apt to secure,
would leave the political situation as it j
at present. i
The canvass has been remarkable one.
N OF a solitary charge with the slightest
sem blance of truth has been made against
Grover Cleveland's public record his pub
lie acts or his public virtue. On the con
trary, the more it has been examined
and criticised the clearer has become tiit
right of the candidate to the title OF the
true, earnest, fearless representative .;
Reform and Clean Government.
On the other hand the record of James
clouded by eruption. His efforts tq
vindicate his past career have only opcn'*i
up still more objectionable features III hif
character 1t is painful TO see the Pres
Dental nominee of a once great party cot}-
victed out OF his Of own mouth and by hf~
own facile pen, as Mr.. Blaine has hccn
| hx,h ii
the electors on his ticket are c"mpclleis
to fall from him to preserve their OWL
self-respect.
The campaign opened with desire d,
the part of the people for a change a.
Washington. Before the candidates wcft'
put into the field the issue was felt To q.
between Clean Government and C"rruiE
Observation-Disclosures Better Times ana
Baser Times-between Public Plundereft
and Observation-Disclosures Rottennrs,
and Reform
The Republicans defed the issue anfi
nominated the representative of officiz
corruption. The Democrats accepted Tia
challenge and nominated the represents
tive of official honesty. /
No efforts have succeeded in changing
the issue or misleading the people. Th
intelligent, patriotic voters who will GO /;
the polls in four weeks know tor what the !.
are contending .
The tariff was tried 1t fell dead.
al al 1 4
They recoiled on their concocters Til
Solid South is now invoked 1t wiz
prove powerless. The true issue will >ti!i
prevail and every illegitimate weapo,-
/ will fall blunted and harmless as i
, strikes against Grover Clevelands armo7
Of devotion to duty, sincerity, capacitt
and integrity.
The magnificent Irish-American demon
straton in this city has proved how lin,
tied has been the success of the appeal t.
/ Irish prejudices against Governor Cleve
} land. The unprecedented German rail-
: has given evidence of how thoroughly thu
5 liberty-loving Germans are with tn" De
. |
: Buffalo has crushed the head Of the ser
2 pent of personal SANDER.
l Under these circumstances New Yor
| may be set down as safe for Cleveland
r Independent end Republican Journals
like the Herald, the Times, the E'crni.
Post, Harper's Weekly, the Brook
Union and Puck, all for Garfield in ls~"
: are doing great work for Cleveland
Prominent leaders like Roscoe Conklin.
Henry Ward Beecher, George William
t Curtis and Carl Schurz, all Garfield ora
: tors in 1880, are opposed to Blaine.
, In 1880 the Prohibition vote in New
: York was little over 1900. This year
it will be at least 10000, and most proba
bly, larger than the Butler vote AND
Prohibtionists are Republicans.
The Butler movement, once seemingly
3 threatening to the Democracy If New
York, has almost collapsed. Its strength
will be unimportant. 1t has been recog
l nized as a Blaine side-show and has M
longer power for mischief
The business me:,, as class, strongly
for Garfield four years ago, are strongly
for Honesty and Cleveland this year.
. The Stalwarts," the silent" vote
the conscience" Republicans are gen
orally though quietly opposed to Blaine.
AS New York goes, so 60 New Jerse,
and Connecticut New York's RIGHT and
left TANKS.
The 81 electoral votes of these three
States, with the 1913 electoral votes of
the South, now certain for Cleveland.
give the Democracy 2O4 vot. :, or three.
more than majority. But to these mus
be added Indiana, which is stronger ami
surer for Cleveland and Hendricks now
than it was for Tlden and Hendricks !,
1876. Thus total of PIG electoral vote
are sure for Cleveland, not counting Cali
fornia and Nevada, which went for Han
cock, and counting only the States tbai
cast their electoral votes for the Demo
cratic candidates in 1876, when they had
no Republican bolt or Republican news