The Democratic advocate., 1884-08-30
Independent Republicans.

The Nelc York Herald of Tuesday says:
siHow is the movement progressingY a
Herald reporter yesterday asked Mr.. Horace
e. Deming at the headquarters of the Inde-
pendent Republican Committee at No. 80
Nassau street,
"It is spreading SO rapidly that we find
ourselves constantly compelled to enlarge our
clerical force to take care of it" responded
Mr.. Deming. "Within the past three days
we have had sent in to us the names of more
than 1000 Republicans who are pretty well
understood to be opposed to Blaine. We
had 800 such names from Iowa this morning;
from New York State we received about 800
names this morning. On last Thursday we
had upward of 1000 names sent in from diff
ferent points in this State
aAre those names sent to you from all over
the country ?'
''No, our principal adyices outside of New
York State come from New Jersey, Ohio,
Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin"
Don't you hear from the New England
States at ALP
s'Oh. you don't understand. The move
ment, of course, extends all over the country,
but it would be impossible for us to take care
of such wide area There are other COM
mittees besides our own to whom reports are
made. Forinstance, the New England States
concerning which you ask, are mainly looked
after by the Massachusetts Independent Re-
publican Committee-or rather they have
been until recently, when a committee was
formed in Rhode Island, which will tighten
the work of the Massachusetts committee.
We were receiving on an average thirty names
a day from Rhode Island ourselves until the
Newport meeting, but now as they come in
we send them to the committee of that State,
J,,o1l1, ba bnpOmInU
understood. 1t was the same in Indiana.
We used to receive great lists of names from
there, but now a committee has been formed
in Indiana, and we turn everything from that
section over to it.
THE SILENT VOTE THAT COUNTS.
s'But, speaking of New England, might
saw that three fourths of our strength there
and, for that matter, a goodly proportion of
it throughout the country-lies in the silent
vote. In Maine and New Hampshire partic
ularly they don't wish to make much noise
about what they are doing, but there is very
lively still hunt in progress there, and 1t will
become very much warmer as the campaign
advances. When we receive letters from that
section Of the country-and the experience of
the Massachusetts committee is the same as
our own-the writers say. These men have
EXPRESSED themselves as against Blaine, but
they don't want to advertise the fact. Last
week, for instance, we got one list of over a
hundred names from Blaine's own county, in
Maine, with the assurance that they were anti
Blaine, but preferred to be quiet about it.
siThen the movement is actually making
great headway, even in Republican strong
holds? p
sIt is increasing every day, and its progress
is not among any one particular class either.
Our lists often comprise the names of labor
ing men, bankers, lawyers, and ministers. |
recall letter that we got the other day from
western university. 1t was from one of the
professors. He said, as | remember it, that
there were twelve or thirteen professors in the
university, of whom he sent us the names OF
seven who had openly announced that they
would vote for Cleveland. The others, he
said, had not fully made up their minds, but
they were determined on one point-they
would not vote for Blame"