St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-05
Ala pension bills at the first session, lastin g
eight months.
Cteveiand's Counting Housing Majority.

Cteretand's Counting Ro"sfn0 Majority.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.l
NEW YORK, Oct. 4.-There is much fever
ish an xiety evinced at the Republican Ma
tional committee headquarters over the COM
ing contest in Ohio. The members of the
committee pretend that the aspect of the
campaign will change materially as soon as
the results of the election in Ohio are sent
across the wires.
Said Mr.. S. B. Elkins this morning: l'I
see word has been sent out to the effect that
it is good policy for the Democrats to antici-
pate not Republican rout but
a Democratic defeat in Thurman's state, as
/ am not sure but what this is the wisest
movement Mr.. Barnum and his friends have
made since the battle opened.''
Mr.. Elkins added that the Ohio straw will
break either the Democratic or the Republi-
can cancels back. Other members of the
committee fail to display that easy conf
dence over the result which was marked
characteristic earlier in the campaign.
Unless the managers of the Independent
movement are shooting wide of the mark the
disaffected Republicans in New York state
will represent an army of 100, 900 voters.
Secretary Green was asked this morning
what he thought of the results so far deyel-
oped. He said that he was as certain that
Blaine as candidate was doomed. as he
was that gentleman had achieved some no
toriety as a letter writer. He had been pre-
pared for the discovery that many Republi-
cans would find themselves unable to con
scientiously support the gentleman
from Maine, but he confessed himself
astounded by the proportion the disaffection
had assumed. From the first the committee
correspondence had been swelling. Now the
number of letters received every day was
large enough to be source of amazement.
| AT the outset the Independent committee
would have rejOiced at an assurance that 10
per cent of the Republican vote would be dis
lodged as the result of their exertion.
Double that percentage would not
now meet their expectations. He was
| confident that Blaine would not receive IS
per cent. of the vote cast for Garfield. There
was not the least doubt that of the 500, 600
| Republican voters in the state over 100, 900
would vote for Grover Cleveland. Perhaps
there were not quite 600, 900 Republicans in
! New York. but that estimate was not very
much out of joint.
The committee of 100 of the Independent
organization of Brooklyn has just been
completed. Among other names are
those of gentlemen who have been
prominent in the work of the Young Repub-
lican club for many years. Every ward in
the city is represented. Mr.. Henry w. Max
well, chairman, is one of the directors of the
Long Island Railroad company and other
important corporations. He was chairman
of the first campaign committee of the
Young Republican club. Mr.. Henry w.
Goodrich, secretary, a son of Hon.
w. W. Goodrich, is lawyer,
and resides in the Twentieth ward.
Mr.. Henry B. Beecher, treasurer, was the
first vice president of the Young Republicans
four years ago. He is a son of Henry Ward
Beecher. Mr.. R. 8. Bussing, Jr., called the
first meeting of twelve men on Sept. 90
1880, which resulted in the organization Of
the Young Republican club, with Seth Low as
president and himself as secretary. Many
of the others are equally well known.