The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-08-30
THE FIELD REVIEWED
FROM MAINE TO WEST VIRGINIA.
An Able Correspondent Sums Up the Pollti.
= cai sitnat!on-The Republican Cause
Locks Exceedingly, Bright md Will
Grow brighter Until November.

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n'1A o..'i'A, august "a CORES
pohdc't oi the IRE" writing from New
York thus sums up the political situation,
Tho New York hotels mr.. mi, NJ ,p,o,,,;.
,,;n,s ,o,,;,, t.o,.. VI. go. ~,
t",'S, .o''''''s iron, Nor.h' ao"'n, Eas'
and West. They fly oil Tor two or three
days to Long Branch, Saratoga, Newport
mr. .v,u n,r Jjarhor hi, ,I,o,. al, t,d ,bo;,
a., 49,, ', ~, "1' '", "' '. .,.,' .'.," &C.
WI! o''cN mere e'''er 10 au''se WIN INC INC
National Committee OF their party or 10
press ,inon Elkins or Barnum the claims
Of their respective States or Congressional
districts for recognition and financial as.
sistancc. In the rotunda OF tho Fifth
Avenue Hotel to-day | saw ut one time
Barnum, Of Connecticut; Ransom, OF
North Carolina; pinchback, OF Louisiana;
Kellogg, OF Louisiana; barbour, 'oi Virci.
MIA; GorInan, of MARYLAND: Davis. oiWest
virginia Plumb, of Kansas; GrOsycnor
of Unio, and dozen other men equally
representative OF something or other in
politics and coming from wide apart Sec
lions ol tho country. ines head
lunrte1S lJ ., .'oo!n !n.r,ic' nie now
list in The field and making IN for
their tardlincss by the extravNganco Of
their arrangements. " is by talking with
' v;e" ,', va,r ,,"s aH"oarl;n Hsl ,nn;r 'm,s T, "
view. tint one e' can lest ascertain tLr cur.
rcni drift nj uoliticnl discussion nni mako.
thr ,no,t tr,,stworthv ,di,rnosis oi tLn
noI;tirol situation In rrsnrrt 10 the nroln.
III. isSu", NJ thc-canvaSss And vrt ~
make this diarrosis really Trustworthy
one must have previously zone abou, tie
country n it'll. and talked with pconle'
who arc not politicians. For two or three
weeks have hnru doinr II little In this
line. snmnlin, tho tendency of yotcIs.
more or lrss in prnusvlvnnin' New York
Now .Jcrscv Couurr.srut Massachusetts. .
New linm,sfirr Vermont and most nj M
in Maine Meanwhile n rooI deal I'm,
hecn pirkcd in nj thc 'watrrino nlacrs
like Long Branch md Bar Unrbor, where
pcople OF Mi shades Of o,,inion Garc wont
10 conyrcratc and in tLr sn,nmcr nj n
pre,idsutni ycar poiitiral discussion is
nlwnrs "o;ny NV =
s. $685.
THE Ehruisl'lcANs 5' .'lll.:l' MEAD.
The conclusion now drawn is unmiS-
t,kaby favorable TO tho Republicans.
rro, nono,.o,, ,,,,o ,roon .,,o ;r.;,,, .J
u, .m W. 49, ~ ~"
mt thae ti'c fcpubicatis nave the better
start, and 60 So far rs to say TINT ii the
election were held early in September,
instead of early in November. blaine
would swccn tic country like n whirl-
wind. Hut thc election will not take
place risht away. How about ;Iat? We'll.
nil the same the Republicans have the
better chance, Excent in Tho South. where
the local newspapers arc simply rose
cOIorcd glasses throuyh which tiic poonlc
are gwen the most roseatc views OF the
s,'ua.on' tmeIe iJ ~, m an!.nS ea"v'''t1n .,. t5
% nn,nina.ion q CI"vcanI was !, mis- nstok" i;
and n mistake from which only an ,,ncx,
pccted dispensation OF Providence, here
tOiore not often intervening in behalf Of
the Democratic party, can avert
fatal results. This view Is not set
forth, MS some people wlllF' think,
for the purpose OF keeping up the courage
OF Republicans. On the contrary, the Re-
publican patient does not need that sort of
treatment. Its only threatening symptom
is over.coniidcncc, which may cause n re-
axation OF effort. am simply giving the
facts which to every intelligent political
observer with his eyes and ears open must
be patent: To say that the Republicans
have the better start, IN immensely better
start, docs no. mean TINT they have asure
thing; not by any means. There is steam
enough on and more than cnou:i. 10 win,
but TINT steam must be kept up for eight
weeks or more, and that is Il job whicl, de-
manda tho engineers. and iircmcn to be
alert day and night from now until the
Iatclul Tuesday when We shA|! come to
the finish. -.tFf
rlr SEPTEMBER AND ocTorrn STATES,
NJ no,,., Il, ava. ,ro t,rrnJ ;,,s, rov, a.
y! course MI eyes are turned Just now ' tc-
wards the sepIempef "nd octooes states.
Vermont leads oil next week, Maine fol-
lows the week after and Ohio and West
Virginia come along in October, 1t is
barely possible that these preliminary en-,
eascments NAV be SO decisive rs to siyc,
Blaine such an easy victory as Grant Ind
in 1872, when the Democrats didn't even,
,,and I'D lon. enough to he counted. III
ali The States lhaye named 20 Republican
IN September, Vermont Milne md Ohio
holding thcir. own. aud West Virginia
changing front ever so little, Blaine would
not only have every Northern electoral
vote. but ih0se Of several southern States
ns well. But do not think this issllc on
tho nrcsont uspect of things is anything
morn than 4 remote possiIility. Poiiiic,
ians realize that, wl,atryer may bc lie
local conditions in the early voting States
thc question Of The Presidency Is over,
shs,,owinp; Int tic average voter does
not, Fhis iaol. OF comprehension tells
arainI the KcpuLlicoDs m three of these
States. It tells, first. in ti,c hisnosition
OF the nnlhinkins iIepunllcah 10 'ake II
sor s!.c.i '!a. ,s .'.'t rs - ~" I;s,Ii a .;