Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1884-08-13
Presidential Specuiations

Our forecast Of yesterday was not ahead
| OF time. hor by any means so unfavorable
as one made a day or two ago by the Wash
ington correspondent of the New York
| Sun. We claimed the solid South's 153
| votes to start with, and then gave the read
| or the names OF a number OF States where
In the Democrats are so strong as to justify
them in counting those States with much
certainty for CLEVELAND, and other States
| in which the Democrats have 1T least a
| "fighting chance" Thus did we make up
the As votes which will be needed by
CLEVELAND when he leaves the South.
But we were far too modest in our claims.
CLEVELAND is TO sweep the country, ac-
cording to the Sun'S correspondent. The
Wing victory OF 1910 is 10 be repeated.
The Democratic candidate is to be elected
by majority so large that the Republican
party will be forced to disband. 1t will
recognize the fact that 1t ought to have
died twenty years sooner, and will never
again be heard Of. II will enter into new
relations. Perhaps it will unite with the
Prohibitionists, or some other OF the small
parties, and fight its future battles on new
issues.
But we are ahead OF the facts. Let us
hear the Suns correspondent and await
results and then talk about what tho Re
puhlicans will do after 1884. He says:
The Republican managers, both OF the
National Congressional Committee and the
National Committee, while they do not
share Blaine's gloom, are very anxious
about some OF the States that have been
counted surely Republican. Unless there
De change of sentiment in these States
before November the party is in very Sc
rlous danger Of losing some OF them, and is
certain TO lose others.
Taking some OF the States from which the
committees have received bad news, IL Will
he found that there is much to justify
alarm. Beginning with California, the re-
port comes that Blaine's reputed popularity
there Is confined 20 San Francisco. Re-
publlcans write that they fear the State is
hopelessly Democratic. There will be no
great Republican detection from Blaine;
the German and Prohibition vote will not
make any serious inroads in the party.
But the truth is, the Republicans have
gained no strength there for several years.
while the Democrats have. The private
adyices received set the State down as anti
Republican by 10000.
No news comes from Nevada that cheers
the Republican managers either by The COM
mittee here or in New York. The State Is
confidently claimed by the Democratic man.
ayers, and it is privately conceded to them
by the Republicans. The rich Republicans
who once were there are there no longer,
aud the rich Democrats who nominaly live
IN this absurd rotten borough of forty
thousand people Will take care that money
enough is provided 20 keep up tho very
good Democratic organization they have
there.
Kansas may cut up some very queer an-
ties, according to the information received. |
At the recent Prohibition Convention in
Pittsburgh the Kansas delegates said that
Governor st. John would receive not less
than thirty thousand votes In that State,
and that nine-tenths OF them would come
from the old Republican organization.
The Republican managers do not believe |
that Governor st. John can get 80, 600 votes |
In Kansas, but they admit that II the Pro- |
hibition canvass Is correct, the State be- |
comes doubtful. In Kansas. too, is found |
the curious political Inconsistency which is |
very noticeable In some other States, and |
that Is that,the German vote is now very
hostile 70 the Republican ticket, because
che conviction has seized these people that |
Blaine is Prohlbitionist, and becau.e the |
Republican party Is responsible for the |
suinp,uary laws that have been enacted In |
many States.
From Illinois comes some interesting |
news. and OF kind that makes il pisin that |
the canvass will be complicated. There |
are about 10000 German voters In Illinois.
Eighty per cent Of these are naturally Re. |
publican. But the high.license and local.
option liquor law passed by the Republican
Legislature had caused many Of them 10 be-
come disailecied before Binns's nomina-
ton. They have the idea that canno, be
driven from the minds Of the Germans all
through the West that Blaine Is himself a
ProhibitioniSt. The result is that every
day the news that comes from tho German
districts OF The State gets worse aud worse.
In Chicago alone the feeling is so strong
that Mayor Harrison, who is running for
Governor, expects 10 carry the city by co.
600, and be predicts that the State Will
give Democratic plurality OF 10000. The
Republican managers here, OF course, say
that Bmrison's claim IL absurd, but they
admit that the situation IN the State Is one
that causes them anxiety. One estimate is
that at least 10000 German Republicans
win not vote for Blaine. This was made l
by one Of the most intelligent German Be
pubhcans
The news from Wisconsin Is very gloomy
for the Republicans. Appeals for money
are alyssdy beginning 10 be received from
he State. coupled with the assertion that
Unless substantial csnyassing OF that sort Is
lone at once In Wisconsin, the State Is lost.
" isconsin gave Democratic plurality Of
1000 In 1888, and while Garfield carried Il
y $4,000 In 1880. Hayes received only 900
q 1875. The same combination that threat.
rs the Republicans In Kansas aud Illinois
] still more dangerously threatening In
isconsip. Tho German vote II reported
D be almost soiidly anti+Republisan, and
be Probibitionists CHIN 10000 votes. Tho
ermsB press OF the State IL hostile 70
lame. snd the reports received at Demo a
'stIc headquarters here are that tho Ne G