Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-08-28
SPREADING RAPIDLY.

0FhcAUiN0 nHrtDLts
The Independent Movement Extending its
Ramifcations Rapidly From Ohio,
Iowa and wisconsin-The Silent Vote
Four States That Cleveland Ought to
Have.
New YORK, August 27.-"How is the
movement progressingT a reporter asked
Mr.. Horace E. Deming at the headquarters
of the Independent Republican Committee
at No. 35 Nassau street.
ut is spreading so rapidly that we find
ourselves constantly compelled to enlarge
! our SsFeal force to take care oft" respon-
ded Mr.. Deming. Within the past three
days we have had sent into us the names
of more than 1000 Republicans who are
pretty we'll understood to be opposed to
Blaine. We had 800 such names from
Iowa this morning; from New York State
we received about 500 names this morning.
On last Thursday we had upward of 1000
names sent in from different points in this
State.
Are these names semitic you from all
over the country
No, our principal advices outside of
New York State comes from New Jersey,
Ohio. Indiana, Iowa and Wisconsin"
Don't you hear from the New England
States at allY'
"Oh, you don't understand. The move
ment, of course, extends all over the coun-
try, but it would be impossible for us to take
care of such wide area. There are other
committees besides our own to whom reports
are made. For instance, the New England
States, concerning which you ask, are main
Iy looked after by the Massachusetts, lnde-
pendent Republican Committee-or rather
they have been until recently, when COM
mittee was formed in Rhode Island, which
will tighten the work Of the Massachusetts,
committee. We were receiving on an av-
erage thirty names day from Rhode Island
ourselves, until the Newport meeting, but
now as they coWe in we send them to the
committee of that State, and gradually the
arrangement is becoming understood 1t
was the same in Indiana. We used to re-
ceive great lists of names from there, but
now a committee has been formed in Indi-
ana and we turn everything from that sec
ton over to it.
The Silent Vote that Counts
But speaking Of New England, l might
say that three,fourths of our strength there
and, for that matter, gOodly proportion
of it throughout the country-lies in the
silent vote. In Maine and New Hampshire
particularly they don't wish to make much
noise about what they are doing but there
is a very lively still hunt in progress there,
and it will become very much warmer as
the compaigri advances. When we receive
letters from that section Of the country
and the experience Of the MASSACHUSETTS
committee is the same as cur own-the wri-
ter says, These men have expressed them
selves 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 we're anti
Blaine, but preferred to be quiet about it.
Then the movement is actually making
great headway, even in Republican strong
holds
at is increasing every day, and its pro-
gress is not among any one particular class
either. Our lists oftentimes comprise the
names of laboring 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 mp their minds, but they
were determined on one polnt-they would
not vote for Blaine.
-Four States He Ought to Have.
From the peculiarly good opportunity
that you have Mr.. Deming, for survey OF
the field, what is your opinion as to Cover
nor Cleveand's chances of successT
"All | can say is that if the Democratic
marty can poll anything ike its regular
party vote in New York, New Jersey, Con-
necticut and Ohio Grover Cleveland will
get the electoral votes Of those four States:
If he is not elected President of the United
States it will be from Democratic treachery.
He has got enough Independent votes DOW
in the States mentioned TO carry them with
his own party vete, and he has mighty fine
chance to get New Hampshire and MasSa-
chusetts.
In conversation other members Of the
committee freely expressed the opinion that
the active disafection in Republican ranks
would not be less than ten per cent. BY
this was meant that that percentage OF Re-
pubicans would emphasize their dissatisiac-
ton with the nominee Of their party By
voting for either one Of the other three can
didates, while it was very generally agreed
that there would be another large percent
age that would simply stay at home and not
vote at all Great stacks Of documents
Carl Schurz's speech, Charles R. Codmans
address before the convention of indePend-
ents in this city, the Brooklyn Young Re
publican Clubs inquiry into Blaine record
and other matters-are being continually
sent out by the committee. A mass of cor
respondence is received and mailed every
day. Where local Independent Republican
committees exist, and their number is very
large, the correspondence is conducted
through them, ana thus the labor Of the
committee here is very greatly simPlitied
and lessenei. These local committees are
constantly in course Of formation, and il Is
t,t6cled that in short while they viii be
estahlishedin in every town and city.