The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1884-08-30
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campaign imagine. And it is daily grow
ing larger in the states of New Hampshire,
Connecticut, New Jersey, West Virginia,
Massachusetts, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan,
Iowa and Kansas. Some of the Western
States, up to very recent time, have been
conceded to Mr.. Blaine almost without
question, but the charges directly affecting
his official probity and his fitness to dis
charge a public trust, which remain I'M
answered, are losing him every day scores
and hundreds of Republican votes, and the
evidences of dissatisfaction with the ticket
are such that his chances for success in
those states are visibly diminishing. The
strength of the prohibition ticket in the
West is another and very serious obstacle
to Republican success.
Arkansas will lead off the first of the
fall elections on September 1, to be followed
on the next day by Vermont, Maine on
September s, Georgia on October l, and
Ohio and West Virginia on October IA.
Arkansas and Georgia will undoubtedly go
Democratic, and Notwithstanding the des-
perate efforts made to capture it, West
Virginia, it is believed, will show Re
publican defeat and the emptiness of the
Blaine boasts. OF the six state elections
this fall that in Ohio is regarded by Re
publicans as having the most significant
bearing on the Presidential election.
There is bare possibility of Republican
success without New York, but the loss of
both New York and Ohio would certainly
mean crushing defeat
With all the offices from Governor down
filled with Democrats, and all the various
factions united this year, it is manifestly
unwise for the Republicans to place abso-
lutte reliance upou the statement that "Ohio
is safe for the Republican candidate. "
Gov. Hoadley, who was in this city few
days ago, says that the independent voters
are more numerous to-day in his state
than ever before There, as in New York
and other states, this class of Republicans
will not submit to leadership that does
not give promise of honesty and stability
in the affairs of government, and faithful
effort to promote administrative reforms.
The German vote of Ohio and other North
western states has been largely Republican
in national elections. The indications are
that very small proportion Of this can be
held for the candidate who has been i'm
posed upon the Republican party.
The Butler side-show will not help
Blaine, and it is admitted that the prohi-
bition party will play havoc with the pros
poets of the Republican candidate Itmay
safely be assumed, therefore, that con-
siderable body of Ohio Republicans will
not support Mr.. Blaine under any circum-
stances, and in the opinion of the knowing
ones here there is but a slight chance OF
Republican success in Ohio, either in o.
tober or November
In Wisconsin there has been such a
stampede from the Republican party since
the nomination of Blaine and Logan that
the Democrats at the national committee
headquarters believe the State can be car
ried by a small but safe majority at the
November election. The dissatisfaction
among the German element is particularly
strong. The Herald, the leading German
paper in the Northwest, bolted Blaine and
Logan's nomination the day after the con,
vention adjourned, as did also the Freie
Pyesse, the German afternoon daily. The
only other German paper, Der Seebote, is
Democratic organ, and so it will be seen
that the Republicans are in bad plight in
this regard. The Catholic Citizen, the
leading Irish paper in the State, has come
out against Blaine, which is quite signif
cant when the fact that the Republicans
have been counting on gaining large Irish
vote is to be considered.
Mayor Vaughan, of Council Bluffs, Iowa
was in the city few days since and pre-
dicted that Iowa would help to put Cleve
land in the White House. He said Gov
Sherman was elected by 10000 plurality
at the last election. His majority vote wa.
only about l 800 At that time he GOT
about 10000 German votes which will &C
to Cleveland this year. He said the Dem
ocratic party fought squarely against pro
hibition and with st. John in the field the
vote of the prohibition party-numberine
about 10,000-will vote for him, thus
taking away a large vote from Blaine. The
greenback vote, he says, numbers about
$4,000 or 10000 in the State, and with
the fusion that has been effected between
them and the Democrats on the basis Oi
division will defeat the Republicans. lie
also said that in Council Bluffs, out of d
population of over $4,000, he did not be.
lieve so German votes would go to Blaine
There is not a German newspaper of any
standing in the State that supports Blaine
The reports at the national headquarters
from Indiana are 'most excellent feeling
good meetings and much spontaneous en-,
thusiasm." Gov. ST. John and other lead
ing prohibitionists will stump the State fol
their ticket. Gov. Hendricks, who has
never been defeated in the State for any
Office, will make a vigorous canvass for his
ticket, assisted by Senators Mcdonald
Voorhees, and some of the leading Demo-
Gratis of the country. Gov. Hendricks will
make his first speech at Muncie, the county
seat of one of the strongest Republican
counties in Indiana, on September 6.
The Democratic campaign in New York
will not fairly begin until about the LIST Of
Wntu Will UC very
vigorous to the end. The members of the
national committee think that six or seven
weeks of hard, aggressive fighting will ac-
complish more than the same amount Of
energy distributed over double the length
of time 1t is claimed that influences are
at work among the laboring classes and
the rank and file of Tammany Hall which
have already caused decided change in
the feeling of those factions of the Democ-
racy toward Gov. Cleveland. Hon. A. p
German, chairman of the national Demo-
cratic executive committee, who is famous
as a peacemaker, is now at Saratoga Springs,
and it is believed will succeed in securing
the support of Mr.. John Kelly and Tam
many Hall for Governor Cleveland. The
managers believe the troubles within the
party can be arranged before September, at
all events the indications are such as to in.
duce Governor Hendricks to write letter
from the East to a friend in Indianapolis,