The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1884-08-16
THE GREAT CAMPAIGN.
THE LEADING POLITICAL isCt-
DENTS OF THE WETh


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Talking most ahons---a thesrfai
Outlook.
The National Campaign is gsanducst<f
without ma ~ great incidents rs exciting
( rs II becomes. IL l. conducted mainly
through the newspaper ALREADY the
+ campaign Biographies arc out hundred.
/ Of editions. Every State has a dozcn
AMI some hundreds of local ciuts ~ each
/ party The National Committees are got.
/ ting down 10 "ork, sending ont tons of
documents.
/ The greatest events ia the WAY 81 rpolii-
/ icai demonstration that have taken place
/ have been IN favor of thc Democrats.
/ Last week. Carl Sehur1 who WAS mem.
/ Der Of Iiayes's cabinet, "a Republican
! hitherto, and until recently one Of tho
! editors of jhc EctuiHg ltasf in New York
made great speech III Brooklyn, y y.
/ in which he told why the independent
/ Republicans are dissatisfied with Blaine
aud ~lll support Cleveland 1t WAS one
! of the most powerful speeches that has
/ been delivered for good many years.
| MI. SchurZ Is a man Of great intellectual
! force, and his political career has been Of
! a somewhat independents Kind. In Irving
| Hall III New York, n great Democratic
ratification meeting was held last week:
and III Boston there WAS stIch Democrat
lc rally as has never been known there
within recent years.
| In the West, the Democratic chances
| seem more favorable than ever Mr. w
| r. Villas, who was Chairman of the Dem
| ocratic Convention at Chicago, predicts
that Cleveland viii carry Wisconsin,
strong Republican State. The nomina-
| ton of eX-Gov. ST. John of Kansas as the
| Prohibitionst candidate for President
! will draw so many otherwise Rcpubi-
i la, 4
the two great prohibition States-that
| there is a good indication that the Dem
ocrats will secure the electoral votes of
| both these States-and an especially good
| chance to get the votes of Kansas. Mr..
| Hendricks has expressed himself sure of
| Indiana. which votes, ii will be remcm-
| bered in October.
| The most noteworthy fact in the whole
campaign-and the fact most talked
about-is the "Cleveland scandal" to
! which THE CHRONICLE has hitherto not
| even made allusion, and which is an an
| fortunate breach of morals -s such a
| breach precisely as would have excluded
| George Washington, Thomas jefferson,
Daniel Webster, and and and (the
list could be made ndefinite) from pub
lie life, as properly as Cleveland. That
has now spent its force; and there is not
the least reason why it should make
Cleveland's vote less 1t did not make it
less when he ran for Sheriff Mayor or
Governor.
Gov. Cleveland has gone about his daily
work as Governor III the same modest
way as before he was nominated He
went last week for a holiday in the Adj
| rondacks, as he ususally goes in the Sum
mer.
Mr. Blaine is in Augusta, Me-, where,
IA tn IJarn r'a
HeehIy, which is scoring him most unmer-
cifully. The Izibune is the only promi-
nent journal of any kind in New York
that is doing work for him, and the Iri
bat'2e is doing its worst and most bitter.
The forthcoming campaign literature will
contain Mr. Blaine's public record, which,
indeed, every Democratic orator is now
making speeches about.
The Democrats have not had so favora
bic an outlook since the war as they now
have. That Cleveland will carry New
York, that Hendricks will carry Indiana,
that the South will remain solid-of these
facts there is little or no doubt. The In
dependents that bolted Blaine not only
remain firm but become more and more
enthusiastic for Cleveland. The New
York Herald and the New York Times
wax warmer for Cleveland as the cam
paign continues.
Ben Butler has accepted the nomination
for the Presidency of the Greenbackers
and Anti Monopolists. He will not get
enough votes in any State to affect the re-
suit.
Mr. TiIden has allowed it to be an
nounced that he heartily agrees with the
Democratic party i'll thinking it wise to
nominate Cleveland, and he is sure Of
victory. John Kelly has said that Tam
many will support Cleveland; bat what
ever Tammany may do now, the public
hardly seems to care.
Considerable interest has been excited
in the campaign in West Virginia. The
Republicans have hopes Of carrying the
State, and make loud boasts. 1t is claim
ed that an importation Of Negroes from
Virginia has already begun. There is,
however, little need to fear Republican
success there
In North Carolina the campaign goes
on very well, as every reader of THE
CHRONICLE knows. The canvass in some
of the Congressional districts is becoming
warm. Especially in the Fourth District
are the Democrats awake and active in
good time. Mr.. Cox is ably helped espe-
cially by Mr.. Fowle, and Mr.. Bum has
begun to fill appointments.
Altogether the outlook is very fatter-
ing