Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-10-03
BADGERDOM.
Political Gossip at Democratic
Headquarters.
Bragg's District Good for
5000 Majority.
Meehan Will be Elected in the
Ninth District.
Great Life in Independent Circles.
BADGERDOM.
Great Life in Independent Circles.
AT HEADQUARTERS.

Political Gossip at the Several
State Committee Rooms.
Special to the Democrat.
MILWAUKEE, Sept. S0.-Gen. Ed. S,
Bragg democratic nominee for con-
gress in the second district, dropped
into the headquarters of the demo
cratic state central committee to-day
and gave the democrats word of
cheer. He says Hon. A. K. Delaney
will take the stump in his district and
do all he can for Gen. Bragg and the
entire democratic ticket. Gen. Bragg
says the best of feeling prevailed at
the convention after the nomination
had been made and he has visited
many points in his district since and
is thoroughly pleased with the out
look. He said the democratic ticket
would 60 ont of the old Second dis
trict with 5000 majority.
Hon. Jas. Meehan democratic
nominee for congress in the
Ninth congressional district also visited
the state committee headquarters and
succeeded in getting DR.. Anderson to
cease reading letters for few min
utes-a most difficult thing to do.
Mr.. Meehan believes he has fair
prospect of an election and will de
vote all his time to the campaign un-
til election. His report of the situa
ton of affairs in the fourteen counties
in his district was perfectly satisfac
tory to Dr. Anderson. 1t is about all tie
chairman can do these times to open
and read the letters and kilograms he
receives, but he seldom tells anybody
what letter contains, and when ques-
toned simply says he is satisfied with
the outlook.
Late in the afternoon Hon. n. D.
Fratt, candidate for governor, came
into headquarters for a short time,
then he left for West Bend to meet
Gen. Bragg, and the two will look
over the second district.
Hon. Joe. Rankin, the democratic
nominee in the fifth district, does
not come to headquarters much
at present. He left his figures there
for Z, 500 majority III the district and
has gone home to get them out. 1t is
confidently expected at headquarters
that Joe" will do it.
In the Milwaukee district (the
Fourth the nomination will be made
on Saturday next, and there is no op-
position to Hon. p. V. Deuster who
will be elected by large majority
his friends claim from 5000 to 1000
for him and nearly as much for Clege,
land.
At republican headquarters there
was little doing. Postmaster Payne
was entertaining Hon. Ed. Coe and
Hon. O. B. Thomas, while a clerk or
two worked away lazily on a little
bundle of documents in an adjoining
room. No predictions were nsade on
the result in the state, but it is gener-
ally understood in Milwaukee that
Chairman Taylor has come down on
the estimate from 10000 to 10, 900
majority, and he would be better
satisfied with that than he is with the
prospect of getting 1t.
But the busy place is the independ-
ent headquarters. Hon. Thad G.
Pound and Hon. N. S. Murphy enter
tain callers while half dozen clerks
were kept busy writing letters and
sending out documents. A magnifi-
cent banner has been suspended
across the street containing Eesides
several apt quotations from the Null
ligan letters, and the quotation from
Judge Edmunds, of Blaine popping
up from behind Could breastworks,
musket in hand.
At the Independent headquarters
great confidence is expressed IN the
state of Wisconsin going for Cleve-
land.