Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-11-14
CHICAGO.
Carter Harrison Aiming for the
United States Senate.
How the Republican Newspapers Wasted
Their Ammunition.
1,eclal Corresnondence al the anreiie.

special Correspondence OF the Gazette.
CHICAGO, ILL, Nov. 10.-When
Carter Harrison was stamping
this state he frequently remarked
that it was time to turn one set Of ras-
Gals out and let another In. or course
a good deal OF this WAS intended for q
joke but from the result right here In
Carter's home where he thought he
was strongest, 1t is evident that good
many people thought he was joking
on facts. That Chicago and Cook
county should have given Republi-
can majority Is q mater of great sur
prise TO the Republicans even more
perhaps than to Democrats.
II is not likely that Har-
rison had very much hope In run
ming for governor against Oglesby, but
he has probably succeeded in doing
what he wanted even worse, /. O., max
ing the illinois legislature Democratic
at least on joint ballot, and laid the
way for seat in the United States
senate.
The election returns were terribly
perplexing here, and Chicago people
were wrought up to the highest pitch
OF excitement by the varying reports
that came in for two OF three days.
| Early Wednesday morning after the
election, Democrats and In
dependents were in high glee;
they seemed TO have swept
beyond q doubt more than they wanted,
or rather more than they needed.
About noon the tide changed. The
Associated Press claimed New York
for Blaine by comparatively large
majority. The Democrats We're in
cllned TO think Gould was eXerting
his influence TO color the dispatches,
and many of them did not waver for
a moment in the conviction that their
standard-bearer had been successful,
but the afternoon dispatches were such
~ To make them feel very dubious, and
the Republicans were feeling CORE
spondingly happy. Wednesday even,
ing matters seemed TO tend
this way more than ever.
: The headquarters Of the Demo
cratic central committee were closed.
Democrats went in vain to the Palmer
house for comfort. The dispatches
were not at all reassuring. And while
the people knew that bets we're MOI
. lNRA
8 rooms heavy odds were given agains
3 Cleveland had a depressing effect. Tit
Tribune and Inter Ocean were putting
: out bulletins by means OF stereoptconi
that brought the widest shouts o
4 delight from the assembled thousands
Their returns seemed TO get better ant
J, better, and as they were intersperse'
e by humorous hits and caricatures, tn
crowd was fairly wild with JOY
~ Both papers commenced indulglng II
: fireworks, and the hilRrity of course wa
increased. The crowds formed in lin'
and marched through few OF tn
Is streets, making all the noise possible
e AT midnight the Democrats We're pei
picked and Republicans were jubilan
d over the returns, But the next morI
70 ing brought a different tale. The II
publicans were mostly very dlscoul
,r aged. The papers that had prematurel
d spent their fireworks must have felt
l. little like the fellow who anticipate
d how much fun he was going TO haN
a with bull; and after he had bee
a. tossed back over the fence IN the frs
IL encounter, remarked that 1t was luck
he had his fun before he went into Il
pasture.
lie pRp-suckers in Chicago who think u
country will surely 90 to the denim
ton bow-wOws. Republicans as
a rule who have no bread and butt
element In their view of the chang
"a feel very sore of course and those wi
are inclined to talk about 1t at all d
clare that we are sure to have hal
10 times on account of the people at larl
X being in the dark as to what will
~ the policy Of the government under
Democratic administration. Some 50
7, that there will be certain depresslc
ID for year perhaps, but are willin
y TO say that the general prosperity
Q, the country cannot be particularly
N feeted, and that everything will
IT running along smoothly enough In lie
~ than a year.
IN But how the st John men are cate
n ing il! IL Is in bad taste for Prohi'
As ZIONIST to open his mouth in Repub
re can crowd now. The charge that 81
er Ter was bought by the Republicans
OF met by the charge that st. John W
81 working under Democratic pay.
Id think hoih are aimnly camDalQu lie