Mexico weekly ledger., 1884-10-09
oMe8rath on Fusionists.

lnsthis State, Safd: There are really |
but two tickets sin this state to be
voted at the next election, and every
voter, who intends to cast his vote
upon principle is to choose between
thems These are the Democratic and |
Prohibition tickets. The Fusion
ticket has no following. The slim
attendance and little enthusiasm at |
the meetingssealled and held recently +!
by ttiemfat Boonville, Hannibal, Sc
dalia and st. Louis clearly indicate
this, IL there we're no other evidences
of it. :; The people are not going to
be fooled by throwing away their
votes for a ticket without a principle
ora following. } The issue is between
the Democratic party and the 'prohi-
bition element. In every county in
the State, wherein the meetings have
been held by those so-called Fusion
lists for the nomination of county Of
ficers, the nominees are Prohibition
lists. This Is unmistakably 30 in the
selection of the candidates for the
legislature and for sheriffs and col
lectors. / fail to see where Ford's
vote is to come from. The Republi-
can party only cast 1900 votes at
the election of 1882. His anomalous
position on Prohibition will lose him
%, 900 Of these. He gets no votes
from the Prohibitionists they have
candidate of their own. OF the
votes cast for the Greenback ticket in
1882, he will not receive more than
10000. He will Of course receive to
start with the votes Of all the Hate
ties and all their accretions since
then who voted for cClurg in 1870.
The Nc Clurg vote was $4,000. The
Greenback vote is no longer a party
vote in the State. The Greenbackers
have nearly all gone back to the old
Iparties, and have no existence or Or
lganization as a party in the State.
The opposition will not poll as many
votes this year as it did in 1880,
when the combined vote of the Re-
lpublicans and Greenbackers was 190,-
900. This year 10000 at least of
the Sc, 1888 Greenback votes polled in
1880 will be cast for the Democratic
ticket, and the anti-Prohibition-Re-
publican voters not voting at all, or,
if voting, will vote the Democratic
ticket, will more than offse,
the increase of the last four years
In the vote of the Republicans.
The opposition vote in 1882 was 1853,
600 and the Greenbackers $4,000
The vote of the State this year viii
/ be about 425 900 or 25, 900 more thar
8 in 1880. OF this number Cleveland
, will receive 25O,o0o and the opposl
: ton, or Fusion, $4,000. OF th'
Cleveland vote about $4,000 will g
I to Brooks. This leaves Marmaduk'
with 24O, 900 and 1856, 900 to be deliv
cred between Brooks and Ford. Thi.
, makes it nip and tuck between Fort
and Brooks, and when the votes ar
I counted the majority will likely to b.
for Brooks as between them. Thi
gives Gen. Marmaduke a majorit,
r over all of from $4,000 to 5000
0 votes. The Republicans in 18S'
lpolled 1000 votes less than in 1886
: This decrease or what was polled o
n it, went to the Greenback ticket an,
g helped to run up the Greenback vot
d of that year to $4,000, when tn
u Greenbackers, as a party, really ha
: not $4,000. votes, all told, in tn
" State. The next state senate will b
+ as now-hopelessly democratic. Whe
e the last senatorial apportionment wa
+ made, the opposition was accorde
n ten senators, this being considered
= fair proportion. At the State elee
o ton which followed, half the senators
= or seventeen was elected, and every
I. one of them Democrats. The senat
e now stands % Democrats and 81
n Republicans. The next senate wi
IL have 20 Democrats and only five Of
II position; one or two of the latte
e out-and-out Prohibitionists.
Il The present house is composed {
II 108 Democrats, 26 Radicals and 81
p Greenbackers. The prospects al
pt the Democratic members will be il
y creased, and the seats of the presel
'g Republican and Greenback membe
~ in the house with but few exception
n will be filled with prohibitionist
en- Every candidate named for congre
10 by the Democrats will be electe
i'll Senator Vest will have a walkov
a. for the senate. OF Cleveland al
~ Hendricks election I have no dou
49, whatever.