Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-18
BLAINE'S LIFE OR DEATH.
EVERYTHING sTAKED oNzFoUR
STATES BY HIS HACKERS.


New York, New Jersey, Indiana and
Connecticut to be the Scenes of the
Last Great Upheavals of the Campaign
Democracy Confident that She Has
the Moral Sentiment of the Whole
Country at Her Back.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-THE Blaine
people in the departments have recovered
somewhat from their nervous prostratlon
of yesterday. They begin to talk now of
the result in Ohio as ''a victory after aII.v
and to hope to be able to carry Indiana on
the strength of it. All eyes are now
turned to New York, Indiana, Connecti.
cut and New Jersey. The Democrats en-
tertain hopes of carrying other Northern
States, but it seems to be we'll understood
that the main fight will be in the four
named. The Democrats are most hopeful
of carrying New York and Indiana. the
Republicans of carrying Connecticut and
New Jersey. Blaine and Logan are to
stump them all with like speeches to those
made IN Ohio. They hope to carry them
on the tariff issue.
BLAINE'S PURPOSE.
Blaine's purpose is to go to New York
next week and remain there until Nov.
4. His idea is to take charge of the
campaign there as he did in Ohio. This
some shrewd Republicans here consider
great mlsstep. They think the Ohio State
Committee, although they grumbled, were
on the whole glad to have Blaine's assist
ance, and If not were, perhaps. somewhat
oVeraWed by him, but they think that the
old war horses in New York will not
tamely. submit to such treatment as
Blaine gave the State managers in Ohio,
and that 1t will simply defeat his purpose.
REFUSES TO BECOME A RoBBER.
1t leaked out to-day that Deputy Com
missioner Clark of the Pension Office had
refused to approve the expense accounts
of the employees of the Pension Office,
whom Commissioner Dudley ordered out
to Ohio for campaign work. 1t seems
from the statement made, that when the
Commissioner of Pensions returned, the
only important Office work which he did
was to order Deputy Commissioner
Clark to approve the expense ac-
counts of his agents in the good work of
carrying Ohio. This the Deputy Com
fully, but firmly, declined to do.
He could certify to the facts that
these agents were ordered to Ohio by
Commissioner Dudley, and that they
acted under Commissioner Dudley's or
ders While there, but as to what they did
he was IN ignorance. The Commissioner,
it is stated, had no desire himself to affix
his autograph to an official approval of
these unnecessary amounts, so that they
will probably have to wait. 1t is difficult
TO say whether this will help or hurt Dep
uty Commissioner Clark's chances Of pro-
motion.
THE REAL FACTS.
In their attempts to make victory out
of defeat the Ohio Republicans are tele-
graphing here that all calculations and
comparisons must be made upon the plu-
ralities in favor of the Republican Con-
gIessmen elected, and IN favor of Flick
niger, the insignificant tail of the Repub-
lican ticket. They claim 1900 plurality
for the Congressman, 5000 for Flickinger,
and are willing to admit that Robinson,
who seems scarcely to be considered a
member of the State ticket, is not more
than $4,000, but these figures do not help
them. The majority for Congressman in
October, 1880, was %, 800, or 500 more
than for Superintendent of Public WORKS,
corresponding with Flickinger's 5000
or 1000 more than for the Secretary Of
state, corresponding with RObinson's'
l9,OO7 or 6,007 more, this upon the as
sumption that their claims are correct.
THE OFFICIAL COUNT.
COLUMBUS, o., Oct. 17.-The official
count by the county clerks to-day from go
N'ANASSf pAANA oIhl4~OAllNlfti rum buC ObnGk
% counties, gives Robinson for Secretary
of State, 1881, and Fleckinger for the
Board Of Public Works, 17,476.
The semi-ofiicial returns do not
report on the other Republican
candidates, but with 60 counties the plu-
rality of Johnson for Supreme Judge is
estimated at between $4,000 and 16,0OG
The total vote or majorities by Congress
sional districts cannot be given, but the
vote by counties ON Congressman shows
5S,544 Republican majorities, and 40,126
Democrats. The net Republican Ilajori-
ty on the Congressional vote is 49,
ELLsBERRY's MAJORITY.
CINCINNATI, Oct. 1.-THE Commercial
G0gette puts Ellsberry's, DEM, majority
over Hart, Rep, in the Eleventh Con-
gressional district at go.