Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-02
DRIFT OF THE CAMPAIGN.
LEADING POLITICIANS PREDICT.
ING VICTORY.

| ING VICTORY.
Reed of Course Claims Maine for Blaine
Indiana and New York Considered
| Surely DemOcratic-Republica Howl
ers in North Carolina Less Confident.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-The wheels
are beginning to move at both
the headquarters. Speakers Carlisle,
Messrs. Reed, of Maine, Morrison, Voor-
hes, and other prominent politicians are
seen around the hotels. The crop of po-
| litical interviews continues to be large.
Reed says Of Maine that the Dutch may
be expected tocapture Holland by an old
fashioned majority. Voorhees, says that
he goes to Indiana to make the Irishmen
in every county understand Blaine's
! treatment of Irishmen as comment upon
| his hypocritical pretensions of friendship
| for them. He says that Indiana may be
] counted upon as certainly Democratic.
| New York, he is informed. is in the same
! category.
Speaker Carlisle, who has been at home
/ ever since the Chicago Convention, and
not in Saratoga, Albany, Norfolk or any
other Eastern town, despite the numer-
/ GUS announcements to that effect, reports
| the same defectiOns among German Re-
| publicans which are noted by every one
who comes here from the West.
CLEVELAND BIG GUN.
Ex-senator Hereford, of West Virginia,
who was a member of the
committee which notified Cleveland and
Hendricks of their nomina tion arrived in
Washington this morning from New York.
"What do YOU think of Cleveland?"
a reporter asked.
''He IS decidedly bigger man than any
| Of us gave him credit for. He made that
| impression upon all wEO saw him for the
first time. His speech was in splendid
taste, and was delivered with the air and
manner of man who knows himself
lie had no notes at all. l saw
Frank Burr, the well known newspaper
correspondent there, and asked him how
the affair compared with Blaine's notifica-
ton. Burr was at Augusta, and is a
Republican. He replied that the Augusta
meeting was very tame in comparison
with that at Albany. The better Cleve-
land is known the more popular he will
become"
The Republicans say that they are
going to carry your State?"
WEST VIRGINIA SAFE.
''Pshaw, that's all bluster. The man
they have nominated for Governor can
never be elected by votes in West Vir-
ginia. Their candidate, Maxwell, was
Republican Supreme Court Judge, and
he sustained the odious test oath law in
its most virulent and yindictive con-
structlon. His decisions were always
partisan, and the people of West Vir-
ginia will never indOrse at the polls
man who used his judicial powers to Op-
press them in the darkest days of their
history. Certainly no Democrat will vote
for him.
But" suggested the reporter, SIT is
said that the Democrats are divided?'
THAT is not true. L will explain the
origin of that statement. At the recent
State Convention in which Gen. Hereford
was delegate a committee of one from
each Senatorial district was appointed to
select a permanent Chairman Thought
lessly, and some of them, as they subse-
quently admitted, through ignorance, Sc
lected George Ii. Moffett for that place
Some years ago MOffat published a letter
declaring that he had left the Democracy
forever.
MoFFATT's CAREER.
He came to Washington, held a confer
ence with the Republicans, and, upon re-
turning to West Virginia, proclaimed his
purpose to vote for Grant. He denounced
our party and its leaders in violent terms,
and when his name was proposed to the
convention many Democrats rose up and
SwOre that he should not preside over
them. He had to withdraw. He is a
writer for the Wheeling ReQiSteT, and has
made little noise about it. Our candi-
date for Governor is a strong man with the
people, while his opponent is weak.
The men of the party are in earnest, and
in short time we will have the best Or
ganiZatiOn we ever had. do not think
the fusion of the Republicans and
Greenbackers at all dangerous, for
there are men of both these parties who
are opposed to fusion, and will not sus-
Ns.sr,
cratic vote Of West Virginia, and that is
sufficient to bury the Republicans and
their fusion friends
The reporter called Gen. HerfOrd's at
tentiOn to the Oft-repeated statement that
ex-senator Davis, Of West Virginia, will
support Blaine.
"That is a lie," said the ex-senator
with some warmth. 81 have talked with
Mr.. Davis, and l know that he is with us,
heart and soul. Why at the very time
Wheeling paper published an item In
timating that Davis would support
Blaine the editor had check in his pocket,
voluntarily sent by Mr.. Davis,
to prepare for the convention.
Mr.. Davis wrote that the party would
require some funds to get properly Or
ganized and he sent check to help
cover the cost"
Senator Plumb, the friend of Jay
Gould, who is just back from the North
Carolina Republican Convention, is not so
hopeful as he was. He was asked whether
the Republicans would carry North Caro-
lima, as many of them claim.
RATHER EvAsIvE.
'.Oh its hard to tell,'' he replied. 81
talked with Republicans down there and
all of them speak hopefully,
because the counting machinery is
against us and the Democrats would not
let the Republicans have the State If they
won. Still our friends seem to feel quite |
confident"
With regard to the national outlook |
Senator Plumb said: 81 think our pros
poets look better than they did four years |
ago or eight years ago, or even twelve years |
ago. Of course it is question whether |
we hold on at the good pace we |
have started or fall back. A good |
many things may happen in three |
months. L believe myself that we
are going to win. This detection among !
the Irish and the laboring men, and their
dissatisfaction with the Democratic ticket |
will, think, give us New York. 1t will |
more than cOunterbalance any loss by |
Republican Independents, and then these |
stories told about Cleveland are going to |
hurt him with some people,"
But" suggested the reporter, sit is |
said in Democratic circles that similar |
stories about Blaine are soon to be pub
lished."
HOW THIS WILL WORK.
''Well," then said the Senator, ''it will |
simply resolve itself into each side voting |
for its own man. The Democrats will |
vote for Cleveland and the Republicans |
for Blaine. But everything considered l |
think that if nothing happens to change |
the popular current we will win. 1t is |
absurd for any man to say, though, that |
the election is already settled. Nobody |
can tell what the next three months may |
bring forth.'
Representative Brewer, of New Jer-
sey, Keiter's dearest friend, who |
has just come from home, |
says that the State is going |
for Blaine beyond doubt. He says that |
the Irish in the State, who have |
heretofore been Democrats, are shouting |
for the plumed knight spontaneously, |
without any work being done at all. Mr.. |
Brewer says: "They come right out for
Jimmy Blaine, by Cory" The Demo- |
Gratis, he says, carried the State four years
ago by only 1,S00 majority, and can be
easily overcome this year.
''Is there any disaffection in the Repub-
lican party in the State?'
"0h, very httle,r was the reply. "The
Democrats will lose ten Irish votes where
we lose one Independent"
Brewer is the man who published
Blaine's tariff chapter as a speech in the
Congressional Record, although he had
never delivered it on the floor of the
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