The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1884-07-19
THE REAL OUTLOOK INADoUBTFUL(q )
STATE,
Connecticut Irish Democrats Who VIII
Not Vote for Cleveland.

The Democrats hereabouts are already claiming
all the doubtful states for Cleveland, Connecticut
among the number. To show that their claims
are entirely groundless we copy the following
from Democratic correspondent of the Demo-
cratic New York Sun. Such news from doubt
full (?) State is calculated to make Republicans
feel very good The correspondent dates his
letter Hartford, July 18th, and says:
"The political situation in Connecticut must be
studied carefully. There is a very palpable dis
affection from Cleveland of considerable portion
of what is popularity called the Irish-American
vote. The Independent Republicans-and there
are a good many of them in Connecticut this
year-are pleased with Cleveand's nomination,
and many of them will vote for him; but outside
of Hartford and New Haven the anti Blaine Re-
publicans are scarce as hens teeth. The bulk of
the Republican vote is in the country towns, and
there is absolutely no evidence of any revolt
against Blaine in the country.
"On the other hand, proof of widespread dis
satisfaction with Cleveland crops up everywhere
among Democratic voters of Irish antecedents.
The announcement of Cleveland's nomination has
been received by this class of voters, not only
with sullenness, but also with openly avowed hos
tiity while even the voters outside of this class
lack enthusiasm. As instances of this feeling,
five prominent Hartford Irish American poll
ticians, all Democrats, whom lnterrogateu rluay
evening. said boldly that the nomination OF Cleve-
land was a fatal mistake. Careful inquiry leads
to the opinion that not less than three hundred
Irish-American voters in this city alone will refuse
to vote for Cleveland. In New Haven, where
this class of voters makes up fully one-half the
Democratic strength, several prominent Irish
Democratic leaders have declared publicly for
Blaine and it is under the mark to say that hve
hundred of their follows in the Elm City Will vote
against the Democratic candidates in November.
In Waterbury, Meriden, Bridgeport, and other
places where the voters of Irish descent are num-
| erous a similar state of affairs exists. A very
| conservative estimate of the loss to the Demo
| cratic national ticket among this class OF Con-
nectcut voters is eciost estate viii, OF course,
| be fatal in Presidential year unless the hide
| pendent Republicans draw enough votes from
Blaine to offset it. Can they do it? 1t is doubt
full as yet. While the Republican Independents
appear to be in earnest, they are almost without
exception impracticabie men. They are not the
| men who take hold at the polls on election day.
Few Of them can control any other voters, and
some will not be able to control their own votes
at the polls. If the Independent Republican
| movement in this State takes 500 votes from
| Blaine to Cleveland it will accomplish more than
the average well-nformed politician expects. In
view of the fact that Connecticut has gone Re-
| publican in every Presidential election since the
war save in 1876, Cleveland's prospects of car
| rying the State are not rosy"