Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-10-28
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THE VIRGINIA CAMPAIGN.
THE THREATENED BALKAN WAR
CHICAGO'S MAYORALTY CONTEST.
THE BRITISH ADVANCE ON eURMAH.
GREAT STORM OFF LABRADOR
Three Hundred Lives Reported Lost,


The Talk About q Democratic Gov.
ernOr and Malone Legislature-NOth.
ing i'm 1.-THE Winning Side Will
Garry Both Governor and Legislature.
Special Dispatch to THE EVENING STAR.
RICHMOND. VA. October 2s.-The current of
democratic speculation as to next Tuesdays
result, aided more or less by republican inclina-
ton, continues to flow in the direction hereto
fore marked out in these dispatches. 1t bears
you toward the unnatural conclusion Of Wfse's
decisive defeat and. Mahones mysterious VIC
tory. "Mahone has out-rowed Wise, and, hav-
ing passed him in the race, the candidate for
governor is now getting the Senators wash.
The fact is that this current is without any
proper head or source and the conclusion
without q foundation of any account. Wise Is
not getting the Senator's wash, and to-day the
gubernatorial ticket is, or should be, ahead OF
the legislative one.
Underlying and enveloping all such specuia-
ton as that referred to will be found only the
mere fear of a number of panic-struck demo-
Gratis that Malone can i'm some ingenious and
audacious way contrive to get just the requisite
number of votes in just the requisite number Of
the close districts to give him just the requisite
majority on joint ballot of the two houses 10
re-elect himself without ability or even desire
to aid In the meantime his state ticket.
Out of his ''uutold campaign wealth he is to
make an assemblyman wherever one is needed,
with nobody on the side of the democratic
'smanagement'' to modest or interfere with his
plans, nor any untold campaign wealth OF
theirs for use in the emergencies of this flight"
Now, the truth appears To be, from all the at
tainable testimony at hand, that the demo-
cratic management has much, ii not more,
money than the republicans; that they are as
ready to use it in the election of their candi-
with great anxiety; and, furthermore, there is
the important but almost forgotten fact that
f1,S- hn-l bad
which it takes about one and a half republican
votes TO count one In the election OF a legisla-
ture. This is conspicuously true in the black
belt, where nearly two republican, negroes
are needed to make a voting power equaiing
that of single white democrat.
1t is not the intention to startle anybody or
make a case of any new outrage against the
democratic party by the above statement,
since "gerrymanders" in states, republican as
we'll as democratic are known to be frequent,
but it is intended to show the fallacy of what
seems to be popular idea taat the reproneahs
date for governor. Well, ii they carry the for
mer they certainly ought to elect the latter, for
disadvantages to the legislative, not shared by
the state ticket, might be pointed out TO the
readers of The STAR. In conclusion, It may
the southwest and the valley, two former DEM
Ocratic stronghods, will be found not weaker
Democratic den s paternity and his own democratic
antecedents will be strong cards for him In
both those sections. Fully expecting Tor at least
four years past to be the candidate of his party
for governor, he has done great deal OF per-
sona1 electioneering as well as public campaign.
ing in the southwest. He has larger personal
acquaintance, too, than any man OF either
party in the state. In his campaign two years
ago for congressman at-large he made tour OF
the entire state. Indeed for years past he has
been almost constantly on the stump" while
In the present canvass he has Travelled more
miles and made more speeches than any candi-
date for any office in this state ever before at
tempted All previous records of the kind are
utterly eclipsed by the performance of MIR.
Wise. So after dligent inquiry THE STAR cor
respondent is unable to find any good ground
on which to build belief that the end can be
other than the entire defeat of either the repub-
licans or democrats. There will be no halfway
result.