The Portland daily press., 1888-10-24
DEMOCRATS DESERVING CLEVELAND.
seventy.Five in One Town Raise a
Harrison Pole.
Echoes From the Great Fight In New
York Cities.
Satisfactory FIguring-Brodie's Col.
onists-SrookIyn's Barbecue.

Satisfactory FigurIng-Brodie's Col
onIsts-srookIyn' Barbecue.
BATH, N. Y, Oct. 23.-Seventy-fye life
long Democrats, who will vote for Harrison,
raised pole here this afternoon and flung
to the breeze flag inscribed with tho word
| Protection" Great enthusiasm prevailed.
The pole raisers wore badges containing
Harrison's picture, and the words: "Pro-
| lection to American labor, justice to Union
veterans, Democratic pole raising, October
%, Bath, N. Y" A splendid address was
made by T. S. Heath of Cory, Penn, who
has never voted the Republican ticket, but
will vote for Harrison this fall. The COM
mittee Of arrangements was John Middock,
| Moses Coane and Avery Carrigan, who sent
| a telegram to General Harrison announcing
| the pole raising. They received cordial
response from the General. A large meet
! ing was held in the evening.
In steuben County.
NEW YORK, Oct. 23.-The Herald prints
the following:
CORNING, N. X, Oct. 20-The Herald was en-
tirely right in saying thai IN Stenben county tho
accords with the best political information OBJ
| That is the political size of things as they exist
today, and the Herald, following the precept ouce
laid down by Democratic governor Of this State.
need not be ashamed to "tell the truth"
The Evening Boast In questioning the Herald's
plain, and terse Characterization Of the condition
| of the Steuben Democracy manifests its charac-
| teriStlc divvle OF unVeracity Instead of the one
Democrat which it alleges has been lost to Cleye-
land in Corning there are at least so in this town
| who this year have renounced Democracy and will
| vote Tor Harrison. In every one of the 80 towns
| of this county there win be Republican gain
| over Blaine. In Bath, the county seat and home
| of Congressman Davenport aud Judge William
| Rumsey, Republican pole win be raised on Mon
day next entirely by Democrats The call for the
event Is headed. Democratic Harrison Pole
Raising" and 1t is said that fully fifty former
Cleyelandtes In Bath viii take part in the cere-
menies.
Steuben county gave Blaine something like $50
plurality. 1t will give Harrison nearly double that
figure.
You give the Evening Boast too much space.
No one reads 1t here except through the courtesy
OF the Herald and sun in their republication OF
extracts from its column. In the meantime let
your eminently fair and trustworthy correspon-
dent proceed to tell the truth about the situation
as he findst it.
If the Herald can only succeed in waking up the
Democratic rainbow chasers 1t viii receive the
thanks Of the Republicans who are languishng
from lack of visible foe.
GEORGE w. PRATT, Editor Journal. [Rep.l
How New Workers Figure.
New YORK, Oct. 23.-Colonel Joel B.
Erhardt was the busiest man in the city yes
terday. The Republican leader is pressing
vigorous canvass, and wise men say he will
come under the wire winner. Another
huge roll of manuscript was placed upon the
ColonePs desk at headquarters yesterday. 1t
contained the names of thousands of citizens
irrespective of party. who offered their aid
to place him in the Mayors chair New
Years day. Among the signers of the mons
ter memorial were business men. lawyers,
bankers and wage workers, not few Of
whom have never yet voted the Republican
ticket.
The great majority wrote that they had in
tended to support Abram s. Hewitt because
OF his honesty. They had, however, found
IN Erhardt man just as honest, and, more
than that, identified with no political trust
or ring, such as the Mayor wears
Inc county Democracy bosses and few
OF the Citizens committee have been engaged
ever since the nomination of Father Abram
Hewitt in trying to convince the Republi-
cans that by voting fer Colonel Erhardt they
cast half ballot for Tammany's candidate.
Here are some figures which clearly demon
strate how easy it will be to elect the Repub-
does his duty.
In 1886 the vote for Mayor was as follows:
Hewitt, 90,552; George, 6S, 10; Roosevelt, Co.
4S5; total, 2l9,o97. The vote Of the Republ-
against Peckham, for judge of the court of
appeals, was 1886 This shows that 1851
Republicans Ia this city voted for Hewitt,
fearing the election of George. To show
that Mr.. Roosevelt would have been elected
if he had received the full Republican vote,
deduct from the Hewitt vote 1851 for Re-
publican votes he received and add them to
Mr.. Roosevelts. The figures would then
have been: United Democratic vote for
Hewitt, SPOOL; Labor vote for George, 6S,-
no; Republican vote, if all had been polled
for Roosevelt, 1886; total, 219,097. Repub-
lican plurality, $685..
TO estimate the vote Of 1888 add t0 that of
odd mol fok-. a..
per cent. Calling the increase gain, divided
between each party pr0p0rtlonately, the fig
ures would stand: County Democrats, La
Dor and Tammany. 165.330; Republican.
93,204. Total, 25S,5
Estimate the division Of this vote as fol-
lows: Coogan. Labor and Socialist, 30,00O
Hewitt, 40 per cent of balance, GO, ,898; Grant
50 per cent of balance. 74,434; Erhardt, 93,-
204; total, 25S,534. On this basis Erhardt
would have plurality of 1877 In addition
to this, many votes may be relied upon from
independent Democrats and lab0rers who
are utterly opposed TO the rule of Tammany
Hall. An examination of the following ta-
bic VIII show the percentage Of the Republi-
can vote and confirm the above statement:
1880, Garfield, 81, ,730; total vote, 205, ,3S1-40
per cent. 1884, Blaine, 90,093; total vote,
227, ,780-40 per cent 1885, Davenport rs. 1854
total vote. 200, ,33S-37A per cent. 1886. Dan
iels, 1886; total vote, 2l2, 144-373 per cent.
The Millennium First.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 23.-At the meeting
Of the Presbyterian ministers this morning,
the Rev. I'll. II. Lee. in speaking upon tenn
perance in politics, said: "The Prohibition
party, to judge from the advancement it has
made during the past twenty years, cannot
hope to be successful until the millennium is
over and long forgotten. We would, il pos
sible. abolish the whole rum traffic, but it is
matter of great Joy that voters in many of
our States favor prohibition. We want this
whenever it can be had AMI enforced, but
Heaven knows that prohibition does not pro-
claim. The Third Party Part is IS the main aid and
hope Of the liquor element, which today is
patting the Prohibitionistsion the shoulder
ana encouraging them to stick. In words,
this party is the Prohibition party; but in
acts it is the anti-Prohibition party. in OPP
posing the party that is the only hope Of
Prohibltion or temperance in the country
Inc Republican party is today taking a
stronger position on the question OF temper
ance than it took on the question of slavery,
and is the only hope of the ultimate attain
ment of the result"
The Rev. DIR. William p Breed agreed
with all that Mr.. Lee had said. He was
Prohibtionist but he was highly in favor of
He did not like the Third Party. movement.
and thought some Of the assertions of the
Third party were almost blasphemous.
Ex-senator Bruce on the outlook.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 23-Ex- United States
Senator d. X. Bruce of Mississippi, is at
the Girard House. In speaking of the presi-
Dental outlook he says; II have travelled
all through Michigan, Wisconsin and indiana
and the feeling in all three States is very
warm. There is an interesting fight in
Michigan, where Gov. Luce is a cand idate
for reelection. He is confident Of succe S..
He is a farmer himself, and talks to the
grangers in practical manner In Wiscon-
sin there is no doubt of the success of the
National Republican ticket In Indiana the
crowds are really wonderful / addressed
open air meetings most of the time, the
crowds being too large to get within any or
binary hail. / have every reason to believe
that we will carry that State Gen. Harri-
sons speeches have done the party a world
of good. Everything he has said SO far has
been wise, patriotic and iudicious''
Money to Garry indiana.
INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 23.-It Is now beeom-
ing evident that the political contest in Indi-
ana will close in way that the Republican
campaign managers have expected. They
have repeatedly declared that they feared
nothing but the corrupt use of money by the
Democrats, and it is now no surprise to