The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-11-10
LATEST FOREIGN NE rs.
Barkentine Planter, San Francisco,
October Goth.
The Presidential Election.


Connecticut is conceded to the Re-
publicans, New Jersey is expected to
give about its old-time Democratic ma
jo<ity and West Virginia is avOwedly
close
A telegram of Republican color from
Washington reports the heads of depart
ments gone or going out electioneering.
Only the Secretary of War and the At
torney-General will be left in the city
next week. The President himself was
going to New York to review the Demo-
cratic procession.
With certain States safe for them, the
Democrats are fighting for New YOrk,
Indiana, Connecticut, New Jersey, West
Virginia, California and Michigan. The
popular impression in Washington is that
California and Michigan are much safer
to the Republicans than West Virginia,
Connecticut, Indiana and New York are
to Democrats, so that harder fighting is
necessary for the latter, both in the mis-
sionary field and at home. The Demo
Gratis feel safer in New York and New
Jersey than in Connecticut, West Nir-
ginia or Indiana. The Republicans have
but to hold their own and concentrate on
New York.
Great interest is felt in the vote of
California and Nevada. The vote of
those two States together with the votes
of Indiana and New Jersey added to the
$50 votes from the solid South would
give POI electoral votes for the Demo
cratic ticket and elect Mr.. Cleveland. 1t
is the wish of Cleveland, second only to
his hope of reelection, that the Republi-
can power in the Northwest should be
broken, that the ma Orities all along the
inc oh rnHnpnH State
carried if possible. For this reason
energy is being diverted from States with
hopeless Republican majorities and de-
cided efforts are being made to carry
Michigan and Minnesota. The principal
efforts to reduce majOrities are being
made in Iowa and Illinois. Determined
efforts are being made to carry California
as an offset for the possible loss of Con-
necticut and Indiana.
In Washington, where personal con-
siderations influence the judgment of
men in political affairs more largely
than in any other place in the United
States, it is correspondingly difficult to
obtain an unbiased view of the situation.
There is ne doubt, however, that the
general opinion under the upper crust of
personal and political prejudice is that
Harrison will be elected. The inform
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the city is that the Republicans will gain
heavily. The ablest Democratic politi-
clans concede that the triangular fight in
New York City over the local offices
gives an opportunity for trading votes
which more than offsets any increase of
strength for the national ticket that in
tense party feeling might create. The
large increase of registration in New York
and Brooklyn cOnfounds both parties
and neither side seems to know just
where this vote will land.
AS soon as Congress adjourned, every
Senator and Representative who could
be of the slightest use to his party in any
section of country hurried away to en-
gage in the campaign. Senator Mitch
ell of Oregon and Senator Morgan OF
Alabama are the only two Senators re-
manning in the city. Mitchell had in
tended 10 take an active part in the Ore
gon campaign, but he is kept in the
East by alarming reports OF the serious
illnsss of Mrs. Mitchell, who is now in
Paris. He is now awaiting advices by
mail from abroad, to decide whether he
will return to Oregon in time to vote, or
will 60 to the bedside of his sick wife. |
In any event he will not be able to make !
Republican speeches in Oregon. Sen |
ator stanford will not reach San Fran |
cisco IN time to do more than to cast his |
vote for Harrison and Morton, and there |
is possibility that he may not get home |
until after the election.