Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1888-09-13
A POLITICAL REVIEW.
A Calm and Sensible Summary of Demo-
cratic Strength and Certainty
of Success.

cratic Strength and Certainty
of Success.
+ The Kansas City Times sums up the
outlook at the beginning of September,
as follows:
About the first of September the hard,
| practical part of presidential cam
paign begins. PEeliminaries have all
been settled. Feelers are ell out and
reports from their effects are all in.
Ninety-nine voters out of Q hundred
have decided finally 4iO@T they will cote
on the issues presented. The time re-
| naming is devoted to the work 0f es-
tabliSaing Discipline and bringing out
the vote.
| The first week in September is fa-
vorable time for making . seview of
the situation and calculating the
| chances. This democrats have been
doing, and they are more than ever
certain that Cleveland and Thurman
will be elected by popular majority
much beyond that of Cleveland and
Hendricks.
Republicans find nothing in Che southe
| Virginia is as solid as Texas ana TenB
nessee will give 10, 900 majority. DemR
Ocrats have substantial grounds for
| hopeful feeling in Michigan, Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota and Illinois. In roads
| by tariff reforn are undeniable in the
agricultural districts.
| Leaving out gaines in SSaseS which
have been steadily republican since the
ma, Connecticut or New Jersey to indir
| Cleveland columns? In Wha3 IS he
| Eor xhor, II, 1S21S
Personally Mr.. Cleyeland has Sastly
more strength. His administrative
ability has been demonstrated to the
satisfaction of every business man. He
has shown that he can hold in check
bad influences and protect both the
honor and welfare of the country.
| Only from the malignant and gangrened
radical republicans does a word of dis
respect for him now come.
| In New York the party is more solid
ly united than in any year since Mr..
Tilden's mastery campaign in 1876.
! Tammany is not only in appearance
but in truth for Cleveland and Thur
man. The presidents unequivOcal sup
port of Colonel Fellows and his unwa-
Ivering democracy on all occasions have
removed whatever prejudice existed.
Irish democrats who voted for Blaine
on an impulse which had nothing per-
manent about it even in Blane's be-
half do not entertain the idea of being
handed over to Harrison, a man who
publicly affronted the whole Irish race.
The prohibition vote i'm New York will
double the .25, 900 St. John polled in
1884 and three-fourths of it will come
from the republicans. The free whisky
plank and canvass of especial activity
are developing the heaviest prohibition
! vote the state has eyer given. The re-
publican candidate for governor is con-
! fesSedly weak. He was nominated as
the result of trade made in Chicago
and not for running qualities of any
sort. Supplementary to these facts of
the situation, good evidence of their
truth is the betting. Not dollar is
offered on Harrison carrying New
York, except at heavy odds. Betting is
not always safe guide, but when it is
so strongly and steadily one way, with
none among all the republican
politicians to back his party at leyel
! figures it is very good indicator.
In Indiana the democrats have just
completed thorough poll of the state.
Arguing from the returns brought in,
the most conservative put their plurali-
ty at from 5000 to 10000. One Of the
strongest reasons for confidence there
is that the poll shows the most pro-
nounced democratic gains in the man.
ufacturing cities of Fort Wayne, South
! Bend, Evansville, Richmond, Terre
Haute and New Albany. The laboring
classes are opposed to Harrison and in
stead Of diminishing, their opposition is
growing. In the counties where natur.
al gas industries have brought large
new population democratic gains equal
republican gains. The more strictly
agricultural counties will give more
democratic votes than in any previous
campaign. Large prohibition gains in
several republican strOngholds are ac-
companied by corresponding republican
losses. The poll was made for busi-
mess and not for buncOmbe and repre-
sents the vote, as nearly as the most
careful count possible under the cir
cumstances could discover, exactly as it
stands row.
y In Connecticut as in Indiana the re-
publicans opened the campaign with a
bold game Of brag. They claimed
everything OH the strength of a free
trade scare. The attempt to produce a
free trade stampede has reacted and
left the republican cause, far weaker
than in 1854. Dozens of manufacture.
ers have been studying the tariff Ques-
tion and find that the Mills bill will
help rather. than hurt them. a cor.
respondent writing from Washington
enumerates twelve leading men con-
nected with manufacturing enterprises
there who have come over from fepub-
; licanism to an open support of Cleve-
land and Thurman. OBJECTIONS from
the republican party are heard Of every
day. The prohibition vote Of the state
was twice as large In. 1886 as in 1854
aud promises to far exceed it's showing
in 1855. The leaders are nearly all IN
fiuential ex-republicans. They are put.