The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-07-11
West vireini.. and Indiana.

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A lengthy dispatch in the New
York Hortd, from Washington, tells
us that the Republican managers
have given up all hope of carrying
New York for Harrison. aItisco
ceded, says the World correspond.
ent, ethat neither Harrison nor any
candidate, except Blaine could
hold the great Irish and Catholic
Democratic vote of New York which
went to Blaine in 1884 That vote
was yariously estimated at Chicago
as from $4,000 TO 10000. 1t was
very much doubted if the tariff issue
could bring within 10000 of even.
the last named figure to the Repub-
lican candidate.
1t is admitted that the independ-
ent vote of 1884 for Cleveland will
not be appreciably lessened this
year. Such votes as were cast simp-
" against Blaine, the mar, in 1881,
and will go back to the Republican
candidates this year, will, it is held,
be fully offset by the floating vote
which an Administration can con
troll. 1t is feared that the Prohibi-
ton vote will be greater this fall
than in any election, State or Ma
tional, before. Therefore they adj
nit that the chances are against a
Republican plurality in New York,
and it costs an enormous sum of
money to fierceIy contest a Presi-
DENTAL election in the Empire State.
Having cast aside New York as
hopelessly Democratic without
Blaine as the Republican candidate
the Republican Managers turn to
Indiana and West Virginia as more
likely fields for "boodle" cam
paign.
Says the Worlds correspondent:
In addition to the Blaine vote of
1884 Harrison needs only nineteen
ELECTORAL votes. Indiana has fif-
teen. The electoral vote of Yir-
ginia or of North Carolina, or of
West Virginia, or even of Florida,
added to that of Indiana, would
elect Harrison President.
Under the well-digested and al
ready we'll organized plan of the
Harrison managers money and men
will be concentrated to the fullest
extent upon Indiana and West yir-
ginia. Money and men carried In
diana in 1880. With Harrison, Por-
ter and Lew Wallace in the field it
is held that both agencies will be
far moro effcctual this year than
then. In West Virginia it is point
ed out that Hancock had a plurality
of II, ,148, while Cleveland had a
plurality of only 1921. The falling
off of nearly 1000 in four years is
asserted by the Republican mana
gers to be solely due to the growth
in the State of industries affected by
the tariff and to immigration very
largely from the Pennsylvania coal
and iron regions. That growth and
immigration, they maintain, has
continued in the same lines since
1884. If in anything like the same
proportion then a Republican plu-
rality is already assured. There
was Democratic plurality of only
9O5 in the Congressional elections
of 1886.
The Republican managers also
banked, the correspondent said, on
the supposed lukewarmness of ex-
Senator Camden. Ifthey are bank
ing on lukewarmness in Mr.. Cam
denis direction, they will be the
most wretchedly cleft set of man
ayers on the continent. Mr.. Cam
den was delegate to st. Louis and
was never more enthusiastic for a
ticket than he is for Cleveland and
Thurman. He will help to keep the
flies off the..g. o. p. this year in a way
that will prove it. None of the ours,
that have followed the gray haired
Senator even into private life, has
said he is not q man of his word
Among West Virginians the Republi-
can hopes for the State as shown by
the figures given above will produce
a smile, and. it shows concIusively
how imperatiyely necessary it is for
campaign managers to have thor
ough grasp of details. Here we
have the Republican managers con-
trasting the vote in this State in
1880 with that of 1884, and gravely
challing it all up to t'the growth in
the State of industries affected by
the tariff and to immigration very
largely from the Pennsylvania coal
and iron regions"