St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-02
PROGREsS OF THE FIGHT.

How goes the battle? Only five weeks
more of the national campaign, and yet
outside of those who are in the secrets
of party management there seems to be
no intelligent idea of how the campaign
is progressing. There has possibly
never been a presidential canvass in
this country which produced so little
excitement and which has been marked
by such an absence of political enthusi-
asm as the one now in progress. The
chief reason for this quiet condition is
in the well-settled conviction in the
public mind that Mr.. CLEVELAND will
he his own successor in the presidential
Office, and the perfect satisfaction that
this conviction produces.
The figures and estimates that are
sent out from the campaign literary
bureaus, such as were rehashed in the
Pioneer Press of yesterday, have no
weight with the masses. This is prac-
teal age, in which people are not dis
posed to take stock in political theo-
riZing. They prefer to deal in facts, and
to look at things as they really appear.
By universal consent New York is
booked as a pivotal state. Even the
Republican managers concede that
without New York HARRIsoN's chances
are hopeless, and that with New York
they are still doubtful.
Upon what ground cam the Republi-
cans base hope of carrying the En-
pire state. GROVER CLEVELAND has
never failed to carry the state. DAVID
BENNETT HILL has never failed to
carry it. CLEVELAND and HILL to-
gether carried it by the largest ma
jority a ticket ever received. CLEvE-
LAND carried it four years ago, when
the most pronounced detection existed
in the party. HILL carried it two years
ago With the whole Mugwump influence
arrayed against him. With CLEVELAND
heading the national ticket this year,
HILL in the lead on the state ticket,
the party united as it has not
Wump and the Labor leaders ear
nestly supporting the Democratic tar
iff reform policy, what possible show
is there for the Republicans to reverse
the successive Democratic victories
that were won under disadvantages that
do not now interpose as barriers to sue
cess? Looking at the situation in every
practical light, the only question in the
mind of an unprejudiced person with
regard to New York is simply a ques-
ton of what the Democratic majority
| will be.
The fact of Gen. HARRIsoN's resi-
dence being in Indiana affords no good
reason for conceding the state to him.
The old proverb of a prophet being
without honor in his own country APP
| plies to him as well as anybody else. He
was a resident of Indiana when he
was defeated by Blue Jeans WILLIAMS
| in gubernatorialc canvass; and that was
| the only time Gen. HARRISON was ever
before the people of the state as can
didate. Indiana is a Democratic state,
and surely Gen. HARRISON has never
done anything to cause Indiana Demo
Gratis to desert their party and flock to
his standard. He has been fighting the
Democracy of Indiana for the last
twenty years, and it is hardly in accord
with the logic of politics that the De-
mocracy of the Hoosier state will be dis
posed to give him the personal compli-
ment of their vote as a reward for his
services against them.
The only Democratic state that the
Republicans have show of carrying is