Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-11-03

from the country and from other states
are coming in, and newspaper men who
have been following outlying lines of
inquiry are hurrytng here. More fa-
miIiar faces are 20 be seen ebout the
headquarters, hotels and committee
rooms than last week, and the scenes are
vastly more enl;vening and sountful OF
the contradictory and confusing food of
hope and fear, claim and denial, gossip
and surmise, clamor and speculation,
" hich must take the place OF solid facts
and tentative judgment, now that the
actual work of the campaign has been
done and nothing remains but to awsit
the result. That is about che situation.
Meetings and speeches will continue
till the night before election, but nobody
expeHts to make or change any more
votes unless the unexpected comes to the
aid OF one party or the other. The claims
OF both parties grow In posisiYenees and
extravaganza as the day OF election sp-
preaehes. The cool headed and dispas-
sionate observers OF o week ago are
swallowed up in the prevailing
storm Of excited expectation. The
republicans who admitted doubt and the
democrats who counseled despair have
sealed their lips, and the confident
claimants of enormous mejorities haye
the floor to themselves. never saw
such firm and extravegant confidence on
both sides beforeoa presidential election.
1t certainly did not exist IN 1884, the
closest unoontested election on record. /
am inclined to believe. too, thai g great
| deal OF it is perfectly sincere and honest.
Next Tuesday is going to be tremen-
dous surprise psrty for somebody. The
elements oi potential surprise have not
besn 80 strongly present IN any election
for generation. When reviewed the
situation in New York week ago the
prohibition vote and the tariff changes
were the elements OF doubt. The former
would be estimated with some approach
to accuracy, and the latter certainly
makes for the republicans. Both these
are now oveishadowed by new ele-
ment OF uncertainty born OF the
enormous registration in Now
York and Brooklyn. Without again
going over figures given in different
dispatches hitherto, il may be said aa q
safe conclusion that the vote in this city
will bs from 10000 TO $4,000 mere then
IN 1884, or enough to overcome Blaine's
entire msiority above Harlem bridge in
that year. This is enough 30 damp the
spIrits of the most enterprising prophet
1t is hard enough to guess ct conclusions
from given dates. here one has 10
guess of his date as well. The uncer-
sainty about these sixty.odd Thousand
[new votes inspires the contradictory
confidence OF sanguine psrtieaus on both
sides, and contributes to the conclusion
in the mind Of the wonld be judicial OBJ.
servers. There is not much change in
the estimates OF the state. The fair
minded democrats concede 10000 TO 75,
600 above che bridge. bnt claim 80 ,00s tc
, 85 900 in New York and Long Island
dividing the new vote in the old proper
tion and adding sheir surplus TO their
old majority. They may get it, although
the republicans do not shate their con-
trary claims, based upon the hop,
OF getting more than their old share o.
! the new vote and $4,000 to $1,000 from
3 the Ptate.