The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-11-01
IN THE HOTEL LOBBIES
The Election Fever and Some
of it's Effects.
VIEWED FROM BOTH SIDES
silver-Campaign Chips Cut
Yesterday.

The political excitement IN all quar-
tiers increases as the date of the Presi-
dental election approaches. Indeed
election talk is about all one hears, and
any other theme, no matter how new
or savory, is readily abandoned with
the mention of the name of Cleveland
or of Harrison.
The hotel Hobbies are the scenes OF the
widest talk and most exciting. har-
argues. a short spin taken yesterday
morning to the principal hotels dis
covered, by actual count. nearly hun
dred guests. These were divided into
different groups, and all were talking
politics. Each new arrival from the
east, particularly if the register shows
that he halls from or near one of the
States marked by politicians doubt
full, is soon
BEsIEGED BY SALT LAKERs,
AID bis opinions on the outcome
eagerly sought. It need scarcely be
said that these opinions are as varied
in their character as the clothers of the
besieged. On one hand you find an in
telligent individual who knows some
thing of the world, and who gives you
the impression that he has not lived in
this vale of tears for two score years
for nothing. You ask his opinion,
why, my dear SIR" is the reply
Harrison will be our next President
Just as sure as the sun will rise upon
the morning of election day" Being
asked his reasons, he will go on and
tell you that State pride in Indiana
alone, to say nothing of dissatisfaction
among prominent Democrats who sup
ported Cleveland so warmly four years
ago, is sufficient to ensure the success
of Harrison by such a majority as will
forever silence Democracy, in that
State. He scouts the idea that there
lip, and would rather believe that the
ORB of night is composed of the pro-
ducts of the Brigham City Dairy, than
that the
GRANDSON OF HIS GRANDFATHER
can possibly be beaten in his own
State. After he has worn out the pa
tience Of the scribe on the subject of
Indiana, his attention is turned to New
York. The suggestion is made that if
State pride is sufficient to elevate Har-
rison in Indiana, why should not the
same causes in New York have the
same effect upon CleyeIand's chances
in his own state. There he argues,
"matters are entirely different. Many
of CleYeland's admirers and supporters
of four years ago, have been fright
ened from their allegiance by the stand
taken by him on the free-trade ques-
ton early in the campaign. 1t is the
workingmen in New York to whom
Cleveland will owe his defeat; the argu
ments made by the Republicans that
the reelection of Cleveland means that
the American worklngmen will be
placed on a level with the pauper labor
of Europe, has entered deep into the
soul of the Tin Bucket Brigade, and it
is too late in the day for the Demo-
Gratis to attempt to eradicate
this Impression. Take the most
intelligent of the laboring classes,
and show them that q Demo
cratic Si,tory means a reduction
in their wages, and their political
convictions. are scattered to the four
Winds" This is a Republican view.
The next one you run against is Demo
crat. He has no more faith III State
pride giving Indiana to Harrison than
the average resident of Utah has that
Baskin will
GRACE THE HALLS OF CONGRESS
as Delegate from Utah at its next SEES
sion. Among the voters of Indiana
he says, partisan prejudice will have
more to do with the question than State
pride in a favorite son, even though
that son be q grandson of his grand
father, and bears name 30 closely asso-
ciated With the early history of the
Republic, It is all nonsense. Some
few voters may drift to the Republican
nominee because he is a Hoosier, but
they will be so few as to amount to
little or nothing so far as changing the
result is concerned-of making Indiana
a Republican State. State pride never
helped Hendricks, to any extent, and
the years of hot strife in Indiana have
been very bitter, and it has ground into
the Hoosier Democrat the conviction
that every Republican is his mortal
enemy" He scouts the idea that the
alleged internal discussions are such as
will cause any loss of votes for Cleye-
land, and is sure that he will carry the
state by majority-small, 1t
may be, but OF sufficient porpor-
tions to insure him the electoral
votes. The same gentleman pointed
out to the interviewer recent
issue OF the Washington Star, which
contained the following: IA promi-
nent and active Democrat, who has
good opportunities of Judging
THE DRIFT OF OPINION
and tendency of events, both by OBJ
seryation afforded by travel and inter
course with party leaders, gives to the
Stqr a view of the political situation
comeWhat different from that gen
orally entertained by the more enthu-
siaslic members of his party. AS to
the chances of Cleveland carrying any
of the States heretofore counted as re-
liably Republican, he regards all claims
for such result as worse than non
sense, and money spent to that end as
foolishly thrown away, except possibly
in Michigan, where he thinks the Dem
ocrats have a remote hope of success.
He regards the carrying 1.-THE Legisla-
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