Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-11-03

full attention 10 the country districts. and
feel justified in estimating that Gen. Harri-
son will have $4,000 majority to Harlem
bridge. The democrats say %, 900. In this
calculation they do not allow percentage
enough for the changes that have taken place
in the rural districts upon the tariff question.
The republicans are relying upon these
changes to bring the vote up beyond this
prediction of $4,000. 1t is barely possible
they will do so, for was surprised on my
second visit to the interior TO find the re-
markable increase shown in the republican
vote.
The old time republican interest and ardor
is everywhere to be found in the counties.
In only one county in the State, Albany, is
there any republican detection. There is a
local quarrel at the capital that will probably
cost the republicans thousand votes, and
perhaps more, but in every other place they
are working very hard and harmoniously TO
get their vote out. The republican mana
gers have paid more attention to the cam
paign in the country districts than the demo-
Gratis, and have made extra preparations aud
offered inducements 10 get their last vote
TO the polls. Col Quay believes that
this work has been so well done that i. will
bring Gen. Harrison to the city of New York
with an unprecedented majority. If money
will be thrown.
The most serious thing the republicans
have to contend with is the prohibition vote, |
but this appears to be weakening and cannot |
begin TO reach the coveted 10000 which its |
leaders have all along been claiming. Thirty |
thousand will be nearer the figure.
No Traitors in Camp
No democratic spy has thus far been able !
to discover the secrets of the republican ma
honal committee. sargent at arms stands |
at the foot of the stairs. Entrance to that |
portion of the building in which Senator
Quav's rooms are located can only be grant.
ed by card and at the outer door is
half dozen bright eyed, alert, vigilant sec
retaries stand between the visitor and the
visitor and the inner chamber.
A Newspaper Mans Prediction.
William c. MacBrde is the head of the
Washington bureau of the Cincinnati En-
quirer, the leading democratic newspaper of
Ohio, but, while it supports Gle veland its
editor and proprietor does not love the Pres
ident. Mac Bride has been for one month
watching the fight in this state. New York
will be carried by the republicans, he said,
because they have the best of the tariff ar
gument. This is a manufacturing State, /
and it is safe to prophesy for Harrison from
10000 to $4,000 plurality He will come
down TO Harlem bridge with 90, 900. Ceve-
lands plurality in the city will not be more
than 80, 900. He will not have more than
10 900 excess in Kings county and in Queens
county he will be far less than 5000 ahead.
The Washing Must be Done.
Two women in Clarkstown, n. Y. have
made a practical agreement to be fulfilled
after election. If Cleveland is elected the
republican woman is to come over to the
house of the democratic woman and do her
weeks washing for her, and vice versa if
Harrison is elected.
Sweet Sixteen FOR Harrison.
- Miss Louise Hiatt Brown, who has taken
he stump for Harrison and Morton in Ind-
ana is pretty, not yet sixteen, and quite an
elocutionist. She became interested in tar
ltf reform by careful perusal of congress
sional reports. This fall she prepared an
address which She delivered at country school
houses to large audiences. Miss Brown is a
pupil of the high school at Charlottesville.