Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1888-08-17

stantisl majority thsn that of 1854
Nor does 1t take him long to get the i'm
preston that tho democracy of New Jsr-
sey stands like stone wall against the
attacks of the republican enemy. There
Is break in the democratic line in Jsr-
sey that Is worth tskiug into sccouut.
Ibe prohlbitionists over there have de-
terminsd the fate of the republican party
and there is every indication thst the
state will return one of its old time dem
ocratic ma sjorities.
But what about CounecticutS The man
to whom ell questiouers are referred for
news about the situation in that snug lit
lie state Is the veteran chairman of the
national COMMITTEES, William 81. Bsrrum.
CONNECTICUT Is NOT DOUBTFUL
she is ali right. We are in better shape
there than we were four years ago; We
hsye more voters with Us; We have the
new crop of new Soters; We have more
farmers who want less taxes; We have
more muywumes; We have what we did
rot have four years sgo, hundreds of
strsight-out re epublicsus who have come
squsrely over on the tariff issue. We
would have lost some votes if the Mills
bill had been left as it originally stood
but 1t has been amended so tlat it affords
ample protection to every Connecticut
industry, and as soon as We have
had opportunity to explain its pro-
visions to Our people there will not be
enough disaffected democrats TO be worth
counting. There are some now, but they
will appear a. soon as the situation is put
before them as it is. 1t does not take q
sensible workingman long to decide be
tween free whisky and cheaper clothing"
Yale professor who WAS a mugwump
in 1884, but who has since wholly
ALLIED HIMsELF WITH TIE DEMOCRATIC
rAKTI,
WAS q visitor at the democratic headquar-
ters few days ago in quest of campaign
literature to educate voters on the tariff
question. He said that had tho republi-
cans made a satisfactory tariff platform
Harrison would have drawn back into the
party more than half of the mugwump
vote that Blaine drove out, but as it was,
there were more mugwumps this
year than ever before. In bis long
experience he had never seen
80 many young men interested IN politics,
and they were all apparently for Cleve-
land. He thought the manufactures were
going to spend a great deal of money in
The nope of carrying the state for Harri-
son and protection, bat he did not believe
they could win. The corruptable vote
of the state is not large, and the venal
voters would be too closely watched to
prevent their selling their suffrage on
any extensive scale.
The vote of Connecticut since 1884 has
shewn pretty
STEADY DEMOCRATIC GAINS.
stitutiOn candidate for governor can
not be elected on a plurality vote, but
must have majority over all. The re-
suit has been the throwing of
two or three gubernatorial elections
in which the democrats had
substantial plurality on the
popular vote, into the legislature, and
thus republican candidates repudiated
at the polls have been seated i'll the gov
ernor's chair. 1t is this perversion of
the popular will which has given the
state & republican executive on several
occasions. The same rule does not hold
az to the choice of a president, however,
acd if the democrats do as well il the
state this year as they have done in the
other years since 1885 they will get the
electoral vote Of the state by larger mar
gin than they had four years ago.
The cluster of doubtful states about
the great metropolis have like interests
and are affected by like conditions. They
naturally vote alike. As Now York goes
SO will go New Jersey and Connecticut
and the empire state is for Cleveland.