New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-11-06
THE BRIGHT PROSPECT.

at looks like landslide" said the silent
Senator Quay, whose management throughout
the campaign has been distinguished by the
absence of empty Boosting. His conviction IS
that of the shrewdest and ablest Republican
managers. There is very strong reason for be-
lieving that it is also the secret conviction OF
| the Democratic managers.
For instance in careful estimate of Mayor
Hewitts chances his managers profess to be-
lieve that some As, 600 Republican votes will
be lost to Erhardt, bringing down his vote to
about 65, 600" Here then, is an incautious
confession that the Republican vote for the
National and State ticket is by shrewd Demo-
cratic managers expected to reach IL 1000 in
this city. The total vote, all parties agree, will
be about 265,OOO That will leave only
155 900 for the Democratic. Prohibition. La
Dor and other tickets. Allowing only 5000
for the others, the Democratic vote would not
exceed $50, 600 and so this Democratic esti-
mate would leave not more than 40, 900 Demo
cratic plurality in Newly ork City. Yet with
claim Of so, 600 here, the most sanguine Demo
Gratis are unable to figure out a plurality of
2 900 in this State. There are scores of sim
liar indications which point to suspicion
State Is lost to Cleveland. Said one Of the
most experienced and ablest Of them on Satur-
day: 81 think Hill will have 10000 more
votes in the State than Cleveland, and presume
he will pull through
The reason for great differences Of opinion
about the vote Is obvious. There are many
changes known, but no manager of either party
can calculate how many more are not known
Each INDUCES hope Of which a wish is the
father. Each reckons that the unknown
changes will much exceed the known. 1t is
natural that managers are more fully informed
about the gains of their party than about its
losses. But the Republican canvass, always
more minute and trustworthy than the Demo
cratic, as past elections have shown, indicates
changes enough in the State to justify the ut
most confidence without counting at all upon
others which are expected.
The truth is that the Democratic party has
been from the first aware that it had no chance
of success in appealing to Northern voters on
free-trade platform. This it has confessed
by. laboring constantly to hide its free-trade
convictions and purposes. But the course of
the campaign, the avowals of speakers and of
journals, the declarations Of English sympa-
thizers, and especially the utterance of sthe
British Minister, have helped to make the pur-
pose and belief of the Democratic party under
stood by the voters. 1t would surprise no Re-
publican if the result should be an overwhelm-
ing defeat of the policy which its supporters
have not dared to defend with manly frank
ness. A party which proposes to cut off about
quarter Of the duties on imports, and yet
relies even to the end of the campaign upon the
assertion that the reduction In duties on duti-
able imports is but per cent, has no right TO
look for the confidence of American voters.
President Cleveland himself set the example Of
dishonest evasion in pretending in his message
that the policy he proposed would not depress
industries or the wages Of labor. We trust
that his party may be taught once more by the
ballots Of to-day that honesty is the best policy.