Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-05-15
DEMOCRATIC VICTORY.
ITS ASSURANCE IS IN THE AIR
 ABOUT US. ~

The Republicans Understand It as We'll
 as the Democrats, and Will Move
 Heaven and Earth to Prevent 1t. but
 Their Task Is Hopeless Ono.
 It is in the air.
 The Democrats breathe the assurance of it, and swell with patriotic pride. The Republicans feel it in ''their bones," and their leaders are flying about like sud denly beheaded hen trying to raise false issues and throw dust in the peoples see that the shrewdest Republican leaders sec defeat in the existing condition, and are exhausting the resources of mendacity to prove that the south is lawless and re- bellious, and that the president is an 'teneny of American industry"
 It is plain case that if the current can be kept moving as now Grover Cleveland will be reelected by an overwhelming majority, and with him a good working majority in congress. If any man says this is mere assertion, let him consider the following reasons for Democratic suc- cess-and even the most venomous Re- publican does not deny that they are facts.
 First, every prediction of evil made by the Republicans in 1884 has been com pletely falsifed; and though the condi- tion of the country is not yet what the carrying out of Democratic principles will make it, it is much better than it was in 1884, "our enemies themselves being judges" This simple and undeniable fact spells two-thirds of the Republican ammunition. Every prophet of evil is discredited in advance. Every Repub- ican orator in this campaign will have to use the first half hour of his speech in explaining why his predictions of '84 did not prove true, and how, though he is proved to have been false prophet then, he is true prophet now; and then the people won't see it. What godsend great national calamity just now would be to them. It is plain why they do not want taxation reduced and the surplus stopped; panic, with loss of employ ment, along in August or September, would tickle them half to death.
 The Democrats are in power and the country is somewhat more prosperous than in 1884; that means 200, 900 votes in the close states. And by a queer coinci- dence, wherever there is the reverse of prosperity it is plainly duo to something Democrats are striving to correct. Look where you may for strike, lock out or a labor riot, you will find it's cause in some trust, t'pooP' or combination op- posed to Democratic policies. The people see it, and will vote accordingly.
 Secondly, and of far more effect, the Democratic party, from ocean to ocean, from Canada to the gulf, is united as it never has been since 1859, and only twice since 1900 has united Democracy been beaten. Every other defeat has been due ] to division in it's ranks. Look at New York. Tilden carried it in 1876 against a defection of the most powerful party in the city, and Cleveland, in 1884, in spite of another division; but now the party in that great state is unit, and to a united Democracy New York is certainty. The April elections show Indiana to be ours, and five states, only lately Republican by overwhelming majorities, are now so close and doubtful that the party leaders in each are calling for the nomination of Q .'favorite son" to 'save the state" Michi- gan, Minnesota and Iowa, with fair issue made on reducing taxation, will not be able to invade Indiana with men and money this year.
 third factor. and very important one, is that the Republicans no longer have the offices to bank on as they did four years ago. If, with every postoffice a Republican document room, every cus- tom house treasury for supplies, " every collector Q party agent, every gauger and supervisor recruiting officer and all the immense departments at Washington back of them, they were still beaten in 'S4, where will they come out in '8o, with all these supports cut off It is true the offices will not be made as effectively partisan for the Democrats as l they were for the Republicans: but all the