New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-10-30
REASONS FOR CONFIDENCE.

About a year ago the Democrats were closing
their Campaign of education with tornado
of buster and brag, and were betting large
odds at the Hoff man House on MIR. Clevelands
election. The same men are bOaSting now
and they know Just as much now as they did
then. The voter who allows himself to be i'm
posed upon by this cheapest and shallOwest Of
all campaign tricks, and concludes that there
is no use in working or voting because he
Democrats are going to win any way" Is ]usC
worthy of the ignominious defeat which other
Republicans have the sense to avert. Today
New Orl1 and New-Jersey are absOlutey
sure for the Democratic candidates" say papers
of that party, exactly as NewYork and In
diana were sure for Cleveland last year. Then
the Republicans were busy, earnest and hope
full, but not so confident as to throw away their
chances They are in the same mood this year.
with the certainty that they have increased
strength behind them, while their opponents
are neither as well united in either of the dis
puted States, nor as well supplied with the
means of corruption, as they we've year ago
There are solid reasons for confidence that
the people will uphold the party to which they
have intrusted the National Government. Who
does not remember how sorely many industries
were Frustrated last year; how the tramp OF
Confederate Brigaders in Northern States re-
minded one of the invasion OF pennsylvania by
Lee, and their raid on American industries was
felt in hundreds Of mines and mills, workshops
and factories, all over the North? With their
defeat has come prosperity. The volume of
business is larger now than it has been at any
former time. Labor is more fully employed
and at better wages on the whole than ever be-
fore. Exports are 20 per cent and imports
6 1-2 per cent larger than year ago Rail
road earnings for October thus far show an in
crease Of IL La per cent over last year. The
weekly production of iron is ISL, 600 tons
against 10000 year ago, a gain of IL
per cent. Splendid crops have given the work.
ers cheap food for the year to come. If Demo
cratic politicians are blind to these changes the
voters are not.
That is one good reason for expecting large
Republican majOritieS, and another is that the
experiences of this year have taught Temper
ance men and Labor voters what they have to
expect from Democracy. The veto Of excise
measures in New-York, the repeal of the OPP
ton License law in New-Jersey have made
the matter so clear that Democratic leaders are
solemnly calculating upon Republican gain Of
10, 900 votes in NewJersey alone from former
Prohibitionists. Labor organizations asked a
secret and protective ballot and in New-Jersey
sent their own representative TO the Legislature
to propose the law; Democrats defeated it in
New-Jersey, and Democratic Governor vetoed
it in New York. The men who want a free
and pure ballot to protect their rights as work
ers have learned that they can expect to get it
from the Republican party, and not from any
other.
The voter who is duped by Democratic boasts
will be ashamed of himself on the morning
after the election. If he wants to share the
Joy of good citizens at the overthrow Of par
tisan tricksters let him do his whole duty this
week and at the polls. Then figures will tell
us all once more how much Democratic brag-
ging is worth