Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-10-30

| cities; the Peoples party movement; the
I4flver question, and the general unrest I'M
$Ter existing conditions and among the agri-
\ cultural classeS.''
| 'tWhy is the Australian ballot system an
uncertain quantityl"
| ''It has been a recognized fact that for
! years number of large corporations con-
trolled by Republicans and Republicans
! who employed large numbers of voters
| have coereed from Is 600 to 10000 Demo-
Gratis to vote against their convictions. I'M
tsGer the old system of voting their agents
Y could watch their employees vote and read
| lily detect them in voting the Democratic
/ ticket. This meant loss of employment
sooner or later, and but few cared to take the
risk. Last year in Canton and MassillOn,
in Maj. McKinley's district, Democratic
| workingmen were discharged by wholesale
| for voting for Governor Warwick for con-
| gress. Fortunately for these men Gov
ernor Warwick, State Senator Howells,
| and other wealthy Democrats in the district
| who employ large numbers of workmen,
were able to give them employment after
| the Republicans had discharged them.
REVOLT OF CoLoRED VOTERS.
'sThere are 81, 200 colored voters in Ohio,
"a, 600 Of whom last year voted solidly for
the Republicans. Thousands of them no
doubtF would have preferred to vote the
! Deltecraticati but to do so was to in
vittsocial 4ostracism among their own race.
The negro boil watcher in Ohio could tell
}syGl at nighttime name of every negro in his
prscipesw had voted for a Democrat, and
jenis name was put on the list. This year
I his occupa ton, like Othellos, will be gone
| and every colorcd man will be able TO vote
as he pleases without fear of social ostra-
cism. The result in my opinion will be to
take many votes from the Republicans and
add them to the Democratic column. If
you will notice the Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette, Cleveland Ledger and other lead
ing Republican papers you will find them
t=constantly expressing the fear that the new
law will play havoc with the colored vote.
| They understand the situation. and their
fears are well grounded. On the whole
think the new law practically wipes out the
normal Republican plurality of 1900 and
starts the two parties about even in the
race to lose or profit by the other problem
egssic elements as the case may be. -
"You spoke of the tariff reform element
in the Republican party. What about
that?"
There are several thousand Republicans
in Ohio, headed by men like Gen. John
Beatty and Capt. Alfred E. Lee, of this
city, who are thorough tariff reformers, but
who still cling to their party, hoping to see
it reclaimed from its tariff idolatry and
brought back to its original principles and
purposes. Not one of these men will vote
!: tor Mckinley, although they vote all the
Ffsst Of the Republican ticket. Many of
them will vote for Campbell and the rest of
the Republican ticket straight, with prob
ably the exception of members of the legis-
lature These men believe that if McIiin-
ley is defeated the tariff fetch will be de-
stroyed, and that Blaine, with his reciproc
ity ideas and free and freer trade tenden-
cies, will be the absolute Republican presi-
dental necessity in 1892, leading his party
to victory. They will all tell you that the
election of Mckinley this year and the in
lection of McKinleyism into the presiden-
tial ca mpaign mean a Democratic president
sby vote as overwhelming as that for
Democratic congress in 1890. They are
fighting Mckinley, not because they love
the Democratic party but because they
want to save their own from humiliation.
FoRAKER-sHERMAN FIGHT.
what figure will the Foraker-Sherman
faction fight cut9'
That is not easily determined. In some
localities it is likely to inure to the benefit
of the Democratic state ticket. 1t will help
somewhat to heal the Democratic breach in
Hamilton county by sort of reflex action
The fear of Foraker going to the senate
among the friends of Sherman, and the
hatred of Sherman among the partiSanS of
Foraker. will not improve McKinley's
chances IN single county or district where
the Republicans are reasonably sure of
bly,"
'sWhat about the Democratic disaffection
against Governor Campbell especially in
Hamilton county,"
''There is no question but that it is SER
ious. but far less serious than was feared
two or three months ago. The situation is
growing better, but the detection cannot be
entirely wiped out. In Dayton, Cleveland
and Toledo there has been some disaffection
and some of it still exists. Take it all in all,
l am inclined to believe that Campbell will
lose as much from disaffected Democrats as
Mckinley will from tariff reform Republic
cans. If there is any difference it will be in
Campbell'S favor"
what figure will the Peoples ticket
cut2''
1T is not likely to receive as many votes
as both the Democratic and Republican
chairmen concede. They place it at from
%. 900 to 10000. In my opinion one-half the
latter figure would be an extravagant esti-
mate. Three months ago from $4,000 tc 49,,
600 voters were in the movement. Two
thirds of these were Republicans in revolt
against Mckinley tariff piracy. If we as
sumo that 10, 900 votes are cast for the Peo
pies ticket you can set 1t down that 5000
will come from the Democratic party and
10000 from the Republican party. What l
am-curious about is what has become of the
other 10000 mutineers who turned their
backs on the Republican camp in August
Have they all gone back to old headquarters
or will some Of them bring up in the Demo-
cratic camp, and if so how manyl If you
could answer me that question l could
give you an estimate of party pluralities by
counties that would not be 10000 out of the
way when the official returns come in. The
10000 unaccounted for Democrats, on a
basis Of Is, 900 votes for the Peoples ticket,
are back in the Democratic camp, introduc-
ing such Republican recruits as have come
alone with them.
WHERE M'KINLEY WILL LOSE VOTES.
1.-THE unrest among the agriculturists is
closely allied with this peoples movement.
The effect will probably be most largely
felt on the Western reserve and along the
belt of counties extending down the Ohio to
Lawrence county and the mouth of the
Scioto In this territory Mckinley is likely
to lose, by comparison, something like ten
thousand votes. On the other hand, in the
western and northwestern part of the state.
the peoples and farmers movements is
likely to cost Campbell three or four thou
sand votes, leaving his net gain some six or
E Thousand from this source"
s.And what of silverl"
eff it is q weapon of war at all in this
fight, both edges will cut, and if one cuts
deeper than the other it will be the one that
hits the Republican party" II