Los Angeles herald., 1891-10-15
THE POLITICAL HOROSCOPE.

me EOLAAACAL hUhUSCOPEs
Our Republican friends may as we'll
begin to brace themselves for a hard !,
corduroy road politically. The Indian
apolis election is simply keynote OF
what they will get all along the line.
Little Benny and Wanamaker do not
seem to fulfill the expectations OF the
people. They strike the average voter
as sort of Italian tdntoccini, masquer-
aiding in the guise of statesmen, and the
disgust grows apace. Every time Ben
jamin strikes AIN attitude and utters
some of his indescribable eommonplaces
it is ga condition and not a theory"
with the people that he is calculated to
adorn the private rather than the pub
lie station. He never was popular at
home, where he is best known. The re-
suit in Indianapolis comes happily in
time to prepare the Republican party
for the serious disasters which are just
ahead. The first OF these will be the
election of Roswell P. Flower as gov
ernor of New Y FORK by rousing major
ity. There is no use in putting the fig
ure at under $4,000; and, while they
are about it, they may as well make it
$4,000, and we have no doubt
they will. We hear a great deal
in the Republican press about Flowers
money. There is no doubt that he has
great deal OF it, and he made it all
himself. At every stage OF his career he
has dedicated much of it to purposes of
public benifcence. His opponent, J..
Sloat Fassett, has great deal OF money,
too, but he married it all. The millions
of the Croker family Of this state have
gone to increase the bank account of the
Republican candidate for governor of
the Empire state.
While the grand old party is bracing
itself against disaster in New York it
may as well get ready to encounter other
political calamities. In this line it never
rains but it pours. The Democracy is
almost certain to carry Pennsylvania.
The pious Wanamaker, the Bardsleys
and other shining lights OF the Repub-
lican party make Republican defeat
there as certain as last year, when Gov
ernor Pattison, Democrat, was elected
| by handsome majority.
As for Ohio, the battle OF the giants
is in full progress, and Governor Camp
bell is approving himself by far the
+ better campaigner of the two. If it
were not for dissensions in the Demo
cratic party there would be no doubt of
Campbell's triumphant reelection. 1t
looks very much as if he will be re-
elected anyhow. The same dastardly
tactics that were adopted against him
two years ago, when Foraker was his
opponent, are being brought into play
now. Personal defamation generally
makes man strong before the people.
and Campbell is looming head ard
shoulders above Mckinley as an orator,
carrying off the honors conspicuously in
debate. Democrats will be 10th to be-
lieve that John r. McLain, of the Gin
cinnati Enquirer, is knitting Campbell
a fact which is quite generally asserted
but no one man or newspaper can
change the popular current.
Even in Iowa the tide seems to be
running Democratic. If old Boies
should again carry the Hawkeye state,
Vermont would appear to be the only
commonwealth that can be confidently
relied upon to vote for the Republican
candidate for president in 1892. There
will probably be few more-pe1haps
as many as voted for Winfield Scott i n
1S52-but no one will feel that he knows
just what states to pick out.
The foregoing is what appears to us
to be the law and the prophets of mat
tiers political at this writing.