The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-07-01

the election Of two years ago, when the
state repudiated McKinleyism and gave the
Democrats large majority Of the congress
sional representation, and the more recent
election OF last autumn, when Governor
FLOWER carried the state by $4,000. fur
nished convincing proof that New York Is
no longer dominated by Republican infiu-
ences, but that with reasonable prscsution
it can be made safely Democratic.
Wisconsin is debatable ground, and the
Republicans themselves admit that the
Democrats are more likely to carry it in
the coming election than they themselves
are. Under the district system Of election
in Michigan six, If not eight, of those cleo
toral votes will be given to CLEVELAND.
The south will be "solid'' in spite of the
Farmers Alliance, while New Jersey and
Connecticut may be depended upon to give
CLEVELAND their electoral votes as they
did four and eight years ago. HERRIsoN
may, though we doubt it, carry Indiana
state pride is powerful factor in close
contests-but the Democrats can afford to
lose the Hoosier state if they carry Wis
consin, aud stiIl win with handsome mar
gin Of votes
The Republican programme is to carry
North and South Carolina by the aid Of the
Third party. Their expectation is that'the
Third party viii draw largely from the
Democrats, that the Republicans, who are
mainly negroes, will remain true to their
party faith and that they will thus be able
to secure plurality of tie votes cast. This
scheme. however, will not work. The
issue which will keep the south solid, and
which will hold these two states in line
with all the others in that locality, is the
Force bill The Republicans have unwisely
given this obnoxious bill a prominence
which it does not justify. There is no
great demand for it in the north, although
the Republican party of the north is, as
rule, favorable to It. But it is only favor
able as matter of party policy and not of
conviction, for every Intelligent man ap-
preciates the TACT that it is political legis-
lation and not inspired by any sympathy
with the negro except as political entity.
In the south, however, 1t is regarded as
the most important legislation since the
Reconstruction era. Beside it, all other
issues pale into insignifcance. Beside 1t,
tariff reform, silver, sub treasury bills and
other matters of similar character are lost
TO sight. If there be any one issue that
human ingenuity could devise to keep the
south ''solidn it is the threat of the Re-
publican party to force the negro into
prominence in that locality whether he de-
sire it or not The southern people hon
estly believe that the adoption of force
bill would turn back the wheels of progress
dozen years They believe it would make
the negro restless and dissatisfied again,
where he is now industrious and content
edly plying his vocation, and that it would
give rise to social disorders rivaling in
their frequency and bloodshed the unhappy
years Immediately following the war.
No party which advocates such a policy
can hope to carry a single southern state,
even though it be so uncertain a state, and
one SO dominated by protection influences
as West Virginia, which CLEVELAND only
carried a few years ago by mere handful
of votes. If this is a sample of the stupid
ity which win characterize the conduct OF
the Republican campaign, they can have
little to hope for when the returns are re-
ceived in November next.