St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-26
P.F. Lyons. Local Forecast Official
ILLINOIS AND WISCONSIN.

1t is rather early in the day to indulge
in rainbow chasing" but nevertheless
the GLOBE is moved to express its con-
viction that there are some very great
and very disagreeable surprises in store
for the Republican party next Novem-
Der. There are some seven states, long
accounted reliably Republican, which
have recently given substantial Demo
cratic majorities in state elections.
Those seven states of Massachusetts
Pennsylvania, Michigan. Illinois, Iowa,
Wisconsin and Nebraska are still in
cluded in the Republican plans as safe
for the party on national issues, with
the exception of Michigan, from which,
under Its new law providing for the di-
vision of its electoral vote, it is cOnced-
ed that the Democrats will get some
representation in the electoral college.
An examination of the conditions preya-
lent in the remaining six OF these seven
states only partially juStitieS the Re-
publican pretensiouS. In Massachusetts
and Pennsylvania, with their colossal
''infant industries fattening on the
tariff plunder wrung from the tOilers of
the West, the white slaves of the factory
lords will have no choice but to vote the
ticket dictated to them by their masters.
In Iowa the issue on which Gov. BoIES
has twice carried the state for the Dem
Ocracy is largely local, and, therefore,
small dependence can be placed in the
sanguine assurances of Hawkeye Demo
Gratis that the electoral vote Of their
state will be cast for the Democratic
presidential ticket. In Nebraska the
result depends altogether on what pro-
portions the Peoples party movement
assumes, and Ii is idle to attempt to es-
innate how the triangular battle will 60
in that state. But in Illinois and in
Wisconsin the Democracy unquestion-
ably has more than a fighting chance
for the success OF Its national ticke t,and
these two states may be expected to fur
nish the rudeSt surprises to Our friends
the enemy next November. OF the
TWO leading issues on which Demo-
cratic success has been achieved in these
two states in recent elections, one was
at the time a national issue. and the
other has since been made so by the
Chicago convention. The tariff and the
school issues these are the basis of the
conversion Of Illinois and Wisconsin
to the Democratic faith. To argue that
the conversion was but temporary
were to argue that the issues had not
lasting significance. The cause of tar
if reform was never more vigorous,
more powerful, more reSolute in the
consciousness Of its own righteousness,
than it is today. The cause of parental
the education of children" was never
more clearly an element in politics
than it is since its adoption by the Chi
cago convention as plank in the plat
form of the national Democracy. Since
this is the situation with respect to these
two Issues. why should it be assumed
that Illinois and Wisconsin will stuItify
themselves by repudiating the Democ-
Tacy on thevery same grounds on which
they have recently accorded that party
such grand Endorsement? AS the hust-
ingS debater would put it, it ''don't
stand to reason nOhow and noway."
With CLEVELAND and STEVENSON, the
latter an Illinois man and the former
the first choice of the Democracy Of both
states-with these TWO names on the
ticket and with the tariff and school
issues back OF it. the Ott-quoted "logic
of the situation" seems emphatically to
favor the election of Democratic presi-
DENTAL electors in Wisconsin and lii