Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-10-23
THE POLlTICALFIELD
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INDIANA SAFE FOR DEMOCRACY


dsy before the election Ands the unbfoken
Democratic limo steadily advancing against
tho demoralized forces of the retreatinf
Republicans. The Bleins demonstration
has proved worse than Aasco. The cheap
demacog,sn fof tho attempt 10 trade on
the Irish vote has offended the spirited
peoplc whom Il was meant to attract. and.
FOR the frst tine in his career, the
splumed Knight" has appeared on the
flcld OF conflict only to spread confusion and
dismay among the forces he joined. APP
peols TO the laboring masses to stand py the
protection that has favored only monopoly
capitalists have fallen on ears deafened
by hard experience In increased hvipg
cost without rise In wages. Whitelaw
Reds: attempt TO behttie tho force-biii
issue betrays the knowledge Of the Repub-
lican managers that on that fundamental
and vital question the people are against
them. Hence they endeavor to cover up
President Harrlson's record. to disavow
the acts Of their own representatives. in
Congress, and TO discard the most positive
and decisive declaration OF their own plat
form. Detailed survey OF the nationai po-
litical field corroborates and explains this
general statement.
NTnaEsr IN INDIANA.
Among the contested States few are re-
earded the country over with greater IN
terest than Indiana. the home OF the Presi-
dent. who seeks reelection. In that his
toric and often-contested battle-ground
the situation IL, even by Republican adj
mission. favorable to the Democrats.
There. n elsewhere, the Harrison mana.
gers have relied on technicnlities and
chicanery rather than on open appeals TO
the popular judgment. The apportion-
ment case was the outcome OF desperate
scheme to throw the election into chaos.
1t was expected that the Republican
courts would render q partisan decision In
favor Of the revolutionary applica-
ton to nullify the action of the Legisla-
ture and that judgment would be given
before election. But the supreme Court
of Indiana, to its great honor, declined TO
prostitute lis judicial functions to the use
OF q partisan conspiracy. and set down the
case for trial after the election. This leaves
the apportionment made by the late LeRis-
Iature in force. and gives TO the new secret
ballot law a fair chance for its first trial in
the Hoosiern State. The Republicans
greatly dread the new. statute because 1t
lnterferee with their plan OF general cor
rupton, in which alone lie their hope of
success. The Democratic party in Indiana
was never 50 well organized as this year,
and is making comparatively quiet but
most earnest campaign under the able lead
of Governor GRAY, and with the party alb
solutely united. the opponents of Cleve,,
lands nomination wing with his original
friends in energetic devotion TO has candi-
dacy.
CONVERSIONS.
The declaration of Judge Gresham,
whose name has always been q tower OF
strength in Indiana. has been followed by
a number of conversions. conspicuous
among which are those of ex-Attorney-
General h. p. Baldwin and w. Dudley
Foulke, who are making speeches for Cleve-
land and Stevenson. The Republicans,
on the other hand, are divided into dis
cordant factions. There IS much dissetis-
faction with the administration. which
finds open expression all over the State.
President Harrison has disappointed his
friends even more bitterly at home than
elsewhere, and this sentiment can
not fail TO find expression In many
newly-gained votes in the secre-
CIV OF the Australian ballot,
as well as in Republican absenteeism
from the polls. Hon. s. p. Sheerin. the
secretary of the Democratic National
Committee, than whom no one Is better
lieves that the carrying OF the State for
Cleveland and Stevenson by very con-
siderable plurality is as sure as any future
political event can be. In the 2,92 voting
precincts in the State there should be
cast. according to the estimates of the
election commissioners. total OF 54l 900
votes Mr. Sheerin is of opinion that this
calculation is too low. and that ballots will
be deposited by about $4,000 citizens.
Asked what plurality he expected. the ex-
perienced Indianian replied that while he
preferred not to make calculations about
high maiorities or pluralities, which. after
oil. were like remnants of cloth to be
thrown away after making the coat, there
would be great deal more than enough of
Democratic voting done to carry the State.
THE EMPIRE STATE.
Republican Headquarters are despairing
of New York. They will fight hard for it,
of course, to the last. Joe Manly and the
other Floater-Fund statisticians are fgu-
ring to see how the country can be won
without the Empire State, but in this
effort they can discover no cause for CON-
fort. AS to this State. impartial observers
like the experienced Herald correspondent,
Mr.. Alvord, son of "Old Salt" Thomas G..
AlvoId, most experienced Republican
politician. and formerly Lieutenant Cover
nor, concede county after county. His
figures give the State to Cleveland by at
least $4,000 plurality. There is abundant
D ,ney in the Republican Golfers, but it
wi.i be wasted IN the attempt to over
come the securities of the new ballot law.
Whatever doubt may have heretofore ex.
listed about the vote of this State Is settled
York and Brooklyn. which in New York
exceeded by 10000 that of the CORE
spending day in 1888, and brought mp the
aggregate to zoe, 376 names against 1877, 49l
four years ago. In Brooklyn the aggre-
gate of the two days is 1S1, 0s4. or list
larger by nearly 1900 than that OF 1888.
The gain in the two cities is somewhat In
tionate to the growth OF population.
and 1t decisively refutss the Re-
publican allegation OF Democratic
apathy in the metropolitan region.
The highest Republican plurality in
the State of New York. north OF the
600. Even II the Republicans should do
as well IN the interior this year. OF which
there is not the slightest chance, their
plurality in the country would be showed
under by the great vote of the seaboard
cities. Except for reliance on the chapter
of accidents the Republicans have practi-
cally given up New York today; There
but 1t is difficult to fancy anything more
improbable. Wagers are now being laid
ct slight odds that Cleveland and Steven
SON will have plurality exceeding 10000
in the State.
UxIrxD NEW JERSEY.
New Jersey, never in doubt, Is now
''safe as Q church." under the able leader
ship OF Senator Mcpherson. Governor Ab-
bett. aud Judge Werts, who 10 to be Alb
belts successor. All localities and inte-
rests in the party are firmly united in
carrying out the general plan agreed upon
by the State managers with the Demo-
cratic National Committee. Speaker Crisp
and other able Democratic orators are to
make the closing addresses of the year there,
and Mr.. Cleveland will no doubt deliver
one speech in New Jersey, aud probably
one also in Connecticut. The latter State
was deemed uncertain until last week. but
it may now be placed In the safely Demo-
cratic column with expectation Of o Demo-
cratic plurality much larger than either
that of four or that of eight years ego.
In little Delaware she Republicans are
fighting hard, but the State OF Bayard and
Salisbury viii not east its electoral vote
for Republican.
MORE TEAM NECESSARY.
New York. New Jersey, Indiana. the
South, I'VE sure votes in Michigan, would
alone give 225 votes. two more than neces-
DaYy TO elect. With Connecticut, Wisconsin,
Illinois, New Hampshire, Rhode Island