Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-10-15

the cities are very poorly attended. The party
is doing nothing IN the way of circulating liter
AZURE, and even the candidates for Office are not
on the stump: There are probably 10000 or
l5,OO0 voters in the state, mostly old men and
preachers, who will vote the prohibition ticket
anyway, but as a party it is very much in the
sere and yellow state.
THE PoPULIsrs.
The peoples party, the only other side issue
in this campaign, Is making great claims a. TO
its numerical strength, but q careful examine
ton Of facts and circumstances do not give
their claims much Of a foundation. In proper
ton to their enthusiasm the populist man
ayers claim their ticket will receive anywhere
from 80 900 to 80, 900 votes, but il il doubtful
if tine total poll reaches q, 600, and some care
ful calculations place it as low as 10000. In
the first place the populists have no money
with which to push q campaign. Another
thing Is the fact that the party is full Of dis
trust and suspicion. Pretty nearly every man
of any prominence in the party suspects his
fellow-workers OF being influenced by either
democratic or republican cash, and it must be
said that in numerous instances their suspicious
are well founded. In the party are no lead
ers who by their standing, character or ability
command the respect Of anybody in particular.
In this respect the peoples party 10 wholly
unlike the old greenback party, which had in
its ranks many men Of undoubted ability and
integrity. The greenbackers had such men %
cx-Gov. ]. W. Begole, W. P. Suner, W. d. Full
Ter, ex-Congressman @. C. Comstock, Geo. L.
Yaple, Congressman Whiting and others Of the
same stamp, but looking over the people
party Of today there is scarcely man in it
who would command ordinary respect. Geo.
L. Yaple, Geo. +. Richardson and Attorney
General A. A. Ellis have pledged themselves to
the Omaha platform, but there is absolutely
nothing in that platform which good demo-
crat could not conscientiously indorse and at
m m m fhA IN
platform as adopted by the state convention in
this city. The peoples party state ticket IL .
very feeble affair, made up Of men who are not
known. and their candidates are not becoming
at all prominent ON the stump or elsewhere.
Tho populists will probably cast 5000 or
20 900 votes for the state ticket and 1t is Diff
cult to estimate where these votes will come
from. The democrats throughout the pre-
llmlnaries OF the campaign have pursued
course well calculated to hold those Of the new
party who have democratic leanings In the
rural districts the voters will come chiefly from
the republicans.
The fight is, Of course, between the demo-
Gratis and the republicans. The prohibtionists
have SO long been in the field that their
strength is known and can be calculated upon.
The populist il as vet an unknown quality and
as the industrials did two Year, ago NAV play
havoc with the best laid plans.
IN THE CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS
The populists will make material difference
in some Of the congressional districts where the
parties ore evenly divided and where separate
nominations have been made. The populists
have made a nomination in the ninth district
against H. II. Wheeler, the democratic nominee
and Mr.. Wheeler may be defeated. In the sixth
district A. E. Cole, late president Of the far
mers' alliance, is the popuiist candidate and he
is practically the only candidate doing much in
the way. Of campaigning His candidacy will
have depressing influence upon the vote that
Byron G. stout will receive for reelection to
Congress, but as he is working chiefly In the
country he will undoubtedly catch many votes
which otherwise would go to d. d. Atkins, the
republican nominee. The result Of the elections
In Georgia and Florida have had their effect
upon the populists enthusiasm in this state and
1t is noticeable since the results In those states
we're announced they are not quite 30 hopeful.