The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-10-14
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My prediction that Georgia would re-
new her allegiance to the Democratic
party at the state election has been veri-
lied by "a large majority" The re.elec-
ted governor is not only a Democrat,
but an agricultural leader, an Alliance
sympathizer and the friend OF the col
ored man, known throughout the state
for acts OF humanity toward them that
has won them. Why should he not be
reelected? The question whether Tom
| Watson goes back to Congress will not
be settled until next month.
The Joy of the Democracy over carry
ing Georgia is u surprise. Their souls
must have been shaken beyond my
| supposition. Tho opposition to the
Democracy in Alabama remains formid-
able, and will win with the electoral
ticket unpledged except against Cleve-
land, unless the Democracy manage to
divert Il large black vote to their
straight Harrison and Reid ticket. That
straight Republican ticket, provided
and pushed By the Democrats, is q
smart turn for them, and may save the
state for Cleveland. The interest that
southern elections excite; the fierce
antagonism Of white men to Democratic
frauds in the Gulf states; the reluctant
recognition OF black men rs possible
voters, with a margin oil political free
dom the appea! in Alabama TO national
fundamentally to see fair play in
national elections, are gratifying. The
promise is that there is TO be redemp-
ton OF the south, by the south, for the
south, from the clutch OF the Demo-
cratic party.
General Weaver has not grasped the
destiny that was within his reach-tak-
ing the leadership OF the constitutional
revolutionary resigning his candidacy
and recommending the union OF the
opponents Of the old parties on the
Alabama plan, the only popular instruc-
ton to the electors being that they
should not vote for Cleveland. But the
southern campaign he has made fixes
all the alleged doubtful states OF the
northwest for the Republicans,
1t seems in the rainbow region that
the seventy thousand Democratic ma
jority in Georgia is an Endorsement Of
the boy who threw the egg. 1t is not
go, but impressions are important. The
procession OF Republicans who rushed
to the help OF Cleveland, sympathizing
with the change of heart marked by the
difference between his speech and his
letter OF acceptance, has ended, and
they amount to a constitutional crank
Cooley, a presidential crank Gresham)
..f.,saaa nvnntg Ma norhl and
an egotistical crank CJulian), four votes,
and all OF them, with the exception OF
Cooley, have been in the habit OF vot-
ing for Cleveland. They are old and
cold chestnuts. Republicans may bless
God and take courage that they are
gone. We may expect to hear in a few
days that Ex-Governor Curtin, Of Penn
sylvania, and Ex-Governor Hoadly, Of
Ohio, and Ex-Governor Palmer, OF ILL
nois, will vote for Cleveland, and the
Democratic press to freshen up the
news with many head lines.
If the Democratic party could show
some accesslons, such as the Republic
cans have had in Brooklyn, they might
talk. l refer to the Somers Brothers,
who had placed n quarter Of q million
dollars in the manufacture Of tin for use
in their own business, and are rolling
the plates from American steel, which
is better than is made in England, and
to Mr.. Grosjcan, manufacturer OF iron
ware, and who employs a thousand men.
These citizens are friends and admirers
Of Mr.. Cleveland, but the exhibit OF the
true inwardness OF the Democratic party
at Chicago decided hal they could sup
port no man engaged in a free trade
propaganda. These are typical business
men who have voted for Cleveland Tor
the presidency twice and will vote
against him this time, / have in mind
a Republican in Brooklyn who has u
list OF twenty-five Democrats Of his own
acquaintance who will vote for Harrison
against Cleveland.
There is q strong symptom OF the De-
mocracy in the fact that their most con-
idential affairs are ill-kept. We hear
continually OF the "goings on" OF the
council chambers OF the Democratic
leaders. Depew's iocosec confidential re-
port at the Brooklyn rink OF the Cleve-
land dinner party to Croker, sheehan
and Murphy asapictures9ue relationol
the facts as they occurred, and there was
no confidence violated in the telling as
Dopew told it. Nj. Cleveland has to
choose between the certainty OF defeat
and becoming zone OF US" IL thorough
Tammany man, in order to prove that
he is n Democrat. When no gets that
far, what becomes OF tho anti-snNppers,
and ali OF the approximately %virtuous
people who met and mingled ut SYRIA
cuse?
The strain and struggle on the in
side oil tho Democratic organization is
severe, and the exhibition OF %jealousles
and insincerities shocking, 1t is to be
said of some of those who are giving
Cleveland conspicuous support that
they are playing as il at checkers in a
giveaway game. The only thing that |
have heard that has a tendency to dis
courage the Republicans, il it does not
arouse them 10 greater activity, is that
some OF Cleveland's supporters are
afraid that he may be elected, and are
urging that the full Republican vote
shall be got out. My impression that
Harrison and Reid are leading in a
lucky aud winning campaign has been
strengthened by the retirement oil Mr..
Cleveland from the Neal-W atterson to
the Jones-Vilas platform, the plea OF
poverty by the strateGist, Harrity, after
a conference OF millionaires, and the
adjustment Of the extension of the
street railroad franchises, dropping the
trolley for the present.