The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-11-06

n good majority In Chicago, and whichever
OF them 10 elected will have only moderate
ma iority, IL ia expected that Gov. Fifer
will run somewhat behind the national
ticket. The democrats will receive large
accossions from tho Lutheran vote and.
indeed, from ali foreign-born nntionalities
that favor parochial schools in foreign
Tongues. To oftset this gain. there will be
thousands of life long democrats who this
year are arraigning the party for pufauing
false gods and will vote the republican state
ticket on the ground that it IN American in
declarations and 1T hppeals to the pfejndioes
OF no nationality and no religion.
The nomination of Hon. A. ~, Stevenson
for the vice presidency added to democratic
confidence in Illinois, The congressional
outlook in the state IL unfayorable to the
democtatt. All issues iii Colorodo are sub
ordlnated to the silver question. Ninety
fye per cent of the democrats in tho state
endorsed the Weaver electors. 80 there is
practically but two tickets in the feld--the
republican and peoples. The Weaver party
CLAIMS the state bv from ten to fifteen
thousand. The republicans, on the other
hand, say they will save the state TO Har-
rison, but refuse to give any figures. Shonid
Weaver carry the state by as much as ten
thousand, the entire populist state ticket
will 90 tn ough with him.
That Minnesota should ever become
doubtful state would not have been be-
leved few years ago and yet that is what
the democratic state committee is claiming
Tonight. They claim the election of ID.
w. Law,er as COVE nor and assert their
firm belief in the choice of the four peo-
ple'a party electors, whom they endo sed.
On the 9th r hand the republicans claim
majority for their gubernato ial candidate
from 1000 to 30 600 and expect to elect all
the electors, notwithstanding fusion. The
peoples ph ty managers are claiming the
election OF Ignatius Donnelly as governor,
EDnr4a
in the election of the four fusion electors.
Chairman Green. of the South Dakota
republican committee. places the republi-
cnn plurality ih the state at 1900 and
other party leaders agree with HIM In the
prediction. The democrats and independ-
ents however, are confident of success.
One matter of uncertainty is the inability
to tell whether the alliance vote will be as
strong as two years ago. 1t seems prob
able that the result will be close.
In Idaho there is great uncertainty re-
garding the result. Democrats and repub-
lieans both claim the state, while the pop
ulists are scarcely less confident.
In Connecticut there are five state tick
cts in the field and one must have a ma
jorty over all Others to win, Both repub-
licans and democrats claim the state with
equal assurance.
In Iowa the fact that state issues are sub
ordinated to great national questions tends
to give the republicans a significant advarit-
age, and the democrats are uSually frank
enough to admit that chances fayot the re-
publican patty. Although some democrats
still maintain confidence there is apparently
no significant growth of either the peoples
party or the prohibition party in the state.
While on the national ticket the chances
favor the republicans, the indications are
that the contest will be quite close on the
state tickets, the republicans claiming eight
out of eleven congressional distticts, but
democrats concede only six.
The Tennessee state democratic commit
tee Ii ad poll MADE of the state which indi-
catea a plurality of from forty to fifty
Thousand for the democratic electors, a
plurality of forty Thousand for the demo-
cratic governor. and u majority over all op-
position.
In Wyoming the democrats have con-
Quoted an aggressive campaign, assisbed by
the peoples party. with whom coalition
was effected by the democrats supporting
the Weaver electors and the populists
throwing their strength to the democratic
state ticket. Non partieans are of the
opinion that the contest will be very close.