Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1892-10-27


ticut and West Virginia.
5. X. McCluros dispatch to Philadelphia Times.
NEW YORK, oct. 4,-But two short
weeks remain of the great national cam
raign of 1872 and both sides have now
well determined how they shall make their
iinAl assaults 1t is an open secret here
in Republican circles. or rather hardly q
secret at all, that the Republican managers
have given up Indiana as utterly hopeless.
From the day that Gresham made his an
noitnCemcnt against Harrison the state has
been anchored in the Cleveland column,
and the Presidents own state will bs
spared the shame of a repetition of the
dcbanchery of 1855 simply because money
cannot carry il. In this state the Republic
cans are making a most desperate and
somewhat hopeful battle, They are not
confident Of success, but they have re-
mote chance of winning the electoral vote.
Believing that success here would assure
lIarrison's reelection, exhaustive efforts
will be made from now until election
day to carry New York but even while
thus giving the utmost efforts and re-
sources to carry the Empire State, the
Harrison leaders feel that the odds are
largely against them, and that they must
look outside of both New York and
Indiana to assure success.
They have figured closely on the cleo
toral vote, and assuming that Harrison
VIII carry all the states he carried i'll 1883,
with the exception of New York, Indiana
and Nevada, they could with the aid of
the six new states, and by carrying nine of
the electors in Michigan and the electoral
votes Of Connecticut, Delaware and West
Virginia, give Harrison bare majority of
the Electoral College. This is skating on
fearfuly thin ice, but they don't do it
from choice. 1t is the last chance of saving
Republican power Grasping at these re-
mote possibilities as Il drowning man
would grasp At a straw, there will be the
most bewiidcrng efforts of debauchery in
Connecticut Delaware and West Virginia
during the next two weeks. Already
the methods have been foreshadowed
/ in Delaware, where the Republic
can Federal supervisors boldly ar
rested Democratic registration officers
OH Saturday last. All the money that can
be used to debauch voters will be ex-
| pended III Connecticut. Delaware and
| West Virginia from now until election
| day. II is possible that they may carry
| one or even two Of them, but it is hardly
| within the range Of possibility that they
can carry all Of them. They carefully
| prospectcd New Jersey, and at one time
| were hopeful of success there, but they
| have given up New jersey on the electoral
| ticket, as the Republican leaders them
| selves say that the state cannot be taken
| from Cleveland. They believe that
hopeful fight might be made for governor
| iii that state, but the national managers
care nothing for governor II the electoral
/ vote is beyond reach. Besides there is
| little prospect for a United States Senator
| in New Jersey, as the hOlding-over Sena-
tors are largely Democratic.
such is the situation as it appears to-day
in this centre of political direction. The
| Democrats understand the situation pre-
| cisely us the Republicans do. and they are
/ sod mr. IpSnpTltn
| thai are to he made upon Connecticut,
| Delaware and West Virginia; but, while
/ the Republicans are assaulting these states,
| the Democratic leaders understand that
the Republicaus,are much more likely to
lose some of the Harrison states of 1888
outside Of Nevada, which seems TO be con-
coded to Weaver than the Republicans are
to carry Connecticut, Delaware and West
Virginia. Rhode Island and New Hamp-
shire are certainly more debatable for the
Republicans than Connecticut and Della
ware for the Democrats, and even Massa-
chusctts is not entirely ironclad for Repub-
lican electors In addition to the New
England states all Of the states west of the
Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains, and
also the northwestern states, are
disputed with more or less energy
by the Democrats, and certainly with
reasonable expectation of partial success
in some of them. In Wisconsin would
estimate the chances Of the Democrats as
one out of three for success, and in Iowa
one chance out of five while in New York
state the Republicans have not one chance
i'll % Colorado Is certainly doubtful, with
probabilities in favor Of Harrison. Ne
braslSa. Kansas Minnesota, Wyoming
and South Dakota all have fusion
movements against Harrison, ana it
will lie remarkable il some OF
them do not succeed. In Michigan the
Democrats claim oil the electoral votes,
1t,lF 1,