Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1892-09-07
VIEWS OF HON. JOHNG. CARLISLE.
HE THINKS THE DEMOCRATIC PROS
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HE THINKS THE DEMOCRATIC PROS
PECTS GOOD.
A contributor to the n Y. Herald,
who had an interview with Hon. John
g. Carlisle, who had just returned from
a trip along the New England Coast,
which ended with visit to Mr. Cleve-
laud, in speaking of the situation, re-
ports him as saying
II regard the democratic situation as
very satisfactory in every part of the
country where we can have reasonable
hope to make a successful contest.
There is no danger in the South, in my
opinion. No considerable part of the
democrats in any Southern State will
allow themselves to be sold for the
benefit of the republican party, and as
the day of election approaches most of
those who have been seduced into the
socalled peoples party by the delusive
promise of direct government aid in
their private affairs will rejoin their old
political associates. They will not
throw their votes away in a great ma
tional contest like this and thereby
promote the success of party which
by the recent utterances of its most
conspicuous representatives that it has
but little if any respect for the political
rights or material interests of the peo-
pie in that part of the country.
WANTS FAIR TREATMENT.
"All the South desires or needs is fair
treatment by the federal government
the same treatment that is accorded
to the other States and people-and
this it had for the first time since the
war under the administration of Mr..
Cleveland. He was the first and only
President since the war who fully rec
ognized the Southern States as equal
members of the Union, and he was the
first and only one who ignored all sec
tional lines and prejudices in appoint
ments to office and in the general policy
of the administration. This was worth
more to the South, and to the whole
country, in fact, than all the special
and class legislation that could be pass
ed by Congress in a century, and the
intelligent people everywhere know
it,''
"How do you regard the situation in
the other so-called doubtful States %
Senator Carlisle was asked
SIN New York, New Jersey, Con-
necticut and Indiana we are, l think,
in much better condition than in 1888,
while Massachusetts,, which was then
one of the most reliable republican
States, is now, to say the very least, a
doubtful one. The democrats will most
certainly re- elect Governor Russell, and
many of the best informed politicians
believe Mr.. Cleveland will carry it also.
We will get six or seven electoral votes
in Michigan, while Iowa and Illinois
will be hotly contested, with the
chances in our favor of all of them, or
certainly in Wisconsin and Illinois.
ILLINOIS DEMOCRATIC.
"The democratic candidate for Gov
ernor will be elected in Illinois by q
considerable majority unless great
change take place between this time
and November and the indications are
that the democratic electoral ticket will
be chosen also.
''Upon the whole think the election
of a democratic President and Vice
President by the votes of the people is
reasonably certain, but it will not be &C
accomplish without hard work all along
the line. The facts and the arguments
are on our side, but there are powerful
influences on the other which it would
be foolish and dangerous to underesti-
mate. Although the democratic party
proposes nothing that would not be in
the end beneficial to every industrial
interest in the country, whether it be
represented by capital or by labor, GER
tain classes of our citizens who have
seized upon the taxing power of the
and used it to augment
their own profits exclusively, will not
permit the republican policy of favorit
ism aud monopoly to be abandoned
without struggle, and we may expect
to meet again in this campaign all the
methods which have characterized pre-
vious ones"