The Portland daily press., 1892-05-25


and one-half of Michigan can surely be
carried Republican. These states give
total of 211 electoral votes. OF course
Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Florida.
Georgia, New Jersey, Louisiana. Mary
land, Mississippi, Missouri, North Caro-
lima, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas.
Virginia and one-half of Michigan with
their ITO electoral votes are conceded to
the Democrats. The doubtful States,
according to the reckoning, are Connec-
ticut, 6; Indiana, Is; New York, So;
Virginia, 6. There are IA votes in the
electoral college, thus requiring 223 to
elect Thus, if the Republicans carry
one doubtful state, Indiana OF New York,
they can win, while the Democrats to
win must carry all four doubtful states,
Connecticut, Indiana, Virginia and New
York. This shows the. chances very
largely in favor of the Republicans, and
the washington leaders are probably not
over sanguine, unless in the case of one
or two of the Western silver states.
Montana can hardly be allied sure with
its close balancing of parties and silver
sentiment. AS for Colorado and Nevada
they are staunehly Republican and en-
Enthusiastically 'free-silver." These two
conditions do not go together at all and
must render those States somewhat
doubtful should free coinage Democrat
be nominated. But free coinage Demo
GRAFT would put the Democratic State of
New Jersey into the doubtful column
and make Connecticut surely Republican.
The human body is hardly more sensi-
tive to an affection of any of it's parts
than is this great nation in these days
of railroads, telegraphs and delicate
and extensive credit system. The great
storms in the West have been the local
affection of comparatively narrow belt
of country extending on either side of
the Mississippi. Yet the nerves of
modern business relations have trans
ferred the results of this trouble to
centres of commerce hundreds of miles
away. "The continuance of floods and
storms at the West and Southwest in the
last week, with even more disastrous
effects than those of the previous two
weeks has had very positive effect upon
all business say the financial reports of
New York city, ''causing general adj
vance in the prices of breadstuffs and
moderate one in cotton. 1t has shown
its effects also in decrease of railroad
traffic and a general decline in the prices
of the stocks Of the grain-carrying roads,
especially of those in the corn belt, on
the presumption that the corn crop, this
summer must be poor. The clearings of
all the banks in sixty seven cities for the
week to May 10 were. 81 ,232, 800, 1877,
against 81 ,231, 297, 204 for the preceding
week, and do not as yet reflect any effect
of the floods and storms. But the re-
ports Of the gross earnings of twenty
one of the largest systems of Western,
Southwestern, and Southern railroads
for the second week of May showed an
aggregate of $5,557, 1o1, against SO, 727, 900
for the second week of April, decrease
of a per cent, which may fairly be as
cribed as largely due to the weather."
The calamity of one portion of the
country is to a great extent the calamity
of all portions; and modern inventions
are fast making this factor imper-
fectly comprehended even by economists
$50 plain that he who runs may read.