Gloucester County Democrat., 1892-11-03
VICTORY IN THE AIR.
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WITH PROMISE.

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cieseland-The Fight South and west.
Especial Correspondence.
NEW York, Oct. 31.-There Is cheer
ing news from all along the line. What
ever apathy there .may have been here
tofore, there is none now. The smoke
OF the political battle covers all the
plvotSl states, and the roaring Of artil-
lery is heard in the west and the great
northwest. Sheehan holds the center of
the line here in New York. He is at
lacking. and not repelling assaults.
The New York Democrats are full of
hight and are confident of victory. Tam
many Hall leads the van. Her orders
are eyerythingfor the national ticket.
Local issues must give way to the ma
uonal issue. The orders will be obeyed
Never was there more thorough disci-
pine In the party. Tammany is moving
IN a solid body, and will poll a larger
vote for Cleveland and Stevenson than
she has ever before polled in her history
The reports from the interior Of the
state are extremely encouraging. Every
effort has been made to secure a COM
plete registration. Governor Hills
friends are toeing the stratch manfully.
Many Republicans have declared their
intention to vote the Democratic elect
oral ticket. A strong effort has been
made by the Republican state committee
to create disaffection among the Irish
Democrats. Patrick Egan, the Repub-
lican minister to Chill, with a score of
Republican allies of the same stripe, is at
the head of the movement. So far it
has utterly failed. The majority Of Mr..
Blaine's Irish friends will not vote for
Harrison. All efforts to drag them into
line are futile. The Republicans claim
dribbling gains from among them, but
these are more than balanced by the dis
affection in their own ranks.
New York is safely Democratic. The
majority of nearly $4,000 LIST fall cannot
be wiped out The bettingsr Cleveland
carrying the state is 81 900 to 800.
Nothing is more sensitive than the
pocket nerve, and the pocket nerve in
this instance surely indicates the situa-
ton here. In Brooklyn the last Repub-
lican candidate for mayor is out open
ample has been followed by some prom
inent Republicans in nearly every town
and city in the state.
From Connecticut the news is equally
cheering; there is no lethargy in that
state. The Democracy is awake and
moving. Governor Waller, Robert ].
Vance and other Democratic leaders are
claiming fully 1900 plurality for the
Democratic national ticket. The same
disaffection among the Republicans is
found in Connecticut as in New York
Lynde Harrison, who has led the Repub
icans in many a campaign in that state,
openly expresses his intention of voting
for Mr.. Cleveland. For years he was
chairman of the Republican state COM
mittee. His disaffection began with the
stealing of the state from the Democ-
racy two years ago. Harrison insisted
that the Democratic state officers, who
clearly had a majority of the votes cast,
should be inaugurated. His Republican
brethren disagreed with him, and Nor
gan Bulkeley still holds over as governor.
While the Republicans, through their
rotten borough representation in the
Legislature may again secure the state
officers, they cannot carry their electoral
ticket. Mr.. Cleveland requires only
plurality to carry the state, while the
Democratic candidate for state officers
must have q majority, or the election
goes to the legislature. Never were the
Democrats of the state more confident.
1t is more certain for Cleveland now
than it was four years ago.
The struggle in New Jersey is a bitter
one. Some think the Republicans have
been on still hunt in that state, but no
well informed man has any doubt about
the electoral t1clSsS-A<ssl-. .s1.-4.--.-->-1s
carry the state by a larger majority
than ever. John Kean, Jr., the Repub-
lican candidate for governor, is young
man with plenty of money. He is spend
ing it lavishly in his own canvass, and
the Republicans are making an effort to
carry the legislature. 1t will have the
selection Of a United States senator in
the place of Rufus Blodgett. Kean may
succeed in reducing the vote for the
Democratic candidate for governor, but
he cannot injure the electoral ticket.
Senator Mcpherson, Governor Albeit,
Edward F. Mcdonald and other Demo-
cratic chieftains are heading the column
there and making gallant fight. They
predict that Grover Cleveland will carry
the state by over 49, 900 majority.
Indiana, as usual, has been the battle
ground of the campaign. All the re-
ports from that state are encouraging.
Harrison carried it by a small margin
four years ago, and the Democrats in
the state all agree that this margin was
wiped out weeks ago. Bynum, Cooper,
Shiveley and other prominent Demo-
cratic congressman express the utmost
confidence as to the result. All are on
the qui vive for Republican colonial
ton. 1t is understood that in the last
two weeks of the campaign the Repub-
icans will flood the state with money.
ssSoap," however, will hardly prove as
effectual as it did in Arthur's time.
Walter @. Greshams letter in behalf
of Cleveland is tower Of strength to
the Democracy. Its effect is widespread.
There is hardly town in the STATE in
which Gresham has not some followers.
The votes of his friends alone, it is
claimed, would turn the scale without
adding other elements of Democratic
strength. Indeed Indiana Democrats
say that the Hoosier State is as certain
for Cleveland as is New Jersey.
So much for the pivotal states. De
spairing of carrying all Of them, the Re
publicans have been casting their eyes
south. They have claimed West Virginia.
North Carolina and Alabama. Magee's
work in Alabama, however, has turned
out ssDead sea fruit The combination
with the Kolb party fails to work The
Republicans were to turn in and vote
fer the Weaver ticket, with the under
standing that if necessary some of the
Weaver electors would turn their votes
over to Harrison. But factional fight
has broken out, and the combine is go
ing to pieces. Governor Jones, General
Oates, General Wheeler, Judge Cobb
and other prominent Democrats all agree
that the state is sure for Cleveland. The
negroes will not be driven solidIy into
line by the Republicans, and there are
other elements of disintegration which
sap the strength Of the combination.
Nor can the Harrison men gather any
satisfaction from the reports from North