Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-08
DISCUSSED NATIONALLY.
A Keen Observer Sizes Up the
Situation.
He Figures That Republican Hopes of
Success in the Coming Election
Are Indeed Slender.

The history of all presidential cam
paigns has been that the telling work
was done in the closing six weeks
and the campaign now pending will
not prove an exception to the rule
The political pot that simmered with
an easy Indifference for so long q
time is fairly seething now and will
continue to boil and bubble, like the
witches cauldron, until the mo-
mentous 9th of November has come
and gone:
1t is very gratifying fact, that
with this critical working period oI
the campaign has come improved
Democratic prospects. No similar
period in any preceding campaign
for the past thirty years ever found
so many and such strong indications
pointing to Democratic success.
In the first place, the Democratic
party has taken no step backward
since the tremendous tidal.wave two
years ago, that changed Republican
majority in the National House Of
Representatives into mere handful
of men, hardly large enough in point
of numbers TO give the party repre-
sentation on all of the committees.
1t is too much to expect another such
victory this year, because Republi'
\ can voters always turn out stronger
| to presidential election than they
do to those that occur in off years,
but there is no'good reason TO believe
that the Democratic party has lost
any of the surprising strength it then
developed. The causes that led to
the revolution of 1892 all still exist.
The Mckinley tariff tax is yet with
us and the grievous burden ii
entails upon the voters of the country
is now severely felt, whereas it was
then only coming evil The force
bill, which the Fifty first Congress
had endeavOred to pass, is again
threatened by the Republican plat
form adopted at Minneapolis, and
the billion dollar extravaganza OF
which that congress was guilty, is
still fresh in the memories of the
people.
The elections of 1891, barriEgthat of
Ohio, were all favorable to the Dem
ocrats; only Ohio had failed to bring
forth fruit meet for repentance the
year previous when there was such
a turning over everywhere else. The
September elections of this year were
all favorable to the Democracy
Maine and Vermont went Republi-
can by greatly reduced majorities,
while Arkansas held to it's old time
Democratic moorings. All Of this
has been capped by the October elec-
tions, which have revealed the weak
ness of the Peoples party in Georgia
and Florida, and proved that the
phalanx of Southern whites will not
be broken in its usual solidity when
the battle OF the ballots comes.
The Peoples party will cut very
small figure in the coming election
| that is now certain. Whatever OF
strength it may at one time have
had has been lost through the very
weak ticket that was put out at
Omaha and the feeble campaign that
has been made. The selection OF
Weaver as the party's presidential
candidate made It's success in the
South impossible and damaged its
prospects elsewhere. A new man
representing only the" radicalism
W Iich this new party has promul'
gated might have given it some vi.
tality, as the nomination of Lincoln
did the Republican party in 1860
but Weaver has been prominent in
the list of political cranks fol
10 these many days and the party
that made him its standard bearer
could not be looked on as other than
an assemblage of cranks organized
only in their appetite for Office.
Since the Peoples party has failed
in the South, it certainly cannot hurt
the Democracy. Its strength in the
West will be drawn from the Repub
lcans and it may aid the Democrats
in carrying some States in that quar-
ter hitherto ION the other side. The
three votes of little silver State Ne
vada may be cast for Weaver anC
Field. There are only about ter
thousand voters in Nevada and they
are all silver miners. They know NJ
politics but free coinage and botl
Harrison and Cleveland are agains
them on that issue. II they vote fo
Weaver, as now seems probable, tina
will count only three votes lost t.
Harrison.
- A somewhat similar condition ex
lists in Colorado and other OF tn,
new States of the Rocky Mountain
region, but, barring Montana, ther'
is not much hope for the Democrac.
in that part of the country. In Wis
consin, Iowa, Illinois and Michigan
however there are pnnd reasons nI