Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-11-07
POLITICAL.

The betting in New York on the
election is still at odds in favor of
Cleveland.
1t is said that the republicans on Sat
urday virtually abandoned hope OF car
rving New York and withdrew $780,
/ GOO from that State and sent it to be
used in the West.
Senator Hill concluded his campaign
at Albany, Saturday night, in a speech
which he predicted that Mr.. Cleveland
will carry New York State and will
surely be elected.
Ex-Speaker Carlisle was the orator
at IL large democratic meeting in Fan
I'elil Hall, Boston, Saturday night. The
hall was crowded. though a driving
snow storm prevailed.
John Sheridan, the member of the
democratic national committee from
West Virginia, tclegraphs: Every
thing locks favorable for the State cast
ing its electoral vote for Cleveland and
Stevenson.
Chairman Clinton 3. Davis, Of the
Connecticut democratic State central
committee, has sent to the democratic
headquarters the following Connect
cut Will vote for Cleveland and Steven
son by plurality that will astonish the
people. Luzon 3. Morris will be elect
ed Governor by majority. and we will
elect Congressman in the First, Second
and Fourth districts"
The New York Herald, after making
the most complete canvass it ever made,
of the probable result of the election on
Tuesday in every State, predicts Mr.
Cleveland's election. 1t declares that
New York is emphatically n democratic
State. Indiana, while not so distinctly
indicated in the canvass, seems to lean
toward Mr.. Cleveland. Connecticut is
in doubt, but the Herald's special cor
respondent regards the State as a hard
field for the republican managers.
There has been nothing revealed so far
to indicate that the solid South has
been broken, with the single exception
of West Virginia, whose six electoral
votes hang uncertainty, the probablli-
ties being democratic. The Herald also
includes in the democratic column New
Jersey and six electors in Michigan.
William f. Harrity, chairman of the
democratic national committee, said
last night of the condition of the clos
ing campaign: "Our confidence in the
election OF Cleveland and Stevenson in
creases hourly. Democratic victory is
now absolutely certain. All doubt has
been removed by full and conclusively
satisfactory advices from all of the
southern States in which our opponents
have made pretensc of contest. us well
as from New York, Indiana, Connect
cut, New Jersey, Michigan and Wiscon-
sin. Information from the western and
the far western States justifies the hope
of an impending political revolution
that will add a number of electoral
votes TO those admitted 10 be sure for
Cleveland us we'll as lose several Others
to Harrison in States heretofore repub
lican.'
The electoral college this year will
consist Of IA votes, which is IS more
than in 1855, the increase being
caused by the admission of the States
of Idaho, Montana, North Dakota,
South Dakota, Washington and Wyom-
ing. These States will have electoral
votes each this year, except South Da-
lota and Washington, which will have
each. The remaining % new votes
are distributed among the older States
under the new congressional apportion-
ment bill-the result of the census OF
1890. OF this increase of the electoral
vote of the older States l6 go to States
which in 1883 voted for Harrison, the
remaining seven being apportioned to
States which in 1883 voted for Cleve-
land. The vote OF the electoral col
lege was us follows: For Harrison 233,
for Cleveland l6S.
The following sanguine view of the
democratic prospects in Illinois and
the northwest is given ina Chicago dis
patch received by the democratic ma
lonal committee yesterday evening :
Defeat awaits the republican party in
that great bunch of western States, Hi
nos. Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Minnesota and Iowa. Every indica-
ton warrants the prediction that Cleye-
land will receive sweeping majortics
1t is landslide. The republican party
is about to be wiped out Of existence.
Decentralization has become stampede
Scores OF former leaders in the republi-
can party are now working in the rank
and file of the democracy. The Chi
cago Tribune practically comedies over
whelming republican defeat. Every
republican politician and committee
man in the West who has had an op'
portunity of asccrtaining the correct
condition of affairs privately admits it. y
The democrats, who profess to be
sanguine of the election of Mr.. Cleve-
land. base their calculations on an I'M
changed solid South and the gain of the
votes of Indiana, New York and other
States. Their estimate in detail is
us follows:
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