Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1892-09-08
The Situation.

II ia nov nine weeks To the presidential
election About half Of the campaign Is over
aud the results TINS far have greatly in
creased the reasonable ground for expect
ing Republican victory says the New
York Tribune. Colonel c3ckerll, an ex-
p. rieneed observer. publishes his belief
that the events Of the list week have iu-
creased Republican confidence by 10 per
cent. and while II il not more confidence
that il chiefly needed it il equally true that
those events have increased at least as
much the real strength of the Republican
position.
Democracy IL getting To he like the milk
sickness. There is not enough of il here to
satisfy Mr. Cleveland or his friends. but
their spirits are huoyed up with elaborate
accounts about the prevalence of the dis
ease in far-vG states. This has gone so
far that the raising of a special fund for use
by the rainbow -chascrs Of the Northwest
has become the most prominent feature of
Democratic exer'ion. The anxious tone of
appeals made, the glowing assurances gwen
that Democratic money can he employed
ut the West with far greater chances of sue
cess than in New York would leave one to
suppose that the Democrats had about made
up their minds not to waste efforts On this
state at all. Republicans naturally suspect
II trick. and are watching more closely and
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abandonment of New York by Democrats.
But the explosion of bitterness between
Democratic factions here during the last
week has given some support to the idea
that it may be- easier for Mr.. clevelands
friends To overcome Republican maioritcs
at the West than TO overcome lIll Demo
Gratis In New York
Facts go to the mark like rifle bullet. in
campaign such as this, and the deadly
voileys fired from thu Labor Bureau and
the banking department Mt tlhany during
the last week have put Democrats on the
defensive all over the country as well as
here They 10 no, help their case at all by
asserting that the official reports are
given out because Hin and his friends are
ready to stab Mr. Cleveland. Whether the
same reports would have been delayed or
suppressed if Hill or a friend of his bad
been nominated is not the question, but
whether the reports are true. II happens
that they agree so we'll with all that is
known of the general condition of manu-
featuring. especially in states WHERE foreign
competition was most severely felt two
years ago. that the public inclincs strongly
to accept the official statements. That
they 20 far to make trouble for Democrats
the wrath of Mr.. Clevelands followers
sufficiently proves.
Contrasting with Democratic wrangles
is the harmony shown among Republicans
of all sorts, which has been 50 plainly man
Tested during the week that even the most
reluctant Democrats are compelled to
admit it. Cheap sneers about this or that
Republican leader do not alter the fact that
all of them are engaged in contributing
actively aud openly to the sigor of the
Republican campaign If Democratic jour
nails had been careful to tell the truth and
nothing but the truth their readers would
not have been expecting great things from
Republican discord. and so would not have
now, because the discord is not on that side,