Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-05
CAMPAIGN NEWS AND COMMENT.

| vtded. In California in 1885, because of the
| Chinese issue and the Morey letter fraud
| the result wns very close, five electors being
| chosen for Hancock and one for Garfield
| This was caused by n difference of Il few
| hundred votes between the highest elector
and the lowest one on the Democratic ticket
and is possible contingency in any State
where the election is determined by such
scant margin. This year. in addition to
| the chance OF q mixed outcome such as in
California. there is practical certainty
that the electoral vote OF Michigan will be
divided, and possibility of such an event
| in Minnesota and Oregon. In Minnesota, as
| heretofore stated, the Democrats have
| withdrawn Tour of their nine electoral can
didates and replaced them with Populist
| nominees. In Oregon one Democratic
vacancy has been filled by an ad-
herent of Weaver, the other three
Cleveland nominees remaining on the
| ticket. The Republican campaign COM
| mfttees In both Minnesota and Oregon are
! hopeful of securing the entire number of
| electors, but admit that the partial fusion
has made the result on that portion of the
| candidates doubtful 1t is not likely that
| this small number of electors will affect the
general result. but the peculiar arrange
ment is one OF the most in ieresting features
| of this remarkable Presidential contest.
EVERYTHING is big in Texas, including
| the political claims. There is IL Democratic
| split on Governor. and one faction claims
| that Clark will be elected by 75 50O0 plurality;
the Hogg men say that Hogg will have 1O0,-
GOO, and Nugent, the Third party candidate,
| thinks that he has chance to slip in be-
tween. There is certainly room enough be-
tween the estimates to let in anybody.
Mr.. MAGEE continues to keep the Demo-
Gratis in a state of perpetual alarm in Ala
bama. They claim to have discovered that
he is distributing tickets throughout tile
| State with either the regular Republican OF
new party candidates for Congress
in each district, but with oil
the electors of the fusion ticket. The
most melodramatic appeals are bein made
to Democrats to see that the State is kept in
| line, and the force Dill phantom is being
worked to the limit. The following is a
| sample utterance from the Mobile Register,
one of the leading Democratic papers of the
State: I'VE warn the colored voters that
when they unite with the white Third party
they invite catastrophe from which their
race cannot recover in a hundred years. We
| say now. clearly, pointedly and with full de-
liberation and knowledge of the weight of
our words, that so certain as Alabama goes
for Weaver or Harrison on the eighth day
| of November, we do not intend to wait for IL
force law after next March to tie us hand
and foot and to deliver us over to such black
leaders Wickershan, Booth and Com
pany. but the Alabama Legislature meeting
in November, will. before a new year sets
! in, take negro suffrage by the throat and
strangle the life out OF it. The colored
voters can now take their choice" Such
Democracy in the hitherto solid cotton COM
monw ealth.
BLAIR county is expected to poll great
vote for Judge Dean, the Republican nomi-
nee for the Supreme Court. 1t is said that
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office, at least.
ONE of the leading lawyers and Demo-
Gratis of Colorado. John r. Dixon. who was
delegate to the National Convention of 1885,
has announced his intention of voting for
the Harrison electors. To Chairman A. Z.
Graham, OF the Republican Central Com
mittee of Pueblo county, Mr.. Dixon said:
''My reason for supporting the Harrison
electors is that the success of any of the
Populist candidates will be an entering
wedge and will invite renewed efforts in an
other campaign, when it will be far moro
difficult to battle them of than now. Even
if the end to be obtained is to be as desira-
BILE result as the election of Mr.. Cleveland.
1t were far better for Colorado that he be de-
feated than that he should be made q victor
by the withering blight OF the Omaha plat
form. As between Cleveland and Colorado,
am for Colorado first. 1 concede to every
Democrat the same privilege 1 claim, to
think and act with absolute freedom about
this matter, but firmly believe that should
the Peoples party yet coutrol in this State
real estate will begin to decline, and all in
dustrial enterprises in large measure be
| balked. In Kansas Eastern capital builded
worse than IL knew, thcn took wings and
flew away, and it has not been back yet
Democrats: The wind blows from the
plains of Kansas; see it and you shall reap
the whirlwind. The way to keep the
Weaver followers out is to hit at all OF them,
and let them not get inside the breastworlSs
This is my reason for supporting the Harri-
SON electors. l mean no aspersion in what
pies party. I do think, however, that their
leaders are irresponsible, and that they are
being misguided"
"IF only secure n balance of power in
the Electoral College," said General Weaver
at Dakota, 81 will throw my influence for q
good friend of free silver"
WHILE it is no longer probable that Mr.
Blaine will be heard from again publicly in :
the canvass, he is reported as privately e1-
pressing his firm belief in Republican suc-
cess. In conversation with Il friend in
Washington this week he said: Harrison
will carry Indiana and he will be elected. |
i do not base my opinion as to Republican
success In Indiana upon my own impress
sions have it as the Judgment of an emi-
nent Democrat who is familiar with the sit
uation. AS to New York, ~ said Mr. Blaine,
1.-The registration would seem to indicate
enormous possibilities Of Democratic fraud,
but the reports from the int erior of the
State are favorable, and should think that
the chances of Republican success in New
York state are at least even. But am sure
that Harrison is to be elected. He has been
gaining very much i'll the last month" Mr.
Blaine's summary of the situation has the
appearance of being careful and conserva-
tive, and his reputation for perception in
vests it with extraordinary weight.
THE Rochester, N. Y, Chronicle notes
that certain Hill Democrats, who thought
it might be too cold to go fishing on election
day, accomplished their purpose by neglect
Ing TO register. Hill and his gentlemen of
leisure are out in force"
THE Democratic reformers of New York
are saying nothing about a recent victory
attributed to Boss Cooper. 1t is the alleged
taking into camp of the notorious John j.
O'Drien Association. This association claims
to control 2.G00 votes and has usually sup
ported the Republican national ticket. 1t
holds sway in the tough district known as
"De Ate" (The Eighth.) Two-thirds of the
members of this organization are dive keep
ers or IN some way directly interested in
similar business. They all want to keep on
the good side of Tammany, which controls |
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