Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-11-04
MICHIGAN,
Republicans VIII Probably Carry a Major
ity of the Electoral Votes.

ity of the Electoral Votes.
Correspondence of The Evening Star
GRAND RAPIDS. Mich, Nov g. 1892
The campaign in Michigan will wind up on
Saturday night few final grand rallies are
announced for the of election day al various
points i'll the state, but the speakers will be the
candidates for Office addressing their home
people, and the purpose will be to keep those
who have already made up their minds in lire
rather than in the hope Of winning any new
converts to the faith. Judge Morse, the demo-
cratic candidate for governor. has been max
ing afternoon and evening speeches for two
weeks past and will close at his home in Ionia
on Monday night. John T. Rich has been
making flying tour through the upper PENN
sula and will close at Lapeer the night before
election. The congressional candidates will
close at or near their respective homes. When
| the ballots are counted next Tuesday night the
results will be known OF all the speech making
and toll, but nothing is certain to the results
until the ballots are counted. The campaign
| has been the most unique in the history of
Michigan politics, absolutely devoid of excite
| ment, pyrotechnics or brass bands. No roar
| backs have been sprung and personalities have
| not been INDUCED in. The canvasses have been
| made in every district, but the results are I'M
satisfactory and uncertain, and both parties
| claim to have made gains. The results NAV be
| II landslide in either direction and while
| whichever way the election goes there will be
many sore hearts and disappointed mortals,
yet nobody will be surprised il the other fel-
| lows win.
| THE STATE TICKETS ARE CLOSE.
Barring landslides the prospects at this writ
ing are that on the state ticket the election will
be very close. Michigan has been a republican
state ever since the party was organized 1t
gave Grant a plurality Of 60, 600 in 1872, Hayes
| $4,000, Garfield "a 900, Blaine 3,3OS and four
years ago Harrison carried the state by % 900.
Two years ago the democrats elected Gov.
Winans by plurality Of 1000, but the total
vote cast was rs, 900 less than in 1885, and fully
| two-thirds Of the stay-at-home voters were re-
publicans. The vote this year gives every in
dication of being unusually large, and with
| every vote out the republicans expect to elect
their state ticket. When they lay aside their
party enthusiasm and get down to facts, how
ever, they admit that a candidate Rich is
| not the strongest man they could have
nominated, while they recognize in Judge
Morse the best vote getter in the democratic
party. Rich will inevitably be cut in many
are hopeful with a normal plurality in their
favor Of Is 900 to 20 900 that these inroads will
not overwhelm them.
| HOPES OF THE DEMOCRATS.
| The democrats are counting for their sue
cess upon MOrse's popularity, upon republican
dissatisfaction and upon the results of their
PROSECUTING labors in the rural districts. Four
years ago the farmers were thrown into con-
| vulsions by the British free trade scarecrow
but since then they have become accustomed
to contemplate the terror with calmness and
| elaboration. They have talked the tariff in
| their school houses and grange meetings. The
| Farmers Alliance movement two years ago was
| a great educator for them, and since then they
have been reading and thinking. and the demo-
| cratic M afr,lt hot tha
turns next Tuesday night will show that their
! work among the farmers has not been in vain.
The farmers a whole, however, are republi-
can and their faith is founded on the conditions
that existed quarter OF a century ago. They
haven't recovered from the prejudices of the
war. The democratic farmers are mostly the
younger men and foreigners and great many
of these will be at the polls this year who were
| not there four years ago
In the absence OF political CONFUSION the
republican state ticket will be elected by small
pluralities, with the exception, probably, Of
G. j. Dilkema, the candidate for attorney gen.
| eral, whose chances for election are the Slim
NEST of all.
CLEVELAND NAT GET THE ELECTORAL VOTE.
OF the electors the democrats are sure Of
electing in the first, eighth and tenth and the
elector-atlarge for the eastern district and this
means four votes in the electoral college for
Cleveland. The democrats are confident Of
! the second, sixth and seventh, and in these dis
tricts the republicans admit the situation is
doubtful II these districts are lost to the re-
pubiicans the electoral votes will be cast for
Cleveland With the assistance Of the popu-
lists the democrats are almost certain of carry
ing the fourth and look upon the twelfth as .
possibility, and If these districts are lost to the
republicans Weaver will receive two Michigan
votes. The fifth Is one Of the most uncertain
in the state and is liable to 60 almost any way,
but with divided opposition the republicans
viii probably elect their candidate. A. the case
stands Cleveland will surely receive four votes.
Weaver will certainly receive at least one and
Harrison is positive OF four. OF the remaining
i've votes Cleveland is in the ascendancy in
two, Harrison in two and Weaver in one.
L. THE CONGRESSIONAL OUTLOOK.
The Cougrsssmen win not in every district 90
the same ~ the electors, local influences play
ing an important part In the first, fifth, sixth
and eleventh districts. Chapman in the first