Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1892-10-30

are ~, unplaced, and still he woold fa;i
lnere would be tie in the elec,n,.,i
college and the honFe Of representat,vas
would choose Cleveland
In what spots is the Cleveland lin.
weakH Not IN New York. for hars
Democraey's success is certain. Cleve'
lands majority Ia this city alone viii
Offset all which Harrison can Cet In ~
Interior OF the state. There il no risS
whatever in New Jersey. The Rannh'
hcans are making efforts to carry bsls.
ware and Tennessee, but these are ~.
iorts bornof desperation. Indiana alone
~ the vote given as safe for Cleve.
ianI, need cause anxiety. II the Re-
puoiians can buy that state they will do
h9i they can get Il no other way. OF
tne Tour states classed as probably
SleVelapu there IL not much doubt,
except IN the case OF Montana, and the
democratic committee OF that state has
assured the national committee that
they will win by good majority. In
Alabama the combination fixed up by
Chris Magee is rapidly going 10 pieces.
and the Kolb Democrats are returning
to the fold. Besides, thousands Of ne
groes will vote for Cleveland, Though
North Carolina and Virginia are In
some doubt, Clevelnnd's chances In both
are admittedly much better than Har-
rison's or Viewers.
While Cleyelands lire Of risk Is
short one, Harrison's is very long. His
line Is drawn thin and weak from New
Hampshire toCalifornia. Theexpecta-
ton at national Democratic hcadauar-
tiers is that Illinois will go for Harrison
by small plurality, but this only shows
how conservative the national commit
tee is. They confess that there
are encouraging signs in Chi
cago and in the state, and Of
course are willing to be surprised, but
in all their calculations they place Illi-
nois In the Harrison column. They do
the same with Iowa, which
is more evidence OF their con-
servatism, for the Iowa state
committee claims the state with a sur
prising show OF confidence and facts. Il
Is evident that Harrison has far from q
sure thing In either Illinois or Iowa,
and the same is true Of California. Late
reports from the coast are that Cleve-
lands chances In that state are every
bit as good as Harrisons. Harrison's
risk extends also to Wyoming, South
Dakota and Idaho, though it is probe
BILE he Will carry all three. He is by no
means sure OF the five votes OF Mime
sofa accredited to him. Where there is
50 much risk there will be some failure,
and disaster at almost any spot in the
line would be fatal.
wEAyER's CHANCE.
Weaver is pretty sure TO carry two
votes in Michigan under the fusion
movement which Don Dickinson has
shrewdly started in several districts.
He is sure of four votes in Minnesota
and OF three in Nevada total OF nine.
The eighteen votes Of Kansas and Ne
braska are probably his also.
OF the thirty-three votes unclassed
Cleveland's chances are believed TO be
better than Harrison's in West Vir-
ginia. In Colorado Weaver is likely to
win the day. Connecticut, Wisconsin
and North Dakota are unknown guam
titles. With New York, New Jersey,
Indiana, FIVE votes in Michigan, and
his assured vote in the South, Cleye-
land has only TO carry the remaining
Southern states. Harrison may then
have the other ten or twelve states
which are in doubt and still fall short
With New York and Indiana Cleve-
land cannot fail. New York he has.
Admit that the Republicans have
money enough TO buy Indiana and still
Cleveland will win, In all human prob
ability. For the sake OF the illustration
give Harrison the l0l votes OF which he
seems tolerably well assured, assume
that he has passed all the pitfalls In his
"probable' road aud 10 these add Indi-
ana. The total is III. With New York
and without Indiana Cleveland has
certainty OF 40 votes, Add the four
states Of Montana, Alabama, North
Carolina and Virginia, which are his
without much doubt, and his total is
swelled to POI. The votes still unplaced
are sixty in number-iour in Michigan,
four In Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas,
Nevada, Connecticut. Wisconsin, North
Dakota, Colorado and West Virginia.
But OF these sixty votes nine at least
are conceded TO Weaver, leaving but a
possible fifty-one for Harrison. To win
he must carry ali OF them but hvel
HARRIsoN's CHANCES ONE IN TEN.
Even with the electoral vote Of his own
state which, nothing but 81 600, 900, 900
will secure, Harrison's chances will be
only as one TO ton. The great advant-
age which Cleveland has over Harrison,
as every one knows and the figures
Is that the latter TO win must have 223
electoral votes, while II Cleveland and
Weaver together get 222, Democracy
trilmphs. 1t was on the state of facts
shown in the dispatch that ex-Secre-
tary w. @. Whitney, the ablest and
most conservative OF all the Democratic
campaign managers, a man VIII, knows
before he speaks, said to-day TO the cor
respondent of the Herald;
cleveland will win. We have New
York, and they cannot get 1t away
from us. We have New Jersey and In
diana. We have five votes in Miohi-
pan. The south is solid save that the
two Virginias are close enough to give
us some anxiety. Probably we shall
carry them both, but even II we lose
them the break Ia the west will more
then compensate. have ceased to have
fear AZ TO the outcome. The worst that
can happen to US ia the election OF
cleveland by the house OF representa-
tlyes. BY winning New York we have
won the battle" W. W.