The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1892-11-06

| York 70 the Democracy, tnoubH ei'y ~"
determined to fight desperately Tor the
| state. New Jersey Is also consioereo
| .afelv Democratic, but Connecticut ID
| doubtsul. The hopes of the Democracy
are therefore. centred on Indiana ior
| 20 Cleveland carries that state Win ne"
| York New Jersey. six votes In Miohisah
aud the Solid South, he Will receive 20
votes or three more than is needed Tor
| an election.
Al 70 Indiana, all accounts agree that
the State was never in It's history so oi'-
forty contested as is shown by the TACT
,ha, ? 600 speeches have been made witnin
It's territory during the past week. both
narties have had their strongest advo-
Gates on the stump. and both nave put
forward their best exertions to carry IT,
The Republican managers win, OF course
try to make up in Doodle what they lack
In popular sympathy, but the Democrats
are vieilant, and aided by the Australian
ballot. they will be likely to detect any
efforts at bribery, and are determined
10 have all detected corruptionists riGidiy
punished.
The chances are decidedly that Cleve-
land will carry the State In 1883 Har-
rison only carried it by 900 plurality. al
though Dudley and Quay had no OBJ
stacles In the way OF working their
blocks of-five" scheme with impunity.
1t would. therefore, only require a change
Of about 100 votes this year, all other
things being equal, to overcome that
small plurality and give the State to the
Demo Gratis.
The secession Of Judge Gresham and
other former influential Republicans from
the ranks of that party would make that
email change certain, since these gentle
men are men of very large influence ana
have very considerable following. When
this influence and following is backed
up by the difficulties which the Australian
ballot will throw in the way of the cor
ruptionists the State should easily so for
the Democracy by the 10000 plurality
which they claim. This is the conserva-
tive estimate made by candid and ex-
perienced men, end it is more than prob
able that the estimate will be verified at
the polls.
But the Republicans are claiming West
Virginia and Connecticut as an offset to
the six electoral votes of Michigan. The
election returns next Tuesday night will
doubtless show the absurdity of this
claim, but if for the sake Of argument we
give those two States to them we still
have Iowa to bank on. The indications
are that this former banner State Of
Radicalsm is much more likely to go
Democratic on Tuesday than West Nir-
GINA and Connecticut are to so Republi-
can. and if its thirteen electoral votes
are found to be for the Democrats, we
can give the Republicans the six each OF
those two doubtful States and still be the
gamer by one vote. And that the Demo-
Gratis are not calculating without their
host when they claim Iowa is shown by
the following correspondence of the New
York Herald-a paper that is so straight
in it's neutrality that it is inclined TO
lean back towards the Republican side.
The special correspondent at Des Moines
Of that paper writes:
Iowa has become a Democratic State.
The growth in that direction has eX-
tended over a period of a dozen years,
but ii has been as continuous as it has
been gradual. Republicanism reached
the high-water mark with Garfelds plu-
rality Of 5000 and it reached it's lowest
eDb with Governor Boies plurality Of
$500 last year. 1t Is true that II was a
State contest only, which resulted in the
Governors reelection with an increased
plurality, but there was an element Of
national significance in it also. Governor
Boies won his reelection by an appeal to
the farmers of Iowa to rebuSe the sys-
tenn of tariff spoliation known as Nc
Kinleyism. His campaign, then, was
largely confined to the rural districts, and
the tariff question was almost exclusively
discussed by him. Gains made On that
issue are not of a transient kind, but will
remain with the Democratic party this
year and next year. and until the tariff
question is settled as it ought to be set
tied, in Spirit Of fairness and justice to
Western interests. These men who came
over to vote for Governor Boies viii vote
for Grover Cleveland and they easily
hold the balance Of power"