Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-31
CAPITAL PROPHETS
Give Harrison the Best of the Situa-
tion, and Believe
He WILL WIN In NOVEMBER.
A Silly Democratic roorback Knocked Out
of the Political Arena
REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLES BANKED ON
rrRom A STAFF CORRESPONDENT !

WASHINGTON, Oct 81. - w nat Is your
opinion of the situation?" is the one ques-
tion asked here, and it can be asked here
with better grace than almost anywhere
else in the country, for the reason that in
some measure Washington is supposed to
be out of the political whirl This, how
ever. at this stage of the game is supposi-
tion based on the reflection that the only
people of the District who can vote are at
this particular moment getting out of the
disfranchised regions to their respective
homes. while the big politicians who are in
fuential in State and National affairs have
been out most of the time for q month or
two.
1t is a fact, however. that in the last week
before the elections there is no place in the
country where the political pulse is felt SO
Ieenly and so surely, tor there is no place in
the country where the results of natio nal
battle are of so much social and physical
moment; for in this city there is little ex-
cept that which is the capital of the ooun-
try, and politics and the social atmosphere
that is the result of politics are almost all
there is of it. 1t therefore happens that at
the last moment before the elections the
heartbeat of things is possibly felt with a
finer finger than at any other time or at any
other place.
Republicans Have the Best of It.
The keenest politicians of the country in
both parties pass much of the last weeks of
the campaign at headquarters in New York,
but their weekly runs over to the capital,
many OF them having their homes here, are
probably productive of a freer expression
OF opinion than could be got elsew here. A
larger number than usual of this class of
keen observers have been here yesterday
and to-day, for a last visit before they go
home % what is their verdict?
The one certain thing is that at no time
within the memory of living men WAS there
an expression of so much doubt. Whether
II be a Cabinet officer, or n great Senator, or
that larger class OF politicians who are
potent in their States, members of the Lower
House and local MANAGERS, If their dicta
were Jumped in one word it would be that
nobody could tell anything about it until
after the elections.
In all this. however, there is a leaven of
bias to one side of the Situation-a very deli
cate leaven, to be sure. but still sufficient to
enable one to make a real division OF the
doubt, aud show its leaning to one side of
the middle OF things, and this, among Demo-
Gratis as well as Republicans. is in favor of
the Republican side.
A Democrat Gives Up New York.
met to-day politician from the South, a
thorough and enthusiastic Democrat, who
has spent the last week in New York and
has been in the most intimate intercourse |
with the managers at the Democratic head |
AudttGlS. lie mas d warm personal as well /
as political intimacy with several of these |
managers, and he assures me that while |
they are willing to bet their bottom dollars |
on the election of the Democratic ticket in |
New York ana BROOKLYN, and of a clear ma
JOrlty in the State Legislature they would |
not put up a dollar, except as bluff, on the /
success of the Democratic electoral ticket |
IN the State. This gentleman is a loyal |
friend of Cleveland and desires his election |
above all things political, and his name has /
great weight in tne cOunSpls of the
This very evident excess of Democratic |
doubt over Republican doubt small as it is,
adds to Republican hope and confidence,
aud none of the Democratic stories can dash |
their confidence that in the midst of all the
uoubt tine advantage is theirs and will re-
main theirs when the votes are counted.
The specially interesting roorback OF the
day is tnat the nomination OF Reid for the
Vice Presidency was against the wish OF
President Harrison; that the latter snubbed |
tIie former upon his return from Paris, and |
that there has been no cordially between |
the two. Now, whatever difference OF opin- |
ion there may be among Repu on the |
question OF the policy OF the nomination of |
Nj. Reid, it is a fact that can be easily and
fully established that his nomination was
the direct result of the interposition of |
President Harrison.
Reid Ever Loyal to Harrison.
Whatever Reid may have been to other
leaders in other days he was always loyal to
Harrison, and his appointment to the great
post of the mission to France is well known
to have been the result of Harrison's admir-
alton of the valiant service rendered to him
and to the Republican cause by Reid, when
the latter had no thought OF diplomatic or
other reward |
The mission to France WAS urged upon
Reid by the President personally as was his
acceptance OF the nomination for the Vice
Presic ency, through tile medium of Mr.
Depew, who was the prime spokesman of
Mir. Harrison at Minneapolis. Mr.. Harrison |
las repudiated to his friends the assertions
lNH+ la has fa1+ s=,,1ea /
nomination, or that he has felt at any time
that his presence on the ticket detracted in
any way from what it would be ii his own
name were the sole tower of strength, and
MI. Harrison will repudiate after tine elec-
tlons, II they should 20 against him, any |
suggestion that Reid's name was a weakness |
TO the ticket more than any other mans !
would have BEEN While Mr.. Harrison has |
a flne confidence in his own abilities he is |
not an egotist and he believes the party and |
II cord Will carry the day, irrespective OF