Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1894-07-12
HILLS WARNING.

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democratic party goes out Of existence,
strictly speaking, in voting for the in
come tax in a time Of peace without a
shadow of necessity. A different party
takes it's place. By what name it is
called matters not; pOpucratic may
answer as we'll as any other. No doubt
the fraudulent pretence of democratic
tickets in some states and populist
tickets in others may be kept up as
far as possible. The object will be
fusion wherever there is a chance of
success, and every step toward that
end will help to reveal the true nature
of the scheme to voters throughout the
country. 1t is an abandonment and
burial of democratic principles, west
ern and southern democrats hoping to
save themselves by marching over
bodily to the populist camp.
Senator Hill has warned his asso-
ciates. Against the popucratic scheme
Connecticut will join the other New
England states, and New York and
and Ohio. Recent votes in Rhode Is
land, and in cities and towns through
out the east, and the votes in Massa-
chusetts, Pennsylvania and Ohio last
fall, show a solid body of 40 electoral
votes overwhelmingly republican on
the issue now formed. This is more
than can be surely counted for the
popucratic policy from the once solid
south. The miners and workingmen
of West Virginia and Delaware make
those states extremely doubtful for
the party which cuts off half the
duties on ores coal and iron, and the
miners with the KOlb democracy Of
Alabama declare for protection. These
20 electoral votes from the south must
be reckoned doubtful, leaving 139 that
can probably be secured in the region
where free and fair elections are I'M
known.
There remain 40 electoral votes
from northern states west of Ohio.
But Oregon has already declared
against the new scheme by 10000 ma
jority, and Iowa gave 32,356 against
it in 1893, while even in the landslide
of 1892 Michigan, Minnesota and
South Dakota were strongly repub-
lican. These states cast A votes
City elections within the last eight
months have manifested 50 powerful a
drift of public opinion throughout the
west, especially among workingmen,
that the 81 electoral votes of Indiana,
Illinois and Wisconsin seem certain
to join those of Ohio, Iowa and Orc
2On. These states with the eastern
40 votes would make 30, or y more
than a majority. so that the loss of
New Jersey or Wisconsin would not
prevent success. Neither would the
loss of Indiana, if either Wyoming,
Washington, Montana or Nebraska
should vote as it voted in 1892, or if
West Virginia or North Dakota or Cal
ifOrnia should cast republican votes.
1t will be seen that no account is
taken here of probable republican sue
cess in many of these state, in Della
ware or Kansas, or in the silver states.
Without any of these the republican
party should be able to overthrow any
popucratic fusion that can be formed,
when the income tax and the warfare
upon industries make the east solid.
A clear perception of this fact rem
dered Senator Hills warning most i'm
pressiye. Not even bitter personal
hostility to him would have made
democrats desperate enough to disre-
gard the warning, if they had not been
convinced by the elections that their
party had thrown away all chance of
Il national victory, and that for per-
sonal safety they must fly from the
sinking ship to the floating populist
log.-New York Tribune