The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1894-10-26
The Political Situation.

The old party blow-hards of the repub-
lican machine pretend to believe, or try
to make the public believe, that they will
carry every State north Of Mason and
Dixon's line. ]. H. Turner, Secretary of
the National Committee of the Peoples
party, from headquarters at Washington,
and who has had every facility for acquir-
ing true information, publishes the fol-
lowing condensed statement of the polit-
ical situation
The Peoples party will be first or sec
ond i'll voting strength at the November
election i'll thirteen out of the fourteen
states west of the Mississippi, which until
recently, have been Republican, all except
Iowa. The Democratic party in all these
states will be reduced in an insignificant
third party. In the South we will be first
or second i'll nine out of the fourteen
states, where the Republican party will
be third, and nothing to keep it together,
except the hope for patronage after 90
In the five states, Illinois, Indiana, Wis
consin, Ohio, and Michigan, which are
southwestern, we shall increase our vote
to surprise, not only the enemy, but our
selves. In fact, these states, especially
Illinois, will Guido themselves, and break
all records Illinois is the storm center of
the lake states where our movement has
assumed the proportion of a revolution
The accession of Judge Trumbull and a
number of other prominent Democrats
and Republicans has given our party a
prestage in these southwestern states that
cannot be over estimated.
East of the Allegheny and north of the
Potomac River, if the Maine election is
an indication, we will increase our vote
from 800 70 500 per cent
There is but little doubt that we shall
hold the balance of power i'll congress
after the 4th of next March. 1t is almost
impossible for either of the old parties to
elect I7e members to the Fifty-fourth
congress.
We have state ticket i'll every state
where one is to be elected this year, ex-
cept Rhode Island and South Carolina.
We also have candidates for congress in
all the states west of the Allegheny
mountains, and north of the Rio Grande
river to the Pacific coast, except one in
Ohio one i'll Michigan, and two i'll Iowa.
We also have candidates in all the south
ern states, except one each i'll Louisiana,
Arkansas and two i'll Tennessee, but none
in South Carolina. East of the Allegheny
mountains, and north of the Potomac
river, we have candidates in 70 per cent
of the districts so far as reported. We
have candidates in 3oo out of the $50
Congressional districts in the United
States.
The Peoples party has full legislative
county and local tickets where one is to
be elected this year. Our organization is
better than ever before. We have more
candidates nominated for Congress and
state officers than either of the old parties
The idea of nominating full tickets every
where, has proven to be a capital one,
because we increase our working force
every time we nominated a candidate
We shall hold the balance of power in
the Fifty-fourth Congress, both in House
and Senate. 1t is impossible for either
Democrats or Republicans to elect I7o
members to the lower house with the
upheaval that is going on all over the
country The Peoples party will also
hold the balance of power by states if the
election of President should go to the
House i'll 1896. Neither one of the old
parties can secure more than twenty
states. We shall also hold the balance of
power in the Congressional delegations of
a number of states. The great break up
of old party lines is at hand.