Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1894-11-01

and congressional elections. and the
nitlralitles OF the first three have al
WAYS lowered around the 500 notcn'
The plurality in Owen is less marked
but not less steady. While Bartholo-
NEW is not reliable. unless the per
sonaI popularity OF the nominee, as IN
the past, makes It so. The Republican
candidate is reasonably certain OF 800
plurality in Hendricks and 500 In Nor
gan. Monroe. though Republican, Is
! so nearly a stand-off that her vote
will not be material, unless there
should be losses to the Democrats IN
other counties. Another advantage
lies in the fact that the district Is a
/ purely agricultural one, and the condl-
lions OF unrest that have elsewhere
prevailed are strangers 10 Its people.
| with the farmer, and, indeed, with
| all classes save the bankers. Cooper $
| bill making 1t possible TO tax green
backs n very popular, and he VIII
make gains among the independent
class OF voters BY reason or It's pas
sage. The outlook for his return TO
congress is better than that of his
opponent, for It would take landslide
| to beat him, and that is hardly prob
able this year.
II is generally believed that BY
mum Is making the fight of his life
! in the seventh or Capital district OF
| Indiana. He has a formidable oppon-
ent in the person Of Charles l.. Henry
I OF Madison county, and both are work.
/ ing like Tr0jang. The legislative APP
| pointments OK 1891 took Shelby county
I with 500 democratic plurality, away
] from the district. and 1t now embraces
I only the three counties OF Marion, Madi-
son and Hancock. At the election pre-,
ceding the apportlonment Bynum had
carried, the district by 5sl5 plurality
end 1t was supposed that he was M
vincibe and shelby's plurality could be
| easily disaensed with Conservative
/ democrats believed the time might
/ come when the outlook would be less
| natterlng and this belief IS being veri-
/ fled In the present campaign. Ordll-
arily Seventh district democrats would
| have no occasion Tor fear OF the re-
suit, but the restlessness among the
| laborlng classes both In this cay ana
Anderson. and the eforts that the
populists are making to carry away
part OF the labor constituency render
the result predetermined in the eH-
IRENE The republicans are In better
shape In the district than they have
been since 1883. and the manufacturers
are lending the weight OF their influence
to the republican candidate with zeal
that knows no tagging. Afiidaylts are
being published to show Henry's SYM
IsAAlly " VI hsAAlAeNh AAhbit hAAA NHhAANAA
atiidavits to show his fairness and JUS
tice, and from these are springing
charges Of perjury that may yet lead
to the courts, Tile particular line that
the fight has taken shows concluslvely
that both parties are making des-
peratc effort TO get the labor vote. By
mum can hardly be said TO have a
firmly united democratic constituency
at his back, for there Is some opposition
to him on account of alleged promises
In connection with the patronage, This
opposition, however, Is in no SENSE COM
parable either in number or influence
to that Of 1856. when he triumphed over
all factions and was elected by an in
creased majority. Bynums staying
qualities are immense, and he has al
ways succeeded In getting the inde-
pendent republican vote, the class which
believed Its party was going too far
IN tariff legislation, and It would be
strange II he does not get It now. The
republicans. however, say that this vote
is being attracted 90 Henry by the at
tempt to array organized labor against
him. for the business element IL dis
satisfied with the arrogance of labor
leaders. At present both candidates
are wadlng In deep water, but no pre-
diction can be made with any degree
of certainty as TO which Will be In
quilted.
Democratic testimony is to the effect
that the English district is almost GER
tain to return IL. V. Brookshire 10 con-
gress. though the district is in the very
heart OF the coul-mininG territory where
ouch serious troubles occurred this
year. with the exception Of coal min
Ing, the counties are mainly agrl-
cultural, and their constituency intelll-
gent and discriminating. Under such
auspices the Democrats feel that the
stringency which has affected all more
or less. win be attributed to the Repub-
lican party rather than 10 the Demo-
Gratis, and the latter will not be made
to suffer for 1t. Brookshire has proved
a popular Representatives and the Demo-
Gratis expect to see him reelected.
In the Tenth district, which the
Democrats carried two years ago by
II meager forty-two plurality, the Re-
publicans have quarrel on their
hands us n result OF the anti-conven-
ton struggle between Judge Johnson
and Charles Lands. DR. Hatch, the
Republican nominee. Is an inuffcnsive,
good-natured gentleman, and has done
much to heal the wounds made in the
party before his nomination. Not
withstandlng the unfavorable auspices
under which the campaign was inau-
gurated, the Republicans are counting
upon a victory in the district. and
present indications point that way.
The Eleventh district is decidedly un-
certain. A. n. Martin. present Demo-
cratic Incumbent, was elected two years
ago over William Daily by 1853 plural
ity. George W. steele, who represented
the district three terms In congress, Is
Martins opponent. and has always
been so popular with the people that a
more formidable opponent could not
have been chosen. As in the Seventh
district. the manufacturers are makinc
a special effort In behalf OF the Repuh-
lean candidate, and rs the district lies
partly In the gas belt, Nwhere q great
many men We're out OF work during the
summer, additional weight is being
added TO Steele's candidacy. Indlca-
tons point strongly TO his election.
The Democrats are confident OF carry
lng the Thirteenth district. Like the
Firth. II embraces an agricultural Sec
ton, and the farmers have proved a
loyal Democratic constituency, The
Republicans are claiming It. but not
with the confidence with which they
claim other districts in which Issues
are more pronounced,
Throughout the situation Is befogged
and ISSUES are being made and condi-
lions claimed that may In the end
prove to have little weight. but no M
present seen the result may be predict
ed as follows. The Democrats will car
~ the Second. Third, Fourth ana
Ifkxplfth nlafriat- e>''%