Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-10-31
Both Sides Profess Confidence in the
Result.
REPUBLICANS ARE UNITED AND SOLID
Democrats Are Split and Boiling
Has Been Announced.
COMPARING WITH LAST YEAR
From a Staff Correspondent.

Special From q Stan correspondent.
LOUISVILLE, KY, October 31.-Next
Tuesdays balloting will determine whether
Kentucky is to be wrested from the DEM
ccratic column Of states. The republicans
are bending every effort, and are favored
by apparently fortuitous circumstances
Old politicians here say that Kentucky
was never nearer slipping away from the
democrats than it Is now.
The campaign hinges upon the selection
of a governor, state ticket and a portion Of
the legislature, the latter to elect the
United States Senator to succeed Senator
Blackburn. The democratic candidate, Mr.
Hardin, is running a free silver campaign
on a sound money platform. while the re-
publican candidate, Mr.. Bradley, Is a hard
money man, with no entangling alliances.
The republicans are united and solid, and
the democrats are split up. Just how bad
the division is no one can estimate. Some
prominent democrats like Mr. Anterior CT
Louisville and Cassius NJ Clay have openly
avowed their opposition to the democratic
candidate. Their prominence renders con-
spicuous the division in the party, but 1t
does not follow that their views are shared
by any considerable number of the rank
and file Of the party.
Conservative democrats believe they will
carry the state by five or eight thousand.
The republicans claim that they will have
a majority of at least ten thousand, and
draws near
Comparing With Last Year.
Taking the vote Of last year in the cleo
ton of Congressman for basis and max
ing calculations thereupon, the chances
seem to favor the republicans. Last years
vote was an unusually heavy one, showing
the two parties to be almost equally bal
anced in power, and there was difference
of but between two and three thousand III
the vote of the whole state.
In the eleven congressional districts OF
the state, five were carried by republican
candidates and two were lost by the small
pluralities of 1O1 and 223 The republicans
elections. and if the full republican vote
had been counted, they would have carried
more Of the districts. The city OF Louis.
Vile overturned a democratic majority of
$500 and gave the republican candidate
majority of 4, 1870. The republicans claim
they will carry Louisville by at least 5000
next Tuesday. Democrats do not seem to
have much hope of carrying the city:
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There are two districts of which the re-
publicans are absolutely certain-the elev-
enth district-the mountain country-which
has been a republican stronghold from time
immemorial and the fifth, or Louisville dis
trict. They expect to get a majority of
10000 in the eleventh district to help them
out in sections where their vote Will rail-
short.
Encouraging reports have been received
by the republicans from the district which
includes the cities of Newport and Covtng-
ton. 1t is said that this district Is the ! OF
bed of the revolt Of the sound money men
against Mr.. Hardin's free silver candidacy.
The reports are likely to prove somewhat
exaggerated. for the district gave demo-
cratic majority of 2,O4O last year.
In the seventh. or Ashland, district the
democratic candidate for Congress pulled
through last year by 1O1 votes. The demo-
Gratis expect to do better, however, next
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no dissensions among the people, such as
were caused last year by Mr. Breckin-
ridges canvass for denomination. The
democrats hope to get about $500 majority
out of this district.
A Warm Campaign.
The campaign is very warm about this
time and both parties are putting in their
best ticks. The republican candidate goes
over the state in a special train. and stops
at every town to make a speech.
The democratic candidate is equally as
industrious, and has literally talked him
self to a standstill, for he had to take u
day off yesterday and rest his throat. Inc
democrats are harping upon the race ques-
ton and talk about negro domination, en-
deavoring to work up sentiment upon this
point among democratic followers who msy
be lukewarm toward Mr.. Hardin on &C
count of his free silver attitude. Strenu-
GUS efforts are being made to bring back
into the democratic camp some of the vote
which has strayed to the populists. These
people are urged to come back with the
party now that free silver is being Endorsed
by the democracy. 1t is impossible to esti-
mate the amount of the vote that may thus
be saved to the democrats, but the repubn-
cans are very much worried about 1t. They
fear the democrats will he able to make
some converts among the backsliders.
The republicans are trying to counteract
these efforts by explaining to the people
that the silver men need not put any faith
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the populists, because they will never get
anything through democrats. The popu-
lists are told that the democrats are fool
ing them about silver.
In the Silver Counties.
Mr.. Hardin finds his greatest strength in
the free silver counties of western Ken
lucky. In the first and second COMPRESSION
al districts the democrats have combined
majority of about 5000. Mr.. Hardin is try
ing hard to swell the aggregate to lO,OOO with
the aid of populsts votes.
The third and fourth districts are consid-
cred to be doubtful. They lie near the CEN
| ter of the state, and although they we're
carried last year by the republicans, it is
| thought that the conditions at this time
| favor democratic gains.
Few Personalities.
The campaign thus far has been a remark
| ably clean one, and personalities have fig
| ured to a small degree only. The issues
| are well understood by all classes and are
| so plain that 1t is impossible for demagogues
| to obscure them or to fool the people. Some
tim es the honest democrat gets tangled VI
| little when he tries to explain Mr.. yardin's
| free silver canvass on the sound money plat
| FORM but when he finds himself getting into
| difficulties he switches off on to the rae.
| question and finds smooth running.
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