Arizona republican., 1897-10-07
Very Brilliant Prospect Of Sue
 cess in Maryland
NO DOUBT ABOUT OHIO
And the Return of Senator
 Hanna to Congress
The Greatest Majority in the Histo- ryOf Off Years PrediCted-GOVer ment Printers and the Civil Ser vice Res ulatiOnS.


 news from Maryland is in every way encouraging to the republicans. The canvass is being quietly made and the reports from all quarters are satisfac- tory. In one or two counties there are splits, and two tickets are in the field, but these differences will be adjusted before the election day. Senator Cor man is making a desperate fight and is disbursing large amounts of money, principally in Baltimore. He knows this to be his only chance of success and there are hundreds approached daily. But the senator has a poor chance of success.
 One thousand and five votes were boiled in printers union No. 101 Of Washington on the question of re- taining civil service reform rules for the government of the printing office. Of these votes, 604 in favor and 401 against the proposition, 747 were from employees in the office. Of the 604 votes in favor of retention, 549 came from the government employees, and and of the 401 against, only 19S came from the office holders. Of the out against the proposition. All these printers secure exactly the same wages and all are paid with the same regu- larity. There is only one distinction to be drawn from the vote in the gov ernment printing office, which is that there are 549 democrats who are afraid of being turned out, as against 19S re- publicans in the office.
 Great interest is being taken in the efforts of Booth-Tucker of the Salva- tion Army and the cooperative com monwealth to establish colonies where competition is to give place to coop eration ip the production of all things. General Tucker had long interview with Secretary of Agricul- ture Wilson before going west, and to the suggestion made by the secretary that a site should be selected where markets were convenient, the answer was: "We are seeking homes, not markets; any surplus we may produce will be applied to building other homes" This is the theory of both these efforts at colonization, and as the money and men are ready both for the Booth-Tucker colony in Colorado and the cooperative colony in Wash ington, this home building effort will soon be tested.
 Secretary Sherman's "shirt sleeve" diplomacy is of the successful kind, showing that straightforward talk and action are as successful in diplomacy as in all other things. Great Britain has been backing and filling" through it's foreign officer on the fur seal question. After the United States in vited Russia and Japan, both inter ested in the fur seal question, to a conference, Great Britain announced it would not enter the conference and would examine the work of the experts to determine on it's course Now Lord Salisbury informs us that Great Brit ain will be represented at the meeting shortly to be held in Washington.
 First Assistant Postmaster-G General Heath has just returned from a visit to his old home in Indiana. stopping a day or two, of course, in Ohio. Of the canvass in that state he says: ''The republican party is moving on to one of its old time victories. I would not be surprised to see the majority in November excel anything the state has yet done in these so-called off years. The majority will be anywhere between 30.00O and 65,000.
 There can be absolutely no doubt about the election of the state ticket and the legislative ticket, which will insure the return of Mir Hanna to the senate. The people have forgotten all about free silver and the democrats even are endeavoring to ignore the subject in the campaign.
 You cannot talk free silver to the people there when agricultural pro- ducts are bringing big price, when the shops are running full time for the first time in several years, and when all the idle men can secure work
 There is the evidence of returned prosperity on every side in the west These are republican days and the re- publican voters will be abroad in the
 land in November"
 Similar reports come from every quarter as to the certainty of repub- lican victory, the only danger being that of over-confidence. The thick and thin Cleveland democrats of New York city like ex-Secretaries Fair child and Whitney and their follow CTS, with few hundred dissatisfied republicans who are not rated by the party as they rate themselves, have