The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-11-08
And VIII Probably Have six to Eight
More Votes I'm the senate than
the Combined Opposition.
ESTIMATES OF POLITICIANS
EXTRAVAGANT CLAIMS BY DEMO-
Gratis AND FUSIONIsTs.
Weather VIII he Factor, and snow
the Vote I'm Western States.


Special 10 the indianapolis Journal.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 7.-Indicatons point
to a sweeping general Republican victory
Tomorrow The great mass of independent
and doubtful voters who kept the political
managers and prophets guessing until two
weeks ago have swung into line in support
Of national honor. An avalanche of reports
from every section of the country tell the
same story. grand, patriotic impulse to
support the government at Washington I'M
til the foreign fee is permanently quieted
and the fruits of the war are harvested
seems to have swept over the people with
irresistible force. The sensational reports
from Paris the last few days. foreshadowing
a break in peace negotiations, have opened
the eyes of thoughtful citizens to the hazard
and folly Of failure to indorse the admins
tration at this juncture. 1T is only recently
that the grave consequences that might fol-
low Republican defeat have been fully APP
preciated by the multitudes.
The popular awakening to the real dan
gers Of the situation is the latest and most
CONSPICUOUS feature of the campaign. It is
as if some one had touched a button and
given an electric shock to the people of the
whole Nation at the same moment. The
rear approach of election day has brought
sponsibility that could not be lightly treat
ed. The spectacle of an unconquered and
Vicious foreign foe menancing the Nation
from without, and equally dangerous ele-
ments from within threatening national
credit and honor, seems TO have aroused
Goubters 10 a realization of their obligations.
The situation has taken more hopeful col
oring. A month ago the result was in doubt,
with prospects of a Democratic majority in
the popular branch of Congress. Two weeks
ago the Republican campaign managers
were half-heartedly claiming a majority of
twenty to twenty-five in the House. To-
night the claim is advanced with confidence
that the Republicans will have margin of
thirty-five or forty in the House and clear
margin of six to eight over the combined
opposition in the Senate.
There is every prospect that Colonel
Roosevelt will be elected Governor of New
York by majority running somewhere be-
tween 10000 and 10000. and that the New
York Legislature will be Republican on joint
ballot. thus insuring the election of a Re
publican senator in place of the Demo-
cratic incumbent. New Jersey promises to
give a small Republican majority for Gov
ernor and to elect n Republican Legislature.
If this should prove to be the case it would
mean another senator in the place of a Dem
ocrat. West Virginia is zealously claimed
by both parties and is in doubt Indications
still point to the election of Colonel Stone
Governor of Pennsylvania. Owing to the
trading and traficking of the leaders in
Pennsylvania, predictions as to the Legis-
lature cannot be intelligently made. On the
surface Quay appears to have the best of it.
but in any event there is not one chance in
a hundred of a Democrat being elected to
the upper house of Congress.
The black spot is North Carolina There
is little doubt about the result there The
whites have gone in to disfranchise the ne
grOes, and will succeed in doing so.
President Mckinley left Washington at
100 this evening for Canton, o., where he
will vote on Tuesday. He is accompanied
by Mrs. Mckinley. Assistant Secretary Cor
telyou and Gen. Russell Hastings, who is a
guest at the White House. The President
will arrive in Canton at 10 o'clock Tuesday
morning, and will leave for Washington ON
the return trip at 2 O'Clock in the after
noon, arriving here about 7:2O a. m. Wednes-
day.
With the exception of Assistant Secretary
Meiklejohn. of the War Department, none
of the official heads of the State, War and
Navy Departments went home to vote to-
morrow. Secretaries Hay, Long and AIger,
with Assistant Secretaries ltIlI and Adee,
of the State Department, and Allen, of the
Navy Department, were at their desks as
usual to-day. Secretary Hay is the only
one Of the number VINO is not entitled TO
vote in to-morrow's elections. He resides in
the District of Columbia