Year: 1879

A REPUBLICAN VICTORY PREDICTED-OPINIONS


OF MR.. DAVIS AND Ex-coNGEEssMAN HALE.


Mr.. Daniel F. Davis. the republican candidate for
Governor in Maine has been giving his views Oh tho
result of the forthcoming election in that State &C..
to a correspondent OF the Boston Herald He is re-
ported saying that he feels OF election by
the people. He has correspondents in one hun
dred towns and cities. with whom he keeps in COM
munication while he is going about the State max
iug speeches. and they all send him information Of
greenbackers returning to the republican fold. He
expresses the opinion that the democrats will dur
ing the last week OF the campaign abandon the idea
OF electing Smith, the greenback candidate by the
people. which is their present intention. and
that they will give Garceon nearly large o
vote as last year, while Smiths vote, in his opin
ion, will tall much below what it was last year.


Ex-Congressman Hale substituting the vote Of
last year. and taking yat-homes of last year.
and think shall give Davis at least TO- 900 votes.
There some things that We did last year that
but us in good position to know about this CAM
paign We had last fall just as accurate census as
Walker take OF the republicans that stayed
ut hone and there II. 900 OF them; and we had
AL accurate Of every republican who voted
the greenback ticket, and there were o little over
$4,000 OF them We got the lists s OF them We threw
last year, in round numbers, 81 200 votes. Now to
bring that up to 10000. we have only got to get
$4,000, and we think we shall get them. We have
found ont this year what they have always found
in New Hampshire in year after they have lost
the State and the democrats have come into power.
They always found that it brought out the stay-at
homes who were as mad they could be because
they staid at home the year before. We tnd
that OF the stay-at-home vote OF last year there
will be certainly 6,Oo0 or 1000 that VIII vote
this year, and We will make up the balance
from republican greenbackers that are con-
ing back. and from democrats, OF whom there are
vety many throughout the State. and some very
marked cases. who will vote the republican ticket
this year. good many democrats are going to stay
at home, and 10000 votes for Davis will give him
a handsome majority. Since started out four weeks
ago never got into any town until came to the
little.town Of Greenwood where did not meet and
talk with men who could give me the names OF re-
publican greenbackers who were going to vote with
us this year-in some two and in some
cases twenty. You cannot strike such general con-
dition OF things that without its meaning some
thing. There some danger a while ago that the
small towns would be neglected and that there
would be too much effort put into our large towns,
but the people correcting that. Hardly day
goes by that am not assigned to some small meet
ing in the small towns in addition to my evening
meeting. and enjoy the small meetings the best.


In regard to the Legislature Mr.. Hale said =


'The House is pretty generally conceded to the
republicans, and the reason is that we are making
such undoubted gains the cities that it will give
us the House. The bright fellows on the other side
are admitting that the House is ours and they are
fighting for the Senate They want to get US in the
place we had them III last year. They want to con-
troll the choice for Governor between the two men
we send up. But II we give Davis his 10000 votes
cannot distribute 1t in such way that 1t will not
give q handsome majority OF the Senators. That
number of votes will give US twenty out OF thirty
Senator'S" Mr.. Hale says that under the steady
fire the republican speakers the greenback spout
beginning to finch and are trying to turn the
attention their audiences to other things and
principally to the question OF State affairs. This has
led the republicans begin the discussion or State
affairs. Fillsbury led of the other day in speech.
saying that the campaign was wholly State affair.
and now all the republican speakers discuss State
affairs. But Mr.. Hale says that he hnds 1t equally
necessary to discuss national affairs aud that the
audiences he addresses warm up TO what he says on
that subject nearly as wei as on the financial Ques-