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Show Ill HMti: Till', lUTlMU III a few hours mora the heat of the fray will bo uponun, and In a shorter time thereafter the people of the nation Hill havueuiled at the ballot box their choice of thoso whom they would have lu power for the next four years. At this time of course nothing Is known, the claims aud counterclaims by party inanagerebut serving to luoteato the uncertainty and make the doubtful doubt still more. The Democrats, according ac-cording lo reports recclvei, have withdrawn with-drawn from their labors with thu calm. niss and sitlsfscllon which only come of absolute conviction that their case Is won, while tho Kcpubllcaue urge all thevu'erstobeun haul and thus duplicate du-plicate thu great victory achieved by UencrulQraut lu tils second race for the Presidency. A good mauy claims on hath sides are i llher poorly founded or wu are cm the brink of ouo of the greatest political politi-cal revolutions the country lins ever knowu. When Democrats with -pareut Herlousovn place Maiutachu setts and Illinois In their column and Kepubllcans figure on Alabama and Arkansas, Iho.u who arc poste I as to how those states wont four years ago can scarcely repress a smile, uud thoso who aro not can ascertain ascer-tain by referring tu Saturday's Issue of the Dumiut Km 8. Au Independent In-dependent view, aud therefore ouo to bu more relied unou. would reverse those clslais and glvu the Bouthcru Htates without exception to Mr. Clove-laud, Clove-laud, make doliatabld groiind of New Yolk, Connecticut, ludlanu, Michigan, Michi-gan, Wisconsin aud Montana, glvu to (Jeneral Weaver Kansas, Colorado, North Dakota, Wyoming, Idaho and Nevada, and nil the real to l'resldent Harrison. It would thus bu seen that the winner mutt dmiv his winning tuipurt from the etaluj elatsud as uu certalu, and out of these neither can sa'ely dispense with New York, whore thlrly-slx oh.ctor.al voles will, If things come anywhere near adhering to the normal, detenutnethe content, but they are, we thluU, more marly ludlsiwiisable tJ the Democrats than to the lUquibltcans, because Wisconsin Wis-consin was smugly ltepublhau lu 183b and It more likely to go that way now than the ulln r, whllo Michigan's aote will surely Le divided, tho 1'resl dent xettlug the majority of It. With the Umpire state the tine oucr nun, a study of Iium It has genu herttoforu uud what the resent Indications on both sldeu are, Is Interesting ut this time. hew York City nnd Its Immediate surroundings aro the Democratlo Ulu rsllur, the luxjurlly being seldom has tlmu UJjUO) an J running up lo filly pur cent, griuter aud more. This year the regUtiatlou la largely Increased, the galu presumably with the Demouraia, ratably, Itepubllcau estimates llgure t'iucity miji rity (or their uppiueuti uuwn to i i, lid aud the lauer plane it ut iUUI) which would Uunu ihe Itejubll' enr-wlthnliitii(VKil tnnver n with their vote abivo the Harum rlur in the former caieau i fully M.OKiln thu latter, SS.OUil and upward Is claimed, the Democrats reducing this In their estimates forty to fitly per cent , so that the claims run from about lS.OOO to SS,01) for Harrison In the whole stale and ,iSM lo 00,0(111 for Clovelanl. Aa this Is somewhat unsatisfactory, wa mhrht as well Unvothu lower art of the stato and ho hov things look abave thn river. The following tibles show Ihvrigif ration ra-tion In Ihe cities last year (when 1 lower, Democrat, was electc I governor gov-ernor by nearly 49,(Md mnjorlty) and Ihalfiir this year, tach parly with Ita majorities then, be.nj placed by Itir II: tup o Itesislrs Hrslstra msin nun line lirjn Itsrebiiran tn ni ftti Albaru Ml .)' M IliDnusiiien . ., Isll SMI lis Ourelts .... 11V l,il ' (llom.Tllle ...... . six S'lS SO Uses a 7 l.TI . " J.r.M-tn ,.. svu sate 1 1 II tlMiltsfama 1 1M a,l1 to N.wirarj. . .. ssh s'i "l lwsa I .cs 11 roc I'ouTlctrrnne .. 1 IM' IN ..,.. ,j ts tn S.eii strsioct m, tesi rtJ i s;roo. nut was su loul ten til M.too tm litmo Itesiiirs llesiiirs. rrsue llofl lion tns) r IWIO n.rnerratM tm. ltl. 11 Alua-cr - .... .! ,l9 S.NU IcuB.io. ........ Kos mi.i itr-ii nine ITKl Mil III iKuutrt ... . .- rati i"9 as rim, ;,ntl l,-'J til IIOtDSlt.llllS . ... a,m ,.! t KiesstuD . s.sftt s tho m tea Oiwski, BJlft t ,ti MO llmnc m LO a.US Till artia celaJr..... 1,W tlw S3 Tinr ... . inn inn iw mi's . iiU loisi ei: Hsiirloon lit? I "11 SIS Toisl ..... TaTiJ lae.JH Tlicit This glvia the Deraocrala a (light advantage If percentages hoi I good, but It la noticeable that there Is a falling fall-ing oil In the state as colujmred with the vote of four years ago, thn deficit being from S.1,00fl lo 41,000; this shows a condition of apathy which may be favorable tu either or neither, the reader will have tu tako his choice Following are the flgun s for tho last two l'lesldeutlsl elections: IHI Illtios stMTO tho Harlem, 4-0 II J , Olssslss I aii, is issl lllstos below Ires llsrlsm, 101Kie i tletelan I, axl.avci lo-" Harrison stove lbs Harlem, 4)1,011, O.clan! HML Itm. ibmon uslosr lbs ll.rleiu, !3;.;r, Clssilsuil, 1170 111. ,Thu following figures aa to Ihe regis-tratl regis-tratl naud Dtmocratlo gains In New York city will l ut nislstancel I rsis elaln In 1 er rt. Horn ,la liauon. 4 years, irnln. raliljr IS ..... SOI 101 J .00 II II - ISSI M ., Slllsfl ssiaa 17 41U4 It tMC,Ui 4SSI) IS 5IJ Isei ... .awaio si,:m s h . The reader Is now In possosslsn of all the beforehaud facts aud Ogurei of onycousequeiico which he can well uhtain and can form us closo au estimate esti-mate of the results aa though he were uu the ground much twtter cerhapa. All the apparent certalutles on cither side should bu added together and of thu sum totals the lessor subtracted Irom thu greater; then by treating the elements of doubt In the same manner man-ner and compirlng all tho results, a conclusion can easily he n ached which the people may smith to smithereens with their blanket ballots on the morrow. They may, however, ratify It; there Is no harm In trying. |
