| Show from mondays daily nov ri 5 ON TUB THE EVE OF THE BATTLE ELEVEN million men will be figuratively sleeping on their arms tonight in point of tact fact however a great many of them will not sleep tit at all some through the great interest which they have in the outcome others because of the preparations for far the conflict to which they are putting the finishing tou touch ches esa a conflict the like of which was never fought in this country before and may never be again A very small quantity of the late war spirit found its way into the campaign now ended whereas previously within the past thirty years that quality has dominated every other consideration save perhaps the campaign of faur years ago when a very perceptible railing off was noti noticeable ceab ae now things are completely changed not bigotry sectionalism and cloger ing ine acerbities acerbi ties control the issues but rather a thought thoughtful fal and attentive attento ve consideration ot of PL profound national subject it is gratifying that it is so 9 because it places intelligence and education in the atie tore fore where they belong instead of at the rear where during the period named they were little more than mere attendants upon the reckless hosts in advance the american people have never before been called upon directly to decide the quintion quia stion tion of free raw materials from abroad vs free and deleterious IOUs products 0 from within in other words a modified tariff tor for revenue only euly against an exorbitant high scale of duties tor for the purpose of maintaining inflated home markets incidentally only have they ever been confronted with so ponderous a proposition and by thus leaving all questions of that character in the hands of their representatives at washington Washing toD who are constancy con stanly shifting and changing about the question has become so knotted and gnarled that in his bis last message president cleveland devoted the entire space of that document to it pointing out the evils of a needless surplus w bach bad accrued through inattention to the matter and demanding in effect that the gordian knot be cut at once instead of being slowly and laboriously untied thid created the issue the republicans naturally against the administration made their opposition ioa at once hodoe diametrical instead of oblique and declared in lavor favor of abolishing the entire internal revenue system supported mainly by liquors and tobacco rather than giva givina up one point in the protective tariff on a this line the struggle gle which culminates tomorrow in the tae choice of either cleveland or harrison Harr isoo has been fought and it is safe to say tuat bad the election occurred within me die month or even two months after the nominations were made the latter would have won overwhelmingly the reasons for this are apparent the issue was precipitated upon a nation of people measurably unprepared lor for it and thus were in a mood to accept 0 of any brief and easily understood solution which the republicans hastened to supply to in the shape of two little words simple enough but far read reaching hing in their consequences when attached to practical and everyday every day abc affairs irs free trade the scare produced ed spread like wildfire andr and it looked for a time as thou though h Cie general harrison would te be clOse chosen lri by acclamation it is an all excellent illustration of how studiously intelligently and persistently the democrats have labored to overcome the stampede and bring the stragglers back into the ranks the fact that the parties are and for more than a month have been running neck and neck and that in the sporting circles of the east where large sums are placed on the result cleveland is somewhat the favorite this is tha situation at the close of the campaign how it will be this time tomorrow when the polls will have closed everywhere except in the two pacific coast states can only be told after the votes are counted or sp ap proximately figured up our readers will be advised by bulletin of all that comes up to a late hour tomorrow evening and perhaps in wednesdays paper enough returns may have haire arrived to give a 0 substantial idea as to ho how the election has gone |
