Show THE presidential ELECTION FIVE weeks from today the voters states will make a formal united of the deals declaration ration of whom they will have to as president and vice them serve president in doing this they merely express their preferences pr references eferen ces having no in the ma matter ater except indirectly choice well kno known wn it has frequently for a as is in the that while people case the teen been inclined one ways way the largely have college chosen by them has electoral other or another way and gone the candidates who have received thus the direct suf minority of the peoples peopled a successful it is not our frames frages were to explain the why and cresent ut purpose of et this or 0 to moralize tore wherefore both have received sufficient upon unon it as and else attention attenni in those these columns render such use of space where to unnecessary frequently observed by been it has bag poll politicians ticiano of all ajl shades of prominent opinion and oabe others rn that the campaign has bats been an abnormally so 00 far exhibited by the apathy quiet ones one those who are M most hotst interested being utterly unprecedented something for this causes are assigned various of things but in every case such state application has bag some special cause i of the who one the party favors favorable ble to and is therefore not very it expresses ex r mind independent valuable ible i to the seekim seeking g for actual facts perhaps the indifference real source of the prevailing is the fact that there are no vital issues before the people at least none but W what bat have been presented and ald can vowed before so 80 t that hat the campaign has ban more or lees semblance toll to threshing s this coupled out old straw tact fact that the principal additional wit with h the candidates for the first office have also been before the voters for the and that therefore there to is came me place little that is new to be told would seem to complete the ease case and furnish about as satisfactory an explanation as can be given above and beyond every other question demanding the attention of the people is as was the case four years that time it the tariff prior to ag ago hd had generally occupied a secondary down the further even place or was scale than that the issues growing out of the war absorbed the greater part of the peoples peo attention politically leally for many years yearns economic less sub b or su being more ag ji 0 one ODB as time wore on however the sy jy former gradually grow grew lees while the lat latter ter advanced in a corresponding ratio and now DOW th there ere jig is scarcely anything left of wa war r material which of necessity throws the burden of making those who deal with up issues upon commercial mechanical and pro affairs the alleged abeyance of the lodge election bill COMmO commonly DIV called the force bills bill which the democrats claim is festl renting ug until the republicans are strong enough to make it law lends a shade of variety to the situation it being a political measure pure and simple but the republicans disclaim any such intention and insist upon it that their opponents are arousing using it as a scarecrow to keep the south solid however that way may be the bill is receiving a full hare of attention in fact jn in the south it fairly divides the honors with the tariff and all other subjects before the people whether it be due to the indifference stated or to dome fome other cause aitio it is undeniable that there has never been an election since the war which cast so dim a shadow before it so far nothing is known as to how any part ot the nation will go and even the conjectures which are ventured are in most cases purely visionary while the claims made are what they usually amount to just lust so BO many claims there have been three 13 state late elections held recently not counting the one going on in florida today in arkansas Ark ansar vermont and maine the first named went overwhelmingly democratic Democrat io but as it is in a democratic state anyway ways this only serves to show that the hope of the republicans to break up the solidity of the south is futile this time and that the effect of the populist vote has been overestimate I 1 in vermont and maine which are always more or less strongly republican there was a slight falling off in the maj cities for that party them facts taken together cause causa sanguine democrats to anticipate certain victory but they may not be fairly so considered for the reason that in the last two oases cases a light vote was polled many voters stay away from the polls when a kocl election is going on and are aie on hand band early and often when it is a national contest so that we are only permitted from such results to conclude that we are as much at sea as am lefore before it if any one could tell how the empire state is going to vote he could come pretty pre itty near to a correct conclusion as to the result reou it at large it is true the democrats are making a vigorous campaign in the northwest andare and are already claiming enough states in that region to offset the pos possible sibe lose joss of new york but such claims are not based upon precedent and no one will be safe in depending entirely upon any such outcome the republicans may lose some of the silver oil ver and other states west of the missouri river but all of such losses combined would only be a negative gain tor for the democrats even it if a full baloi they would not be compensated pen sated for the thirty six electoral votes which they would lote loee it if they failed to carry new york |