Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1888 — POLITICAL. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL.

Twenty thousand people attended the Peru Democratic barbecue, Thursday, notwithstanding the rain. It is said that President Cleveland is preparing another message on. the Retaliation question which is intended to be a political coup d’etat. It is stated that “the President has promised to visit New York before the election and review a parade of business men of that city, irnot-his- intention to make a speech. At Pawtucket. R. 1., Hugh J. Can'bll, Chairman of the Democratic State Central Committee, has procured papers for the arrest of Editor-in-Chief Williams and Managing Editor Mowland, of the Providence Journal, in an action for* criminal libel, laying damage at $25,600. General Tom Browne and J. H. Watson, of Winchester, spoke at CenterviUeffifiesday last. While Mr. Watson was vigorously annihilating the Democratic’ party he suddenly disappeared from view, having fallen through an open trap door in the stage. He was badly cut about the face,but not.seriously hurt. Under the direction of Charles H. Litchman, until recently the General Secretary of the K. of L., arrangements have been made for a Republican rally of workingmen in Indianapolis on the 25th inst. It is stated that delegations will come from distant points and it is expected that the gathering will be a great affair. It is announced that Hon Levi P. Morton, the Republican candidate for Vice-President, will speak in the evening at Tomlinson Hall, and one of the speakers will probably be Congressman McKinley. The calculations that are being made by Republicans on' the size of their majority in Indiana—says the Indianapolis News —are based largely upon the new vote, sometimes called “the Logan vote,” for it was the Illinois statesman who long ago figured out that the sons of Union soldiers, who would become voters about this time, would give the Republican party a new lease of life. Logan’s prophetic views were about' correct, if the statistics in the possession of the Republican campaign managers may be relied on. It is claimed that the returns show that there are 65,000 young men in Indiana who will be eligible to vote for Presidential candidates for the firtt time this year. This makes an average increase of about 750 votes for each county, and where the majority of the 65,000 will go is really, it seems, the determining question of the campaign, for it far overshadows the prohibition, independent, soldier, Irish and other political elements to which so much importance has been attached. The Republican managers claim that fully 40,000 of the 65,000 young men will vote the Republican ticket, and that the poll of. the State proves the correctness of this estimate. In some counties, particularly in the northern and central parts of the State, 90 per cent, of the first voters are Republicans, but in counties that were Democratic in war days, particularly in Southern Indiana, the advantages are on the side of Democrats. The Democratic campaign managers do not concede that the majority of the new voters are Republican, and yet they do not claim any advantages. ‘They say that their information indicates that the vote is about equally divided, that the majorities on the side of Republicans are found in Republican counties, and that this is off set by the difference in -favor of the Democrats in Democratic counties. —L.—