690 THE IMPENDING REVOLUTION. 



been the disreputable outcome of every such combination 

 that was ever made, and sooner or later it will be found 

 that all roads out of the Democratic, lead into the Republi- 

 can camp" 



While this was being read and talked to the Demo- 

 cratic voters in Arkansas, the chairman of the Republican 

 State Committee of Kansas was advising the Republicans 

 to ' ' give the Union L,abor men h 1, and speak on local 

 issues only." The situation in that State was thus 

 summed up by a correspondent to the St. Louis Republic: 



u The present campaign is the most remarkable ever 

 seen in the history of the State, and there is no longer any 

 reason to doubt but that it marks the downfall of the 

 Republican party in a State which has been one of its 

 strongholds since its birth. Republican managers have 

 tried, in vain, to check the growth of the Union L,abor 

 movement. This party, while professing to ignore the 

 tariff issue, has made its converts from the ranks of the 

 Republican party, and that by taking the issue against the 

 Republican party on the tariff question. The reason for 

 this stampede from the Republican party, in these agri- 

 cultural regions, are obvious. The Union Labor party 

 gets its strength from the rural districts, and the most 

 remarkable fact is, that in whole townships, that were 

 once largely Republican, there is now scarcely an adherent 

 to the party left, but the towns will go Republican, as 

 heretofore, but with decreased majorities. Labette county, 

 which has always been the boasted "banner Republican 

 county in the State," going over 1,000 Republican at the 

 last election, gave the Union Labor ticket over 500 

 majority. 



The situation has reduced the Republican managers 

 to desperation within the past three weeks and a canvass 

 of the State, which was completed a few days ago, showed 

 that the Union Labor element had 5,000 majority. This 



