New-York tribune., 1874-09-24
A CAMPAIGN WITHOUT ANY FIGHTING.

A CAMPAIGN WITHOUT ANY FIGHTING
NO MORE OCTOBER ELECTIONs-THR PAPERS SILENT
AND BOTH PARTIES INACTIvE-HOw THE DEMO-
Gratis LOST AN OPPORTUNITY - REPUBLICAN
APATHY THE ONLY HOPE FOR DEMoCRAryc
SUCCESS.
lFRoA A REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF TUE TRIBUNE.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept 1S.-There will be no
October elections in this State. The politicians
axiom, As Pennsylvania goes so goes the Union. is
obsolete for future Presidential campaign will the
Keystone State indicate a month in advance OF the gen.
era election the side upon which she is TO throw her pow
erful and decisive HencefOrth Pennsylvania nolds
her State election the second Tuesday in November
the change being of the many reforms wrought by
the new Constitution. In President ta years this change
will have important effect upon National politics gen
orally and upon political morality here at home We shall
never witness such contest as we saw IN the
campaign OF 1S2 when the National
Administration made gigantic efforts prejudice and
corrupt the the State and prevent them from
expressing in the local Issue presented
going so far through its and ocehOlders as to
cOnnive frauds the ballot Three years
out the later date for the election VIII not be OF
much consequence When party lines closely drawn,
and cones are fought National issues. II Will no
doubt make difference in the result in New-fork
and other States holding elections IN November 70 nave
Pennsylvania taken Of she list Of the October States
but the great gain the OF political reform made
by the change will felt principally in Presi
dental years
APATHY on BOTH SIDES.
People in other States are no doubt wondering why
they hear so few echoes from the campaign In pro-
gress here The reason Is simple enough. Nobody Is
making any nOse there are no echoes II there Is to
be gh the cOmbatants very slow III getting about
IT, The leaders got together at Harrisburg and Pitts
burgh nearly month and sounded their trumpets,
but no appears disposed 10 fall into lne People
IS
fight aboutT" Thousands appear to have about made
up their minds TO stay at home this year and let
the politicians have it out among themselves. At
Harrisburg the Republicans patched up a plat
form in which there many line professions few
evasons. and two downright lies. They headed
their ticket with candidate Supreme Judge selected
in advance by the Philadelphia Ring on account OF his
services in the past expected services IN the future,
both, Ito the Ring not the DartyJ Him they followed
by politician of fair repute and talent, as Pennsyl-
vana politicians co. for the office Of LieutenantGOv
ernor and then completed the ticket by renominatng
two offceholders VINO wanted 10 be indorsed All the
organs big and te including our old friend The Press
now an organ, too, alas . said it noble platform
and an excellent ticket but after hurrahing IN this fash
ION silence fell upon them. 1t looked as H. Tor some
reason the subsequent proceedings Interested them no
more" week later, the Democrats met IN Pittsburgh
No rings there because there were no spos to par
eel out 1t was a body of honest, hard-headed old
ideas since the time of Jackson but not many On the
currency question they all right, from instinct
and tradition but they too umid to condemn the
abomnabe doctrines Of their brethren IN Ohio and
Indiana No fault can be found with their other utter
ances except where the ingraned Democratic negro
hate crops out Accept the changes Of the past ten
years as though he your Pennsylvania
Democrat in nine out OF ten, believes that negro
suffrage is bad thing the country, and it is only
motives expedency that keep him from renewing MS
old declarations i'll favor OF White Mans Government
The ticket made at Pittsburgh ia respectable but not
strong one. II the Convention had been sagacious,
candidates would have been selected of eminent charac
ter and talents men who did not want the offices and
would only consent to run for them for the sake OF in
surng victory their party. With such ticket pitted
against ring made affair turned out at harrisDurg
the Democrats could probably have carried the State
II they had put such candidates on platform OF a
single line-spece payments and honest administra-
top-suecess would have been certain.
NO INDICATION OF THIRD PARTY MOVEMENT.
Well the delegates went home from the Convention,
and the Democratic organs all said that platform and
ticket were unexceptionabe. Under such leaders and
with such principles victory would perch upon their
banners" the people would rise in their might ETC.,
etc So they began TO shake the old nags ana
beat the old drums but after few days great silence
fell upon them, had upon the Republican papers
Since then everything else but politics mas been dis
cussed Now and then item appears saying that the
eampagn opens late promises TO be lively before 1t
closes and occasional paragraphs about con-
tests for Congress this that district but for these
IL might as wei be June September for all the papers
on either side have about politics
There is not the least Indication OF third party
movement. A few enthusiastic and stubborn Temper
apee doctrinaires have nominated State ticket but
their movement meets with no popular response, and
the handful OF men who will vote their ticket cannot be
called party. The Liberal Republican party of 1872
has entirely disappeared from view. No vestige re-
mains OF IL ualess it be its great leader Andrew Curtin,
who stands apart and TO affiliate with either Of
the existing political organizations. But while as an
orgauized movement Liberal party has, to all ap-
pearances vanished like a morning cloud it has left
healthfu influence behind, which promises TO make
itself felt In any future movement for the purica-
ton OF politics. Thousands OF voters whose eyes
were opened in the campaign OF 1872 20 the
eorruption and want OF principle in the Repub-
lcau party and by the result OF the election TO the I'M
possibility OF bringing up the Democracy TO higher
standards look with indifference upon the contest be-
tween these old parties and long for the occasion and
the leaders rush 70 the standards OF new organza
ton This element forms corps Of observation mold
ing itself aIoof from the battle without generals ana
without definite purpose, except an honest desire 10
accomplish needed reforms There no reason TO think
IL Will ioin either side this Fall and for hoping
that IL will make an independent movement and strike
both OF the old organizations. Too little Is at stake IN
the contest to inspire such movement or produce the
leaders capable OF directingit
Turning 70 the old parties the only combatans kely
70 take part in the coming fight nd the chances pretty
evenly balanced With the vote cast for the nrs
time IN. ls72 the Republicans have majority ~ tue