New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-09-27
TIE PENNSYLVANIA C1NTISS.

The political campaign in Pennsy yanla
seems now to he fairly opened, and from the
yigor with which both parties have entered
upon it, it promises to be one OF unusual ac-
tiyity and interest. The pernicious hercsies OF
the Erie Convention upon the subject OF
finance. the bodnc3s with which The Demo
cratic party in the State has taken ground in
favor of initiation, and the dangers TO which
the success of their ticket and principles must
exposc the country have had the effect to bring
out in opposition to them and in active support
Of the Republican candidates and platform
such men as Galusha \. Grow and +. JOY
Morris and many others whom nothing but a
keen appreciation of the peril of the hour
could have induced to return to the field OF
active politics. These men are reduced to
choice of evils between the two parties and
their tickets, but the position Of the Democrats
ia so utterly mt war with all their TO-
tons of Old-fashioned honesty and honor
that honest citizens can do no less
than oppose them. Doubtless the Republican
platform, with its softlincss and ambiguous
ness, is as unsatisfactory to them as to the
honest currency men out of the State, but it is
not SO positively and unmiigatedly bad as the
other; and there is some satisfaction in the
thought that with such men as Grow aud Nor
ris on the stump in the State, they can make
a platform for the party which will have more
weight with the people than the one set up by
the Convention.
Mr.. Grows speech in Philadelphia Saturday
evening, which Is very fully reported in this
paper. was devoted almost exclusively to the con-
sidcration of the financial question, ard was
1f.l1iOutnont
Pennsylvania Democracy upon the doctrines of
the Erie Convention. His careful statement of
the real question at issue, his plain and simple
Illustrations, and his practical application OF
some of the first principles Of political economy
and finance, were admirably adapted to the
occasion and the audience. TO Il people who
have been befogged and bcwildercd by the
plausible fallacies of the ranting demagOgucs
of imitation, such a speech as that of Mr..
Grow. which started with first principles and
without humbug or nonsense led the
audience by direct and straightforward
processes to the only honest cOnclu-
sion, must have been rcireshment.
# was an effort which deserved, as it received,
n careful and candid hearing, and it cannot
fail to do good. The Republicans OF Pennsyl-
yania have made sad plumbers all along, and
have shown especial weakness in their frivo-
lous and petty treatment OF the currency
question. They have an opportunity to re-
trieve their blundcrs in some measure by put
ting men like Mr.. Grow on the stump in the
front of the battle and making the fight
fairly and squarely on the currency question.
They should drop everything else and send
Mr.. Morton home without delay, il they have
not done so already.
On the Democratic side it is reported that
Judge Pcrshing's letter of acceptance, in which
he declines to resign his seat upon the bench
and take the stump for the ticket, is received
with dissatisfaction, and there is actually some
talk of forcing him to withdraw from the
candidacy, so that some one may be put in his
place who will render active aid in the can
vass. His letter does not exhibit much enthu-
siasm for the platform; he takes pains to say
that he is opposed to imitation in its true
sense" and to explain that in his view of it the