The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1878-11-29
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WARRINGTON LETTER.

| Aalleu 70 WHoaL ING NAtAoltA AAouSo VI
Representatives from the Democrats,
and the forty-sixth Congress is what
your readers were early assured il would
be-Democratic in both branches. The
majority in the House is about twenty,
and in the Senate half as many. The
returns Of Lord Roscoe Conkling and
Don Cameron to the latter body, from
New York and Pennsylvania, being
Overwhelmingly assured is the share Of
substantial benefits falling to the Re
publicans. For Now York no other
result could scarcely have been expect
ed. With an outrageous gerrymander
Of legislative districts, which gave
Republican Legislature in the face of
10000 Democratic majority in the
State, and with no particular senatorial
aspirants to inspire or direct the fight,
it must have been losing one at best.
And worse than all that tho Empire
State Democracy is sadly afflicted with
schisms and personal antagonismswhich
usually come to a head, 80 TO speak. in
the midst Of important contests. What
ever the opinion of any Democrat as to
to the advisability of defeating Tam
many Hall, it certainly seenis unfortu-
nate that one half the party in the great
Democratic stronghold Of New York
City must coalesce with the Republi-
cans on the occasion Of an important
Congressional and Senatorial election.
Nobody outside of the city cares a con-
tinental which wins, Tamulany or anti
Tammany, except so far as the warfare
tends 10 weaken the party and interfere
with It's discipline. The Democrats OF
the nation hope to SEQ this quarrel ef.
fectually and finally settled before an
other general election. II il time there
was an end TO this setting up of person.
al authority and cross purposes. Let
the pcople-the voters of the party
nominate their candidates in New
York as they do everywhere else, and
then vote for them in solid Ihalanx.
!. In Pennsylvania the Democrats
~ fought under moro favorable conditions
ie and of the result it can only be said
y the triumph is Cameron's own. III,
n bought it and paid for it, as his fathel
before him has done "many time ant
lg oft" The State is simply Cameron
plantation. the possession Of which re
remains in the family after the manne
of the English law of entailment. /
IL is to-day, as il has been for years, thi
" most corrupt commonwealth in Ameri
se- CO. Pennsylvanians may not relish he
ing told this, but it is true. The un
scrupulous methods and corrupt prac
? tices Of Cameron are known and &C
knowledged, yet when an opportunit
arrives to rebuke them and shake ol
the disgrace, the hide bound partisan
and marketable classes walk up TO th
g polls together with degree of shame
- less effrontry never witnessed anywher
else. Open barter is made with dan
gerous elements, and condemned cor
En victs are given life TO work for Can
eroh, civil service reform, and "add
ton, division and silence" So long q
nd this condition Of things is tolerated th
Keystone State deserves no sympath,
Cameron's disbursements in this strug
Nd gle amounts to tens of thousands, an
are only equalled by the enormous -
penditmres of the Republican Campaig
Committee Of this city.
Now that the campaign is over, il
proper 10 contrast the general manag
ment Of it, and point out the weak spo
on our own side. On the part of Il
+ Republicans there has been great acti
. ity combined with skill and ability,
say nothing of unlimited money r
sources. The cash has been freely an
effectively used, "where it would {
the most good" The oficeholders ar
candidates have raised large sum
ny. while the national banks and kindrt
interests have contributed their shar
With none of these resources to dra
upon, the Democratic Committees ha,
had almost no money at all. 81
worse than that there has been fat
lack of energy and proper direction.
seems TO be the fault of nearly all car
paigns on onr part, that we lack in @
ganized intelligence, so to speak. The
> is ability enough in the Democrat
party, but seeming want of TINT alel
ness and cuteness which does the rigl
thing at the critical moment lack
NY that systematic thoroughness whi'
knows, too, when and where the rub
- to be. This is not written with vie
of upbraiding any particular commit
or persons, but in general terms it
noticeable that when the Eight narro'
down to a contest OF brass and wit t
'A Republicans mostly win. The Tild'
campaign in 1876, was the best CO
Quoted in many years, on the Dem
NO cratic side, and the blnnders that Io
Eos the presidency were all made after t
. votes had been cast and the battle VIC
In the present campaign another poi
in contrast is the conduct of the LEI
ing Democratic and Republican new
" papers. Tho Republican papers ha
= {; been active and energetic. The Den
cratic, with some exceptions, apathet
even Indifferent. In New York two
the Democratic papers have support
nv. Republican candidates for Congr
3 and combination ticket against rel
lar Democratic nominees. Cosrespol
ents representing Republican news
-. pers have done an immense amount
'ose work which cannot fail TO be effecti
The correspondents of the Dcmscra
papers on the other hand have not bt
that invited or encouraged in any effo
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