New-York tribune., 1878-10-26
PENNSYLVANIA POLITICS.

! lFRoM ksTAFP CORRESPONDENT OF TIE TRIBUSE.l
! PHILADELPHIA, Oct 25.-The early bird in poll
! tics sometimes misses the worm. The Natlohal
! Greenback-Labor party Of Pennsylvania began lts
canvass this year. early in the Spring, and While II
met with no organized opposition, 1t went on SWIFT
mnrly. Passing across the State from southern
| New-York in July last, | found the GreehoacA
! leaders everywhere active and apparently MAKING
sucb beadway a. to cause the outlook for either of
the old parties to he exceedingly gloomy In March
and April missionaries had been sent into the coal
and oil regions and into the western counties of the
| State TO travel from town to town. make speeches,
clrcnlate Cireenback documents and newspapers ana
/ form clubs Their plan To occupy the field In
! advance, and get many voters as pOssole COM
/ mitted on paper hoping thus to hold them through
/ the heat of the campaign. In the early summer
they seemed to be carrying everything before thein'
and il was difficult TO see how they TO be sue
! cessfully met.
| Unfortunately the record Of neither of the Old
parties in this State such IA to Insppe nope at
that time that square, stand-up night AGAINST lhe
| Greenback delusiOn could be made by either DOM
/ parties had habitually lodged the question, ana
! while a majority of the Republicans were unqnes-
tionably III favor of honest money, and majority
/ OF the Democrats probably leaned the other way
| there were plenty of Republican GreenbGckers and
/ not a few Democratic haTd-mOney men. The con-
! ventions made very little change III the sltua-
! tiOn except that the ReUublIcans put az
I the head of their ticket a man VINO
was known To be in full accord with the National
Republican party ON financial questions, and thus
started the ball a-rolng in the right direction.
/ Thus matters stood when the Republican state
Committee began to organize for the eampalgn' anu
the first reports II received were to the enect lhaV
| Greepbackers were carrying everything before
I .I.. Il irs,Yfn nor
and that unless something was Immediately done to
counteract their influence the State was already as
! good as lost The State Committee did not waste
/ mnch time in dehberatiou, but determined at once
10 make the canvass for hard money and the presef-
yaton of the public faith with the National credit
ors Hard-mOuey documents were not plenty ouI
one of the first things Colonel Quay, the chairman
Of the committee did was 10 order a supply
of the papers published by the Honest Money
League OF Chicago to be sent into the western
counties Of this state. This was followed on Tue
10Th of August by The speech OF the Hon. Halh5na
! A Grow delivered in the very hOt-bed OF Green
backisn and striking the keynote OF the campaign
The Republican newspapers OF the state also
! wheeled immediately into line. Those which had
/ before pccn sound on the money question became
I more aggressive and those which were halting
betycen two opinions came out boldly On the right
side The people of the state have rcspohoeu
/ noblv 10 the efforts Of the Republican committee
! and ever since the campaign fairly opened the
Repubncans have been making a steady advance
/ and rerceptibly growing stronger ever day.
Il r,ust not be supposed that the Greenback party
has been idle during the past three months On inc
contrary its activity has heen increased and u u
/ ro. a marty To be laughed al in Pennsylvania.
In some parts Of the State the Democratic party
VIII be much weaker than the Nationals, and Will
L ...f uttn Yfau ID hers
Legislature even where the Republicans do not
gaiu. What the Republicans have succeeded IN
doing is 10 stop the deleciOns from their own ranks
IN the Greenhackers and TO win back most of those
,vbo went off IN the Spring aud early Summer. Ine
Democrats have made the canvass under dlfhcul-
ties I'm the first place, there seems To have been an
entire lack IF plan IN their campaign. majority
Of them are probably Grecnbaekers, but the mana
gers have not dared to come out squarey Tor lIla-
tou aud put the party in line on that issue, because
there are so many hard-money men among
| them whose influence and votes they cannot
afford "a lose This lack OF plan has produced some
crriors results. Democratic speakers in neigh
boring towns in the same county, and on the same
/ r.gbt have taken exactly opposite SIDES on the
fr.pciaI issues, and am told that at one meeting
held in the centre of the State week or two ago,
ore of two speakers who addressed the same audi
ence spoke for hard money and the other for mia
ton II Is needless to say that those who have
becu conducting the campaign IN this way have
found 1t uphill work
/ supuose no one any longer doubts that Cen
/ eraI Hoyt will be the next Governor OF Penn
| sylyauia. His nomination has proved to have been
an exceptionally strong one, and the manly cOur-
are he has displayed from the first in speaking out
/ pIainly his honest convictions on the currency
/ question. even in places and on occasions
! when some Of his friends thought it would
/ have been wiser TO remain silent was
! undonbtedly one of the strongest influences
in bringing the party up 10 the honorable position 1t
now occupes Besides this General HOyt makes
/ AN excellent impression wherever be goes by ms
| straightforward manner Of dealing with public
! opestiops. The Democrats still talk i'll public Ot
electing Mr. Dill but there are unmistakable signs
/ everywhere TO be seen that they have privately
given rp the fight on the State ticket and would be
glad to trade it off if by dong 50 they could secure
! a few votes for their Legislative candidates
In the Congressional Districts the outlook for the
! Republicans is equally encouraging. No district
! now held by the Republicans will be lost so the
! managers say Both of the Pittsburg Districts are
! safe McCaudess the Republican bOlter in Errtts
/ district has withdrawn, and his friends
/ are supporting the regular nominee. KIRK,
| the candidate of the Nationals. will probably
| receive larger vote than the Democratic nominee,
/ the Greenbackers having split the Democracy in
two IN the middle, and not having drawn very
| heavily from the Republicans. In the Erie
/ district where there was some misunderstanding III
the Republican party in the Summer, the dlssenslon
/ has been healed and the most encouraging reports
ale now received from there. The Republicans also
feel very sure of making gain in Sengers district
where the vote was very close in 1876 and IN tW"
or three others now represented by Democrats, they
tlar .hapc al
/ opponents Among these may be named the Mauch
lhunk DL.tricL whore General Alhrlght. t0rmerIN