New-York tribune., 1878-10-12
TIE PENNSYLHANIA CANVASS.

Tie Democrats having discovered that they
can exFet no favor from the Nationals are denoun0S
them bitterly.
Senator Wallace began a speech the other
asv in this yay: 'There Is something the matter 1a'
4. ,.tp Wall senatOr everybody who bas read Ihh
RIpuS he present week knows just what's the matter
The campaign is bringing out all the strong
sneakers in the Republican party Governor Hartrani'
among Others will go the stump and lend MS hn"
ence in the canvass
Some of the Keystone Greenbackers were
calculating on majority Of sixty or seventy Thousand
Tor their party OHIO. They were only 'eW hVSaes t
thonssnd votes short To yet ct the cold truth take
Greenbaeker's estimate and divide II by ten
The Xth District Republicans have decided
TO put no candidate in nomination. There are aeauS
tbree candidates IN the field, Of them Democrats
The Republicans will generally support 'u"S0 N0""
aker, the Independent eandlua~' -,
Secretary of the Navy Thompson addressed
large gathering Of Republicans IN fIitsDurs Ihu
evening He dsproved the charge that thcro VIC" .%n a
antagonism between labor and caPtai, uoienu.u i
financial system OF the Government ana HoIc"e" IL"
neWfoupd friendship of the Democrats for the Greer, %
hack The canvass in Allegheny County iooAS Hoi'
promising each day
The Democratic papers are trying 10 curry
favor in the oil regions by claiming that fourteen oI the
nineteen Democratic members OF the state Senate No'eu
for the free pipe line bill The record, 1t Is asSereu
shows that only ten Democratic Senators Noteu lol %
measure The same papers say thai only vS IL is
sad nearly double that number Of Republican votes o
~ Rnt of what moment is the record to desperate
Democratic eiitOrl Any lie ls "a BOOu enous" -''
gan for him until after election.
The chairmen of the Democratic and National
STATE Committees aro vigorously beating GoRGs TO pre-
nt their followers from getting frightened at the re-
t of the October elections. Each has issued an al
drss, Of the John G. Thompson order. That OF the
Demoeratc chairman is chiefly noticeable from the
nig,no appeal It makes 10 Democrats not TO desert
.ber marty and aid the Republicans by wandering into
tbe Greenback fold. The Greenback buSle call Is sd
dressed 10 the people Of Pennsylvania and is plent
trrv snrpkled with military rhetoric. good deal oi
Glory il claimed in an indehUite way iu Name and In
diona and Iowa The OHIO Democrats como IN Ior
Good deal of blame the ground OF thelr inconsistency
nd ali Eeakkneed Republicans are pOhtey lnNleu 10
walk into the Greenbaek parlOr me enoI,s & Ut T1
Democrats and Greenbackers 10 avert deIeat 10y ISSUING
addresses will prove futile as the Efforts OF lhe pa
bsrians to prevent an eclipse by beating gongs'
William H. Dimmick, whom the Democrats
nomiuated for Congress in the XVIII District Is likely
10 be defeated by majority that Will end his political
career His audacity In forcing himself upon the con-
venton was almost sublime; and now when he sees the
dde setting strongly against him he gives no slgu Of
lthdraying but will undoubtedly remain in the held
Before the convention met The Talkhdnnock Democrat
e organ of the Wyoming Democracy, said Ut strikes
"a forcply that the Democracy of Wayne County must
be in deplorable condition when they place in nomin-
stion for a seat In Congress Bill Dimmick who, only
three or four years ago, compelled 70 resign ns
seat IN the State Legislature 10 aVOd eAPulSoh io g
bpry and corruption" In Susquehanna County, me
MoafrsSe Democrat at first h0isted MI DinmlcKs hee'
ht mas since taken II down and refuses to support NM
Hundreds of honorable Democrats declare that 'tS
will not vote for him. 1t is quite safe TO say that hr
Oimmick will not be highly grahed Dy the nuOeT ol
TOtes he receives On election day'