New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-07-25
THE PENESYLVANIA CANV1SS.

taken for granted.
THE PENNSYLVAAIA CANV1SS.
1t is a common remark among Pennsylvania
Republicans that the campaign In tnat state
will run itself this year. The healthy tone
and fresh vigOr displayed by the party through
out the State, the excellent work OF Its Con-
vention, the unexceptiOnal character OF Its
nominee for State Treasurer, and its sturdy,
positive platform all point to victory that
will cost little effort to win: When the evident
discouragement of the Democrats Is also taken
into account, their weak nomination ana their
desperate efforts to manufacture false issue
to cover up the Bourbon policy OF the extra
session, IL might seem that the keystone
Republicans need give themselves no
trouble about the election until election
dav comes around. We hope, however,
that they do not intend to take this
course. Success may drift into their hands,
borne upon the current of public opinion, TO
which the active canvass of their brethren III
other States will give powerful impetus
but it will be of much more value to them II
they deserve it 10y their own efforts. We
know it is not to be expected that with only
one State officer TO elect, and with no Leg
thoroughly active local and general canvass
can be carried on but it is nevertheless i'm
portaut that the National issues involved in
all the State campaigns this year should be
vigorously discussed from the platform anu
through the press, and that the verdict OF
PENNSYLVANIA next November upon these Is
sues should be so decisive as to place the
State in the advance of the Republican col
umn for 1880.
The Republican managers will find the
people everywhere eager to hear discussion
of the questions forced upon the country by
the Solid South and It's Northern Democratic
allies. The reception given by the Harrisburg
Convention to the thoughtful speech of the
Hon. Galusha A. Grow is an indication of the
spirit in which the people viii listen to all
earnest presentations OF the loyal National
side of these questions. a series OF county
mass-meetings held in September or October
would, we are confident, he largely attended,
and would eflectually break the ground for
the work of next year. Little campaign ma
chinery will be needed to get out the Repub-
lican vote this Fall. 1t will be sufficient to put
the issues plainly before the public, so that
their bearing on the stability Of the Govern
ment and the results OF the war may be clearly
comprehended.
There is another consideration which gives
importance to the Pennsylvania canvass. Last
year the GIeenbackers cast over 10000 votes
the largest number polled by that party at
any time in any State. The fact of success
full resumption has struck the sOft-mOncy
ganizatiOn with the force of a solid shot, seat
terng it into fragments. Some small remnant
viii be rallied by the old demagogue leaders
this year, in the hope that the Democrats viii
be desperate enough next year to trade with
them for their support but a large majority of
the men who followed Mason, Hughes and
Devices in 1878 are now adrIlt without
leadership, and are disposed to join one of the
two old parties. The Republicans have an
opportunity, which they should not fail to
improve, to gain large acccsSiOns from this
class. They will find a powerful support
for their arguments i'll the revived indus
tries of Pennsylvania. Every rolling-mil
that long stood idle ard is now III full
activity, every furnace lately cold and dead
which is now sending up its pillar of fire by
night and of cloud by day, is resumption
orator, proclaiming with unanswerable logic
the truth of Republican financial principles.
phasize this logic and to show how amply the
position of their party in the past has been
justified by events, and how surely honest
money is bringing restored National pros
perity, to win the large body of honest
voters who were deluded into believing that
the Resumption Act caused the hard times
Thus the canvass of the present year gives
to the Republican leaders in Pennsylvania
twofold opportunity. They can organize the
sentiment in favor of maintaining the dignity
and power of the National Government and
protecting the nights of citizenship, and they
can give a final blow to the cheap-money fall
lacies which have been so long the banc OF
their State politics Probably they can elect
their candidate for State Treasurer without
any effort, but il would be far better to make
such an effort as will secure result which
cannot be attributed to the accident OF an off
year, and will be accepted as fully dctermin-
ing the position OF their State IN the Presi-
dental contest of 1880.
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