New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-14
PENNSYLVANIA POLITICS.

| revolt SO many have started ont well and
ended poorly; the pressure OF party regularity Is
so powerful; men arc so apt TO yield. even at the
last moment TO entIeaties of the leaders ana press
of the party; the drift, toward the end, is so apt
! TO he toward the regular organization, whllo Mt
the beginning II may have been away from t--that
the future even OF a promising movement OF tbs
kind is usually uncertain. That of the PENN
sylyania Independents is still Inchoate TO great
| degree. The practical work Of organization IS, IN
| many quarters. Just beginning. aud the pubic
| canvass-the meetings. speeches, ctc.-Wll hoV
| fairly open for week or two yet. lhere muSC
| be considerable progress in this work before any
| one will be able TO form definite opinion OF the
vote that is likely TO be cast and of the proportion
of the men who are In danger of falling
| away before election day
Int is not too early TO see that the movement pre-
sonts all the characteristics of political re oluton,
and that the size of the demonstration apparently
| renders General Beavers election imoossbe. Tho
| Independent Republicans everybody knows,
include many of the best citizens every quarter
| of the State. They are, rs rule men who have
| been waiting for long time for opportunity
to say what they think of the Cameron methods,
| aud have taken thor stand deliberately AS
class. they not men who he either bribed or
driven. The spirit and determination of these
men noticeable everywhere. The Stalwart
managers will not be able to start the hue and cry
against them that they ale joining with the Demo
Gratis 10 overthrow the Republican party. No
sentiment receives such hearty applause in In
dependent meetings as that which declares that they
are all Republicans and nothing but Republicans.
and that they have no sympathy with the Dem
ocratic party. They give the best proof of this
by showing that they ready to support all
Republican nominations except those which
they have made this ISSUE because they were
brought about by un-Republican methods
One OF the sure things is that the Stalwarts will
make a literally desperate canvass If General
Beaver defeated it will be only after every pos
sble effort has been made to carry him through
The Stalwart managers have put their teeth to-
gether, aud are going to win if il is a human pos
sibility. Senator Cameron. who has tho reputation
Of being liberal with money for political purposes
afford to give away good slice of his fortune
to carry this election, and he has men under HIM
WIN know well enough how to spend it. If there
IL any Independent who imagInes that the stall
warts will accept defeat long there are two
tickets IN the field, he Is likely to discover his
mistake before long There Will always be a pos
sibity. OF course up to the end of the that
there Will he union an entirely ticket.
Many sincere Republicans are anxious that this
shall be DONE and every fresh failure to bring about
a union seems only to inspire them TO new efforts.
The feeling among many Republicans on both sides
is that the campaign has advanced too far to make
a union possible. and that when 'hc active lighting
once begins the blood of both sides will be up and
neither VIII be disposed to listen to talk OF com
promise 1t is not TO bee forgotten that four months
have passed since the division took place. 1t is
not to be forgotten either that the lists of hide
pendents throughout the state, certainly in this
ton of the STATE, are growing instead on lessenng-
a fact OF great significance, showing the stay ing and
growing, power of tins movement
The Independents seem to be in some danger
from the political incNpericnce OF some of the men
in important positions in the organization. The
Cameron machine is certainly the Oldest and prob
ably the strongest state machine IN the country
to-day. comparison with Tammany Hal. a
purely local machine, would hardly De in place
perhaps; but even rammany, with ITS organization
like an army division, is no stronger than the
Cameron machine To fight a power like
this is serious business and luires I'll the political
skill the Independents can command. There is
every probability, however, that this VIII be
brought into the service i'll way another and
the fact that men are IN conspicuous positions in
the mana cement Of affairs who not regarded as
expert politicians is. from one point of view at
least, creuitable rather than discreditablc
thing, as showing that the Independents are not
collection of dissatisfied politicians as the Stalwart
papers are steadily laborng to prove.
An interesting feature of the canvass is the sup
preston by the Stalwart papers of The news To-
garling Independent meetings, etc. Independents
believe that this done under orders from head
quarters and is to be- III one sense the keynote of
the campaign. General Beaver sounded it the other
day when the speaker introducing him made some
reference to the fact that they III Senator
Stewards own county. General Beaver said that
he should not have known that there any other
candidate for Governor but Mr. Pattisou ii the
speaker had not mentioned it, and that he recog-
MED no party rs opposing him but tie Democratic
party 1t is believed by some of the Independents
that this Will be the tune Of the Stawart speakers
Their arguments will be directed against the Demo-
cratic party, and their only illusions to the indie
pcndents Will probably be in the nature of appeals
10 Republican voters to rally around the old
flag, stand by the party. etc. etc. The policy Of
suppression, both in speeches and in the news
papers, viii, if adopted, be for the simple reason
that the Stalwarts know that discus Sion OF the
issues involved in the Canvass is just what the In
dependents ant and just what viii benefit them
most whereas the Stalwarts would probably lose
votes instead of making them. Tins probably ac-
counts Tor General Beavers recent silence on the
pending Issues. and partly tor MS refusal to have
oint discussion with his opponent. The Stalwarts
evidently hope TO win votes by keeping the peonle
in Ignorance, SO far as they an regarding the IN
dependent movement. The extent to which they
able to do this is perhaps not appreciated ont
side OF Pennsylvania. 1t is tradition here that
the Cameron policy has always been to look after
the newspapers every whore, and get control of
them through pOstoilice appointments and in other
ways. To give an example, there is only one indie
pendent paper in Crawford County, The ratctord
journal. published at Meadve. Every oIher Re
publican paper in the county is stalwart aud they
are nearly all controlled, either directly or indi-
Tectly, by postOfice appointments. The other day
when the meeting held at which the Mayor |
Mr. Harper WAS elected president of the Indcpen-