The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1882-09-01
Democrats in Good Fighting Trim.

Democrats ln GOOd Fighting IriW.
! Scarcely an hour in the day. SAYS the
/ Philadelphia Times of SATURDAY.. finds
I Chairman HenseI's headquarters lacking
/ the presence of inquiTing members OF
/ the party of both town and country.
/ Monday Chairman Hensel and Harrity
/ will meet the city executive Committee
/ at the rooms, Broad street and Penn
I Square, to review the local field and i'm
| press upon the organization the impor-
tance of systematic work. Immediately
I thereafter Mr.. HenseI viii leave for
BellefODte, Centre county. the home of
] General Beaver, where he will address
the Democratic meeting on Tuesday
evening, in accordance with an engage
ment made before he was selected as
chairman, and to which the Bellefonte
/ Democrats hold him al the more strict
ly since he is chairman Candidate
Black, or Africa, or possibly both, will
attend the same meeting, going to Cen
tre county from Somerset where they are
advertised for Monday evening. Ex-
Governor Curtin will also speak at the
Bellfonte meeting. To-day the Bucks
county Democrats will hold their con-
vention and as every member of the
party is delegate to the convention, if
all attend, a great popular outpOuring
is expected, interests centering in the
contest between Phillips and Vandegrift
for the Senatorial nomination. General
W. II. II. Davis is supporting Phillips
and ex-senator Y erkes manifests par
tiality for Vandegrift.
The newspapers of the State from
which the portrait of Pattison has beam
ed forth during the past week will be IL
lustrated with a cut and frieghted with
a biographical sketch of Chauncey F.
Black this week, the other candidates
following in weekly succession. As vet
little has been done with reference to
the campaign on the stump, It is un-
derstOOd that the Democrats will bring
in no speakers from the outside. main
tanning that this is a State campaign
with state issues. About the first or
October it is expected that the thunder
of the heavy guns will be heard and that
1t will be heard all along the line until
election day. There is every disposition
to keep clear of the uniformed clubs,
tOrchlight parades and fire works, which
were so expensive and demoraliZing a
feature of the Hancock Garfield cam
paign. The State Committee having
no office holders to assess will doubtless
make an appeal in some form to its
friends for financial assistance. AS vet
Chairman Cooper has not yet captured
copies of any such appeals, though it is
known that his emissaries are on the
lookout for something of the kind. in or
der to justify his fresh levy on those
who draw salaries from the government
Chairman Hensel said he never seen a
campaign in the party in such fine con-
dition as at the present time In other
years he has seen more clubs organized,
and more brass bands, but, pointing to
his pigeon-holed letters, he said he nev-
er found such an amount of that kind of
work. Hundreds of Democrats, who
perhaps had never before addressed the
State Committee were now in commun-
icatiOn with it.
Among the visitors at the headquar-
terS yesterday was Robert Emmett Mon
aghan, the Democratic war horse of
West Chester, who was on his way to
Cape May, having some time since re-
turned from his annual trip to his Mis-
souri, farm. With characteristic Wig
or Mr.. Monaghan spoke of the prevail
ing political evils and the cure for them.
He thought the danger to the Demo-
cracy lay in still-hunt by the opposi-
tiOn among those who have been leduc-
ed to want by the long strikes. In 1880
he said the Republicans had threatened
ing interests and loss of labor to work
ingmen if Hancock was elected The
Democracy made the fatal error of
adopting the defensive, instead of retail
iating with the avOwed determination
to stand up and labor against this attack
aud threat by capital. At all events
Hancock was beaten, and now in less
than two years, thousands of IabOring
men are in want, Republican politicians
he said, swill sneak among them to
tempt them in their necessities. They
will try to hribe them when their fami-
lies are suffering. This still-hunt of
the enemy must be guarded against.
The desperate agents Of the corrupt po-
litical dynasty which would debauch the
commonwealth must be spotted. 1t is
life or death with both Cameron and
Arthur.
Mr.. Monaghan agreed with Chairman
Hensel as to the necessity for drill and
efficient organization of the party be-
fore it is called to the front, but when
the call for battle sounds he does not
want to see the troops frightened off by
such bugabOOs as demOralized the party
in $780,