Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1884-09-05
Dasa On the Carnpsigu.

Dana On the Campalgn,
There 10 probably no other man in
the profession of journalism whose DO
litical opinions are more universally
respected than Charles A. Dana, editor
Of the New York Sun. Since the Chi
cago convention, Mr.. Dana, while treat.
ing the political situation with candor
and independence in hisown columns,
has avoided q p1rsonAl expression Of
opinion. Two days ago he consented TO
be interviewed Ut some length, and he
spoke with the utmost frankness on the
political outlook. The interview VA
had By the Washington correspondent
OF the Cincinnati Inquirer, who relates
It as follows: -"
Twenty years ago, when I left the
army, Charles A Dana did me q service
In public way. Since l have seen
him but once. Yesterday l called ON
him 1t his office. Time had dealt kindly
with him, his figure was full and ro-
bust. His eye Is As keen as when in
his immediate prime. The finger OF
time had more preceptibly shown it.
self in turning his bair to grayish tints,
but not deteriorating otherwise IN
abundant: capillary growth. found
him in his sanctum, where he is ever
busy.
Said I: "Mr. Dana, in your .iudg-
ment, will the labor detection, as is al
legged against Cleveland, lose to the
Democrats the State of New York ?'
The labor Detection" said he, Twill
be large. Whether it will be large
enough to balance the Independent Re-
publican vote against Blaine may be a
question, but taken in connection with
tho Irtoh dafarftAn hn Tnl
Democratic detection and the silent
vote that is going to be cast against
Cleveland, and because of the now no.
torious scandal, it will certainly suffice
to lose the State of New York to the
Democracy"
What figure will Butler cut In the
canvass at large ?" asked.
e Butler," said he, will be great
figure in the canvass, certainly. He is
a portentous force wherever he appears,
but he will be much more portentous in
some States than in others. do not
pretend to say what b IL plans are, but 1
imagine that his personal efforts will
be principally confined to Massachu-
sets, Connecticut, New York, New
Jersey and Pennsylvania. i have
| heard that he was going to speak in In
diana, in Ohio, and possibly in Kansas,
hut whether that is really so is more
than can tell"
If not indelicate, your opinion as to
Buffers vote and its bearing on the
| result will interest readers ! VEN
tured.
see nothing indicate in the ques-
ton. Under ordinary circumstances the
vote of n third party and especially of a
new third party, must necessarily be
| small, but there l. no reason to suppose
that it will be 30 in the case of the Peo-
pies party under the lead of Butler. In
the first place, 1t includes all the scat.
| tered elements that made so consider
able showing in the National election
of 1876 and 1880, and they are strength
ened this time by the consciousness that
they are going to amount to something
and that vote cast for their candidate
will be thrown away and hidden among
| the returns of scattering votes. Then,
there is the great body of the indepen-
dent bolting Democrats, men who will
/ not vote for Cleveland, not merely be.
cause they do not think him ft in char
acter as in other qualifications, but be-
cause they find 1t necessary to rebel
lagainst the manner of his nomination
and the purposes for which he was sci
up."
1 then asked SIS 1t true or not tha,
the 80 called Mlden machine nominated
Cleveland ?"
"No doubt the Tilden machine so
called nominated Mr.. Cleveland" was
the response. " Nothing could have
Nominated In Democratic conven ton
a man whose principal support had to
be found outside in the Republican
party, but the adroit use of Mr.. Tilden's
name and prestige"
I" What is there about Clevela nd 4
public services which stamp him as
lother than commonplace man ?"
asked, with some timidity,
Nothing at all. He is a common
lplace person, ignorant, narrow, obsti-
nate with few fundamental Demo-
cratic ideas that have made his political
fortune"
i "Is he man." said ], "of force OF
character, or plastic in the hands Of his
friends ?''
Gan that l know of the man has been
learned from his public acts and char
: acter, and, while he is self-willed and
!, determined, he is likewise plastic. He
has done great many things in office
that can only be explained on the
, theory that he was in the hands OF
some stronger will and shrewder man.
i agement than his own. Moreover, he
lis profoundly selfish, or, rs great
Democratic statesman has said, the
most selfish man who has ever been In
high office in New York. In all that he
does he is always carefully considering
the interest of his own advancement"
then asked, What are Buffers
aims aud ambitions in entering the
8 Presidential race ?"
GAS far as I can pretend to under.
stand him." said Mr.. Dana, Butler
means and desires to maintain certain
t principles, such rs potection to Ameri-
{ can labor, the advancement Of working
: men and the restriction of monopolies
which the Democratic National Con.
+ vention was not willing to endorse as
he desired. He intends to found,
presume, a party that will last, more
democratic than the Democracy, more
progressive and popular than any party
that ever was founded, except the origi
nal party of Thomas j Jefferson.
"After all, 1t looks from this point OF
8 observation as If Ohio must be the Gas.
|. sius OF the National Democracy, ol
I Iotherwise it will again sink. give my
views more in sorrow than in anger
, | and in the sincere hope that the Demo
cracy may make its fight in Ohio, where
it has the chances to win, and thus
leaven up New York, which Is now In
a bad way"
Il A steam ShOvels Big Work.
Thursdays Baltimore Sun says
Ryan & McDonald's steam shovel, or
section 12 of the Baltimore and Ohio
: Railroad, Philadelphia extension, IL