Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1888-10-20
INDIANA DEMOCRATS CONFIDENT.
How the Delegations to See Harrison Are
Worked Tn,

How the Delegations to See Harrison Are
Worked Up.
An Indianapolis correspondent of The
New York Sun, whose letter shows that
he is thorough and impartial in his work,
gives the following points:
The Democrats are headquartered In
the old state house. Like the Republi-
cans, they are led by some able veterans.
Charles L. Jewett, the chairman; Governor
Isaac P Gray L. Marsh, the secretary,
and S. P, Sheerin, the member of the ma
tional committee. are all busy. They have
big quarters and twenty times the htera-
ture that the Republicans possess.
1T takes. too, said Chairman Jewett;
I'VE cannot give the people enough tariff
literature and speeches. The Republicans
shirk the subject. Here is one way they
answer our offer to lower the taxes on the
people (holding up a card with British
flag printed on it,, and here is one of
their replies to our proposition to relieve
the public of an onerous burden" {exhib-
iting a circular headed, Take me home
to my poor old wife-Allcn e. Thurman. y
The Democrats do their work diff.
ferently from the Republicans. In their
system each county is managed by
county committee, which places its own
speakers, spends the money it calls for,
polls its voters, and looks after its Doubt
full and useful individuals. 1t amounts
to the same thing as the Republican plan,
and the Democrats like it better. The
county leaders are subordinate to the
state committee, which supervises all that
they do, and forces them 10 get quite as
Plnsalv HONt-,, IN ba ,.,IS,-;I,,aI L..
constantly returning the poll lists with
inquiries about dubious voters, as the
other plan of the Republicans does. This
is how the Democrats talk:
''As to our money for this campaign,
| all We need to say is that we don't owe
| anybody any money. AS to our organize
| ton, it is true that it never was better
We have made poll Of the state and we
| like the outlook We start with this ad-
vantage, that Indiana is naturally Demo
cratic. We have proved that many times
When full vote is polled the state is
ours. But we know that it is not to be
had without work and we mean to work
| our hardest from this on. We have other
advantages. The Republicans are not
united, except upon the surface A very
| great minority were for Judge Gresham
for president They are angry at the
Harrison men, and think themselves mis-
treated at Chicago. The Republicans
are making a soldier campaign from
top to bottom, but we will sur
prise them with our soldier support.
We have another advantage. Har-
rison is exceedingly unpopular with the
workingmen. MOI vithstanding the de-
mails that Harrison made the dollar day
| speech, the workingmen will insist that
they have witnesses TO his having said
that thing, and that, even if he didn't,
his attitude has always been one of sym
pathy with corporate interests. The
workingmen are circulating an autograph
affidavit of Harrison's in which he de
nands for himself and associates 81 ,0OC
each for nearly whole week work in
court defending the receivers of the rail
road whose men afrerward struck against
a reduction of their pay from Sl.l5 to 81
a day. Later still the railroad paid him
$21 900"
As to the tariff, said one of the Dem
ocratic leaders, the presidents position
is almost precisely what the Indiana Re
publicans have been demanding for twelve
years IN their platforms and speeches
The tariff discussion is not new in Indi
ana; we have fought and won upon pre-
cisely this issue. The Democrats have
other advantages. The paper of largest
circulation in the state is The News OF
this city, and, while it supports Harrison
1t is for tariff reform. and it Is ever
doubted by Republicans whether its sup
port of Harrison is not iniuring rather
than helping him. Finally, as to the Pro
hibitionists, there is no truth in the state
ment that the Republicans are winning
them over or that they are drawing largely
from the Democrats. They bitterly op
pose the Republicans and draw very
largely from them"
In one respect the people of the whole
country are deceived as to Indiana The
pilgrimages TO Gen. Harrison's home are
not what they are represented to be. TIL,
railroads are working up these excursion!
at low rates, and are daily bringing
crowds DESTROYS of seeing Indianas big
city and the state fair now In progress
here The pilgrims are not wholly Re
pUblicans either in fact or by avowal
They are mainly sight seers. Their mum
bers are habitually overstated. A bant
that came while Tie Sun reporter has beer
here was published as numbering 40
souls. As a matter of fact, the railroad
sold only 1899 tickets. The alleged 40
were called Republicans and reported t,
have called on Gen. Harrison. As mat
ter of fact, few of them did so, an,
there was no proof that all of these few
were Republicans