The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1888-10-17
INDlANA pEMocRArs coNEIDgNr.
How the Delegations TO see Harrison Are
worked Up.


tiSw the Designations % 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
tho old state house. Like the Republic
cans, they are led BY some able veterans.
Charles l., Jewett, the chairman; Governor
Isaac P. esSy. E. Marsh, tlse secretary,
aud s. P. Sheerin. the member OF the ma
tional committee. are all busy. They have
big quarters and twenty times the litera-
ture that the Republicans possess.
lit takes, too, said Chairman Jewett;
1--WE cannot give the people enough tariff
literature and speeches. The Republicans
shirk the subject. Hert Is pne way they
answer our offer to lower the taxes ON the
people" (holding up = card with British
flag printed on it), ..and here is one of
their replies to our proposition to relieve
the public of an onerons burden" (exhib
iting a circular headed. s.Take me home
to my poor old wife--Allen g.. Thurman. y
The Democrats do their work diff
ferently from the Republicans. In their
system each county Is managed by a
county committee. which places its own
speakers. spends the money it calls fori
polls its voters, and looks after its doubt
fuI and useful individuals. Il amounts
to the same thing as the Republican plan,
md the Democrats like it better The
county leaders are subordinate to the
state committee. which supervises all that
they do, and forces them to get quite as
closely down to the Individual voter, by
constantly returning the poll lists with
inquiries about dubious voters. as the
other plan of the Republicans does. This
is how the Democrats talk:
LAS to our money for this campaign,
all we need to say is that we don't owe
anybody any money. As to our organiza-
tion, 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 1t is not to DO
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. Tho 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
inc taG-
mails that Harrison made tho dollar day
speech, the worsingmen 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
workingrlen arc circulating an autograph
affidavit of Haffison's in which he de-
mands for himself and associates 81, 600
each for nearly whole weeks work in
court defending the receivers Of the rail
road whose men afterward struck against
II reduction of their pay from 81. Is to 81
s.. aaSi .5oo. Later still the railroad paid him
"As to the tariff. " said one of the Dem
ocratic leaders. 1.-The Presidents position
5 almost precisely what the Indiana Re.
2ublicans 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. Tho pnpcr of largest
circulation in the state is The News of
.his city, and, while it supports Harrison,
t Is for tariff reform, and 1t is even
doubted by Republicans whether its sup.
port of Harrison is not injuring rather
than helping him. Finally. us to tho Pro
hibitionists, there is no truth in tho state
ment that the Republicans are winning
them over or that they arc drawing largely
from tho Democrats. They bitterly op.
pose tho Republicans and draw very
largely from them"
In ono respect the people of the whole
country nrc deceived as to Indiana. Tho
pilgrimages to Gen. Harrison's home are
not what they arc represented to be. The
railroads are working up these excursions
at low rates. and arc daily bringing
crowds desirous of seeing Indiana's big
city and the state fair now In progress
here. Tho pilgrims are not wholly Re
pnblicans either in fact or by avowal
They are mainly sight seers. Their num-
bers are habituaily overstated. a band
that camo while The Sun reporter has been
here was published as numbering 400
souls. AS matter of fact, the railroad
sold only 100 tickets. The alleged 200
were called Republicans and reported to
have called on Gen. Harrison. As mat
ter of fact, few of them did so, md
there was no proof that all of these few
were Republicans.