New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-09-09
TIE DEMOCRATIC CANVASS ~ PENN.
CHIElNII

Our friends the enemy arc hy no means of
one mind in regard To the condition and pros
poets Of their campaign for the Govcrnor>hip
Of PENNSYLVANIA Some of them argue that
everything i. looking most encouraging. that
their candidate Pattison is growing stronger
every day. while others shake their heads and
declare that his nomination having been made
hy and with the advice and consent. not t"
say tho dictation. of Grover Cleyrland-a poll
tician residing Olt.idc the Stat"-waS Il blow
at the sacred principle Of local sclf-G"Ycrn-
mont as represented by that popular and in
lu"ntinl PENNSYLVANIA Democrat. ex-senator
Wallace; and they further declare tia; tho
conduct %. tho canvass thus far has not been
such as 10 repair the hlnndrr
A prominent exponent Of tn" cheerful Wow
OF the Outook for pattson is that earnest
worker in the Democratic field. "Thc Ncw-
York Times" In its issue OF yesterday il did
its best to brace up the courage OF tho Dem
ocrats Of the keystone State. Ii assured them
that there was a big and growing "rcvolt'
against tho Republican npminrc for Governor
and that 90 f'' reports from the eastern 0lln
tics Of Pennsylvania wcr" not exaggerated he
was sure 10 be defeated "by a large minority"
This is tolcriLly optimistic * il stands. but
"Thc Times" gives its glowing tai" III" finish
ing touch by adding that "rpolis from the
other counties are equally encouraging" Turn
ing now 70 "Thr Ncw-YOrk sun" of yesterday
one finds double loaded dispatch from Penn
Sylvamin full Of sad lcrcbOdngs Ia tho Pat
tsInitcs The writer charges that the Demo
cratic campaign has been grossly mislnnnagcd
up to date. and then proceeds ~ follows:
This dissipation Of Democratic success T. due 10 ih-
Infection VI the stuffed Prophet and MngwnnIpsm into
the campaign by the Federal Oiccholdrr Of the Clcvr
land Administration. Every consideration Of common
sense and political sagacity ought to have excluded
these factors: bit from the day that cyI'"smasicr
Iarrity made Cleveland the central figure Of the
pagn, and established a Mmgwump committee a, an
adjunct tD Chat, man Kcrrs state Committee the
pagn dropped.
1t is tOorably clear from this that the Penn
sylvania Democrats who swear by Chicftain
Wallace are feeling about rs ugly now as they
did on the day when tho nomination was
snatrhcd from his grasp and handed over To
pattson. As for Wallace himself it is well
known that his interest in the triumph of
Pennsylvania Democracy under tho lead Of
| Patts0n with Cleveland for his principal back
| or was SO intense that he rose up shortly after
| the nomination WAS made and checked his
| baggage for Europe. 1t Is only fair to add
that there is a ray of hope in the double
loaded dispatch to "Thc SUM- It's CORE
| spondcnt believes Pattson could win if he
and the chairman of the Democratic Commit
too would rcpudate Cleveland and William,
| l.. Scott and "retirc the AIugwump State
| Committee" But since there i, not the ghost
| Of n chance of either Mr.. lattison or the chair
man Of the committee doing any of these
things, evidently this is particularly forlorn
ray of hope.
l,ut why this disagreement among Demo
cratic observers of II Democratic campaign
How does it happen that The sun" in effect
scouts tho idea that reports from the eastern
counties are quito encouraging, and that re-
ports from the other counties are equally ell
conraging"; and that Tho Tines utterly
ignores the facts to which 1.-THE Sun" calls
] attention. 1t looks to IN outsider ss though