The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-04-27
AN ALARM SOUNDED.
The Extensive Democratic
Propaganda.
ClARkSON GIVES WARNING.
usod 20 PFono4e Free Trade
Reed on Biscsisns.
cLARkson GIVES WARNING

PrrsBuRs. April d The fourth snnual ain
ner Of the American Republican club in com-
memosatfon Of the stxsy-esghth birthday OF
Senerh U. & Grant was given tonight sOur
Guess Absent" was responded 70 by Colonel
J. H. schoonmskes. OF this city. Grant" by
1osernor James A. Beaver. and The Repub-
Hcan Party. bv Hon. Thomas B. Reed. speaker
OF TIE House OF Representatives
Mr.. Reed spoke af length on election frauds
and ballot box stafing in the south The rem
edy, be said. was the passage OF the Senate bill
enlarxtng the powers of United States super
visions over stste elections
Assistant Possmsstes-Generai Claxkson spoke
to the toast, "The Republican Press" Gavin
. Brice was much derided for his phrase in
isss. that the cam psigu Of thst year was IN In
teliectuai one, Jet bis statement Was true
Political contests, said the speaker. are coming
more and more to be fought in the arena Of dis
cussdon and in the newspapers The torchlight
ana the red light as political arguments are be
ing srperceded by the intellectual discussion OF
the press. The campaign OF lss2 viii be news
paper campaign, and IL has already begun. The
Democrats saw this before the Republican,. for
any close observer must have seen the marvel.
Gus manner In which the Democratic party has
been strengthening its lines in newspapers or
magazines n the large cities OF the East
they have captured nearly all the magazines
aud ILLUSTRATED papers. all the machinery of the
presB and literature have been turned into their
service. The rein forcemrnt of the Democratic
press is = startling thing for the Republican
party % face, andft must face IL with courage
and wisdom. In New York city l.401000 copies
OF daily newspapers are printed daily. Less
than 10000 of them are Republican This
means that twc-hfshs of the Republicans Of New
York city and its environmt MS are reading
Democratic papers. taking the Democratic yar-
sion OF things. and the young people OF the
households are being educated unconsciouay
against the party Of their fathers. In Boston
the papers Of greatest circulation are also Demo-
cratic, and the same is true OF nearly every large
city in the country.
The Democracy has also pressed its conQuests
to the agricultural press, and In the last three
four years many farmers papers in the West
largely through this line and that Of the farmers
alliances that the Democrats hrst based their
claim that the Northwest was for free trade, and
changing to the Democratic party. Even Is
good an organization rs that OF the farmers was
utilized. and the Farmers Alliance was es'ab-
lished systematically with ali Democrats and
all weekkneed Republicans in the neighbor-
hood gathered into its folds Then they were
supplied with free trade literature, secretly and
constantly.
.'sueh propaganda has never been known in
America as that OF the Democrats in their hunt.
In secret and through a changing press. in be-
bali OF Tree trade in the West today, and sub
init to you, as Republicans, that il is time for
our party 10 take notice OF what the opposition
party 10 doing by increasing and strengthening
Its press"