The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-04-27
SPEAKER REED ALARMED
He Is Greatly Asitatsd Over the Growth
Of the Democratic Press.
How Future Campaigns VIII be
Fought-The O. O. p. Must
Hustle to Keep Out of
the Tureen.

PIrTsBuRG. April a6.-Thc fourth an
nual dinner OF the republican club In
Of the 6sth birthday OF
Gen. u. :. Grant was given tonight.
"Our Guests Absent was responded To
by Col. j. NJ. Schoonmaker. of this city.
Grant" by Governor James A. Beaver,
and "Thc Republican Party" by Hon.
Thomas B. Reed, speaker Of the house of
representatives. Reed spoke at length ON
election frauds and ballot box stuiilng in
the South. The remedy he said, was the
passage of the senate bill enlarging the
powers of United States supervisors over
state elections. Assistant Postmaster
General Clarkson spoke to the toast,
"The Republican Press" Brice was
much derided for his phrase in
lsss, that the campaign of that year was
an intellectual one, yet his statement was
true. Political contests, said the speaker,
are coming more and more To he fought in
the ard)na Of discussion and in the news
paper press. The torchlight and the red
light as political arguments are being SUI
pcrccdcd by the intellectual discussion Of
the press. The campaign OF 1892 will he
a newspaper campaign, and IL has al
ready begun. Democrats saw this before
republicans. for any close observer must
have seen the marvellous manner In which
the democratic party has been strength
eninR its lines in newspapers or maga-
zines. In the large cities of the east they
have captured nearly all magazines aud
illustrated papers, all mercenarics of the
press and literature have been turned into
their service. Reinforced the democratic
press is a startling thing for the rcpubli-
can party to face, and II must face ID with
courage and wisdom. In New York city
1,400,O00 copies of daily newspapers are
printed daily. Less than 2uOO0O Of them
hat
flfths of the republicans of New York city
and its environments are reading demo-
cratic papers. taking the democratic ycr-
sion OF things, and the young people Of
the households are being educated uncon-
sciously against the party Of their fathers.
In Boston the papers of the greatest cir
culation are also democratic. The
same Is true OF nearly every large
city In the country. Democracy
he, has also pressed its conquest 10 the
agricultural press, and i'm the last three or
four years many of the farmers papers
free trade. IL was largely through this
line and that Of the farmers alliances
that the democrats first based their claim
that the Northwest was for free trado and
changing TO the democratic party. Even
| as good an organization as that OF the
farmers was utilized, and farmers ALI.
ances were established systematically
with all the democrats and all the weak.
kneed republicans in the ncighborhood
gathered into its folds. Then they were
supplied with free trade literature secret
ly and constantly. Such propaganda has
never been known i'm America as that OF
the democrats i'm their huut in secret and
through a changing press in behalf oi
free trade in the West to-day; and sub
init Ia you as republicans, that il is tim,
for our party To take notice Of what th.
| opposition party is doing by increasing
and strengthening its press.