New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-09-21
coon REPUBLICAN WEATHEF,


TT. IL a dull observer who cannot see great
change in Democratic feeling as to the polncai
nrosnects. During the last two weeks the Grange
has been peculiarly rapid. The Republican party
~ Neyv- York has nominated ticket which even
it's opponents admit Is exceedingly strong anu
popu1ar. The Democratic party has nomiha'eu
ticket which some Democratic elements anu
newspapers refuse to support, and which Is GER
tain to excite greater unpopnarity the longer
soma of fits features are studied Instead OF Une
certainty of success in the great Empire state
+ba Democratic mind is forced to admit the pos
sibilitv of defeat Ii is clear enough that defeat
IN This State would have serious effect upon the
prospects of the party in a Presidential elecuon'
Without New ork, the prospects Oh that party
even when they were most rosecolored, were
ravar mite as clear as its shrewdest leaders
wished.
Az tbe Same time the progress Of the campaign
In Ohio has been painfully Disappointing W
Democrats. Unhounded hopes were oaseo upon
q s,,pposed war between Republican leaders III
that State. but it is getting palmer every DAY
that the Republicans of Ohio have unlteoIy ue-
termined to beat the Democrats first ana 10 seO-
fla questions of precedence in the party aoer-
ward The anticipated interneoine strife does
not break out, except in the columns OF une nlosO
imaginative Democratic papers. MAJOR Mchln-
lev has been winning support rapidly by his ei-
fectiye canvass, while Governor Campbell is I'M
able 10 counterbalaf7ce his efforts. The attitude
of the Farmers organizations has proved as
annointment Instead of being drawn into the
third party and acting as Assistant Democrats,
the farmers have taken pains recently to mani
fest the non-partisan character OF their organiza
lions. and their hostility to the Sub-Treasury anu
fat money notions The tendency OF the LABOR
organizations, also, does not satisfy DeHocrAOic
hopes, while the dissatisfaction OF voters IN Cln
cinpah with the Democratic candidate does not
melt away as sanguine men expected. AIto-
pether the prospect for Major Mckinley is 80
excellent that Democratic hopes are chilled.
But another fact of much wider consequence Is
that the weather has been too hot 1t rpened
the corn too fast for the party OF National
calamity. Night after night frost did not Kill
the corn. but Democratic hopes were frost Dltten'
Had the farmers of the Northwestern States lost
a quarter or a third of their corn, there might
have been in some States serious DISAGREEMENT.
But when Democratic calamity walters appeal to
men whose DarrS are DuISOAhS VAIN oAOP'' -
who are paying off their mortgages at the rate
Of $40, o0O, 900 for the single State OF Kansas
they have weary time. 1t does not appear to
Western farmers this year that they are the
worse for year of the Mckinley tariff and the
Republican Silver act, and with fewer anxieties
there comes clearer conception OF the dishonest
use made of farmers TO serve the purposes OIL
Democratic politicians.
II has been dismal week for the remains OF
the Alliance With the thermometer at 100 in
Minnesota, and wheat little below 81 at Chi
cago. statesmen of the sockless variety have
found the climate scarcely endurable. How I'M
pleasant it is, for instance, that TO- O0o farmers
in Kansas should have cleared off their debts
and ranged themselves mentally on the side Of
property owners and against debt repudlators
Strong sunlight is bad for political heresies and
knaves in many ways. But when the Alliance
ceases to be much moro than the recollection Of
poltical nightmare, Democratic prospects at
the West disappear
Within the next few weeks, 1t is probable, the
signs of the times will alter still more to the dis
like of those who live on public disaster. colo
comes from Europe and money will flow into new
| industries and enterprises by the score. LIBERIA
purchases by farmers will stimulate manufact-
nres and give new employment to artisans and
mechanics Meanwhile those who fix their eyes
on New York will see a Democracy struggling
under the odium of Tammany, Hillsm and Bar
relism. "