New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-09-12
this country has been astonshingly rapid, far
exceeding the gains in older countries.
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GOTNG ron " PECK. y

GOTNG FOR PECk."
For dull and lifeless campaign such as our
Democratic friends are making, Mr. +. Ellery
Anderson may be considered as in some respects
a boom He lends it the appearance OF ac-
tiyity Not that he frequents BuzzardS Bay
or sits around the Democratic headquarters
Swapping lies" with statesmen who Hook IN
there from such remote points as MISSISSIPPI
and Idaho to tell reporters for Democratic
newspapers what the prospect is in Newly ork :;
that isn't his line He wouldn't go to Buz-
Yards Bay except on Mr.. Clevcands urgent
invitation which is not likely to be extended
since that statesman is not now occupying
himself with offering bait" hell grummets'
at ; cents apiece-tO fish already Hopping In
the boat. Nor would Mr.. Anderson be caught
hobnobbing with the statesmen who infeSt head
quarters for the principal use he makes OF a
finely chiseed Grccian nose is to turn 1t up
with superior sniff at all that sort OF cattle
But without being at that scene OF rapturouS
enthusiasm where pilgrims from miles around
gather on the shore to get the rear view OF
Mr.. Cleveland in the stern sheets OF cat
boat and without ever getting into the Nlld
whrl of excitement in which at headquarters
they sit with their feet on the table waiting 10
hear from Shcchan Mr.. Anderson has been tor
several months in intermittent, but on the
whole pretty steady, eruption. He was cS-
pecially active from the fatcd hour when Inc
democratic state Committee turned the party
bottom side up and danced on the grave OF
Jefferson bv calling State convention in Feb
ruary till the assembling of the Chicago con
vcntion. He raised money, raised now party,
raised an nti-snappcr excitement. raised. III
short. what in Fourtcenth-st. they call " H."
At Chicago Mr. Whitney sat down on him
Sat down on him and his associates so hard
that they did not peep. II is understood that
Mr.. Whitney did it by simply sending them
message similar in its general tone and tenor
10 the remark Of the colorod person on top OF a
ladder who said. somewhat excitedly, 10 hog
scratching himself on the lower rounds TO
vay. Go right away from dar. louSc maxim
mischief" Since then Mr.. Anderson and his
associates. without being in violent eruption.
have been in state of bubbling cferycSconcc
that reminds one Of the boiling springs in the
Yellowstone Park, which, after being in com
paratvely quicscent condition for several days,
start into violent action upon the introduction
of a bar Of soap. and proceed Immediately to
squirt and spout and get everybody in the neigh
borbood into hot water somebody perhaps
Mr.. Anderson himself, for he is known as a
liberal giver to any political movement that
makes di,turbance--haS evidently furnished the
soap. for the boiling has Just broken out atrcsh.
Mr. Anderson is in eruption once more, ana II
he does not get the Democratic party INTO hot
water before he gets through it will be either
because the party gets ont OF the way ana
stands from under. or the soap gives out We
owe him thanks for "A noble effort 10 make
dull campaign lively and aggressive. The moro
thanks, since his. aggrcSSiveneSS is. as usual
against his own party and one Of Mr.. Clcyc-
lands appointees.
He is now on the rampage against the gentle
man who was lately called in Democratic news
papers "The Honorable Charles +. Peck, Com
missioner Of the Bureau of statistics of Labor
of the State of New York" but whom the same
newspapers are now compelled by press Of other
matter 10 call plain Peck" In the discharge
of his official functions Peck" as Is now well
known, ran up against some facts and figures
which upset Mr. Anderson pet theories and on
the whole. did Mr.. Cleyelands cause no good.
In the belief Of Mr. Clevcands friends they
ought not 10 have been published. Bur Peck
published them. They made trouble Then
Peck" being pitched into by the people who
think that facts have no business to be counted
when they conflict with theories, said the tables
from which his compilations were made were
open to the public, but as shey had been OBJ
tanned from several thousand business men
under the pledge of confidence he could not
give their names. Thcreupon Mr.. Anderson. in
the belief, apparently, that if he could get the
names of these men he could dScrcdit the
Labor Commits report by proving them
all liars, rose mp and went to Albany to make
formal demand for all the confidential docu-
ments in the case. lie is now climbing up
"Pecl1'sD back with an order of court, and
threatens presently to take up residence in
his hair with a mandamus. All Of which serves
to impart the appearance of activity to the
canvass Anderson going for /" Peck" with all
the machinery of the law to compel the latter
to violate confidence and break his word H.
five or six thousand citizens is the most ~
tureSouc feature Of the field.
Still, we strongly suspect that Ellery VIII be
called off shortly, just as he was at Chicago.
lie is doing mischief" Where's Whitney?