Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-23


WHILE Eastern Democratic leaders are |
endeavoring to modify their platform decla- |
ration on the tariff, Henry Watterson
comes out with this declarations: "We de- |
clare that the Government has no right,
constitutional or otherwise, to raise dollar
by taxation except for its own use, econom-
we get the power, to put our revenue sys-
tenn in o state OF transition from the policy
of protection, which now prevails, to q pol
icy of free trade which shall prevail"
OCTOBER is the last day for paying the
ia which Pennsylvania continues to make
a necessary preliminary to voting. The
Philadelphia Public Ledger makes an earnest
appeal to all citizens TO pay this tax from
their own pockets saying: "The Chairman
of the Democratic City Committee has is
sued a circular reciting the illegalitv OF
voting upon the receipts provided by
party organization and has announced that
his committee does not intend to purchase
any. Mr.. Wilhere may. possibly, be max
ing virtue of necessity, but the ex-
ample he sets should be followed
by the Republican Committee, and
both parties should determine to keep out
the votes of persons who have not paid their
own taxes. To permit party committee to
pay for ones receipt is to accept petty
bribe, and yet, humiliating as it is to admit,
thousands of voters in this city are in this
dlscreditable position. No wonder Austral-
ian ballots are necessary when respectable
men, who can afford to pay their own taxes,
will accept recaipts from party workers
receipts paid for by assessments levied upon
policemen, lamplIghters and gashouse stok-
ers." The practice of purchasing tax re-
ceipts by party committees is much more
extensive in Philadelphia than elsewhere
throughout the State, although by no means
unknown in Allegheny county.
DIR. FLOODS nomination for Congress in
the Erie-Crawford district has apparently
aroused flood of opposition, which it will
be difficult to stem.
NoTwITHsTANDING the orders of the
Civil Service Commission and the announce
| ment of President Harrisons position, cases
| of the attempted assessment Of Federal
| oficeholders are coming to light. The
| latest discovery is in Eastern Pennsylvania.
| Under date OF Media, September,1 II, the Della
ware County Republican Executive Com
| mittee has sent out a circular letter to Gov
| ernment employees in which this language
| is used: "The activities of Presidential
| campafgn require reasonable amount of
money for purely legitimate uses. The Re-
publican Executive Committee is charged
with the conduct of the campaign through.
| out Delaware county. You, as Republican
officeholder, being doubly interested in the
| success of the party in the election of Harri.
son and Reid, as your tenure of office en-
| tirely depends upon it, we feel Justified in
| calling upon to bear a share of the eX-
pense: We therefore expect @ ana or,nt solictt q
| YOU feel able to give, assuring you that II
will be duly acknowledCed and jud1ciously
| expended" 1t is understood the attention
| n. Crtf, ,y,ai- sci r
been called to this communication, ana con
| siderable curiosity is expressed as to wha,
action, if any, will be taken.
THE Harrisburg Gail advises its con
stituents to "Read that ballot law once
twice, thrice and oftener."
T. J. RICHARDSON, the Iowa member o
the Democratic National Committee, cal
| still discern a 1ickering rainbow IN th'
Western sky. He has been visiting Dem
ocratic headquarters at New York, and tell
ing the faithful gathered there such storie:
as this: '1f person wants to see real en-
thu siasm he wants to meet an Iowa Demo
crat. The Democrats of the State are jus
| as enthusiastic and industrious as they wer
a wear ago, when they carried the State 70
the second time and elected Governor Boies
The party is stronger than it was year age
so that regard the chances now OF carry
ing the State better than they were whe
, Governor Boies was last elected. Clevelan
? is intensely popular in Iowa, not only wit
his party, but with the Republicans. MI
Harrison is6not popular with his parry i
Iowa. Iowa Is a Blaine State. Had Nj
Blaine been the candidate Iowa might hav
been carried by the Republicans, but as it
1 cannot believe that Harrison has muc
chance Governor Boies and all the Demo
|
. | they themselves were personally 1ntereste
| in the result. Our State Committee Is we
| organized and Is making good progres
| The reports that have been received q
| State headquarters up TO the time l lei
home are highly gratifying" It would b
: pertinent to inquire whether Mr. Ricnarc
1 which declared at Chicago that no Democra
, but Boies could carry Iowa
THE announcement that Mills, of Te1a
is to take the stump in the Northwest wi
1 be received with glee by the Republicans
l that section.
THE Republican candidate for Governt
| of New Sersey, John Kean, Jr., express'
the greatest confidence in Republican su
y cess in the mosquitoes State this year. In a
. interview he said: "We are in this light IL
, business and not for pleasure We hay
. reason to believe that we will carry Il
State Just as the Jersey City Repuplcal
, carried their city last spring, when the
4 won by 5000 majority. The Democratic @
yanization throughout the State is rif
ridden and unscrupulously welded to a
l. vance the selfish interests of individual
d The State machine is but branch OF Il
}, Jersey City ring. The people overthrew I'll
It Jersey City rascals. and believe they al
{, only waiting the proper moment to de de-
II summarily with the State machine. III
"A Democratic party OF New Jersey is not
majority party as the vote of LASS plain lain
nInrality of 7, 900 votes, yet he lacked sever
hundred Of having majSr5GyS. jSS nGS In nargia STA
u 1000 lis very narrow" Other advices fro
New Jersey indicate that there s Is oonside d "a
le the Democrats are much disturbed by Il
70 situation. The figures of four years ago a
- almost sure to be reduced, II tney are n
70 altogether wiped out
1t HARR1rY and hilarity may sound som
O. what similar now; but, oh, what dihe
1I.