Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-25
CAMPAIGN NEWS AND COMMENT.

| accepted one of apathy. Homestead in the
summer and cholera in the early fall at
tracted the attention usually devoted to
political matters. There are many who be-
/ lieve, though. that q new era of campaign
methods has been inaugurated. Mr.. Elaine
is quoted as having made statement t"
this effect In talking on the same subject
Committeeman Joseph H. Manley says: 81
am inclined to think that the day OF hurrah
campaigns has passed. In O country whose
politics are still young, such rs was the case
with us so years ago, political campaigning
furnished great majority of the American
citizens with about all the healthy excite
ment which they had. They looked for
ward to a political campaign something
as the PEOPLE of New England did to the
approach of general training and town
meeting day. The mighty advances which
have been made i'll this country since
lS40. for instance, when political campaign
ing was a demonstration almost riotously
magnificent from the Atlantic to the Pacihc,
have made it possible now for even the
humble citizen to get other formSof healthy
excitement than those which political
canvass furnish. or course, the excitement
of the war period tended to keep up the
demonstrative nature of political cam
paigns. i am inclined to think that in the
future campaign committees of both parties
will rely mainly upon the newspaper press.
or course, 1 do not mean to suggest that
they will give up tho work OF perfe c;inr
political organization. Without that no
party can be properly sustained. But
mean that the American citizen will turn to
the newspapers rather than to the street
Darnde and the torchlght procession for his
political stimulus, and education anu news
paper reading huve become SO general that
the masses of Americans are disposed to
read both sides of al argument A quiet
does u
one. 1t may be in tho truest sense the most
exciting OF all, and think that this is the
case this year."
IN concluding q political letter to the
New York Recorder Congressman John Dal-
zell says: 81 believe in an overruling Provi-
dence. So do ] believe that in the coming
campaign he will be against the Democratic
party and the awful consequences that its
triumph would bring"
Don DICKINSON believes that the vic
successful by a decisive majority. In the
course OF review of the canvass he says:
Popular tendencies proceeding from deep
conviction are not evidenced by noise. The
shadows murmur while the deeps are dumb.
The result will show that o great political
movement OF the people one way or the
other is now under way. 1 think, OF course,
that the uprising is in favor OF all that Mr..
Cleveland represents in the public mind.
This vigorously showed its power and direc-
tion, when. without concert of action and
without the enginery and methods of poll
tics it rose up in this country and, tossing
politicians and leaders like sticks on a flood,
moved resistlessly to the nomination at Chi
cago. think that movement has gathered
strength since then and is in progress.
Whether or not l am right about
this, there is no doubt what
ever in my mind that the election is
going to be an unmistakable and decisive
Judgment either for or against US. There is
have a genuine ana abiding faith in repub
lican government, and while, when the
margin OF votes is narrow between the par
tic, money MAY carry the small balance of
lar movement can be started and held to u
course by the use OF money, or that when on
its course it can be stemmed. damned or set
aside by cashl That unique feature OF the
campaign which is called apathy is, in fact,
evidence that the people have made up
their minds Any practising lawyer knows
these signs in a jury anu has often observed
what mean."
FUSIoN has teen arranged in South D.
kota ut the last moment, the Democratic
electoral candidates having been withdrawn
of the Populists. This makes this
scheme general throughout the Northwest
ACCoRD1NG to the New York Tribune,
Lieutenant Governor sheehan, Chairman of
the Campaign Committee OF the Democratic
State Committee, is working hard these days
raising money for use by the Democrats on
election day in New York. The Lieutenant
Governor is said to De q great deal more |
anxious to make good showing for himself |
as a campaign manager than he is to get |
votes for Grover Cleveland When he ran |
for Lieutenant Governor last fall lie learned |
the potency OF money on election day in the |
1t is said on good authority that !
M estimate has been made of the amounts |
needed for the various counties of the State, |
and that it foots up in the neighborhood |
of g. sou, 900. Of this amount the Lieutenant !
Governor expects to have not less than |
300 600 for Erie county. 1t has been said |
also that this sum has been promised to |
him. Tammany Hall is to be called upon to |
raise $500. 600 of the amount which the Dem
Dcratic managers want on election morning. |
md the Kings county machine will be asked |
for sum nearly as large as this. As it now
need, and if the election were to be held to-
morrow there would be no lack Of funds, If |
only the amount now to the credit OF the |
of the Democratic State Commit
Tee in various banks were to be used.
The Democrats have adopted clever idea |
IN Albany, Utica, Syracuse. Rochester, Bus-
alo and the smaller towns along the New
FORK Central Railroad. They have put pict-
1res of Clevland and Stevenson in the
windows of numbers of houses on the out
,kirts OF the cities and villages and along
;he' railroad streets. This is intended to
rive passengers going east and west the |
impression that the State is in blaze for
Cleveland.
EX-GOVERNOR JAMES A. BEAVER, in
discussing the outlook at national head.
quarters in New York. said: "Pennsylvania
expects to lead the Republican column, and
8 so confident of it that she is willing to
contribute her mite to the campaign in
,ther directions. 1 speak of leading the
Republican column advisedly, because she
vas only preceded by Kansas in the last
rational campaign. And with the issues so
clearly defined. which affect Pennsylvanias
interests vitality, there can be no question
IS to what her majority will be. l know
personally of number of important
changes Of gentlemen who do not care to
20 paraded in the newspapers. have not
he Republican column to the other side.
We OF Pennsylvania are interested in our
leighbors. and are very hopeful of favor
Imong the possibilities. Personally, have
leep interest in West Virginia, having par
icipated in the campaigns there for 12
ears"
WHILE in New York recently ex-Chair-
nan B. F. Jones expressed his opinion thuss
The Republicans will win. 1 have never
oubted that the sober second thought of
he people would be in iavor of continuing
President Harrison in office. And one potent
actor to insure Republican success is the
pct that business is good generally and
abor is in universal demand"