Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-19
CAMPAIGN NEWS AND COMMENT.


the best. There are Indications OF a de
termined attempt to at least create diver
sion below Mason and Dixon's line. The
action of the convention Of disgruntled
Democrats and Third party adherents in
Alabama last week was peculiar and per-
haps significant, An electoral ticket was
placed in the field, pledged to no particular
candidate for President, but hostile
to Cleveland. For whom will these
electors vote If successful at the
polls? Weaver's friends took part in the
convention, and he would probably be the
first choice Of the electors. But skillful and
authorized representatives of the Rerub-
lican National Committee were also on
hand, taking quiet but none the less active
part in the proceedings. A portion of their
work is to induce Alabama Republicans to
vote for the ticket nominated last week.
For the successful electors to favor Weaver
would do Harrison no good; They might
tion OF vice-President into the Sen.
ate, but the Republican National Com
mittee would hardly interest itself In such q
remote contingency. Is it not possible that
there is an understanding that these cleo
toral candidates are to cast their votes for
the Republican national ticket in case they
are needed? Such combination apparent.
ly has a fair chance of success in Alabama.
The Kolb Democrats alone came within 10, 600
votes OF victory at the recent State election,
and claim they were counted out then.
With the Republican vote added the fusion
would appear very powerful unless the
kicking Democrats get into line for the na-
t1onal ticket.
The Alliance has raised up brother
against brother in South Carolina. George
Tfllman, who has served eight terms in
Congress, has been defeated for renomina-
tion by narrow margin. His brother, Gov
ernor Tillman, the Alliance lender, is said
to have secretly aided his opponent.
SOUTH CAROLINA politics are replete
with curious features just now. The Demo
cratic party is in undisputed control, but
the Farmers Alliance is IN control of the
Democratic party. At the Democratic Con-
vention in the Spring Cleveland was de-
nounced as a representative of Wall street,
and the delegates to Chicago instructed to
oppose him to the last, which
they did. The same element, led by
Governor Tillman and Senator Irby, still
dominates. There Is no Third party in
South Carolina, for the reason that the peo-
pie who compose that organization in the
other Southern States are in possession of
the regular machinery in the Palmetto Com
monwealth. The State convention, which
meets during the latter part of this month
electors, consists Of 3l2 delegates, of whom
30 only are conservative Democrats, and by
conservative Democrats is meant men who
are in accord with the National Democratic
platform. Their voice in the convention
will be utterly unheeded; thsy will not have
the slightest influence in shaping its deliber-
ations, they are regarded by the dominant
element as worse than the hated Republi-
cans. 1t makes no difference what kind of
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Presidential electors, the men will be nom-
mated and will vote in the electoral college
for whoever the Tillmanites desire. These
leaders are protesting loyalty to the ma
tional ticket, and it looks as though the old
line Democrats will be forced to fely upon
the professions in lieu of any better guaran-
tee. The situation is very clearly defined
by the Alliance organ, the Columbia Register,
which openly discourages the Third party
movement on the ground that "we (the
Aliance) are the people, that we control
the State Democratic machine, and can do
as we please"
DIR. CRANFILL, the Prohibition nomi-
nee for Vice President, combines religion
and politics. During his present Southern
tour, he divides his time between stump
speeches and sermons from Baptist pulpits
The Democrats are working the force
bill issue for all it is worth, and perhaps q
States Colonel William j. Stone, the Demo
cratic candidate for Governor Of Missouri,
who is having such q hard struggle to de-
feat Major Warner, of G. A. r. fame, said in
O recent speech: "If force bill should be
passed, and 1 were your Governor, 1 would
spit upon the Federal statute; would use all
of the power of the State to prevent its en-
forcement; and If Federal officers, possibly
from Chicago should come into our State
nosing about the judges tables, we would
take them by the heels and throw them
into the Mississippi river for food
for tine fishes" This is vigorous Ian
guage, but it is probably intended
more for home consumption in the present
campaign than as the announcement of a
second revolt against, Federal authority.
The sectional issue is being directed not
only at the Republican ticket, but
even more particularly against General
Weaver who is asked by Southern papers
how he dare come into that section hunting
ing army. Charges Of cruelty and plunder-
ing during the late unDleasantness are
freely entered against the Peoples party
Presidential candidate, and every effort made
to prevent ex-Coniederates supporting him.
The Charleston Nel0s and Courier says he
"has too much Of Sherman and Sheridan
flavor"
AT the recent North Carolina Republican
Convention Uncle John Schench, a noted
colored character, was temporary chairman.
His work had all been laid out, and when
a delegate moved that the roll be called for
the committee on credentials so that one
from each district might be appointed,
Uncle John promptly decided that such
procedure would be revolutionary, as he had
the committee already selected in his vest
pocket as it had been made up and handed
to him.
THE most lively canvass now in progress
in the South is that of Georgia. This is
largely because of the State election on
October4 In the last contest the Farmers
Alliance and the Democracy were united
but now there is sherp divlding-line, the
having gone into the Third
party. Speaker Crisp Is leading the Demo-
cratic campaign and is making a vigorous
assault upon Populite candidates and
thieves. The other day he said: "In the
third party platform the railroad plank pro-
viding for the Government ownership of
is absurd. 1t would cost the Gov
erment So, OOo, ,OOO, 900 to buy them. Where is
that money to come from? There is not
enough money in the country. 1t is more
than the money OF all nations But suppose
that we had them. 1t would take 1,500, 900
people to operate them. We have now 100,-
900 offceholders. If we had 100000 of Fed
eral oficeholders when would the people
nominate any body again?" The Democrats
claim that as a result of their stalwart cam
paign methods they will practically wipe
out the third party in Georgia and record O
majority of 81, 1000, which they expect to have
an effect on the November result through
out the entire South. But the Populites are
not behind in making claims, and loudly as
sert that they will get almost everything in
sight.
BARBECUES are the most prominent
features of the canvass in Kentucky. A