Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-02
CAMPAIGN NEWSAND COMMENT.

fngmen and farmers that America would be
more prosperous If England had monopoly
of manufacturing, the attitude of David
Bennett Hill is causing the Democratic
managers more worriment than anything
else. They are laboring faithfully though,
to convince themselves and the public that
the manipulation of the Empire State
machine is in line for the Chicago ticket. In
answer to question Senator VOORHEES, said:
81 have just returned from New York and
know from those who are managing the
affairs OF the campaign that there is abso-
lutely no alarm there on account of Mr..
Hills position. At the proper time and in
his own way Mr.. Hill will give the country
and his party indisputable evidence of his
complete and unwavering loyalty. Mr.. Hill
is brave man and a wise man, but, like all
men. he makes mistakes. He was an avowed
candidate for the Presidency, treated as
such by the friends of the opposing candi-
dates-oftentimes fairly treated, sometimes
maliciously and unfairly, thought-yet he
kept his temper. After the convention he
showed courage and nerve and has acted
perhaps better in the party than he did be-
fore the nomination 1 think he should have
wired his congratulations the next morning
to Mr.. Cleveland. The only thing, in my
opinion, for a defeated candidate to do is to
get in line. When man sulks he loses his
with his party and the e,6
as would have done, know, of my per-
sonal knowledge, absolutely. that he will
vindicate his loyalty to the ticket. l know
what he intends to do and 1 can assure
every Democrat that his course will be sat-
1sfactory and commendable."
BUT, according to the Hartford Co,rant,
Senator Hills speech at a recent Con-
nectiout clambake wasn't long one.
but about half way between the ex-
ordium and peroration we come upon
a sentence that is chock full Of
cotemporaneous human interest. For rea-
sons too numerous to MENTION said David.
| am q gentleman of leisure this summer
| MIR. Hill ought to know.
PERHAPS the most lively canvass yet in
| progress in the Keystone state is that in the
! Twenty-sixth Congressional district, COM
posed of Erie and Crawford counties. Not
| since the time of ". L. Scott's candidacy
| has the district been SO agitated. Rev. DR..
Flood secured the Republican nomination
practically without opposition. His op-
| ponent, j. C. Sbley. is the combination nom--
| 1nee OF the Democratic, Prohibition and
| Peoples parties, and has just been indorsed
| by a convention of Northwestern Pennsyl-
vania colored men held at Oil City. The two
| candidates have met in joint debates
| before granger audiences, and their respec-
tive partisans are indulging in personalities
of every vigorous character The Della
mater bank failure and the workings of the
Chautauqua Association are rival issues with
the tariff and the force bill. The friends of
DR.. Flood rely upon the fact that it is Pres
idental year to defeat what they term the
"unholy alliance of the free-whisky De-
mocracy and cold-water cranks."
The most popular scheme at present to
receive little political notice Is to chal-
lenge Governor Mckinley to q tariff discus
sion. Ex-Governor st. John and Congress
man Bynum are the latest ones to seek addi-
tfonal notoriety in this manner.
THE moving cause of the challenge is
sued by Bynum is the announcement that
the Republicans will hold great tin plate
rally at Elwood, Ind, to celebrate the estab-
lishment of tin plate factory in that nat
ural gas town. The Republican State Com
mittee proposes to make it one of the great
est demonstrations of the campaign. Visit
ing delegations will be present from every
county to witness with their own eyes the
practical fruits of the new tariff. Elwood is
in Congressman Bynum's district, and he
wants to be present at the rally to persuade
the people that what they see is
merely fgment of the imagina-
ton. The challenge issued in his
behalf by the Democratic committee
reads: '"The issues that divide the parties in
the present campaign are clearly defined
and of paramount importance. Whether
the present protective policy of the Repub-
lican party tends to promote the industrial
prosperity OF the country or is inj furious to
the interests it is supposed to benefit,
whether it has tendency to furnish wages
or restricts production, causing in many
protected and heretofore prosperous indus
tries reduction OF wages, strikes and lock-
outs, are questions which concern the pros
perity, the contentme and welfare of the
DeOOle. Believing that a nuDIic discussion
of these questions pro and con would not
only prove interesting, but highly instruc-
tive to the people. we hope an arrange ment
for joint discussion will be made" The
matter has been referred to Governor Nc
Kinley, but it is not likely that the chal-
lenge will be accepted, as it is believed the
Democrats are merely working an op-
portunity to address the immense crowd
which will assemble at Elwood.
FARMER A. L. TAGGART has been nomi-
mated tor the Legislature for the fourth con-
secutive time, and will undoubtedly be
elected. But will he be bolting candidate
for United States Senator again next winter? |
THE reasons given by ex-Postmaster B. |
F. Meyers, OF Harrisburg, for declining to |
run for the Democratic nomination for Con- |
gress in the y-Dauphin-Lebanon dis |
trict are as follows: 81 have just been re- |
quested by the Democratic National Com |
mittee TO make tariff reform speeches in |
Maine, and my orders are to report in that |
State next week. 1 suppose that the COM |
mittee will keep ME on the stump during |
the coming campaign, and this fact alone |
will preclude any thought of my running for |
Congress. When my friends know that 1 |
am fighting for my party in other States
they ought to feel satisfied that 1 am doing
my duty" Perhaps the additional fact that |
the district is Republican by an average
ma jority of about 900 had something to do
with the modest sacrifice of Mr.. Meyers
HERE is one vigorous sentence from Gov
ernor McKinley's pen: Campaign prices
have already Deen disposed of as ca,npaign
lies"
WHILE most States have abandoned the
plan of holding State elections before the
Presidential contest Florida has just adopted
it, becoming an "October State' this year.
The change was caused by the fact that
Federal election law might be enacted, and
q desire to have voting for State officers, at
least, escape its provisions. Colonel Tellfair
Stockton, of Jacksonville, was at Demo-
cratic headquarters in New Y ork the other
day explaining the situation and asking for
aid. He said: "The October plan was
adopted in anticipation of the probable
passage of the force bill by the Fifiy-first
Congress. / have no doubt that Florida will
go Democratic at both the state and Federal
elections, and look for a majority up to
Is, ,000 For the State election the guberna-
torial contest is between Judge H. L.
OF Tampa, our candidate. and A.
P. Baskins, the Third party candidate. We
realize that the election is not one which
our opponents will allow to go to US by de-
fault, but we have no doubt whatever of a
decidedly Democratic result, and the Re-
pu blicans will not succeed in transferring
their whole strength to the third party
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