Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-13
CAMPAIGN NEWS AND COMMENT.

years ago. Indeed, the campaign was
virtually on all summer because of the long
session of Congress and the consideration Of
the Mills bill. Impetus was given to affairs
by she return OF Blaine from Europe on
August 9. A fattering reception in New
York was followed by a speech-making tour
of New England and active work on the
stump in Maine In the latter part of August,
Thurman began to swing around the circle,
attracting far more attention that Mr.. Stew
enson has succeeded in securing in similar
effort this year. Harrison was also active
in speech-making and hand-shalking at the
Same period. The Maine election was on OBJ
ject OF great interest, and the majority OF
upward OF 10000 recorded on September 10
was received with great rejoicing by the
struggle to keep out the cholera has diverted
public attention this time 1t is curious
coincidence that just four years ago yeliow
fever was ravaging the South, but 1t failed
to obscure politics to any large extent
Another coincidence might be found
in the fact that. while now Demo
Gratis are charging President Harrison
against Canada, in 1883 President Cleve-
lands opponents were making the same
insinuations. On August 23 Cleveland sent
complete non-intercourse with Canada as a
result of the fisheries imbroglio, and for
time this action occupied prominent place
in the canvass. Harrison 9 letter OF accept
ance was the later one in 1888, and came
out on September II, but the campaign was
then already we'll under way.
"JoHN SMITH has been nominated for
Governor of New Hampshire" says the
Philadelphia Ledger, ''and If the family in
the Granite State proves at all clannish he
W i'll have q splendid maj jority."
PERHAPS more interest Is taken in the
political situation in Kansas, the land OF Simp-
son and PETER, than in any other western
State. W. NJ. Smith, prominent Republi-
can of Topeka, has just visited national head
quarters as the representative of the Kan
sas Republican State Committee, and some
of the Republican candidates for Congress in
that State, to secure speakers from other
parts of the country to address the people
of Kansas on political questions during the
campaign. In speaking of the outlook in
chat much-diseased Comm onwealth. Mr..
Smith said that the Republican candidates
for Congress in the several districts con-
stituted the strongest delegation ever placed
before the people of Kansas. "It is the aim
of the Republicans there" he said, "to clear
up the State. elect the Presidential
electoral ticket, and all the Congress
mon. The campaign was opened
along the whole line on the 1st Of Septem-
Congress district. Nearly all the Congress
candidates have already made from 80 to 30
speeches. One of them has spoken 10 times.
Democratic fusion on the electoral ticket
with the Peoples party has disguised
great many Democrats, who will vote with
the Republicans to save the reputation OF
the State, which they consider to be In
jeopardy. The Republicans have adopted
badge bearing the motto. Stand up for Kan
sas.' A great many Democrats are wearing
it. The motto is also used on stickers, on
have the calamity shriekers bowling against
the financial and commercial prosperity Of
the State"
A MEETING of all the Democratic candi-
dates in South Dakota has been called for
to-day to discuss tho advisability of with
drawing the Democratic electors and tndors-
ing those OF the Peoples party, with divis-
ion of the State offices.
COLONEL WHIPPLE, the Republican
candidate for Governor of Arkansas. has
been trying to explain what hit him. He is
disposed to blame the Australian system for
his overwhelming defeat at the recent elec-
tion. He says: "The mode of polling. and
especially the form of the ballot, disclosed a
deliberate and cunningly devised scheme to
embarrass and clog the voting and work tine
acknowledgements of the voter. The ticket
sented to the voter when he entered the
booth, contained in this (PulaskD county ITO
names. The voter was authorized to vote
for but 90 candidates and was required
to erase from the ticket 60 names
during the small space of five minutes, un-
der penalty of being denied vote. To do
this properly required the examination of
a ii the ITO names on the ticket. 1t was tax
on even the most alert Again, if the voter
could not read his ticket. tho law required
that while the election officer, who alone
could assist him, was making the tedious
of his ticket with him not only
the polling room but all the booths likewise
should be cleared. This was q serious inter-
turns from Arkansas show that the Demo-
cratic majority is larger than for many
years.
WEST VIRGINIA is one of the States
which Candidate Stevenson thinks demands
to speak at Huntington some time during
the campaign.
THE campaign on the Pacific slope is
more advanced than on the Eastern coast.
is this the case in Oregon,
where the new party is actively at work.
At the election held on the first Monday in
June last the total vote cast was about 75,-
300. OF which the Republicans polled 3l.OOO
the Democrats 25. 200 and the Populists $1,000
for their respective candidates for Congress.
Both the Republican candidates were chosen
but the combined votes Of the opposition
exceeded the Republican vote by 10000. Tho
Pc ople's party cast nearly % per cent of the
total vote. This party was not organized in
all the coun ties of the State at the June
election. In November the party will have
q Thorough organization in every county
and voting precinct of the State. The
present Governor, sylvester Pennoyer, VINO
has been twice elected Chief Magistrate ran
only Democrat who has been able to
overcome the natural Republican ma
jority in the State, but Governor Pen
noyer no longer marshals the Democratic
purposes to the Peoples party. At the June
election the Governor made an address ad-
vising the Democrats to put their votes
where they would do the most good" and
thousands of them took his advice and voted
for the Peoples party candidates for Con-
Or at that time If he had abandoned the
party, Governor Pennoyer hu-
answered by saying he was like
the old Indian who. having lost his way in
man for whom he was acting as guide If he
was not lost. The Indian promptly and In
replied: "1nju no lost; wigwam
lost" He claims that the traditions
" yer, % and DToses'' Sef0ses to follow the ' Chi hi
cago declaration on the question. The
contest in Oregon Is therefore between the
Republican and Peoples party.
10 osEPH NEssIcK, of Chester, Pa, q
large manufacturer and lifelong Democrat,
has left the party. He says;
my reasons are that the Democrats al
lowed the free trade element to override