Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-08
CAMPAIGN NEWS AND COMMENT.

progress in the State of Sherman and Nc.
k1nley. 1t is difficult to imagine on what
ground this idea is based, unless il
Is the propensity Of Ohio for doing
the unexpected in politics once In
awhile. Ex-Congressman Ben Butterworth
called at the White House the other day, and
afterward said he had no doubt Ohio would
give Harrison and Reid an overwhelming
majority, as that State had always been re-
liably Republican. "While Ohio is not ex-
treme on the protection idea," said he, "the
State is none the less earnestly in favor OF
the protection system. and has also always
been equally sound on the currency ques-
system by the old State bank system will
not find favor in our State, am sure, ana
that Is true generally in the west. The
trouble Is the Democrats nave always Deen
extreme on the money question, and Will
not stop on any middle ground, while the
Republican party has been conservative and
safe on all propositions concerning the cur
Hill are trying to hedge, but it won't do to
say to the American people that national
convention does not mean what It says as
our friends the enemy are attempting 70 40.
1 have no doubt what We lose in one place
We VIII more than make up in anothcr.
But one thing is certain, Ohio going to re-
main IN the Republican column"
THE remark: 'sWhere am at?" which
Third party Congressman Tom Watson. of
Georgia, attributed to q Democratic col
league, would now apparently apply very
pertinently to Mr.. Watson himself
THE Philadelphia courts, while holding
that taxes may be accepted by the Treas
urer when paid by political committees,
does not decide that suoh payment Is good
for voting purposes Judge Briggs ruling
in full was as follows: "The Tax Receiver is
q revenue officer whose duty it is to receive
taxes and to give receipts therefor, but 1t is
asked that the tax collector should decide
whether the money rendered to him was the
money of the taxpayer himself There was
no such right vested in the receiver nor in
the court. The ground upon which the
court was asked to grant the restrain
ing order was that the person receiv-
ing the receipt might use 1t for some
ulterior purpose. We might just as we'll
be asked to restrain person from moving
from one division to another ON the allega-
tion that when he had removed he might do
something wrong. The court could no more
do that than 1t could restrain the Receiver
of Taxes from accepting money rendered to
him in payment of taxes and giving receipts
therefor. The court is not deciding whether
q tax paid in this way would entitle a man
to vote. That is very different question
and if had time to give utterance to my
opinion on the subject of the elective fran
Judge Briggs has said, hut the question be-
fore the court is a narrow one, and, under
all circumstances, it must refuse to grant
the injunction prayed for"
NOT q single Republican candidate for
Congress has yet made an appearance in
New York City, fact for which the recent
Democratic gerryniander is doubtless in a
large measure responsible.
INTEREST in the situation in the Empire
State will be on the increase from this time
on, and vigorous claims will be made by the
leaders on both sides. Senator Hiscock
says: "Everything is going our way up the
State, and If ever I could see victory in
the air do now. The Republican party in
New York was never better organized or
more thoroughly harmonious in every quar-
ter. There is not symptom of discomfort.
and everyone is working with his fellows for
the election of Harrison and reid. I do not
know of a single disgruntled or inactive Re-
publican in all Central New York" On the
other hand, Senator Carlisle says: '1 think
Mr.. Cleveland will carry New York beyond
any question, and 1 found many well-in-
formed Republicans of the same opinion
while there a few days" He thought from
five to seven districts of Michigan
would go Democratic, and that Demo-
Massachusetts and Atgeld in Illinois he
thought we're certain of election, and there
was good fighting chance in many of the
Northwestern Statcs. He and Judge
in which the Judge had expressed great dis
satisfaction with the Republican tariff issue,
and said that if they did not recede from it
he had cast his last Republican vote. Sena-
tor Carlisle was not surprised to see it re-
ported that Judge Gresham would vote for
Cleveland and Stevenson. Judge Gresham
was conservative man and would not be
led off by the new party.
Ex-Governor CAMPBELL has sufficient
ly recovered from his last years. encounter
with Mckinley to promise to cross the Penn
sylvania line and make two speeches for
kite-shaped track Sibley in the Erie.C Craw-
lord district. He will be on the stump Octo-
Der l3 and IA Mt Meadville and Erie This
will practically be the opening of the Demo-
cratic campaign in Western Pennsylvania.
THAT 1t is not necessary to attack ex-
Attorney General Wayne MaoVeagh per-
sonally to point out the mistakes of his
position. is shown by the Philadelphia Pub
&c Ledger, which says: "Hon. Wayne Mac
Veagh has Joined hands with Judge Gresham
and Judge Cooley in declarations favorable
to the Presidential candidacy of Mr.. Cleve-
land. These are all names of eminence in
the list of Republican statesmen; they are
the names of men whose character, achieve
ments and patriotism have conferred dis.
tinction upon their party. In the fullest
meaning of the phrase, Mr.. MacVeagh is
publicist. With regard to anything that
affects or concerns the happiness and pros
thought. but felt deeply. He has refus ed,
as others rs intellectually strong as he
himself did not to tolerate or excuse q
wrong against the people; he has always
contended against it. He is too honest and
blunt u man to be conservative; his integrity
makes him radical. 1t is his fine sense Of
public virtue, his love of country, that
makes him contentious, that places him in
the fore front with those who have wrought
with tongue and pen for good governments
and for honest politics. We fear that Mr..
MacVeagh, astute reasOner as he is, has per-
mitted the real point of issue to escape his
notice. The vital issue OF the campaign,
virtually the only important one. Is the
tariff. as Mr.. Cleveland is as certainly oom-
mitted to honest, safe financial principles rs
dental contest of 1892 will be fought and de-
cided, and it will be determined not by how
this or that candidate, or this>or that dis
tinguished political leader interprets the re-
the great body OF the people interpret them.
Assuming that both platforms mean what
they say, the meaning OF each Is so clear as
to need no oracle to interpret 1t; even Mr..
MaeVeagh's average voter Can do it Us we'll
as the wisest."
UNDER the direction of the National
Committee, Republican orators in rural dis
tricts hand out to their audiences a bundle
OF the old State bank currency. 1t always
comes back to the platform. Then dollar
bill or two of the present day Is handed
down, and it never comes back.
IN speakinp of the Baker hallot muddIa