Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-17
THE CAMPAIGN IS ON
In the Empire State, and
Threatens to Be Epidemic
From Now On.
BOTH PARTIES HUSTLING,
And the Machines Are Now at Work
Under a Full Head of Steam.
ELKINS SPEAKS AT DAVIS
The Pittsburg Tariff Club Wins Banner
at the Iuffalo Meeting.
BOTH PARTIES HUSTLING,
MISCELLANEOUS POLITICAL ITEMS

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCH.1
NEW YORK, Sept. 16-The battle in the
Empire State was practically begun to-day.
There have been half dozen sporadic
cases of campaigning on both sides but
nothing was really epidemic. Chairman
Sheehan, of the Democratic machine, has
been in town a month, and his opponents,
Chairmen Hackett and Brookield, have
been in their chairs nearly two months.
Mr.. Sheehan has been engaged on the pre-
limi naries of the campaign in the State
So have the Republicans.
The protracted hot weather and the in
terest in the labor strikes and more recently
cholera scare, have been diverting public
attention. But now the two machines are
under way with full head of steam. A
capacious safe was moved into Chairman
Sheehan's quarters to-day. There was a
conference of up-country Democrats, more
OF whom will be here tomorrow.
1t is proposed to fill the safe. 1t was an
nounced that after Senator Hill speaks in
Brooklyn he will speak in Virginia and
possibly in South Carolina The Demo-
cratic State Campaign Committee expects
to devote time especially to the Democrats
above the Harlem. The Tammany and
Brooklyn fight will be directed by Mr..
Croker and Mr.. Mclaughlin.
FIopped to the Peoples Party.
Sergeant nt-at-Arms James Parodise Oliver,
of National Democratic Headquarters, re-
ceived word to-day that DR.. H. A. Steber,
ex-Assemblyman from the First district of
Oneida county, had renounced Republican
ism, and, like, Hon. j. K. O'Connor, is not
afraid to say So Unlike Mr.. O'Connor,
however, DIR. Steber is a convert to the
Peoples party instead of the Democracy.
The Republicans in the Fifth Avenue
Hotel have been melted to sturdier efforts
than ever. Mr.. Hackett, after comforting
with Chairman Carter, of the National
Committee. ex-senator Plat and ex-senator
Warner Miller, has decided to sound q
warning bugle call to farmers and citizens
of rural towns.
kilograms have been sent all over the
State calling upon all editors of Republi-
can newspapers to announce that the regis
tration days in the towns and rural districts
are October % and %. The edi-
tors are requested to keep the
announcement standing in their
newspapers and to call upon Republicans
to paste it in their hats and tack it upon
their barns The fight in this State, ac-
cording to Republican managers, depends
entirely upon getting out the up-country
vote. Appeals to get out and register will
be sounded from now OH.
Whitney Gathering in the Doodle.
To-day was a rushing day at Chairman
Harrity's Bureau of National Democracy
There were more visitors than at any time
since the battle begun. The most cncourag-
ing news to Democrats was that Mr.. Whit
ney's committee to raise funds had got to-
gether again and was making headway.
The last meeting of these gentlemen was
held on "Wednesday evening.
Speaker Crisp came to town to-day. He
thinks the Democratic ma jority in the
Georgia State ticket election will be 80. 000
Z. Ellery Anderson, for the Reform Club,
challenged the managers of the American
Protective Tariff League to a Joint debate
on the tariff question.
Charles j. Canda, formerly Treasurer of
the National Democratic Committee, will
act as Treasurer for the National Associa-
tion Of Democratic Clubs.