Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
CAMPAIGN NEWS AND COMMENT.

PERHAPS the most notable accession to
the Peoples party, next to that of Republic
can Senator Stewart, OF Nevada, Is Demo
cratic Governor Pennoyer, of Oregon.
Pennoyer has been elected and reelected
ms chief executive of the far-off Pacific
State, where every other Office went heavily
Republican. Now he has practically de-
serted the Democratic party because of the
hostility OF the Chicago platform to free
silver. In an article in the current
number of the North american Reuie,D the
Governor says: ''The great paramount
pending political struggle IS in regard to the
character of the paper money to be fur
nished to the people. On the one side the
Peoples party declares that all money shall
shall be sound money or full legal tender
money. On the other side, the Chicago Cor
vention has virtually committed itself to
the scheme, brought forth in the ban king
interests of the country, of restricting legal
tender money to gold alone, hampering the
coinage OF silver and providing for an un-
limited issuance OF bank money based upon
railroad and municipal securities. In our
whole country's history there has never
before been exhibited such a complete
change OF front upon ar important issue by
any party as that furnished by the conven-
tion at Chicago Ignoring the most sacred
traditions of the party, and wheeling its
well-drilled columns to the right-about-face
it places itself in alignment with the great
banking interests OF the country. 1t would
not indeed require any great stretch of i'm
agination to believe that the bones of Old
Hickory turned uneasily in his grave when
the party thus proved false to his teachings
and false to its whole past record"
tics which most requires re forming just now
ia fha Dol hall l<~%, afrr-r Io,
THAT all Englishmen are by no means
in favor of free trade is becoming more evi.
dent every day. The Bailey, Yorkshire, En-
dnsiner, OF September II, in discussing the
subject, says: "No other trading community
on the face of the earth pursues the policy
which England has for 40 years adhered to.
1t is perfectly true that 40, nay 20, years ago
England prospered an&was prospering; that
her trade increased by le Ups and bounds,
that wages were higher and fortunes rapid
ly made. And free traders took the fiat
tering JUNCTION to their souls that all
the Improvement was due to the
adoption of the Cobdenite shibbo.
leth, forgetting that England was
the pioneer i'll manufacturing, in the crea-
ton of railways, in the adoption of the cleo
trio telegraph, and that her commercial
maritime fleet gave her advantages which
no OCiler nation on bne lace OF tDe earCD en-
joyed. But by taking advantage of English
discoveries, employing English ioremen.
getting English machinery to use pat
terms and excluding English goods from
their markets by high tariffs, France, Ger
many and America have brought themselves
in line with us, and while the business OF
free trade England to-day increases, but at
a snaips pace, the foreign t, ade OF foreign
countries is leaping forward and bidding
ieir 10 quickly equal our own" With Eng
gland turning toward protection it is most
strange that there should be Americans who
are endeavoring to start the United States
on the way to free trade.
GOVERNOR RUSSELL, of Massachusetts,,
breaks the record for consecutive nominal
tions. He is now running as the Democratic
candidate for, the fifth time, having been
twice defeated and twice elected.
THE Independent Republican warfare
against Acheson and Stewart in the Twenty.
fourth Congressional district is being
pushed in u most vigorous manner.
John F. Cox, Of Homestead, has formed
combination with Campbell Jobes
of Greene county, that is expected
to prove very troublesome. Mt. Cox said
yesterday: II met Mr.. Jobes at Washington
last Wednesday, and we agreed as to- the
course we will pursue in the campaign. He
agreed to support me for the short term, and
l will use all my influence in his contest fol
the long term. I might not have made a
fight against Acheson. but he is reported as
having said that 1 did not amount to any.
thing, and could be easily pulled off. 1 will
show Mr.. Acheson thrt he made a mistake
l am in this contest to its close. may not
be in the race on November g. but will be
on hand until the close OF the polls on the
Sth. There is great deal of talk about me
committing political suicide by entering
this fight. am not afraid of any such re-
suit. If the fight is continued against me
will organize the Sixth Legislative district
in a manner that will give some people'a a
great deal OF trouble. have organized that
district in the past, and can do it again. /
went to Washington last Wednesday to take
q personal observation of the Mckinley
meeting. 1 think the most conspicuous
features were the lack of enthusiasm and
Mr.. Cox said he had received assurances oi
support from all parts of the district. AL OF
MS will be encouraging tidings for Mr
Sipe, the Democratic nominee.
THE Prohibitionists are probably opposed
to the new ballot because it is apparently Sc
delapidated that it will not hold water.
AT Topeka, Kas., yesterday, after con-
sultation that lasted ten hours, the leaders
of the Sraiwart Democrats prepared state
ment for publication declaring for Grover
Cleveland, and appointing central COM
mittee Of five to arrange the preliminary
details Tor the mass convention to be held
October T. 1t has been virtually decided
not 20 put q ticket in the field, but to turn
down and forever squelch the old time
Democratic leaders by defeating the com.
bination ticket. The recalcitrants claim
their protest will bring 0,000 Democrats to
the polls who will vote for the fusion elec-
tors who would otherwise remain at home.
The Democratic Central Committee will
make no statement. The effect of this ne W
movement upon the already mixed politics
of Kansas is hard to estimate. The Repub-
licans are hard at work, and very hopeful of
delivering the electoral vote to Harrison
and Reid.
In at least week no ambitious tariff re-
former has sought to advertise himself by
challenging Governor Mckinley toa joint
debate.
THE conservatively Republican Phila-
delphia Public Ledger, in discussing the stu-
alton in New York, says: "Both Senator
Hills entrance upon the campaign and the
manner of it imply that the numerically
strong and the tactically powerful faction
of which he is the head, and which centers
in and about Tammany Hall. means to give
the Democratic national ticket united
earnest support at the polls. In view of the
scarcely questioned probability that the 81
electoral votes of New York will decide the
choice of the Presidential candidate, the pro