Arizona weekly citizen., 1892-10-22
THE UNFINISHED.
Rainbow Chasing in the Western States. Hopeful Outlook for the Republicans all Along
 ths Line.

A OleFeIdnu, anu there 5 10 use 10 you e fool ralnbow-chasers wasting your tim on Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Wisconsin . or any other western state"
 That is what prominent Chicago Dem t ocrats have said, in language nor ; forcible than eloquent, to Congressman Ben. Cable, who has charge of tn,
 branch Democratic headquarters il } Chicago. They told Cable that wher ne first came and they have been telling him the same thing ever since.
 ] It is indeed a credulous person whC Imagines there IS a Democrat of tte be-
 lief that any os the heretofore Repub ! lcan states will go democratic this year
 Just about this tune every four years
 the Democrats carry half dozen states
 and elect their candidates by over.
 whelming majorities, but month later
 when the votes are counted, 1t is found
 the Republicans have won. Dickinson
 tried it in 1888, and through his efforts
 in behalf of Cleveland, Michigan went
 Republican by an increased majority.
 When Dickinson first proposed to es-
 tablish branch headquarters in the west
 he was laughed at for his pains. He
 persisted however, and the eastern Dem-
 ocrats who know what politics are,
 thinking they could shelve Dickinson
 by putting him in Chicago and thus got
 him out of the way, agreed to his propo-
 sition. 4 branch headquarters was es-
 tablished, and ever since that time the
 complete helplessness of the Democratic
 cause has been more clearly demon
 strated than ever
 The first question that Cable bsd to
 worry over was one of finances. He and
 tEe local committee got into a squabble
 over this, and they haven't got out of it yet. The chairmansaip of the finance committee was offered to a wealthy ChicagOsn who was C,eveland's minister Eo Persia. He said he would accept on
 one condition, which was that all the money that was collected in Illinois should be spent in Illinois. He told Cables committee plainly that no one but visionary would ever think f car ryjng any western state thiS fell except Illiaois. He argued that Stevenson WIS put on the ticket fer that puTlCse, and that iJ would be the utmost foOhshGess to spend money in Iowa, Wisconsin or Michigan. if those states wanted any money they could raise it for them selves.
 These views did not coincide with Mir. Cable, So another weslthy man was chnsan far nha,---~---s -1Is- ffEe e.I1CC COuI- miJiee. Fms cOnmItt-e was appointed | three weeks ego, but if 1t hse done any thing yet nobody knows anything abCu 1t. The fact of he matter is not ona thousand dollars has been collected. Chicsg0 Democrats are ht:le bt c6re- ful O. now they give money fer Demo crate campaign purposes. In 1854 one of the wealthy Democrats subtcrIbed Si0,tC0 for tie cause and when Cleve land was elected he asked for the ap-
 pointmest of friend to a certain rOsi-
 tiOn. hiS request met with a flat refu- sa', and a man who had subscribed but $500 got tle place. This is but one instance of Clevel2n6's treatment of Chicago Democrats, and 1t is plain to see that he cannot expect much financial aid this time.
 Notwithstanding the fact that he has no money, Cabls has had demands made upon him frcm all over the west. Most of them have come frou the states
 where Democrats and the Peoples Par
 ty have fused. The one hope of the
 Democ;a ats to elect Cleveland is to carry some of the granger states for Weaver.
 If they could carry Kansas and Nebras-
 ka, for instance, they could afford to lose either New York er Indiana. In
 that event the election of a president
 would be thrown into the house of rep
 resenistiTes, which, being Democratic,
 would elect Cleveland. It is along this
 line that Cable and the western Dsmo- cratic committee is now at work, but the Repu blicaHs are not alarmed Over thS
 the situation. They have had word from all the western states, and they are satisfied that those states are so sol.dly Republican today as they were four or eight years ago.
 The Democrats are trying to make
 great capital out of the action of Judge
 Gresham, Judge Cooley and Wayne McVsagh in going over to the Demo
 cratic Party, but such efforts have fallen flat. Judge Gresham, as every one
 knowa, has been unfriendly to Presi- dent Harrison for some time and bis latest action in becoming a Cleveland supporter Is not surprising. Judge
 Cooley and Wayne McVeagh have never been ID sympathy with tAeir party. and
 it cannot b. said that they have chang ed their politics. The latter's brother,
 Franklin McVeagh, of Chicago, has been a Democrat for several years. The Democratic orators and the Democratic press seem to think that the action of these three men means defeat for the Republican Party. They forget that l Senator Palmer, Governor BUies. Ex- Governor Gray and Ex-Governor Camp bell did ihs same thing years ago, and ] the party went right along coining I victories as if nothing ad happened. The Republicans are making one of | the most vigorous campaigns m the
 west, and especially in Illinois, this year that :hey have ever made. It IS not be-
 cause they are at al spprehensive, but | because tEey want to put an everlasting uuietus on the boastful Demo I demagogues. Speakers of national i'm portance are continually on the stump, aud other party workers are on the ground all the time. In Illinois the 1 fight is on the tariff and money quee- tions. F. X. Schoonmaker, of New
 Jersey, one of the greatest tariff orators
 ln the country, has been making speech
 after speech throughout the State and thousands upen thousands have turned out to hear him. Ia Chicago at one
 meeting alore ten thousand persons were in the audience that listened to him.
 In Wisconsin the fight is manly on the money question, and business men