Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-08-26
WORK IN THE WEST
The Democrats 10 Concentrate
Their Efforts
TO CARRY REPUBLICAN, STATES
How II Wll Be Done-An Interesting
Letter from ths Windy City
Covering rs Politics.


CHICAGO, Aug. 25.-The program OF
the national democratic committee IN
ia INVASION Of TIE western snd north
western state with me idsa OF carrying
them FOR Cleveland Is outlined more
clearly than / have ever seen Il out
lined before BY a local democrat who
has Just returned from a trip east,
where DO had several conversations
WIN member Of the national com
mttee- From what he says the demo
cratic leaders NOT only believe that IN
der certain circumstances they can
carry Illinois, M.cuigtn. Wisconsin and
Iowa, but they are actually seriously
tninkiug OF getting those republican
sErongnolds. Minnesota. the Dakosa's,
Oregon and Washington into the dem
OcratIc column. How they hope 20 do
ta.s - tAus explained by the gentleman
Interviewed,
The democrats have already sent
Out 90 Minnesota 50 900 copies OF Heu-
~ Georges Protection and Free Trade,
but besides stat they have decided
upon talking up local lssues and hight
lag on these lines. II is unusual for
tne national committee 10 concern IL
self about anything else than national
topics uut th4- year q. Is proposed to
carry IRE into the enemy's camp and
burn 70 from tae inside. | understand
the farmers IN the northwest have
grievance, whether fanc.ed or real
don know, against the railroads and
the wheat elevator companies aud tnls
IS 90 be played upon. The wheat COM
b.uat.on, so called, q 70 be proceeded
against on the stump, and tue demo
crats look 10 the farmers 10 rally on
a plank 10 the platform of the
Minnesota democratic state convention
which alt1CSs the alleged wheat trust.
The NATIONAL committee VIII gave Is
a.d, according 10 INV informant. He IS
a member OF TIE national committee
from the west, and be Is fam lar with
MIunesota's political history. lie show
ct that Garfield 5 vote in 1850 was O.
per cent OF the total vate that in 1884
Blaiue's vote was 81 per cent of the
total, and IN ISIS HarFisOn's was -
per cent only. That Was a falling Oft
of 10 per cent IN eight years from the
republican ticket, and he accounted
for 20 BY the large floating independent
vote winch could be turned To the dem
Ocrats. u they made an effort 10 get I.
lie SAID the wheat combination furn-
isned an opportunity which WAS to be
taken advantage Of, and q would be
worked for all II was worth"
They Are Not Harmonious.
From hints dropped by the gentle
man also, there - not the best of har-
mOny prevailing between the various
democratic state committees and the
national committee. It appears that
IN most OF the western states the state
democrats are little jealous of the
national democrats. Ny informant
SAID this was nouceably so in the case
OF Dan Voorhees, who, if Indiana was
carried for Cleveland, wanted the
credit for Il himself. This he said &C
counted for the determination of the
national committee 20 let Indiana Sc
versly alone and let that state raise all
the money i could aud dIsbursa It as It
saw NJ. The same condition Il seems
prevails n Minnesota. The members
the state committee expect no help
from the national COMMITTEES in the
shape Of money, and do not seem TO
want il for fear the national commit
tee VII want the credit If Minnesota
goes for Cleveland. Yet the national
comm ttee = 80 nvinced that Mime
sofa 3 debatable ground that 1t pur-
poses dong something for that state az
vel as the Dakotas, Washington and
Oregon. whatever the state democrats
want.
10 was equally clear from what the
gentleman SAID also that there are q
number OF state tickets in the western
and northwestern states which will look
ont for themselves regardless of the ma
tonal nominees. tie said the member
81 tine national committee told him
that the committee feared that in some
cases where the Australian ballot law
WAS not IN force the state candidates
were disposed 70 make trades with the
republicans.
TINS was most 70 be apprehendsd in
the case Of members of the legislature
and smad county Offices
They Ase In Earnest
Whatever she dangers confronting
them. the democrats are not appalled,
bus are mn earnest a their determine
ton % make their impress felt on the
western states. AZ this writing Messrs.
Don Dickinson Of Michigan. f. G. Wall
Of Wisconsin aud Ben Cable of Illinois,
who are the western campo gn coutln-
gent. have not opened up headquarters
ga Chicago. bat are expected 20 do so
momenfarlY.
When that committee gets started
ths amount Of campaign literature that
Wi 90 out from Chlcsgo Wi exceed m
volume almost anything before at
tempted and 10 vii be directed
chiefly against the farmers In M.nneso-
"a and the north vestAnd the German
Iuthersns in Wisconsin. Illinois and
Iowa. Ihe latter "a an element which
VII undoubtedly Cut an important tx
ure m the national campo 81 this year