Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-23

Mr.. Stokes IT had him two years under
my custody, His behavior was beautiful
Bound to CONS Out All Right
Having swallowed his drink and en-
deavored in vain to stop friend who
might share this entertainment the Tam
many man remarked; 'Oh, do love that
Mr.. Cleveland. We was led into q mis-
take, gentlemen. Our hearts Is all right
Some Of our leaders has got q little dased.
but we know it will come around all right. "
Meeting Horace White q moment on the
street, tina principal owner of the Ertmiag
Post, of New York, he said that he thought
the Republican ticket would get terribly
threshed. This reminded me of the length
of years required to alter the complexion OF
q nation. The Civil War was hardly over
when portion of the Democrats who took
part in it began to expect q restoration Of
the Democracy, reasoning Ippon the idea
that as one-third to one-half of the Repub-
lican party had come out of the
Democratic ranks these would at
once return with the extinction OF
slavery. Hence, Henry j. Raymond, Thur
low Weed, Seward and others projected the
arm in convention 1866 The war party,
uniting the soidiery to the former Repub-
licans, attacked this policy in the impeach-
ment trial, made more rigorous terms of re-
construction, and impeached the President.
This forced off quite different set OF ex-
Democrats, of whom Governor Grimes and
Lyman Trumbun were exponents Revenue
reform or free trade was at once promul-
gated by these, but the military popularity
of Grant saved his party, and in 1877 there
was o more formidable revolt, in which
united all who had been disappointed in
Grants favors
Not Ripe for Greeley in 1879.
The Democrats were not ripe for a candi-
date like Horace Greeley, and suffered
great defeat In 1872 Under Tilden the
Democratic revival took the form of mu-
nicipal and legislative reform, omitting the
tariff as an issue, which was always gingerly
handled Afterthat time Cleveland was a
convert to the mugwumps and the issue at
the ballot The operations of FELTON,, Weed,
Marble, ETC., to save Tilden the ceded elect
oral vote, drawing attention to the fact that
FELTON, had to send money to Oregon from
Jordan's bank to buy vote which was man.
ifestly not Tilden's, stopped the talk about
personal honesty.
By 1880 the Democrats had no issue at
all but the availability of some Northern
military men, and Hancock was taken up
because he had antagonized Grant on the
use of the enemy in the South, and General
Palmer began to wander from the Repub-
iican party on similar issue-on the use
of the army as Chicago fire brigade. But
some rights have never been revised since
the war on account of the super funds in the
Federal Treasury which the Congressional
districts wanted
The death of Garfield caused division in
the Republican party without any Demo.
cratic assistance, and brought Cleveland to
prominence as the beneficiary of the anti
administration vote. Everything would
have relapsed again but for Blaine's dissat-
isfaction with Arthur, whom he beat for
the denomination. This added to the re-
voting Republican elements number of
presses which, from one motive and an
other, wanted to obtain a circulation on the
minority side. The New York Times, find
ing the Tribune to be its more prosperous
rival within the party, went half over to
the Democracy.
Tariff Reform and the Civil Service.
The Harpers wanted circulation in the
South, like several other editors who mad
weekly papers not doing much in the North.
Meantime, Mr.. White, the pupil of Gov
ernor Grimes, had removed from Chicago to
New York City, and he obtained the Even
ing Post after the Willard interest lost its
money. Mr. Churtis' hobby of Civil Serv-
ice reform was now engrafted upon revenue
reform or low tariff, and there were
three papers in New York City
which industriously worked upon
the lines of disintegration. Several
other newspapers in the country changed
ownership, and falling from the printers
hands into the hands of collegiates,. who
made for the first time in the history of
modern democracy an effective newspaper
press. Mr. Cleveland, the referee, was
lucky in his day that he entered the breach
after several OF his antecedent candidates
had experimental and fallen. But the
smeut in New York, which is always on
hand, greatly assisted these amateurs, and
in the end the press portion of the new
Democracy pushed to the wall its political
and patronage element Finding them
selves environed with Mugwumps, the
Democrats, especially in New York City,
undertook to separate, and this has led to
various faction fights in the New York
delegations tor years past
Cleveland's removal to New York City
has placed him in the attitude in which
Tilden stood toward the local Democracy
there II years ago. At that time Tlden
presaged a national Democratic renais-
sance, but neither in Congress nor in the
large cities were the original Democrats
ready for new ideas any more than thev had
been with Greeley as a candidate.
Having. not without difficulty, beaten
Blaine, and some think by the manipula-
tion OF German and others in New York
City, Mr.. Cleveland ran against a new
quantity in Harrison, and was retired.