Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-08
CAMPAIGN NEWS AND COMMENT.

Tree State, which terminates In the election
next Monday. There are five tickets in the
field, and the number of speakers on the
stump has been unusually large even for
Maine. At the September election four
years ago the Republican plurality was
18.05S, and in 1890 this was increased to 1889.
While it is true that the Democrats are bet
ter organized than usual this fall and will
make extraordinary exertions to get out
their vote, the opinion of the best Informed
Maine politicians is that the Republican
candidate for Governor will go in over his
four opponents by at least ID. 900 plurality
Up until the last day or two the disposition
of many of the Republicans was not to claim
q lead of over 1900, but the Blaine letter
and the substantial victory in Vermont will
cause an in ncreased confidence oil along the
line. Some uncertainty is felt as to the
first trial of the Australian system, but
Colonel Potter, of the Republican Com
mittee says: sour majority will be about
5000. The Republicans are waxing up
everywhere and will turn out and vote. The
new way OF voting will cause lots of mistakes
but will fnJure the Democrats more than US,
in my opinion, because our voters are less
liable to make Mistakes" The Democrats
gressional Districts, though devoting most
of their attention TO the bailiwick Of ex-
Speaker Reed. There is no reasonable doubt
OF the reelection of all Of the present Re-
publican representatives.
w. RUSH GILLIAN labored industriously
to secure the Democratic nomination for
Congress in the Dauphin- Perry
district and then declined it. He is now
trying to pose as martyr to the end Of the
Harrity machine.
THE inner history of the adoption of the
radical free trade plank in the Democratic
National platform is coming to the surface.
Col. C. II. Jones, of Missouri, Chairman of
the Resolution Committee says "The tariff
plank submitted by me, as Chairman Of the
Committee, to the Convention, and which
was rejected by the Convention, was not the
original draft of the plank prepared by me.
My original plank was of practically the
same tenor and scope as the Neal substitute,
which was finally adopted and which calls
for tariff for revenue only. My plank, how
ever, was little more carefully and dip
Iona aticaly drawn. When the tariff came
up it started a fight in the committee room
which lasted about seven hours. During
tha a'tme a snere was dS reSeess DeIore wnscn
which it was again changed. Finally the
original plank drawn by me had been so
amended as to become unrecognizable, and
I. as Chairman, reported it to the Conven-
tion in behalf of the majority of the Com
mise plank. Did the plaak, as reported
BY BY me, represent my personal viewss
all over and Mr.. Nieps substitute
had been adopted, Mr.. Cleveland wrote to
me and asked me to tell him all about It and
the entire ground very carefully. I even
sent him the draft of my original tariff
plank, and explained the process Of eyolu-
was rejected. Mr.. Cleveland expressed him
self as entirely satisfied, and feel have
tho right to say he would have been satisfied
with the plank as originally drawn by me.
And now some one should explain how the
State bank blunder slipped into the plat
form.
IKERT, who has Just been named for Con-
gress by the Democrats in the old Mckinley
district ran against the redoubtable cham
pion himself four years ago, and was beaten
by about 5000 votes, running behind his
ticket. He will have to improve on this
record considerably to defeat manufacturer
Morgan this year.
PERHAPS the most interesting political
episode of the recent session of Congress
was the Rockwell Noyes contest from Sena-
tor Hills district in New York, and its
sequel is significant. The Republican mem
Der. it will be remembered, gas sustained by
nearly the unanimous vote of the contest
committee, but Mr.. Hill brought all his in
House, Rockwell taking his place. Now
that gentleman declines to go before the
people of the district this fall. A Demo-
cratic committee visited Major Rockwell at
Elmira, and, in the course of an informal
conference, learned from him that under no
circumstances would he accept a renomf-
nation He stated in substance that had
the district remained the same and Colonel
Noyes been renominated the logic OF the
situation might have required his renomina-
tion, and in that case he would not have
shirked the responsibility at however great
personal sacrifice But, under the changed
conditions, he did not deem it necessary to
again be candidate. That is one way of
avoiding the verdict OF an indignant con-
stttuency.
Miss ELLA KNOWLES has been nomin-
ated by the Peoples party for Attorney
General of Montana. A Democratic organ
of the new State is gallant enough to say
that she has flair, young face" and to ex-
press doubt whether she has seen enough
summers and winters to reach the age quail
dcation for the office. Perhaps these COM
pliments will console Miss Knowles for de-
feat in November.
OPINIONS as to the situation In the only
Democratic Congressional district of Phila-
delphia are remarkably divergent. even
among those of the same political faith.
"Mr. McAleer has nothing to fear from the
nomination of q Republican candidate in
the Third Congressional district" says the
Public L 'dger. '"He would naturally COM
mand many Republican votes, as we'll as a
majority of the Democratic votes, for the
simple reason that he has been a good and
faithful Congressman, doing good service to
his city and district The party vote of the
district in 1888 was 10, OF Republican TO 16,637
nnr,, Euor, if, n inap
didate commanding the party vote, Mr.
McAleer would probably head the poll, his
opponents in the Democratic party being
mainly committeeman who do lot live in the
district and have less influence there than
their success in twisting party rules to pack
a convention would seem to imply" This
feeling largely accounts fer the Republican
Endorsement Of McAleer yesterday.
THE Oswego Times thinks that "when
Senator Hill makes that call, ii he ever
makes it, on the statesman of BuzZard's
Bay, he should be accompanied by Labor
Commissioner Peck. Otherwise confidence
in the complete harmony and unifcation of
all the Democratic elements will be at o
serious discount"
SENATOR PETER has been witnessing
the signs of tine protection revival, and is
now of the opinion that it is the Democratic
instead or the hepuD1can organization
which will first be broken up by the Peoples
party. In speech at Topeka he said: "The
Peoples party will carry the silver States,
Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota and North
Dakota IN the West, and Georgia, Alabama,
North and South Carolina, Mississippi, and
possibly Texas. in the South. This will
throw the election of President into the
House. expect to see the memers Of the
Southern States awake to a realization of
the revolution in public opinion and follow
tho wishes of their coHstituents by voting