The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-09-02
TIE Campaign in New York.

i hC idOt tlldt A'GW Dlh ID uOuDt
full State IN Presidential elections will
only stimulate the democrats to more
determined efforts to carry it.
Doubtful though it is, the chances
Of carrying New York are favorable to
the Democrats.
In seven successive Presidential cleo
lions the State has been carried alter
nateiy by the two great parties. This
is the Democratic year.
In nine successive elections for
State officers the Democrats have won
The State government is now entirely
in Democratic hands, and this is a
strong point in an election.
In the last election for representa-
tives in Congress the Democrats car
rled twentythree of the thirty-four dis.
tricts by an aggregate plurality of near
ly $4,000. They repeated the victory
last year, with national issues at the
front, by plurality of nearly $4,000.
The new election laws, insuring a
secret ballot and requiring registration
in the country as well as in the cities,
will materially help the Democrats.
The candidate foi President, though
nominated against the voice Of the
New York delegation, is Loyalty sup
ported by all Democrats and will re-
ceive the votes of thousand OF indie
pendent citizens.
What RICHARD CROKER has just
said for Tammany Hall is said or
felt by the local leaders everywhere;
they are determined that "the next
President must be Democrat" and
are put upon their honor and
their mettle to give to CLEVELAND
and STEVENSON the largest vote ever
cast for Democratic candidates in this
State.
But in order that these good omens
may be fulfilled. and these loyal pur-
poses realized, certain things must be
done.
1. The party must be thoroughly
organized organized as TILDEN
marshalled the Democratic voters in
his day, and as HILL has arrayed and
inspired them for the past seven
years.
This must be done through the
regular organization in the usual way.
Amy voluntary association OF Demo
Gratis is at liberty to hold all the meet.
ings and distribute all the documents
that it please; but the attempt in any
county either to discredit or to ignore
the committee regularly constituted
and commissioned by the party would
inevitably result in division disaster.
All such misguided zeal should be re.
solutely suppressed.
ii The principles ofthe Democratic
party have been plainly and authorita-
lively declared in the national plat
form. They should be boldly and
persistently defended. No party
ever won, or deserved to win, by
cowardice, concealment or evasion.
The Democratic party is a tariff
reform honest money, anti-Force. bill,
anti.monopoly party. A winning
fight in this State can only be made
by courageous assertion of Demo
cratic principles and purposes
III. There must be speaking as
well as reading and an organizing
campaign. A "still hunt in a
Presidential year is an absurdity and
an invitation to defeat.
~. At the proper time there must
be careful attention to the registrat-
ion Of voters and to the instruction of
election officers in their duty.
In all OF this work THE WORLD
will help to the utmost of its re
sources and ability. reaches every
election district. 1t is read equally
by Democratic, Republican, Inde-
pendent and doubtful voters. And
while giving the news Of both parties
imparrally, every number Of THE
WORLD, as the campaign progresses,
will be document Of the sort that
is read-an appeal to the reason that
isisure to be heard.
The next President must be a
Democrat.
And to that end the electoral vote
Of New York is highly desirable and
may be absolutely necessary.-We