Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-22
CAMPAIGN NEWS AND COMMENT.

VIII tno poseiuio 04ceptiOn OI Ncfhuu. AZ
that pocket borough the free silver delusfon
Is OF extraordinary strength. and Senator
Stewart, hitherto the Republican leader, has
declared for Weaver and Field. In Nebraska
there is an exciting three-cornered struggle.
Ex-senator Van Wyck has Joined the Peo-
pies party, and is its candidate for Cover
nor. The Democrats have nomt
mated j. Sterling Morton, an avowed
free trader, while the Republican
NOMINEES Is Judge Crounze, of the
Treasury Department., In summing up the
situation Senator Henderson saws: "We are
making gaining fight and everything looks
well. There are evidences on every hand
that we are constantly winning votes from
the Peoples party, which, at the beginning
of the campaign, started out with strong
following There does not seem to be any
fusion among our opponents at least on the
electoral ticket. As things look at presens
have fair show of doing so under any cir
cumstances that may yet arise"
JERRY SIMPSONS constituents contrib
uted 500 in wheat to his campaign fund
in one day. This would seem to refute some
OF the sockless statesman'S announcements
regarding their poverty-stricken condition.
SINCE the DOWNFALL of the Iowa Pres1-
dental aspirant at Chicago there has Seen
noticeable decrease in the number of claims
as to the Hawkeye State going Democratic
this year. The Republicans are making an
aggressive campaign, which can hardly fail
to result in the return of Iowa to it's old
political allegiance. Congressman j. P.
Dolliver, of Fort Dodge, has been visiting
Republican National headquarters, and
says: "The calamity howler is considera-
bly, handicapped this year in Iowa, as else
where, by the abundant crops. Even the
Democratic Governor, Boies, in mis- message
this year said that never before in the his
tory of Iowa had her people been blessed
with more general prosperity. This is the
man who made the statement here in New
York that the farmers of Iowa lost 81 cents
on every acre of corn on account of tho
tariff The difference, however, lies in the
fact that the iormer statement was made
under oath, while the latter was not. Alto
and there is little danger that Iowa will not
be in line with her old-time majority. Our
trouble in the past has been from local
issues, but they won't count this year."
in Iowa recently, but is nota feature OF the
platform adopted at the last State Conven-
tion.
CONSERVATIVE politicians intimate that
Weaver will receive fewer votes in his own
w
Commonwealth of comparative size. And
what he does get will be largely from the
ranks of the Democracy.
DISCOURAGED by the tidings from the
West the free trade rainbow-chasers are
turning their eyes once more to New Eng
land. The lesson of Rhode Island in the
early spring is apparently lost upon them.
Congressman Mckinney is the Democratic
,Iak fo, r<~RA A-. Ho, ~
and is more enthusiastic just now than he Is
likely to be later in the fall. He says: 1.-THE
Democrats have had no such opportunity in
% years of carrying New Hampshire as they
have now. The education on the tariff has
made great progress there. The laboring
men have discovered that protective tariff
don't give them the benefit which the Re-
publicans claimed, while the farmers knows
that it is not in their in terest The Democrats
are sp]endidly organized, and were never
more confident. The losses to tine Repub-
lican party and the gains by the Democrats
in Vermont and Maine have alarmed the
Republicans all over New England. New
has the Australian ballot for the
first time this year. If we make the same
relative gain in New Hampshire on account
of this new ballot law that we made in Ver-
mont and Maine we will carry the State by
at least 5000 majority. l have no reason to
believe that the Australian ballot will have
anyless effect in New Hampshire than it
had in Vermont and Maine. So far as my
own election is concerned, I don't have
any doubt thatI will be the next Governor of
New Hampshire"
The Catholic clergy in Illinois have ad
vised their congregations to work for the
repeal of the Edwards compulsory education
law, and the Democrats are hoping to gain
by the movements. Perhaps it will work
both ways.
WHILE the Democrats are making fruit
less incursions into hitherto solid Republic
an territory, the friends of protection are by
no means idle, and are conducting vigorous
canvass in sections which should repudate
free trade. Harrity and his assistants
are evidently alarmed by the situation in
Alabama, Tennessee, West Virginia and
North Carolina. Chairman Carter thinks
there is good chance for Republican suo-
cess in New jersey this year and intends to
make a hard fight there. New Jersey, he
says, will hear more good Republican ora
tory than she has ever heard before, while
the best advocates of protection will ex-
plain its advantages to the farmers of the
State. Not only is there strong protection
ist feeling among the Democrats, Mr.. Carter
says but the factional differences are so
the election. The Hudson county ring,
whose work ut the ballot boxes has always
been a strong factor In Democratic success,
is badly broken up. In Delaware the Demo
Gratis are endeavoring to prevent the regis
trat1on of Republican voters. and one officer
has been arrested Tor such obstruction, The
best Republican judges of the Delaware
situation pelteve bt M snas a with proper enSo9r
of that State can be secured by
the Republicans.
HUGH ]. GRANT says he will not be
candidate for Mayor OF New York City be-
cause he cannot live on his salary of $4,000
a year. His political opponents, though, al
lege that he has saved $30O,0G0 during his
term of office.
ACCORDING to the New York Press Don NJ.
Dickinson sighed as he packed his grip-sack
for his weekly visit to Cleveland and GRAY
Cables and he said to Mr.. Harrity that he
felt like boy in school Yho was counting
the days before vacation. mo man will'be
happier than when the day of election
he said. The trouble with Dickfn-
son is that he feels that he is being made
target. The anti-snappers pour all their
griefs into his ear, and then the Hill men un-
burden themselves to him. He knows that
W hitney feels a little sore toward him, De-
cause he unwittingly usurped Whitney's
place in Cleveland's regard, and he is the
only man in the National Committee who
can be said to visit the candidate with con-
fidence, because Cleveland is apt to treat all
the others after the manner of a spoiled
child or = coquette. But what makes Mr.. |
Dickinson especially angry and causes his
lips to tremble and his luxuriant whiskers to
vibrate with passion is the tntimation which |
Is conveyed to him now and then that he ex-
peets reward by and by. II expect no.
thing, he said yesterday; ri want nothing. |
Why, 1 wouldn't go back to Washington |