Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-11-03
WORKING FOR THE FUTURE
Little Encouragement for Democrats in
= the Keystone State.
Matn tai lining an Organization and
Doing Missionary Work - Conn
plants Against Harrity.
STAFF Correspondence of The Evening Star.

PHILADELPHIA, November 2, 1894.
But little interest can attach to the cam
paign in Pennsylvania, except so far as
Congress IS concerned. The election of
governor involves only question as to the
size of the republican majority. The demo-
Gratis will feel that their labors have lot
been in vain IL the republican candidate for
governor gets no more than 1900 majority.
1t is liable to be anywhere between that
and 10000. 1t is little remarkable
that the democrats should make such an
active canvass as they are making when
what is before them is considered.
They have dim futures, the maintenance
of the party organization and the personal
interest of their leaders to hold their con-
troll in a very extensive though a minority
organization. The Simon-pure democrats of
the state who has nothing but his faith to
feed on, hopes at some time to see the old
keystone state come strongly and reliably
into the democratic ranks. Not this year.
nor the next. nor yet the next, but some
time or other. The state has been for years
the keystone of the protective system.
Democrats think that they see In the
progress Of affairs that, suffering the con-
sequence of too much artificial stimula ton
by protection, the highly practiced indus
tries will decline under too much eompeti-
ton and over-production. and the prin-
ciples of tariff reform will become popular
and ultimately triumph.
Some Of the free trade philosophers say
that the condition has already been reached
where the lesson of the evil of protection
Is taught by the decline of the over-pro-
tected industries. into whose fields high
duties tempted more capital than the de-
mands for consumption could warrant.
They say that this condition now exists,
and that by steady and constant teaching n
majority of the people may be brought to
see II.
Missionary Ground.
They argue that Pennsylvania Is great
missionary ground. and that, therefore. the
organization should be kept in good con-
dition, and the work be kept up with vigor
though this campaign promises nothing but
defeat. This is the spirit in which Mr.
Singerly is making his campaign for gov
ernor. He has never entertained the idea
of being elected. He Is working as a
crusader for cause" and his only i'm
mediate reward must be but the honor of
being at the head of his party in the state
But the democratic party is not free from
dissatisfaction and complaint in it's local
affairs In the state. There Is no unannity
of approval of the party management
Singerly is the chosen candidate, but he is
not yet the party manager. Harrity man
ages the affairs of the party, and of him
and his policies there are loud and earnest
complaints from democrats. There are some
who believe that II he thought less of keep
ing the organization under his control ard
more Of the broad interests of his party,
Pennsylvania shall become democratic
state, would not be so far in the distance
The peculiar manner of McAleer'S taxing
OF and the consequent rupture in the party
which threaten the loss of that congress
sional district Is merely an incident of self
ish Acknowledgement.
few Representatives in Congress is all
the democrats have to hope for out Of this
contest, whatever may be the merits Of
their disputes or the basis of their future
hopes.
or course, they are not going to hold the
districts they have in this Congress. They
claim but seven republican districts as sure
and some of the republican committee esti-
mates have conceded them that many. The
third district at present represented by
McAleer, which, as a solid democratic dis
trict, they ought to carry, they are all but
sure to lose on account of the peculiar man.
ner in which McAleer was done out of
the nomination. On account of some pc
culiar local conditions in the seventh dis
trict they are encouraged to make an active
contest there, and to have some hope for it,
though the chances are heavily against
them.
The eighth and ninth districts are dem
ocratic. In the Scranton district, the elev-
enth, in which the democrats sometimes
win. there is possibility that they may
meet with success at this time. The twelfth
district, now held by a democrat, is likely
to go republican. The democrats do not
claim more than fighting chance In it,
Local Influences out of the ordinary, give
the democrats some hope in the sixteenth
district, and 1t Is a bare hope. The seven
teenth, nineteenth. twenty-sixth and twen-
ty-eighth the democrats will, i'm all proba-
bility carry. The twenty fourth, now rep
resented by Sipe, democrat, Is expected
to be carried by the republicans.
j. p. MILLER.