New-York tribune., 1895-08-31
THE SITEATION.

The PENNSYLVANIA Republicans. who were sup
posed by their opponents to be just on the verge
Of surrendering control Of that magnificent in
dustrial State TO the Free-Trade Democracy.
have adjourned in harmony TO fight the common
enemy instead Of each other The New-Jersey
Republicans are deeply interested about their
nomination for Governor for the first time in
many years, since they believe, and the wisest
Democrats also, that pure and strong nomina-
ton, fairly representing the aroused and indig-
nant reform feeling Of the State, will result in
victory. Friends of the various candidates are
earnest and hopeful, but there is no trace OF any
difference which could prevent concentration of
the entire Republican and reform vote on any
candidate All stories of discord in Ohio are ex'
ploded by the hearty cooperation OF the strong
leaders who have been rivals or opponents, and
the nomination Of Ex-Governor Campbell has
kndled the ardcr of all Republicans to make
their victory decisive.
The Democratic outlook is different. Bourbon
Kentucky, rock ribbed and unchanged for gen
erations, is expected by the shrewdest Demo
Gratis TO elect a Republican Governor Nobody
can tell just what may come from an election
in Southern State. where Democrats hold all
the machinery in hands long accustomed to the
manufacture Of majorities. But when Kentucky
Democrats appeal to Secretary Carlisle to help
them out, telling him that they will lose 10000
votes unless he can stem the tide, and he refuses
to aid such candidate as they have nominated,
when Democrats as earnest and usually hope
full as Mr. Watterson regard Democratic defeat
as inevitable and possibly as the one thing need
full to purge and purify the party, it is natural
that Republicans indulge some hopes. 1t does
not at this moment look as if the Democratic
party could carry in 1895 a single one Of the
Northern States it lost in the overwhelming de-
feat Of 1894, but on The contrary, it is likely to
be beaten in Kentucky and some other States
which 1t then held. The party is not dead but
so disorganized and debauched by its own crimes
against the public welfare and against common
honesty that its wisest men expect, and its best
mea privately desire, its defeat. What future
is possible for it these men do not venture at
present TO predict. But they declare openly that
any future would be better than the immediate
success Of the party in this or that State under
such leadership as it has had.
Better defeat, better disruption better any
thing than the old gang in power, say many
Democrats of New-Jersey, when they remember
the racetrack criminals and the State House
robbers. SO say many Democrats Of NewYork,
when they see Tammany 'reorganizing" itself,
with the very same old hands at the helm SO
say many Democrats Of Ohio when they find
Campbell again put forward by Senator Brice
and his band Of well-drled workers. But the
local difficulties, however deep they 60 in this
State or that are after all not the worst. The
party has for more than thirty years been moth
ing better than an organized raceirack swindle
on National scale 1t has continually pretend
ed to have principles which it despises, and be-
liefs which 1t never held. 1t has robbed the pco-
pie of their right Of suffrage at the South con
stanty, and in every State whenever 1t could.
II has debased the moral sense Of It's own best
men so far that they have defended its crimes,
and consented to pocket the profits by them 1t
has lied about its purposes and beliefs so long
that a large share of its voters have accepted as
gospel the fasehoods ii has told to catch votes.
At last this great National swindle has been ex-
posed by the costly process Of intrusting ii with
power. The people have had to pay $2OO0OO0,-
600 or $1,000 0OO, 600 for the fun Of enjoying
Democratic Government. The millions ii has
deluded are hungry TO destroy it. The honest
voters 1t has defrauded for many years are ripe
for vengeance. If Democrat can see hope in
the prospect, he is only cheating himself, as he
has helped for thirty years to cheat others.