New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-22
AN EMPTY CAMPAIGN CHEST.

From Washington and Chicago cries Of dis
tress are simultaneously heard The Campaign
of Education" lags for want Of money; the
cause of the People" angushes because there
is no cash in hand In Washington Senator But
Ter is growing thin over the task of raising the
wind" for the hybrid ticket of Bryan and Wat
son" while Senator Faulkner. his Democratic
friend. bemoaning the fact that the ordinary
sources of revenue seem to have dried up this
wear" drafts volunteers from the depart
ments to do the work of his committee and wise
Brabmins of the Civil Service Board shake their
heavy heads at such an exhibition of offensive
craftsmanship" In Chicago Senator Jones, of the
Democratic National Committee. Is laboring to
convince Landlord Pcarce of the Sherman House
frugal man. he-of the unreasOnabeness. not
TO say ndecency, of demanding payment In adj
vance of the rent for committee headquarters,
and threatening to resign in case more money
Is not placed at his disposal to run the cam
paign" On top Of 1t all comes the narrowing
rumor that il is not a voluntary. but enforced,
vacation which the Boy Reader is enjoying up
In Dutchess County among the cowslps ana the
daisies. and that he has been temporarily with
drawn from circulation, as 1t were for the rea-
son that unfeelng railroad corporations refuse
nothing. to the detrnent of their rolling stock
and the decentralization of their time tables.
This is sad news indeed; sad for the managers
of the Popocratio propaganda. especially. They,
NJ anv rate will not be living in clover this year.
1t was to be Campaign Of Education sure
enough: but a campaign, they hoped, which
would be backed by dollar contributions from
the "plain people" An unreasonable public,
however Insists upon refusal to be educated
by Anarchists. and certainly knows quite enough
not to part with It's money for the benefit OF
handful of political adventures and mounte-
banks II was to be a rising of the people, so
they whispered to each other; but the people, so
far as we have been able TO discover are still
sQuatting in wonder before the antics OF the
an-Timan-Altg combination, and will In
all probability continue to do so until they are
ready in November next to rise and crush the
whole pestiferous gang The workingmen ana
wage-earners. they fondy dreamed. would ZEN
ter the fight and demand their own'-whatever
that may mean-but so far neither workingman
nor wagcearner has shown the slightest desire
TO exchange the facts of his present existence
for the theories of Bedamtes and the promises
of repudiators In short. the Champaign of Edn-
cation" the Rising of the People" the WAR
in the Enemy's Country" have one and all
proved failures. and in their stead there IS the
chairman of the Democratic National Commit
tee declaring in disgust that he has so far been
able to raise less than $1,000 for the campaign;
the chairman of the branch Of the committee
located in Washington levying forced contribu-
tons in time, If not money, from department
clerks unable to resist the outrage, and the can
ddate of the party itself under suspicion of
being cooped up among tie hen roosts of Red
Hook because it costs money to bite off chunks
Of oratory from the platform Of Il palace car
while speeding across the country.
Still. Mcssrs Jones, Butler and Faulkner need
not despair Let them examine carefully list
of Mr. Bryans prominent supporters, and we
are sure they will discover in 1t ample material
for n committee to raise the whcrewithal to
make the Democratic jackass 60. The list In
cludes "Sinjun-theM Martyr; our old gossip, Ca
lamty" Weller; Ollie Teall. the irrepressbe;
Ignatius Donney the dscOverer Of the Bacon
Shakespeare cipher; Blood to the Brides Waite;
"Cyclonc" Davis. whose hat would furnish a
generous contribution-box: Cousin Ben" Fol
som; stump Ashby, the former clown; TOR
nado" Bil. Mary Ellen Lease and George Fred
Williams And then, "there are Others but we
are unable 10 recall them Just now. Any one of
them however. we are sure would be able 10
raise the wind and set the Campaign Of Edu
cation on It's legs once more. Landlord Pearce
in Chicago would then come down from his high
horse. the clerks in Washington might be paid
in something more substantial than promises
and the oratory now bottled up amid the cider
of the uplands could be nncorked and flood the
country in an endless stream. Why, oh, why
don't they do 1t?