New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-09-07
NOTES OF THE CAMPAIGt

THEY HAVE A EIEHIlN8 ChANLEl-Ine re
publicans Of the lid Louisiana District believe that
they have a good lighting chance to elect their can
didate for Congress this yssr, and they are con-
sdering and Weighing tcs availability OF several
excellent men, either o. whom would represent the
district with credit One Of them Is Jules Cod
chaux a young man. who Is one Of the largest
sugar planters IN the State. Another Is Captain
Frank Williams. who Is the owner Of one OF the
largest lumber mills in the South En9 bears , an
among the voters. The lid District had pOpula-
lion q I i or ten tb yeals M bt tb tasa Number
OF votes cast and counted for Reprssentstiy IN
ga We're for the Republican and AVE- foT the Demo
eT stat,y jtb Al sms a total vote would seem
10 be one that the Republicans could not hope %
sas ou Sfy iSy an Excellent Chance and
they going to try to do H.
DEMo-PoP ANXIETY IN MIssOURL-"CoU-
herd is in dangerr' Is the warning that has been
sounded In the ears OF the Demo-Pops Of the Win
Missouri Congress District Kansas City Is IN that
district and there bitter factionaI fight Il on
Cowherd has been drawn. His plurality two years
ago was over 3ooo but the Republican,, who , have
years are confident Of eecting their candidate his
year.
THE JOPLIN DISTRICT.-AnotEer Missouri dis
trict which the Republicans have some hopes OF
carrying Is the XVIII. Within the last two years
there has been remarkable Industrial development
lumber mills having been started The voting
population has been increased several thousand oy
manufacturing i States most Of whom are in favor
OF the Republican policy OF protection TO domestic
conditions In 1895 Benton CDemo-PopJ carried ths
XVIII District BY a majority Of a45l-
THE ELECTION oUTLOoK-In discussing the
election prospect. The Boston Herald observes
There has seldom been seriously contested Pres
DENTAL election IN this country concerning which
gent political observers to its results there
Of the Democrats think perhaps. that they see a
chance for their party. but the most Of them are
c9mRsS 5sr in hi: form Of The Pemo
SVer as us poIlcy ana BTyan as It's candidate The
Eastern portion OF the country was then solidly
the West 10 offset that opposition II has done
nothing to make gains in the East and /, has
steadily lost in the West since that tr,e Trsra "a
a possibility that new Issues which have come Up
the claim Is made. with some pIausbility. that
Maryland ana Kentucky win return TO their Demo
set more or less losses In the Western free silver
Enough Of GAIN three e H States We bss b 9os
instanced to prevent the election OF Mckinley
HE WANTS TO GET on ToP-''Tns PhradeI-
phia Press says:
Four years ago Senator Wellington of Maryland
made speech in Bohemia Hail. Baltimore in
and Congress to back him up such dis
nsssed ~n be as DaS' heaT 9gT ysaF 5e have wit
other speech in the same city in the same cam
ne eou5try T. wrapped up in the warp and woof
the preservation Of the National flag Last night
ms ms same same senator Wellington went on the plat
and advocated Bryan's election 10 the Presidency
his Flop IS this: aBryan viii 81 s4lts5 ssn ZOE IoT
VIII De on top But the fact that the Ame-i-
plans Of the renegade Wellington
BLAST FROM HENRY wATTERsON-Tbs
Editor OF The Louisville Courier-Journar' has
again been expressing his opinion OF ex-Presfient
Cleveland. whose free trade Message Of lSS7 vas in
MI. Wattersons opinion. the product Of master
MIND. A recent statement ascribed 70 MI Waiter
son was in effect that Mr. Cleveland soon after
writing the Message became frightened on account
OF the impression il had produced and caused To b
prepared for publication an authorized interview in
whieh ne virtually repudated the Message This
aroused the Editor OF The Nashville American.
who contends that the tariff is a paramount is
sue" in the pending Presidential campaign. and he
wrote to Mr.. Cleveland the subject receivfrs IN
reply the following letter:
Buzzard's Bay Mass. August . 1870
- am more ana more astOnished at the lengths
tnat are reached by Republican mendacity ana So
shadow OF truth IN the statements -sTs-~s+ - -
your letter OF the 10Th inst Yours truly
GROVER CLEVELAND.
The letter naturally provoked vigorous editorial
reply from Mr. Watterson in which he tersely Re-
views the performances OF the Democrats party
on the tariff from 1884 down. In this review he
says:
II may be doubted whether Mr. Cleveland ever
Understood the tarn question sufficiently 10 COM
prehend the meaning of his own message. whether
ne ever got near enough the Democratic people TO
rat1om their real wants in that regard or 10 recor-
nze their reasonable Interpretation OF the terms
% L-is message ana whether to this good hour he
IS wholly conscious OF what he did and What 6a
Ialied 10 90, during the years when the Demo
cTaJlc masses mistakenly thought him their actual
as he was their official leader in the MATER ~
the reform OF the revenue laws Mr. Cleveland was
reside ant in
had been elected Governor OF New-York by nearly
2uGt0 majority This majority was illusory IL
had been created. not by any immediate strength
OF his own but by Republican absenteeism from
the polls; for in the succeeding Presidential sle
ton he carried il. il indeed he carried il ar am
by a beggarly eleven hundred votes with ConkIins-
and Burchard 10 help him. and Providence 10 de-
scend upon the homeStretch with A series ~ r,i-9z
in Western New-York 10 keen the fsir v-ssf5~-
Republicans at home. He was nominated or a
compromise platform With the Randall prOJec-
our backs some sort OF straddle had to Be found
committee one was found that faced both wavS
Mr.. Cleveland's first message 70 Congress as fa-
as u touched the tariff, embodied this straddle.
Two years later. however, he thought ne knew
more than he did know. and he wrote his famous
was nothing. But It is certainly true that within
a fortnight OF its official PRONUNCIATION stung by
be prepared for publication in one OF the leading
journals Of New-York a qualifying interview, an
not mean. and that upon consultation this inter-
view was finally withheld.
After reviewing political events down 70 the en-
actment Of the Wilson law, Mr.. Watterson closes
his pthy and pungent editorial as follows:
In word. after twenty years OF progressive and
Of 1876. and Including the election or Carlisle over
Randall, in 1883. with the platforms OF 1855 and
year, all We got OF Mr. Cleveland was a Bill Re
M1ula hot sign, and the hapleSS. hopeless party