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Terms 2.00 A Year,in Advance
Bellefonte, Pa., Sept. 23, 1892,
P. GRAY MEEK, Epitor
Democratic National Ticket.
FOR PRESIDENT.
‘GROVER CLEVELAND.
OF NEW YORK.
FOR VICE-PRESIDENT.
ADLAI STEVENSON.
OF ILLINOIS.
State Democratic Ticket.
EOR CONGRESSMAN AT LARGE.
GEORGE A. ALLEN, Erie,
THOMAS P. MERRITT, Berks.
FOR SUPREME JUDGE.
CHRISTOPHER HEYDRICK, Venango.
FOR ELECTORS AT LARGE.
MORTIMER F. ELLIOTT, Tioga.
JNO. C. BULLITT, Philadelphia.
THOMAS B. KENNEDY, Franklin,
DAVID T. WATSON, Allegheny,
FOR DISTRICT ELECTORS
Samuel G. Thompson, Clem’t R. Wainwright,
Adam 8. Conway, Charles H. Lafferty,
W. Redwood Wright, George R. Guss,
John O. James, Cornelius W. Bull,
William Nolan, James Duffy,
Charles D. Breck, S. W. Trimmer,
Wm. G. Yuengling, Samuel 8. Leiby,
Azur Lathrop T. C. Hipple, :
Thomas Cha fant, W. D. Himmelreich,
P. H. Strubinger, H. B. Piper
Joseph D. Orr, Charles A. Fagan,
Andrew A. Payton, John D. Braden,
John A. Mellon Michael Liebel,
Thomas McDowell, Jamet K. Polk Hall,
Democratic County Ticke
. FOR CONGRESS,
Hon. GEO. F. KRIBBS,
Subject to the decision of the District
conference.
For Associate Judge—C. A. FAULKNER,
For Legislature— JH : SoC0ORMICR,
For Prothontary—W. F. SMITH,
For District Attorney—W. J. SINGER, Esq.
For County Surveyor—HORACE B. HERRING,
Democratic County Committee of Cen-
tre County for 1892.
Districts. Committeemen,
Bellefonte N. W................. J. C. Meyer.
H S. W.. ..A. 8S. Garmam,
on WwW. W ...Geo. R. Meek.
Centre Hall Bor. ..James Coldren.
Howard Bor...... Abe Weber.
Milesburg Bor... i. H. Carr.
Millheim Bor....... ..Samuel Weiser, Jr
Philipsburg Ist W.... ..James A. Lukens.
Philipsburg 2nd W... ..H. W. Buckingham.
. 3rd W Frank W. Hess.
C. B. Wilcox,
. M. Griest.
Benner. B. K. Henderson,
Boggs N Philip Confer
“ E.P G. H. Leyman.
W.
Burnside...
College E. P..
®W.P..
James W, Lucas.
.. William Hipple.
..l. J. Dreese.
J. N. Krumrine.
.N. J. McCloskey.
.Daniel Dreibelbis.
bad w.P .Frank Bowersox,
Gregg N. P.. «J. C, Rossman.
“LP David Sower.
« VW.P William R. From.
Haines E. ohn J. Orndorf.
“ WW. A. Weaver.
Half Moon david J. Gates,
Harris... ames W. Swabb.
Howard .H. M. Confer.
Huston .... Henry Hale
Liberty.... .W. W. Spangler.
Marion .... James S. Martin.
Miles E. P. George B. Stover.
4 .N.P .J. B. Kreamer.
“ wr ..U. 8. Shaffer.
Patton... ..R. H. Reed.
Penn..., J. C. Stover.
Potter N ohn J. Arney.
% ames B. Spangler.
Rush N. P ames Dumbleton.
8.P. J. W. Collins.
Snow Shoe E. P.. William P. Brown:
" v.r. William Kerin,
Spring N. P..... L. H. Wian
« 8.7. Jasper Brooks
Taylor..... John T. Merryman.
Union ..Aaron Fahr.
Walker .J. H. McAuley.
Worth .W. H. Williams.
Voting for Quay.
If the professions of Centre county
Republicans are honest, there is not
the one_half of them who would vote
to continue M. 8S. Quay, as Uuited
States Senator, or for any representa-
tive who would do so. Three years
ago, when the two hundred HasTiNes
men, returned from Harrisburg swear-
ing about DEerLaMATER’S nomination,
every mother’s son of them vowed ven-
geance against Quay,and told,long and
loud, how they would vote against
him or any one who would support
him, in the future, The principal po-
litical work of the next legislature
will be the election of a successor to
Quay. He is a candidate for re-elec-
tion. Both Republican candidates for
legislature from this county are
pledged to vote for him. A vote for
Hamiuron and Dag, will be a
vote for Quay for Senator for six
years longer. What do the anti-Quay
Republican of the county propose to do
about it? The test of the sincerity of
their professions will be had on elec-
tion day.
Nothing to Say.
Has either of the Republican orgaas
in this county attempted to give any
reason why any voter should cast his
ballot for the Republican candidates
for Legislature? We have watched
them carefully and as yet have not seen
a word. The reason is that the pub-
lishers of both the Gazette and Republi-
can know that neither HaminToN nor
Dare, will represent the sentiment of
people of the county, on such questions
as most interest our people, and with
which the Legislature will have to do,
and they sensibly conclude that the
least said about them the better. They
know that they are both opposed to a
fence law—the one thing in particular
that the people of the county want.
FE TU DT
—Republican stumpers are now work-
ing the plea that the tariff is astimulant
and nota tax. ‘True enough,’ for one
has to be very “full” of it indeed before
he can see any good in it. *
*
i An Attempt to Obscure the Real Issues.
The fact that the Republican Admin-
istration is attempting to get up a war
scare surprises no one. It needs some-
thing, and it needs that something very
badly, to attract public attention from
the condition its policy has brought
business to in this country, and from
the issues it has been forced to meet
thus far in the campaign. With a rec-
ord that furvishes not a single act that
has benefitted the public; with a tariff
policy that has crushed business and
taxed the people ; with a force bill that
threatens the existence of Republican
government: with a pension system
that makes the sutler's clerk, the
commissary attendant, or the camp fol-
lower, as much of a hero as the soldier
who stood at the front; with a candi
date who acknowledges allegiance only
to the wealth of the country, and a brok-
en, disorganized and discouraged party,
it is neither strange nor to be wondered
at that an effort is to be made to have
the questions of the campaign forgotten
in the teeling and furore a threatened
war with Europe, would create.
For this purpose Admiral WALKER
has been sent to Venezuelan waters with
instructions to take such steps, as the
representative ofithis government, as is
generally believed will be objected to
by German and British war vessels al-
readyithere, and thus create disputes,
out of which rumors of war, if not act-
ual hostilities, can be manufactured.
Claims that the Monroe doctrine was
violated by European vessels during the
Venezuelan revolution, are to be made
the basis for this political trick, and
WALKER is to sail around with an
American eagle on one shoulder
and a Harrison chip on the other, in
the hope that hecan create fuss enough
to attract theattention of the American
voter from the questions that most in-
terest him in the campaign that is now
on.
It will be the proper thing for our
people not to be led away by this side
show. There will be no war, for the
simple reason there is no cause or even
excuse for one, There may be bluster,
and blow, and bragadocia, but there
will be no blood-shed. The purpose is
too apparent. The attempt to deceive
too thin.
it all only demonstrates the desper-
ate condition in which the Republican
party finds itself,
——-*If your vote is out in Penns:
valley of course we have no show of
carrying anything in the county,” was
the houvest confession of a Republi:
can politician at the Granger's picnic,
last week. And he can depend upon
it that the Pennsvalley vote will be
out; consequently what few people
there are in the county who believe
we should have no fence Jaw and that
poor men who don’t own real estate,
should not have a cow, may just as
well stay at home and save their time
on election day.
——Mr. W. F. Sumrra the Demo-
cratic nominee for Prothonotary,
speaks German as readily as he does
English, which will be a great satisfac-
tion to alarge class of citizens who
have business to attend to at the Pro-
thonotary’s office.
Forcible Thoughts from Grover Cleve-
land.
* % * The people are the rulers of the
nation, and not the office-holders, whose
ambition is private gain.
* * * The exercise of the right of suf-
frage is a serious business; and a man’s
vote ought to express his opinion on the
questions at issue.
* % * The useless exaction of money
from the people upon the false pretext of
public necessity is the worst of all gov-
ernment perversions, and involves the
greatest of all dangers to our guarantees
of justice and equity.
* * % Public extravagarce directly
distributed ‘gifts and gratuities among
the people whose toleration is thus secur-
ed, or whose past party services are thus
compensated, or who are thus bribed to
future party support. This makes the
continuation of partisan power a strong-
er motive among public servants than
the faithful discharge of the people's
trust, and sows the seeds of contagious
corruption in the body. politic.
* % ¥ When we started together in
political life and responsibility, our ac-
cepted creed taught that politics was
something more than a political jugglery,
that there was such a thing as official
duty, and that it meant obligation to
the people.
* * % T believe the most threatening
figure which to-day stands in the way of
the satety of our government, and the
happiness of our people, is reckless and
wicked extravagance in our public ex-
penditures.
* * * Ifthey(the people) seek to make
their public servants feel their direct re-
Sonsihilig to them, and be careful of
their interests, their objects will not be
accomplished by blind adherence to the
party which has grown arrogant with
long continued power.
® % * If we suspect anywhere in our
councils compromising hesitation or a
disposition to divert the unity of party
efforts, let us be watchful. The least re-
treat bodes disaster; cowardice is often
called conservatiem,and an army scatter-
ed into sections invites defeat. y
Senator Hill Speaks.
A Most Flattering Reception. An Able Presen-
tation of Democratic Principles and an Earnest
Appeal for Democratic Work and the Success of
Cleveland and Stevenson.
NEw York, Sept. 19.—“It’s packed
from hell to heaven.”
A Democrat who was sitting on the
edge of the platform of the Brooklyn
Acade my of Music at 7.05 o'clock this
evening shot this expressive comment
over the footlights. Five thousand per-
sons were packed in the great building
and thousands stood outside. It was the
gala night of the Brooklyn Democrats,
gathered to hear Senator David Bennett
Hill open the national campaign in
King’s county. It was a turn out of
Democrats such as not been seen in a
generation. It was far ahead of any
demonstrations of similar character
since the Tilden campaign. The vast
audience on the main floor and in the
galleries was dotted with ladies, and
the nodding plumes on their bonnets |
kept the rythmic time to the tumultu-
ous applause.
When at last the Senator appeared
in full view, the great billow ofapplause
broke and crashed and thundered. Con-
ternoswung his baton like a sabre. His
men responded with “Hail to the Chief.’
THE NOISE OF THE BAND DROWNED,
They play nobly, but the eclioes of
the historic war were scarcely audible
above the tumultuous cheering. The
Senator, holding a new silk hat and
dressed in a frock coat and gray trous-
ers, stood calm amid the din. He
bowed modestly in all directions and
advanced with Colonel Pearsall to a
seat in front.
Even as Hill sat down, the great
cheering was continued. The ladies
on the floor and in the boxes waved
their handkerchiefs and fans at the
bachelor statesman. The ringing wel-
come was carried upward among the
galleries and rolled back again and
was continued, the band pounding away
all the time.
A LONG WAIT FOR SILENCE,
At last the audience was ready to
listen to Colonel Pearsall, and, raising
his hand for quiet, introduced the speak-
er.
Instantly the tumult broke forth
again. The scene on the Senator's en-
trance was repeated. Bowing and smil-
ing in all directions, the Senator pulled
out his watch, and laying it on the ta-
ble in front him, waited for order. It
did not come. Men stood on seats and
roared, the women flaunted handker-
chiefs, and at every cessation voices
roarad, “Three more cheers for David
B. Hill.” It wasoue of the greatest
welcomes in the Senator's career. Fi-
nally Colonel Pearsall raised his hand
and quiet came.
The Senator then spoke at length
the following being but a few of the
many points presented.
THE SENATOR IS STILL A DEMOCRAT.
“I am reminded of the fact that it
was in this edifice, upon a memorable
occasion in 1885, that I had the honor
of expressing to the intrepid Democracy
of Kings county the sentiment, ‘I am a
Democrat,’and under the existing po-
litical situation, I knew of no more ap-
propriate place or presence than here
to declare that I was a Democrat be-
fore the Chicago convention, and I am
a Democrat still.
“The National Democratic Conven-
tion of 1892 has passed into history
with its record, its triumphs and its
disappointments. The wisdom of its
action is not to be questioned. It was
the court of last resort, established by
party usage as the final arbiter to de-
termine the conflicting interests of
claims of candidates, States and sec-
tions, and its decision will be accepted
with loyal acquiescence by every true
and patriotic Democrat who recognizes
the necesgity of party organization and
disciplive and respects the obligations
which he assumes io its membership.
“From this time forward, imperative
duties are imposed upon us. Factional
appeals should now cease ; the spirit of
resentmentshould be abandoned ; State
pride should be subordinated to the
general good; real or fancied grievan-
ces should be dismissed; personal am-
bitions should be eacrificed, and indi-
vidual disappointments should be for-
gotten in this great emergency, which
demands from us all the exhibition of
a wide-spread and lofty party patriot-
ism.
“Permit me to repeat what I had the
honor of expressing to the Tammany
Society, on the Fourth of July last, be-
fore the echoes of our National Conven-
tion had scarcely died away, as follows:
‘Our course at the present time is plain. In
the approaching struggle the Democracy of
New York should present a solid front to the
common enemy. Loyalty to cardinal Democ-
racy principles and to regularly nominated
candidates is the supreme duty of the hour.
“I reiterate those sentiments now.
We are entering upon the twenty-sev-
enth Presidential election since the or-
ganization of our Government. The
good citizen, desirous of discharging his
full duty in this crieis according to his
conscience and his judgment, uninflu-
enced by selfish considerations, will dis-
cover two great parties arrayed against
each other, struggling for the control
of the Government and appealing to
the people for. suffrages.”
THB TARIFF.
“A division upon the tariff question
was inevitable, The Republican par
ty advocates the doctrine that the Gov-
ernment has a constitutional, as well
as a moral, right to impose tariff du-
ties for the purpose of encouraging the
building up of private industries, by
the imposition of duties sufficiently
large enough to prevent foreign compe-
tition, irrespective ot the question of
the needs of the treasury; while the
Democratic party believes that the
Government has only a coustitutional
and moral right to impose such duties
as may be necessary to raise sufficient
revenue to support the Government eco-
nomically administered. This is the
precise issue squarely stated.
“I'he Democratic national platform
gives forth no uncertain sound upon
this subject and correctly states the
true position of the party. Ic denies
the constitutional power of the Govern-
po
ment to impose taxes for other than
public purposes. It correctly and sub-
stantially states the Democratic faith.
We have always insisted, and now in-
sist, that no warant can be found in the
Coustitution for the imposition of tariff
duties to aid private industries, but
whether such a tariff is constitutional
or not, or whether it is practicable to
have the question properly raised or
decided, the system 1tself is vicious in
the extreme, unjust to the people and
contrary to the spirit of our free insti-
tutions,
“Republican protection does not con-
stitutionally exist, but is imposed upon
the people by fraud, false pretense, eva-
sion and gross abuse of the taxing pow-
er. All the so-called protection for
which our opponents have clamored
and which they have obtained in re-
cent years, has been secured, not by
Constitutional sanction, but by the
abuse of the conceded taxing power of
the Government.”
He cites authorities in support of his
argument and says:
“In the light of these anthorities, and
under the arguments presented, fair-
minded men will arrive at the conclu-
sion that the Democratic party was
right when it declared that “Taxation
protection, on the other hand, is unob-
jectionable. Tariffs should be imposed
for the express purpose of revenue, and
not for any private purpose. We be-
lieve in revenue with incidental
protection, and not in protection
with incidental revenue. In so far as
the tariff is necessary to meet the nec-
essities of the Government, it may be
imposed, and any other benefit which
may be legitimately derived from its
imposition may and does necessarily
accompany it. If the burden imposed
would operate to prevent foreign com-
petition, the benefit is indirect and un-
objectionable.
“President Harrison, in his ingenious
letter of acceptance, endeavors to place
our party in a false attitude by calling
attention to the tact that while our
platform in 1884, readopted in 1888,
contained an express plank upon this
question of the equalization of wages,
yét it was omitted in 1892, and asserts
that we have changed our position. I
beg to differ with him. There has been
no change. It is not always practica-
ble to place in a platform the details of
purposed legislation.
“If I were asked to define as concise-
ly as possible the whole Democratic
policy, I should state it substantially
as follows: We favor a tariff for reve-
nue only, limited to the necessities of
the Government economically adminis-
tered, and so adjusted in its applica.
tion, as far as practicable, as to prevent
unequal burdens, encourage productive
industries at home and afford just com-
pensation to labor but not to create or
foster monopolies. These are the car-
dinal principles upon which the details
of all tariff legislation should be based.
“Qur opponents profess to be dis-
turbed because we have in our plat-
form denounced ‘Republican protection’
as a fraud. Whatelseis it? Itis a
fraud for these conclusive reasons:
“First—It is secured by a palpable abuse of
the taxing power ot the Government.
- “Second—It inures to the benefit of the few
at the expense of the many. 5
“Third—It is based upon favoritism of the
worst species. .
Fourth—It tends to create fictitious prosper-
ity, to be followed by subsequent business de-
pression. y
“Fifth—1It is deceptive in its promises and
unsatisfactory in results. ’
Sixth—Its principal beneficiaries constitute
a privileged class, and their importunities for
Government aid lead to public scandal and de-
moralization.
THE INFAMOUS FORCE BILL.
“There is another issue in this cam-
paign of equal, if not greater, impor-
tance than the tariff, which affects the
rights and liberties of every citizen.
The Republican party seems to be irre-
vocably committed to the passage of
the Federal election bill, generally
known as the “force bill.”
“I have not the time to-night to en-
ter into any elaborate presentation of
the details of this bill. It is sufficient
for us to know that the only purpose
of the measure is to coutrol for parti-
san advantage our elections, State and
Federal, Federal elections cannot well
be regulated and controlled without in-
terference with State elections—they
are almost inseparable where they are
held at the same time. The existing
Federal election law, bad as its provis-
ions are, together with the danger of
the enactment of the force bill, have
already compelled several States to sep
arate their State elections from Con-
gressional and Presidential elections at
the expense of and great inconyenience
to the people. Our election machinery
is costly enough already, and our elec-
tions should not be needlessly multi-
plied.
“The proposed bill usurps the rights
and prerogatives of the State, breaks
down all the sateguards which have
existed for a century and places all our
elections at the mercy of Federal offi-
cials who hold their offices for life.
The bill is a desperate attempt to prop
up the failing fortunes of a once great
political party. It was conceived in
political animosity, is urged from the
narrowest and worst of motives and is
unworthy a place among the statutes
of the American Republic.
THE DEMOCRACY FOR FREE AND FAIR
ELECTIONS,
“The Democratic party desires free,
honest and fair elections everywhere.
It desires them, not because they would
inure to its benefit, but upon the unsel-
fish and high ground that they are es-
sential to the preservation of our free
institutions. Our party has suffered
much in the past from the corrupt and
tyrannical election methods of our ad-
versaries.
“The Republican party is the party
of wealth, of plutocracy, of corporate
influence and of protected monopoliste.
Ours is a party of the plain people, the
‘men of moderate means, the ‘bone and |
sinew’ of the country. We have neith-
er the dispogition nor the means to cor-
rupt our electors, and our party has
been foremost in' all the'laudable efforts
of recent years to place upon our stat
ute books those reform election laws
under which corruption, bribery and,
intimidation are rendered difficult, if
not impossible,
“There has been no such condition
of affairs at the South as to justify the
enactment of the Davenport measure.
It is true that the colored people in
large numbers are there voting the
Democratic ticket, but this affords no
sufficient reason for taking away from
them, or from us, the control of their
own elections. The colored people
were not freed from slavery to become
the Republican party.
The speaker then goes intc State
matters and closes as follows :
“Fellow-citizens, I need not urge you
to the performance of your full share
in this campaign. Kings county was
never known to falter in its duty. The
interests involved demand the greatest
sacrifices and our highest and best ef-
forts. - It is the welfare of the old Dem-
ocratic party, which we all love so
well which is at stake, I plead not for
individuals, but for the cause. In a
great contest like thie men are nothing,
but principles are everything. Our
candidates represent our principles,
and our principles cannot prevail with-
out the election of our candidates. The
contest may be a severe one, but so
much more glorious will be the victory
if we win.
TAMMANY WILL BE AT THE FRONT.
“You need have no uneasiness—
‘The Old Guard’ will do its duty.
Look out for the raw recruits.
“I believe that a large majority of
the people or this country are convine-
ed of the rightfulness of Democratic
principles and want them to prevail;
but the elections will not win itself,
and there must be complete organiza-
tion. I repeat the injunction I uttered
before the Democratic State Conven-
tion at Albany, in February last: ‘It
is our duty to organize, organize, or-
ganize.”
“With this motto inscribed upon
our banner, ‘Public office is a public
trust,’ supplemented by the othersenti-
ments which I have endeavored to pre-
sent to you to-night, ‘No public taxa-
tion for private purposes,” and ‘No
force bill,’let us close up our ranks and
buckle on our armor for the fight, with
the determination to do all in our pow-
er for the triumph of our party and
the election of our honored standard
bearers, Cleveland and Stevenson:
Deserting Harrison.
Republicans Sickened by the Tariff.
Scarcely a day goes by that some in-
fluential, Republican, who has grown
tired of tariff taxation, and sick of the
deception it requires to. profess to be-
lieve that the policy of the Republican
party is beneficial to the country, does
not avow his determination to quit that
party, and join with the Democracy, in
its efforts to undo the evils from which
we all suffer. The [ollowing are from
two of the latest converts:
Batavia, N. Y,, Sept. 17.—F. E.
Brownell, superintendent of the Batavia
Canning Company, and hitherto a
leading Republican, is out for Cleve-
land. To-day he said: *
“Four years ago I was presiaent of
the Plumed Knights’ club of Middle-
port, a club orgamzed to further the
election of Mr. Harrison. The only
reason I am not on that side this fall is
the tariff. Last year the McKinley tar-
iff law forced our canning. company to
pay $10,000 more than we would have
done under the previous law, while we
were forced to sell our goods lower on
the market. If this sort of thing were
to continue we should be forced to close
our factory, as others have done at Web-
ster, Fairport and other places.
‘‘The cry about American tin plate is
all bosh. Not a single sheet of tin made
in this country is ever used in a canning
factory. The scales have fallen from
my eyes, and I am going to use every
honorable means to further the election
of Cleveland and Stevenson.”
NEW York, Sept. 18.-—Isidor Jacobs,
who is at the head of one of the largest
establishments in the world shipping
California canned fruits, president of the
San Francisco World’s Fair Association,
and chairman of the Merchants’ Traffic
Association of California, and who has
hitherto been prominently identified
with the Republican party on the Paci-
fic slope, but is now an enthusiastic sup-
porter of Grover Cleveland for president,
said yesterday in respect to the political
situation in California:
A great many of our leading mer-
chants and people on the Pacific coast
have come to the conclusion that the
tariff question is one of education; and
they have grown to admire Grover
Cleveland's stand on that question, al-
though formerly opposed to him politi-
cally. They admire his straightfor-
wardness and courage in pressing this
question to an issue, and they believe
that his doctrine is not free trade, but
that a tariff for revenue only can be
maintained which will support those in-
dustries which need protection, tha ex-
pense: of the government being so large
as to require a revenue sufficient to pro-
tect the industries needing it, without
injury to the consumer or to the mass of
the people.
“Great dissatisfaction is also express-
ed on the Pacific coast with the pension
bills adopted. ‘While the sentiment 1s
that the government should protect the
defenders of the republic during the war
yet the people believe that the opening
of the door for the payment of pensions
is likely to make an increase in the pau-
pers in our country.
“Personally I am acquainted witha
great many leading Republicans on the
Pacific coast who are for Grover Cleve-
land tor President for the first time, who
formerly supported Harrison and
Blaine.”
Colored Men are Now Working.
PrrrsBurGH, Pa., September 21.-—
The Elba iron works resumed with col-
ored non-union men to-day: Fifteen
furnaces were in operation. The colored
workmen are guarded by police but no
trouble has occurred. The men struck
against working three turns a day.
| | —_Money talks. Perhaps ‘that 'is
' the redson it gets ‘people in so ‘much
trouble at ‘times:
The Republican Situation in New York.
Hopeful Outlook for the Democracy in Conse
quence of Republican Dissenions and Apathy.
The New York Sun, that is not over
enthusiastic for the Democratic ticket,
gives the following resume of the situa-
tion in that state, so far as it effects the
general result.
On the side of the Republicans the
weak spots are numerous and serious.
The whole canvass is a backward
one on both sides, This means a great-
er loss to the Republicans than to the
Democrats. The Democratic vote in
New York comes chiefly from the big
cities and from the thickly populated
portions of the large towns. The Re-
publican vote comes chiefly from the
back woods and cross roads, To get
out the Democratic vote a thirty-day
canvass suffices. To reach the full
Republican vote, to arouse their inter-
est and assure their presence on elec:
tion day reqnires three months of pa-
tient, diligent, and untiring hard work,
a vigorous canvass in the press and on
the stump, and enthusiasm to the boil-
ing point. No such canvass has been
prosecuted by the Republicans, and the
election is less than eight weeks hence,
In losing the Legislature, the Repub-
licans have lost the control of their
State patronage and they have also lost
control of many corporate influences,
which for more than twenty years have
been exercised in the political field by
the party in charge of the Legislature.
Another source of weakness to the
Republicans is the fact that under the
new Congressional apportionment po-
litical rivalries have been engendered
by the throwing of two or more aspir-
ants for a Congressional nomination
into one district. Outside of Albany
and one district of Buffalo, it may be
said gererally that a Republican nomi-
nation for Congrees in a Presidential
year is as good as the election. Under
these circumstances feuds between the
counties have distracted attention from
the Presidential fight, particularly so
in the Cayuga. Onondaga, and the
Steuben county districts. A Democrat.
ic nomination in a Republican Con-
gressional district does rot mean much
and consequently there is no factional
trouble among them on such accounts.
The Democrats of New York are ca-
pably led this year by the ablest poli-
tician within New York’s border, Da-
vid B. Hill, and by a wide-awake, skill-
ful and tireless State Committee with
William F. Sheehan at its head. The
Republicans are in a deplorable condi-
tion at many points, In King’s coun-
ty two Republican factions are striving
for rivalry. There is no head to the
party there, and with even both fac-
tious combined no serious inroad could
be made on the Democratic majority ;
with both divided, the task is hopeless.
In Syracuse Senator Hiscock, the nom-
inal head of the party in this State, is
making unsuccessful warfare,
against the Republican faction led by
Jim Belden. Between them the Dem-
ocrats will make important gains. The
Republicans are badly off in Albany,
Chemung and Ulster counties, three
very important counties, Their local
organization is ia bad shape in Buffalo
and Troy. Their State Committee is
of very light timber, and Charley
Hackett Chairman of the Executive
Committee has proved to be something
of a spectacular politician of the drum
and fite corps order at a discount.
The canvess is backward on both
sides, but the Democrats are ready
when the word to advance is given,
whereas the Republicans are in a dis-
organized condition. There is no head
to the Republican machine in the State
no qualified leader to the Harrison
corps, while there is a surplns of Re-
‘publican orators, advisers, talkers, and
dress-parade statesmen, and a deficien-
cy of Republican workers and a pretty
general conviction that Tom Piatt is
not in it when it comes to stacking up
his political chips against those of Da-
vid B. Hill. ‘Such is the situation at
present.
New Use for the World’s Fair.
The Single Tax club of Chicago has
sent a letter to George R. Davis, direc-
tor general of the world’s fair requesting
that ‘‘on foreign exhibits of dutiable
goods at the world’s fair, the selling
price in the country from which the
goods are exported, the transportation
charges from point of origin to Chicago
and the selling price in Chicago =
stated separately, so that visitors may
be enlightened in reference to the influ-
ence of our present system of tariff taxa-
tion and find out who pays the duty.”
The director general will undoubtedly
comply with this request, as he un June
29 notified the Secretary of State that
placards giving foreign and American
prices would be permitted on foreign ex-
hibits.
Republicans will welcome this oppor-
tunity to demonstrate the fact that the
tarift tax is paid by foreigners. If these
placards will show that a box of window’
glass that sells for $2.60 in Europe sells
for $2.50 here, after paying $3 duty, and
that woolen clothes that sell for 50 cents
per yard in England sells for no more
here, after paying 62} cents duty, then
McKinley will hold some tramp cards
and his claim will be substantiated. If,
however, they should show that duties .
are added to the foreign cost before
Americans can possess foreign-made
goods, then the democrats would come
to the front and McKinley would have
to take a back seat. It is a pity that
the fair does not occur before the presi-
dential election.
Only One Regiment Now at Home-
stead.
HoMESTEAD, September 10.— The
Fifteenth regiment, which has been on
duty for seventy-one days, broke camp
this morning and took the train for
home. This leaves but one regiment—
the Sixteenth—on duty, and it will
goon break. The strikers claim that ov-
er 200 men left: the mill when thay
heard that the Fifteenth regiment had
been ordered home Superintendent
Potter refused to confirm. this state-
ment. ;
_.Subseribe for the WATCHMAN.