Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1880 — GOOD CHEER FROM PENNSYLVANIA. [ARTICLE]

GOOD CHEER FROM PENNSYLVANIA.

Correspondence of the Sentinel. Philadelphia, Sept. 25,1880. Editor Sentinel: In the present absorbing political crisis.iwhen the people are resolved more intensely than ever before to rescue the Federal admi iistration from the political Chadbands and Fagins, will it encourage you in Indiana to hear from Pennsylvania that her 29 electoral votes will be given to Hancock and English?— “Impossible—you are feeding us taffy,” I hear some Indiana Democrats reply. It is not impossible, but one of those events awaiting verification, it is Hue, yet as clearly foreshadowed as anything in the future can be. I have been a close observer of the ebbs and tides of polities for over a quarter of a century, especially in Pennsylvania, and I have yet to be deceived or disappointed in the outcome. Never in that time, has the outlook presaged anything so certain on the political horizon. Th© men who made republican success a pos sibility in 1860 are now zealously at work for Hancock & English, on the rostrum and through all the sources of influencing public opinion. The Camerons, after Hayes, are not caring whether their party has a vacation or not. Don puts in an occasional appearance at republican headquarter , an ! drops over to Washington and gives assvrances that the party is all right in Pennsylvania, but ho and his father are more conspicuous on assurances than co-opcratiom Lon has •some kind of a promise from Garfield but he has soured on Ohio statesmen, and privately asserts that that State has the worst breed of eats of any other ia the whole Republican party. Had Grant, or even slimy John Sherman been nominated at Chicago, do you imagine for a moment that Don would have refused the baton of the campaign • the Chairmanship of the National Committee? He anticipated the nomination of Grant or Blaine, and in either event would have eagerly accepted that position. It was in contemplation of this that ho man iv'.ed the brief term of chairmanship before the Chicago convention, to be his own successor if any o.ie of the proposed candidates should be nomi nated. Don believes, as do a large number es Ohio republicans, some of whom, away from home, make no reserve of saying that “Jim Garfield played sharp on John Shefman—now let him lake care of himself,” ami ho regards it a religious duty not to be too effusive in labor for the slaught I‘ier of his uncle. Now you have some of the reasons why the Camerons arc not enthused over Garfield—and with thorn practically out of the cauvass.it is like the pluy # of Hamlet with the melancholy Dane eliminated from the cast.

John Cessna, chairman of the republican State committee, one of the lowest tricksters in the State essayed to arouse the inert republican mass by inaugurating a canal boat campaign, after the manner of 1840, but it has proved a dismal failure, and only added to the contempt for him that very many or his own partisans do not disguise. On the other hand the Democracy never were so earnest, so cordially united. The early outburst manifested after the Cincinnati convention has been intensified rather than abated as the campaign progressed, The jubilant and resolute Democracy arc cheered by accessions from the republican ranks who admire Hancock, are grateful for his services to the country, ami think it time to call a halt on the centralizing tendencies of the republican leaders. They have grown weary of their stale sectional 'appeals, and refuse longer to respond to them. These accessions are from all classes, and scarcely, if any, single locality of the State is without more or less of them. Not a solitary Democrat can I recall of hearing {who has left the ranks, or threatened to do so, and go for Garfield. Some have been naified as having done so, but in every instance the allegation has been promptly met personally by emphatic and indignant denials. Whatever you may do In Indiana and Ohio on the 12th of October, will not prevent Pennsylvania from giving her 29 electoral votes to Hancock & English. If Indiana shall maintain her place in the Democratic column it will add to our Democratic majority. My advices from Ohio are hopeful, and I prefer them to sanguine declarations, because it is naturaliy a republican State, by a meagre majority, and they have the candidate, such as he is, and that will have some influence.

Don’t understand me as apprehending that Indiana will shift her political moorings. I wiil not allow myself to imagine that as a possibility. I look for you to give Frank Landers, who has borne himself so admirably in the contest, anywhere from fifteen to twenty-five thousand majority. What an inspiration that will be. and what a distinction it will give to Indiana! h. The repubs are arranging for a mass meeting here to-night. They promise 25,0CX) in line for a procession.They may make the pledge good, as they have a basis of 19,000 Federal, State, County and City officials to start with, and they have raised SIOO,000 to pay the expense. Blaine will be here positively, but whether to explain Maine, or to give the carmine under garment another whirl, I must wait to see. H.