Republican News Item
CHAS. LOREN WING, Editor.
THURSDAY, AUG.I6, i'.HH).
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(Special Correspondence.)
Philadelphia, Aug. 14. —The Repub
lican state campaign in Pennsylvania
was formally opened today with the
Btarting into work of the entire force
of the Republican state committee,
under the direction of Gen. Frank
Reeder, the state chairman. For sev
eral weeks the preliminary work was
looked after by T. Larry Eyre, chief
executive officer of the state commit
tee, with Chairman Reeder making fre
quent visits to this city for consul
tation with his assistants. From now
on both Chairman Reeder and Mr.
Eyre will be at the state headquarters
daily, looking after the details of the
campaign and getting matters in shape
for the fall fight. There will be little
speech making until next month, but
there is always a vast amount of cor
respondence between the state com
mittee officials and the county chair
men in making arrangements for meet
ings and the canvassing of the var
ious districts.
TAKE NOTHING FOR GRANTED.
"We propose to run this campaign,"
said Chairman Reeder today, "upon
the principle of taking nothing for
granted, and we want to impress upon
the Republicans of Pennsylvania at
the outset the danger of over con
fidence. We are too apt to assume
because Pennsylvania has prospered
more than has any other state, under
the McKinley administration, that our
people will rush to the polls and vote
the whole Republican ticket as an evi
dence of appreciation of what the Re
publican party has done for the state
and the country at large. Unfortunate
ly our experiences do not teach us that
we can expect this movement to come
voluntarily from all classes of our
voters. There are always many who
seem to forget the advantages they de
rive from the success of the Republi
can party until it is sometimes too
late to overcome the result of this lack
of appreciation of the benefits of Re
publican supremacy. Many Republi
can candidates have in the past been
defeated not because a majority of the
voters in their respective districts were
opposed to them, but because many of
those who really favored their election,
neglected togo to the polls and vote
for them.
"Now, the aim of the Republican or
ganization in this state this fall will
be to impress upon those citizens who
are not ordinarily interested in politics
that they must goto the polls in No
vember next to vote the whole Republi
can ticket to insure a continuance of
present prosperous conditions.
"It will not do to allow the campaign
in this state togo by default because
it can be taken for granted that Presi
dent McKinley will get a large major
ity next November. We must see to it
that every close or debatable congres
sional and assembly district is won for
the Republican party and that the
Democracy, with their fusion alliances,
shall not be permitted to defeat regu
lar Republican candidates for congress
or the state legislature.
"The Republican party has lost mem
bers of congress in the past through
fusion deals made with tlie Democracy
by disgruntled Republicans and the
loss of Republican members of the leg
islature by similar combinations will
all have a bearing upon the election of
a United States senator, which will
come up before the legislature which
meets in Januarv next.
A REPUBLICAN U. S. SENATOR.
"No Republican can afford to jeop
ardize the election of a Republican to
the United States senate. Those who
give aid and encouragement to the
Democracy in the election of members
of the legislature will be held respon
sible for the result of such alliances
against regularly nominated Republi
can candidates for the senate and of
the state house of representatives.
"The Repubican state committee will
throughout this campaign give every
assistance possible to tho county or
ganizations, not only to get out a lull
vote for the state ticket, including the
presidential electors, but wherever
necessary a helping hand will be given
to pull through nominees for county
offices. We want and expect to have
the hearty co-operation of the various
Republican county committeemen and
any Republican who can in any way
contribute to the party success this fall
will be always welcome at the state
committee headquarters to give sug
gestions or advice in the interest of
Republican nominees.
"With the Republican organization
presenting a solid front against the
Democracy in November we should
make important gains in the congres
sional delegation, but this can be ac
complished only by hard work and per
sistent canvassing."
MUST GAIN CONGRESSMEN.
Congressman Jesse Overstreet, of the
Seventh Indiana district, who is secre
tary of the Republican national con
gressional committee, stopped off in
this city yesterday while on his way to
New York and had a conference with
Gen. Reeder regarding the situation in
the doubtful congressional districts in
Pennsylvania.
"The great danger to tho Republi
can party this fall will be in over con
fidence," said Congressman Overstreet.
112 "We must make a determined fight in
every doubtful district It we are to
elect a Kepublican majority to the
i house. In '9B we carried the house by
a majority of 13. By contca' s decided
in our favor our majority v.:• in
creased, but we cannot now dcp-.ul 011
the districts they came from. Wo had
three congressmen from North Carc
lina, but of course since the disfran
chisement of the negroes we shall HOT.
get n representative from that state.
In '9S we had two from Kentucky, but
one was by the narrow majority of ten.
We are not counting on that as certain.
The other district in Kentucky gave
us a large majority, and they cannot
count us out of it. We had one repre
sentative from Texas —from the Gal
veston district —but it is always close
there, and the presidential election
may change the result this time.
DEMOCRATS HAVE AN ADVANT
AGE.
"This makes a total of five that we
are almost sure to lose from what we
now have, leaving us a bare majority
of three. We are making our estimates
on a majority of three now. But the
odds this time are really in favor of
the Democrats. They have to begin
with 322 representatives from the
southern states that always give a
solid congressional delegation for them.
In some northern states they have 40
per cent of the congressmen. In New
York they had IS in the last house, or
CO per cent of the New York delega
tion. So on the face of the outlook
their chances for carrying the house
this time are better than ours.
"We look for gains in Pennsylvania
and New York," concluded Congress
man Overstreet, "but we know that
these gains cannot be made unless Re
publicans shall stand together and
labor to get out the party vote for the
full Republican ticket. Factional in
terests must be subordinated for the
welfare of the party. By the Republi
cans of Pennsylvania presenting a solid
front to the Democracy we should win
in every debatable district in this
state."
It is understood that Gen. Reeder
and Congressman Overstreet arranged
for another meeting in the near fu
ture, when plans will be mapped out
for close co-operation in the work of
the Republican organization ol' this
state and the congressional campaign
committee in the several congression
al districts where the Democrats think
they have a chance to win.
««•>" juiifiXutui," K-iiirtU.t'U an. rjl
kin, "more than a majority of the
doubtful districts will be carried by the
regulars. Most of the counties in the
regular column are safely Republican,
and in a Presidential year will be car
ried by the stalwarts. The above
figures are only for members of tho
house, but they clearly show that if
the Republican party does its whole
duty in November the contest will be
settled by Republican votes in the
house. The only hope left for the in
surgents is to join hands with the
Democrats in November and elect
Democratic members in counties where
they think such tactics will win. This,
of course, will be done, but the lead of
the regulars is too great to be over
come. This is a Republican year, and
fusion with free silver Democrats is
not. palatable to sound money Republi
cans. The fusion movement is falling
flat all over the state. The masses of
Republican voters are becoming very
tired of being made the tail to the
Democratic kite, flying free silver and
insurgent streamers. The allied forces
in the Republican party will win
against the mad designs of the Boxer
element within its own ranks and the
wild vagaries of the Bryan Democracy
outside.
"This is a table showing probable
make-up of the senate at the next ses
sion of the legislature:
Regular Republicans 27
Insurgents 7
Demi eruts 14
Doubtful i
Total TO
"When all the nominations are
made," concluded Mr. Elkin, "the re
sult will be as follows as nearly as can
be estimated in advance:
REGULARS.
Already nominated in lower home S3
Estimate of those to be nominated 3S
Probable nominations In doubtful
list 12—133
Estimate of regulars In senate 27
Half of doubtful list 2 29
Total nominations by regulars in
both branches of the legislature
—estimated 102
INSURGENTS.
Already nominated in lower house 27
Estimate of those to lie nominated 9
Total in house, estimated K6
Estimate of insurgents in senate... 7
Half of doubtful list 2 9
Total nominations of insurgents
In both branches of legislature
—estimated 45
Doubtful among p'oliable nomi
nees to house 11
WILL WORK WITH HANNA.
Gen. Reeder has been invited to visit
New York and confer with the leaders
of the Republican national committee
in reference to the work of the cam
paign, as it is desired that the chair
man of the various stale committees
shall be in touch with the national,
committee and work in harmony with
Chairman Hanna.
The speech of acceptance from
Bryan, in which lie made imperialism
almost the only issue, made an impres
sion upon the conservative element of
the Democracy and the Republican
leaders fear that unless there shall be
a renewal of the agitation on the silver
question, this speech from Bryan will
have the effect of sending sons of the
sound money Democrats back Into line
with the national democracy. It is be
lieved that this speech was prepared
with the sole purpose of misleading
the gold Democrats of the east and
getting them to give their support to
Democratic candidates for congress.
Bryan has the confidence of the silver
ites of the west and the no; thwe: t. and
they know that he will lie true to their
interests no matter what lie may deem
politic to say in any of his campaign
speeches. With the knowledge that the
silverites are for him. Bryan diplo
matically made his speech of accept
ance on imperalism, with the idea of
getting the sound money Democrats of
the east working in sympathy with the
Democratic organization. The Demo
cratic silverites of Pennsylvania are
now boasting that Bryan's Indian
apolis speech will bring back into the
Democratic party many of the sound
money advocates and that they will be
serviceable in helping to elect Demo
cratic candidates for congress and the
Democrats and insurgents who will be
on the fusion tickets for the stute legis
lature.
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We also have a laiger and more complete stock of house furnishing goods
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TIIMIIEL! TABLE.
In effect Monday June is, 1900.
Read down Head up
P. M. AMr.M.PM P M)' M A. M. A M STATIONS. AMAJIA.M.P MpMP M AM P M
1025 835 1025 525 420 2 12, 1020 7-18 llalls 740 945 11 45 400 145 1015 820 10 15
10 30 f8 40 flO :!0 f530 f4 2S 1215; f102317 51 Pennsilrtle ... 17 35 f'.» 10 11 40 57 fl 11 1010 815 10 10
10 408 51 10 40 540432 224 10 31 800 . Hughesville.. 7259 31 11 30 3484329 59 805 959
f904 f551 f4 44 ! 809 ...Lyons Mills... f9 20 fll 18 420 f946 9 It.
907 554 440 2£o 10 42 811 ....Chamouni ... olsfll 15 117 9 4:5 943
913 602 453 2 471 10 47 816 /..Ci leil Mhwt,.., 912 11 09 330 111 937 937
I*9 2*2 (011 f5 01 flo 53 8 22 ..Stra\vbri<ltfc.... f9 03 fll 03 4 02 f928 9 28
f9 2fi f615 I flO 57 ...HcechOlcn f8 59 110 57 3 58 f9 24 9 24
929 019 510 2 54! 11 §0 830 ..Muncy Valley. 856 10 54 318 355 921 921
935 625516 300 11 07 835 ... SonetOown ... 850 10 47 3 I. - 3499 15 915
r,z 550 11 39 liUimrtc 10 04 3m» -§ ~
5 5 f607 112 11 53 Hinsdale <> 49 2 51 §
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