Evening Star Newspaper, October 21, 1892, Page 9

Cd operative for ats it is needless to be oabentited, war woe ete” THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. D. C. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1892—TWELVE PAGES. 9 ee as aggressive attitude of telnet | * BELIEF IN POPULIST SUCCESS. that it is possible for Virginia's electoral vote | cans and the third a in North | century the bad been made | nad been Teapportionments labor in the cities. They will gain mare of the! Populist leaders, and democrats who hereto- | to be cast for Weaver and Field. While it is | Carolina, by which each it what the | under republican auspices and THE PEOPLE'S FIGHT. w voters than blican te | tases: ‘that either ;. | other is doing, and further that blican | say that in many - | tistics as to mining in Ohio fain in thie way at cvery slecton, bet generaiy | £0 have stood staunchly against that inn ren epee rghormas ee egeetiogt ne 78 ‘and ebure of each other are alf'a sham; | ments were a 20 88 to in- | port. now in preparation, w a fose much of the possible “advantage through | tion ia western politics, the people’ party, would not slarile the sorefal calcd in’ ct| that the Mott and Eaves, factions of {ah rep: foal tonnage of f the Political Cam-|‘e sperior organization of their opponents. | express the positive conviction that the} fo'j crorar Hoan party are seting a part, and ‘that is o je | Folitic he democrats have this year stic-| Weaver electomal ticket will be clected and ce tind sata ite ach pr ge ty Bi persuading many French Canadiahs, | Kansas taken from-the list of republican states. | Pe; ist | real division and actual quarrels. Dr. Mott is | paign. therto aliens, to become naturalized. The | United States Senator Peffer, irman Breid- | out in.a long card, in which ho sayg. “no true | democrats also have more money than they had | enthal of the populist state central committee, Tepublican will bea candidate this fear for an | el ee four years ago. They cry “poverty,” but they | Congressman Jerry ~~ ex-Governor cthoe the demoorets can fil with the ‘third part: MANY STATES, | Bevec2cxeh money for legitimate’ ex George W. Glick, Chairman W. ©. Jones of the Out of existence. It is the very mark | GRAPHIC VIEWS FROM | ough they cannot match "ponates with the | democtatic wiate central “commition and othr | or basapent pencituea te toc ante ian a nerf gene sper ee Lrg Sea tems ceremonies for Tas — soy i —— Brawixonam, ALA, Oct. 18, 1892 M 7 nD contributing as much as in cam- - WANT LOCKEY To WITHDRAW. orate were ris Mi an im Alal . aa: . 7 i lican | Evewiwo Stam their belief that the people's | electing the big share of the Congressmen, and | _ Chris Magee. being toame a week. | moderate ice A Disinterested Opinion Regarding! paige, atthe melriy ot fe Mberal. electoral ticket, supported by the fusion The negro organs call upon C. P. Lockey to | tye yve and senatorial situation was from bas accomplished some results for the republi- | _ocls | "Most liberal of all. per! Gor. a ocrats, would be , and that the state come off the ticket as republican congressional | their point of view greatly simplined, Toe i would cast its vote for Weaver. m xt t, declaring e | repul ‘appealed to the supreme court necticut. whose chances of s g Gen. Haw! jominee in the sixth district, declaring that h blicans led to the last NEBRASKA’S DOUBTFUL ISSUE ‘Mr. Magee Apparently Successful in His ‘Tripto Alabama—Sensation In North Car- Olina Over the Gideonites—State Issues | Cutting Little Figure in Ohio—some Ke- cent History In Michigan—Populists Hope- ful in Kansas and Virginia. NEW YORK. Both Sides Are Wide Awake Watching the Other. Correspondence of The Evening Star New York, Oct. 20, 1892. ‘The democratic leaders do not admit that all hope bas vanished in the “rainbow states.” | Congressman Cable, who has just left here for | Chicago, where he has general supervision over the western bureau, suid before leaving that he Still had hopes of Lilinois, Iowa and Wisconsin. ‘Taking the public into his confidence in @ state- | Ment prepared for distribution by the press bureau he said: “In Illinois the situation is very encouraging, and if we continue to hold oUF present condition the state will be carried by small majority.” He added that he looked upon the sitaatton | in Wisconsin as unchanged and that the demo- eratic managers in that state believe that it will be carried for the entire democratic ticket. As to Iown he says: “It is something more | than possible that we will secure the Iowa vote.” Both parties have an enormous number of | shrewd, lynx-eyed men quietly at work, in-| vading every part of the field, worming out the | scheme the opposition, planuing and | eounter-planning, making reports day’ and pight, burning the midnight oil, working fel- tion, tective And they are not | was known. all New Yor! as ied ane deka his. liar in Wash- miliar there, seen on the | nd byways here. Men | whose faces were familiar in Washington during | the Cleveland administration are here by doz- | ens, yes, by scores. You meet them e . Ask them what they are doing in York and thes tell you “that they have just run overon « little business’ and that they are Boing back to Washington in a day or two. But they don't go. And they will not go wntil after the Sth of November. The fact that they are not seen about the headquarters counts for nothing. Much of the work that is | done and many of the people who are doing it reach keadquartefs through quiet channels. are numerous private quarters all over te city for consultation where men meet their eapertor officers, make their reports and mysteriously disappear until they come back | Jaden with a fresh batch of information about the movements of the enemy APPEAL FOR THE IRISH VOTE. j There is a tremendous pull now being made | There are plevty of faces fngton, or former!; for the Irish vote on the republican side, Mr. Biaine’s appeal to the Irish seems to have been the keynote to & concerted movement in this direction. Indeed it it not improbable that it was Mr. ® keen insight which gave the impetus to this movement. Simultaonously with his appeal to the Irish voters came the affidavit charging | that Cleveland had refused to run for mayor of om « ticket with “that Irishman,” John | Sbeeban, « brother of the chairman of | the state campaign committee of the| democratic party, and another showing | that Treasurer Hoosevelt of the democratic | national committee had gone out of his way in | @ book written by him to say some very un- complimentary things of the Irishmen. Min-| feter Egan is evidently making the most of his @pportunity, and in an interview says: “All indications are that the republican party Will receive double the proportion of the Irish ‘Vote that it received last time.” Simon Wolf of Washington, who has been in New Jersey, is here just now, and says be is confident of republican success. | “The bésiness community.” said he, ‘is the | dest barometer. The disasters prophe- wied as to the result of the McKinley Bitthes not materialized, but on the contrary pros- perity bas followed it. I find many mugwamp republicans who voted for Cleveland in 1884 are coming back into the republican party “What do you think of the nominations in New York 4 Mr. Wolf? “I think Einstein will strengthen the 10,000 votes in New York city. rl br jew Jersey, where you have bad an opportunity to observe during your tour?” | “I think New Jersey Hieans than Indiana toda; a pisrcTe The publication in this correspondence of the views of Mrs. ZA. Smith of New York about the prices of today compared with those before the enact- ment of the McKinley laws has stirred Bp some vigorous Washington woman to is safer for the repub- | reply. In a letter to Chatman Carter mye: “Mrs. ZA. Smith does not know thing bout prices either at present for the past twenty years. Ladies’ striped hose that were sold in 1885 for 75 cents you can now buy for 40. Mrs. Smith can buy today good black hose, double 2 and to be 30 few years ago. Pearl shirt buttons that « short time ago brought 15 cents a dozen an be bought today for 10 cents. I could go ali down the line and show how almost every article that © poor man uses in the shape of clothing ts now cheaper than in 1885, or iu 1860, half when wages were no: as much ss = now. Cotton that were 10 cents in 1860 now be got for 5. Mrs. Smith makes a good argument im favor of the McKinley bill when she save that «he paid 89 aud 40centsa pair for stockings. ‘That shows | ong 4 conclusively that her hus- bend must able to make money to enable her to have bis children wear such high-priced stockings, when others wear « fast black hose, double heel and toe, which they buy for 25 and | 19 cent | > | CONNECTICUT. | A Pierality for Cleveland and No Election | of the State Ticket the Probabilities. CO rrespondence of Ti wentne Star. | New Havex, Oct. 20, 1892. | The serene Connecticut probibitionist up a! tree, with whom the wish is not father to the thought, believes that Connecticut is to vote for Cleveland. His conservative estimate is . plurality of 1,900 for the democratic electoral | tieket, to be swelled to something over 2,000 | for the democratic state ticket by the votes of | those who do not usually vote the democratic who believe that the man who re- ticket, but the case under the Comnec- | fieut majority law. This same serene pro-| hibitionset divides the congressional delegation by two, giving the republicans @ gain of one in repablican assem: | Senator and which will select the state | officers in the likely event that no candidate Bas a majority From the best information obtainable the above is deemed to be « likely result. The re- publican managers d. ¥ are claiming every ——~ of | the game, but they are giving no figures. They Attach more importance than do the democrats to the high price of tobacco and of potatoes as | Fiaient {actors im winning the farmer votes for m. They will undoubtedly gain some | three or four hundred votes because of the | greater prot in raising Connecticut seed leaf | since the imposition of the higher tariff on the | competing tra. ‘They claim more. They | look for ‘through the democratic row ‘over the nomination of Congresmman in the sec- ond ‘and they assert that what they lost fn the cities im the ia that “go ‘of at claims on and | out of the United States Senate are good. He had possession of the Petroange of the state offices for four years, and his skill and audacity in holding the state against the democrats for the past two years has strengthened him greatiy juarters. Very many of his party jim, but they are forced to stand by him or to acknowledge that the perty is in the wrong. With republican majority in the | general assembly Bulkeley is reasonably sure of spending six years in Wi 7 and such a republican legislative majority is almost insured by the conditions of representa- tion in Connecticut. The democrate are fighting these conditions, and have probably made some converts thereby, but it will take @ good many converts to shift’ the balance, wo years ago they gave their candidate for governor 8, more votes than the republican candidate re- ceived, but the republicans had a majority of six on Joint ballot in the legislature. Some | democrats are hopeful enough to think that they may elect their governor this year and capture the legislature because of the prepon- derance of the state issue of the disputed elec- tion. But when they are reminded that in presidential year, when the republican reserve vote comes out, they must get at least 4,000 plurality for their gubernatorial candidate in order to give him a majority over the combined vote for the other three candidates, they shake their heads sok . Four thousand votes are ‘8 good many in aclose state as Connecti- cut. Such is the situation as it appears on the surface and such the conclusions drawn when comparing the present with the past. But there are some unknown quantities in the | political computation in Connecticut which worry the political managers not alittle. It is a very quiet campaign. Yet the are not indifferent. Every “man you i talk politics to you, and the increased registration roves the interest. Which party is to get the nefit of the thinking that is being done no man dare predict. Aguin it is conceded that | many republicans and prohibitionists will this year vote for the democratic for | tate offices in the hope that thereb: some set that the of men may surely be elected a isputed tion and a prolonged legislat deadlock. Both republican and democratic ‘would foal more ot ease if they knew just bow many of this kind of voters there are. ANOTHER FACTOR IN THE FIOHT. Another factor that may be of influence on the state result is this: For years the New | York, New Haven and Hartford railroad, the great railroad power in the state, in order to advance or to protect its corporate interests has used its mighty power to elect a legislature favorable to its purposes and oj to the many schemes for parallel railroads which aimed to get a share of its bumness and of its | Fecdis, As the ralirond’s agents in thie pollt-| cal work were republicans it helped to swell the republican legislative majority. Now the rail- road company has, by purchase or lease, ac- | quired control of ali the limes it seeks to protect | itself. In some respects it is more potent than | the state of Connectfeut, and it 1s independent of legislatures. It is understood that it is now litics. Indeed, as bas been told | hitherto, Lynde Harrison, one of the company’s chief attorneys and its principal agent in se-| curing favorable legislatures, is now a demo- crat. The effect of this withdrawal of the rail- road's influence is problematical, but rather more promising for the democrats than for the republicans. All the known signs point to the divided re- ult indicated in the frat paragraphe of this letter. It is the unknown qualities which will lend zest to the remainder of the campaign in Connecticut. eee nee NEBRASKA. It is @ Doubtful State, but the Republicans Predict 20,000 Plurality. Correspondence of The Evening Star. Omaua, Nzs., Oct. 17, 1892. Nebraska, politically speaking, is a doubtful state. Four years ago the Harrison electors re- ceived majorities approximating 28,000. But it is different now. Conservative estimates put the vote November 8 at 200,000. although there are fully 225,000 legal voters in the state. Re- publicans have an unbroken column 75,000 strong upon which it is perfectly safe to base figures. ‘The independents claim 75,000 for their state ticket, but competent judges will not concede them as many. The democrats admit that they are not in it and willbe satisfied with 50,000 votes. Judge Lorenzo Crounse, ex- fourth assistant secretary of the treasury, is the republican nominee for governor: Gen. Charles H. Van Wyck. ex-republican United States Sen- ator, is the people's party candidate, while J. Sterling Morton, the sage of Arbor Lodge, & hard money, free trade democrat, heads the democratic ttate ticket. The campaign is being fought out on national issues—state platforms have been ignored. The above candidates and the electoral ticket are receiving the greatest attention. The congres- sional candidates are making some noise to be sure. but the main question in the Nebraska | campaign is, who will be the next governor? Estimates based on the gubernatorial vote two years ago are unavailing. Boyd was elected governor then because’ be was an anti-prohi- bitionist. All other executive state officers elected then were republicans. It is therefore possible for Van Wyck to be elected and the re- ublican electoral ticket to carry the state. Fic question is, will Crounee get enough votes among the ailiance men, who were formerly re- publicans, added to his nucleus of 75,000 votes, to make his election sure? ‘There are 14,000 | veterans of the war resident in Nebraska. Many | of these have sons, swelling the veteran vote to about 20.000. Fully 90 per cent of these will | vote for Harrison. But Van Wyck has a good | war record as well as Crounse. Just how the | Grand Army vote will go on the state ticket is open to speculation. Of the 70,000 to 75.000 people's party yoters in Nebraska 50,000 at least are e: It is held by party leaders that at 20,000 of these cannot be induced to vote for Weaver, knowing that _a vote for Weaver is a vote for Cleveland. Hence it is that the proposition to fuse is much more seductive to the democratic monkey than it is to the people's cat’e-paw. 1 politician who has shuttled election figures | in this state for fifteen years said today that Crounse would carry the state by 20,000 plu-| ality and that Harrison and Reid would win | by at least 25,000 votes. Conditions are such that this result is possible if proper effort is put forth. There is a field here for hard work. and it is being sadly neglected by alleged east- ern party managers. democrats are fur- nishing money to the ‘8 party mai in this state in support of the efforts at fusion. Democratic argument of this nature is effective even in Nebraska. Thus Nebraska is a doubt- ful state. oS KANSAS. epublicans Making Desperate Efforts to Keep the State in the Republican Column. Correspondence of The Evening Star. | able it is certain that while the po; ts may | defeat—Harry Pertana, republican, | even now by the opposition. | aes at this juncture to the contest for the | | secure a majority of the members of the house. REPUBLICANS EXPRESS CONFIDENCE. At republican headquarters in Topeka confi- dence is expressed of the election of the elec- toral ticket, the state ticket and the general asembly, but the surface indications at the present time do not look hopeful for republi- canism in the state. The republicans have to fight on the electoral ticket the marked luke- Sppaitins ft pepalices tnt Gomeocroas we of mocrate, who Stored. this the opposition is most Siar qyelenie timings’ Tere tems ogo tke eyclon: ‘wo Years peels: puctsicuade] eaprecedacod in Bee State. From the best’ Information ‘obtain- not now control as a vote as they did two ears ago the gains they will receive from the Histon with the democrats will more than make up the total of their losses from defection and other causes. Conservative republicans admit that this year their chances for more than = mixed victor re positively nil, and they will in privacy ad- mit that the situation is well nigh desperate. John J. Ingalls made an entrance into the ‘campaign recently, but there was that in his opening speech which chilled the republican state central committee. THE ROW AMONG THE DEMOCRATS. The fightin the democratic party between the fasionists and anti-tusionists, or “straighout,”” fs being magnified. It moaxs that all but the railroad element of the party is supporting actively the fusion populist-democratic clec- toral, state and congressional ticket, and that the slate democracy has in view the overthrow of the dominant party. THE CONGRESSIONAL CONTESTS. Interest in the congressional contests is rife at present. Kansas sent a delegation to the last House on which was an aroma of new-mown hay and a general air of bucolic freshness, Un- less there occurs between this time and election achange of the test ‘itude that delegation will be duplicated. ‘hat will the east say when the sunflower state returns to Congress as Ce man-at-large and head of the state delegation an ex-conte ite _ colon Many will wonder how John Brown's body can rest in its grave. And yet the indications are that this will be done. Under the apportionment law Kanshs gains a Congressman. The early adjournment of the general assembly last spring prevented a reap- portionment of congressional districts, so that a Congressman-at-large must be elected. Geo. T. Anthony of the state board of railroad com- missioners is the republican nominee. Col. Wm. A. Harris, an ex-confederate of ability, is the ulist-democratic nominee. Advices from all over Kansas are to the effect that Harris’ chances of election are good, in fact are | better than those of Anthony. This is one of the surprises of the present campaign and one | which the republicans cannot satisfactorily ex- plain. George T. Anthony bas been prominent | in Kangas for years, but nothing seems more likely now than that he will be defeated for | Congressman-at-large, and that by a one time | colonel in the confederate army. ; The contests in the seven congressional dis- tricts of Kansas, like the rest of the campaign, are ted. It is difficult to pick the winners. is sure, there will be fewer republi- cans in the next House from Kansas than there were in the last. In the first congressional district there are three eandidates—Case Broderick, the present republican Representative: Edward Carroll, the | democratic candidate, and Fred Close, pop- ulist. The first district was one of the few in which the populists and democrats failed to fuse. Broderick will be re-elected. He is the only republican congressional candidate whose ‘tion is assured. 4 second district, which has been repre- sented for several sessions by E. H. Pun- ston of Wyandotte county, is the scene of a bitter contest. Funston is the republi- can nominee and W. H. Moore the demo- exatic-populist candidate. Moore's chances of defeating Funston are regarded as better than The fight in the third Kansas district has a pe- caliar significance attached to it. Gov. Lyman M. Humphrey, the present state executive, is the republican candidate. It is said that he made a deal with Senator Bishop W. Perkins when be appointed him United States Senator tos jumb, through which he secured the congressional nomination. T. J. Hudson is the populist-democratic nominee, and he is looked upon asa sure winner. R. M. Cheshire is a “straightout” democratic candidate, but his strength is eo small as to preclude his being 8 factor in the contest. The fourth district has but two candidates— Charles Curtis, the republican nominee, and Dr. H. V. Wharton, pulist-democratic candidate. This contest will be close, with the chances in favor of Curtis, the republican. John Davis, the present populist Representa- tive from the fifth Kansas district, will have a hard fight to defeat the republican nominee, J. Ralph m of Abilene. It is a see-saw con- test, with Davis’ chances shading « trifle the best. William Baker, the populist Representative from the sixth district, has two —— i nd D. A. Freeman, democrat. His re-election is looked | upon as certai H ‘The soventh Kansas district, the big seventh, | from which Jerry Simpson “hails,” has been treated to a spectacular fireworke campaign, in which Simpson has been fought bitterly’ by Chester H. Long, the republican nominee. Last week Mr. Simpson left the district and came over to Kansas City. “I have made fifty-seven speeches in my district,” he eaid, ‘and have got my corn ‘laid by.'” ‘His elec- tion is said to be assured, though itis not thought that he will be elected by the enormous vote of two years ago. ‘The congressional campaign gives at present but two republicans whose election is half-way assured, and but one whore success is admitted Kansas politicians are paying particular at- ure. The chances, ot this writing, look brighter for the populists controlling it tBan for the republicans. Should the people's party another populist will be sent to the United States Senate as the colleague of Senator Peffer, This is‘one thing on which interest in Kansas is centered more than another. The republicans are making desperate efforts to control the house and senate, but in this, asin other phases of the Kansas campaign, the situation is very mixed. ae VIRGINIA. ‘The Pepulists Express Confidence to Carry the State. Correspondence of The Evening Star. Ricumowp, Va., October 20,1892. The political lines in Virginia have been closely drawn. The contest, one of the fiercest ever known in the history of the state, will be fonght to the bitter end. The fusion plan be- | Many of the speakers love their temper when | | in the fourth | coming of Senator Hill to this etate. Kaxsas Cry, Mo., October 17, 1892. Over in Kansas the political situation is best the congressional candidates in many of the described as ‘mixed. It is spotted with more | districts, but Harrison, Cleveland and Weaver diversified politics and with complicated coali- | tions harder to understand than in any previous campaign in the history of the state. Recently the picturesque has been added by the advent into the campaign of Jobn James Ingalls, the iridescent statesman, and there is nothing want- incongruous elements which are warring one upon the other in Kansas. must each stand on his merits. ema has aroused among the third party pear peng ace his own party he not universally age leader. It alt to national beciqeariers weld change hie to wot attitude as to thezcanvass, but if possible since return he has sunk into a lethargy than before. It is plain that the nat chair- man gave him little encouragement or satisfac- i F E To righth ‘inte the significance of the several movements of the different factions te | _ It is said that upon the sari of, the Bredy- the «untlower state it must be understood that - — the Kansas of eight years ago is not the Kansas | Tor Rot satisfactory |to | Mah —_ of today. Then its boast was that it Sra Bao wee no cast 82,000 majority for the republican ticket. $b Be Me Rstional now aby Now itis a question whether the electoral ticket second Secs sents can be pulled for Harrison. pe oy cage the a There is a chance that the republicans change for success. dlast the clostenl tishet. There’ te 2 ae was the nominee, but a strong faction led by « too, for the fusion democratie-populist Mis. Fenshy opposed hie sociinatios ticket to sweep the state like one of the western | that the convention was packed, Se eg ee oe ee Spine Bewiee bes Meckek Thats ‘temsuend coon sea tee tro factions are stil Sighting over who shall be Mahone has viewed oe now as if the success of ‘Mr. Tyler, is assured. ORM. WRAVER'S PROSPECTS. | The democrats no longer hoot the assertion ! i Hl i i iF & tricts was delayed until short time since, when s1 conventions were called | and candidates placed in the field. The action was finally taken to allay the suspicion that any agreement was in effect between them and the republicans. POPULIST CANDIDATES FOR CONGRESS. Following is the completed list of third party congressional candidates: First district—Orris A. Browne of North- ampton. Second district—H. S, Collier of Elizabeth City. "Third district—W. E. Grant of Henrico. Fourth district—J. Thomas Goode of Meck- lenburg. Fifth district—Benj. T. Jones of Henry. Sixth district—Thomas E. Cobb of Bedford. Seventh district—J. R. C. Lewis of Clarke. i Eighth district? B. Turner of Fauquier. i Ninth district—George R. Cowan of Russell. Tenth district—D. Mott Robertson of Appo- mattox. The alist rs claim that they will gqrntdytied dame tin, Stare They produce figures to show that they will certainly elect Mr. Browne in the first district, Mr. Grant in the third, Mr. Goode in the fourth, Mr. Jones in the fifth and Mr. Cobb in the sixth. One of the leaders recently said to Taz Sran's rey ntative: “If we can secure a fair ~~ ive se) re will —* elect the people's party candidate in each.” Re cee ene ws on wn that they will see that justice is done them at case in the hands of the Ia AN ALLEGED “‘BaR’L.” The democratic papers of the state are | sounding the alarm that the republicans have rolled one of their ~‘bar'ls” into Virgima. The democratic speakers have taken up the refrain and the assertion has put new life into the cam- ‘ign. Some of the charges of the papers are irect and open and are creating something of a sensation. One of the leading organs of the democratic party of this city this morning says: “Langston predicts that Virginia will go repub- He says: ‘Last Saturday it looked a: though Cleveland might carry the state, but now it is certain to go for Harrison. I cannot tell you just what happened to make sure re- publican victory, but I am positive hie will carry irginia.” “What in the world could have happened to change a democratic to a republicanjvictory in the short space of three days? Have the Rads ut a million or #0 of boodle in the state? and if so have Virginians sunk so low as to be ready to sell themselves for radical lucre. The mere insinuation of such a thing is a gross insult which the people should signally avenge on election The third partyites continue to use the Win- nie Davis and Fred Douglassincidents to injure | Mr. Cleveland’s chances of carrying the state. Notwithstanding the explanation of Mr. Cleve- | land himeelf, also that of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, | the third party speakers are urging that he in- | tended a slight to the “daughter of the con- | federacy.” This week's insue of the third party organ is full of the question, belittling Mr. Cleveland's explanation aud’ renewing the charge. This incident has been the cause of | the bitterest feeling engendered in the canvass. | they discuss it and many angry utterances are | indulged in between citizens in private conver- | sation. The “Fred Douglass matter” has also | been discussed until it has become almost threadbare. A FAIR COUNT DECLARED IMPOSSIBLE. ‘The third congressional republican commit- tee met here yesterday fot the purpose of con- sidering whether or not it was expedient to lace a republican candidate in the field. The Following resolution was adopted: “Resolved that, after mature consideration, this committee is of the opinion that it is im- possible to get a fair count in the pending con- ional election, judgmg from past exper- ience; therefore it is the sense of this commit- tee that we make no nomination for Congress in this district, but that all true republicans see that their names are properly registered and that they cast their votes for Harrison and Reid and against fraud and corruption at the ballot box. ‘That an address be hereafter issued by this committee advising republicans of their duty in the coming election.” Tt is waid that 8. Y. Gilliam, who was nom- inated for Congress by a factien of republicans trict, will be asked to withdraw from the canvass. The Mahone faction is o tional committee with the result that Gilliam will be asked to step down. Gillinm say he will not obey the decree of the national com- mittee, but will fight it out on the ground that he was properly nominated. SENATOR HILL'S VISIT. ‘ Great preparations are being made for the Special trains will be run from this and other cities to take the crowds of people who will go toLynch- burg to hear him. The city democratic com- mittee of this city still have hopes of inducing the Senator to make a speech here. sO NORTH CAROLINA. Sensation Caused by the Exposure of the Gideonites. Correspondence of The Evening Star. Ratzrou, N. C., Oct. 19, 1892. There has long been a suspicion that the se- eret political order of ‘‘Gideonites” was engi- neered in this state by 8. Otho Wilson, who has been an organizer of the Alliance and against whom an alliance man has made the open charge that he was receiving €290 a month of alliance pay to do third party work. Today M. L. Reid and J. 8. Bell, both prominent men in the Alliance, make affidavits that Wilson was the chief organizer of the Order of Gideon in North Carolina, Bell says that the member- ship was to be thirty in each cocnty, and it was made the duty of chiefs and members to obey the orders of their superiors, There isa na- tional chief, state chief and chief for each con- jonal district, also one for each county. he obligations were very rigid, and Bell de- clined to go into the order. The ty of a disclosure of the secrets was death, he saya, Reid was made a member in August, 1891, just, after Wilson's return from the Indianapolis na- tional alliance council. The chairman of the democratic state com- mittee publishes these affidavits and makes a complet the state law, which, under act of 1870, forbids under very severe penalties any secret political societies or tions. There are calls for the arrest and indictment of Wilson and his assistants in the violation of the law. | tor the th 1 | poned to bis candidacy and appealed to the ne-| Vt? S# they carry congressional catinot get anything near a full republican vote; that hero ts open rebellion inst him in Rich- mond county and that he will be knifed in New Hanover and Mecklenburg counties by his own party, They want the republicans to vote for int |. third party nominee. No doubt he will get the vote. Colored clubs are being formed to vote for all the third party nominees save Weaver. J. C. L. Harris, the editor of the fusion , says that, while it was the un- derstanding thet the negroes should all support Harrison, many of them swear that they will by Veaver. = nA wie ete E STAR correspondent asked why this was soand Mr. Harris replied that there were sev- eral reasons, one of these being that the negroes | re tired of the republican party, which in twenty years had given them nothing here, and another being that they were fond of secret or semi-secret political organizations, such as the new party is. One colored republican said in a speech that 110,000 negro voters in the republican party are Pontrolled by 12,000 white voters and that he and they were tired of such domination. The Union League had a powerful effect in holding negroes in the republican party and there is a powerful liking for the third party. SKINNER'S WITHDRAWAL, In avery quiet way Harry Skinner, one of the third party nominees for elector-at-large, was taken off the ti¢ket. This was done last Monday, and J. M. treme third partyite, was put’ up in Skinner had never ‘made @ speech or is place. | iniquity jown a ui | setting the enactment aside, time declaring that the republican enactments of °85 were no better than thedemocratic. The court further intimated that the enactments of election to be held under the laws of ‘81. An gxtra session was called by Gov. Winans, and ip ree days new reapportionments agreed upon by both democrats and republeats and jwen immediate effect by au. simost unsni- mous vote of both houses, The republicans were unable to gain any comfort from. this, be- cause the court held their acts as bad as the democratic. The minority representation defeat was the first of the disasters which the republicans met with. Then came the loss of the state officers and of the house of representatives. Careleas- ness lost them the state senate beyond recovery. The decision of the supreme court in the Diek- inson county case wasa blow to them. The decision of the court in the reapportionment cases went against them as severely asthe demo- crate. The final decision sustaining the Miner | law is the last set back they have receiyed and it ie the worst of all and the most far-reaching in its effects. If the republicans had accep’ the Miner law as it passed they could have made whorne, who is an ex-| the woods ring in denouncing the democratic and — might lieve that it was a most wicked and in- ople stroke of work for his new party. Ite members | Jurious law. They could have used it as a cam- never did understand him from the di made bis famous speed the moment that they dropped him. Newborne has already begun the canvass. ‘Thomas B. Long, tho third excuse of ill-health, and E.G. But This Vance county is put up in his plac was done last Monday. Long was an ex-republi can, and his record was bad, according to charges of embezzlement, broadcast. Stroud, the nominee for Congress in this dis- trict of the third party, was here today and said he expected to be elected by 1,000 majority. cratic state executive committee that the sealed letters which he sends are tampered with in the mails, He says that fifteen letters out of ninety-six | sent to county chairmen have been abstracted, and intimates that they were sent to the re- publican chairman, Eaves, He does not charge that the latter was in any way a guilty party, but the specific charge 1s that eager servers of the republican party abstracted these letters while in transit. Chairman Eaves publishes a sworn statement that he did not procure the theft of any letters. Secretary Beckwith of the state league of democratic clubs publ tement that letters sent by him are failing to reach their destination. He and Chairman Simmons have formally reported the matter to Postmaster General Wanamaker. REGISTRATION. There is a great deal of talk now about regis- tration. In few counties is there a new regis- tration. There will be some changes in the negro vote in some sections of the state, owing to the exodus of blacks since the large exodus to the far south three years ago, ture three years ago so amended the registra~ tion law as to make it as follows: “No registration shall be valid unless it speci- fiew as nearly as may be the age, occupation, place of birth, place of residence of the elector, ‘as well as the township or county from whence the elector has removed in the event of re- moval and the full name by which the voter is known.” Ex-Congressman Wharton J. Green has with- drawn from the Farmers’ Alliance, saying in a long open letter that he takes that course be- cause he sees that the alliance has gone into oli become the prey of designing men. le also attacks the men who, he says, have thus perverted what could have been made a most beneficial organization. and says it was quite clear that ite days of usefulness were at an end. MICHIGAN. Effect of the Supreme Court's Decision on the Miner Law. Correspondence of The Evening Star. Gnaxp Rarips, Micu., Oct. 20, 1892. The decision of the United States Supreme Court, banded down Monday, sustaining the Miner electoral law, was expected by about nine-tenths of the lawyers of the state who had The legisla- | y's nominee | enactment sustainin, state auditor, has also withdrawn, giving iquity, but became of | commanded respect and consideration. Now o comes the decision of the United States Su- | m with suspicion and distrust not only in peyer but in other states ae well, As — as the state supreme court had passed upon tl itit ceased to be an in- — Court giving the law the sanction of the ighest tribunal in the land, and the law thus which were published | ceases to be an experiment. If the next legis- lature is republican the Miner law will be re- can party. The Stevens republican executive | J) "EM Rg CUTIING AND FITTER committee met here yesterday and held a three | ersten Terx a San tre hours’ session. The object of the meeting was | ***™!™* WEISO0 | to see what could be done in the way of briug- | *81 would not stand a too close tiny, yet | | unless a ‘ial session of the ture was | called to do the work over ordered the lay he | paign scarecrow and it would have been looked | ‘hin their convention to | pealed, but it will be repealed only so long as the republicans remain in power, and doubtless | ite provisions will be copied by other states | It is charged by the chairman of the demo- | where the vote is close. {n taking the law to the courts at all the republicans put their foot initand they now acknowledge they madea blun- der, but it is too late to help it, The law really has much to commend it, it brings the eles- tion of President closer to the people and 1s near to an election by direct vote as it is possi ble to make it under the Constitution, and as such it is approved by the reformers and agita- tors generuily. sues Cutting a Ver in the Political Fight. Correspondence of The Fvening Star. Cotvanvs, Onto, October 19, 1892, There are no purely state iseues in the Ohio campaign. The campaign speakers are making Small Figure no reference on the stump to state matters. | The republican legislature, which finished i | first session last April,made a fairly good record. It was not extravagant, nor yet penu- rious. Gov. McKinley's appointees have man- aged the state institutions very well so far. The administration is free from scandals in all ite departments, and whatever little errors have been made are entirely overshadowed by the issues of the national campaign. The candidates forsecretary of state, the heads of the tickets—S, M. Taylor and W. A. Taylor— aremen of excellent character and high reputa- tions. They are close personal friends, though in no way related, a might be suspected from | the similarity of names, and in their speeches have always referred to ench other in highly complimentary terms. Their colleagues also have unobjectionable characters, and so the campaign up to this time has been free from the personalities that have characterized Ohio campaigns in late years. Ohio elects this year, besides presidential electors and Congressmen, a secretary of sate, two judges of the supreme court, a cierk of the supreme court and a member of the state board of public works. Common pleas judges are elected in the subdistricts, and the counties choose # part of their officers. WHAT IS SAID OF THE LARGE REGISTRATION. The conditions would seem to be favorable to an exciting campaign, but outside of the local tickets but httle interest seems to have been in any way studied the case. The law provides | manifested in any part of the state until the for the election of presidential electors by dis- tricts instead of ona general state ticket as heretofore, giving either party only so many for electors at large. It was a democratic measure enacted by the last legislature and was bitterly opposed by the republicans, who saw in ita dark and wicked scheme to divide the Michigan electoral vote and undermine the in- fluence of the state in the counsels of the party. The validity of the law was tested in the state supreme court and was there sustained by unanimous decision of the five justices of tht supreme court, three of whom are republicans, The sppeal to the United States Supreme Court, in fact any test of the law, was against the ad. vice‘and best judgment of the ablest attorneys and clearest headed party managers, but once startéd in the contest the attorneys ‘who rep- resented the republican side were determined to carry it through,and they did. ‘The appeal to | the highest tribunal especialiy was discouraged | by the party managers, as they figured it would be looked upon asa move to discredit the learn- ing and wisdom of the court which the repub- licans had themselves elected, and not only that, but if the decision went against them the law would be given a legal status which other states might in time take advantage of. The decision finally sustaining the law will not affect the present situation. In making nomi- nations pieced have complied with the Miner law and the election will now proceed by districts instead of the old way. This decision emphasizes the fact that the re- | publicans in Michigan have been in “‘nighty ard luck” for four years past. In the legisla- tive session of 1889, republican by whelming majorit; law was enacted by which it was ho; several seats in the sta tives, It was called the minorit law and provided. that in legislative districts entitled to more than one member the voters could bunch their votes upon a number of candidates less than the number to which the i i i ih : ence th i i f. at | districts, | managers, which are now with the entire state divided into two districts | the remaining registration rst registration day. There aremany different views taken of the full registration then, some of the more experienced politicians claiming that it was due to the efforts of local political hausted, and that ys will not show a Propottionately large registration of voters. The work of registering is watched 80 care- fully by the local party committees and man- aged 80 systematically that nothing but pure obstinacy on the part of the voters who do not wish to register will prevent a fall ition by the time election day comes around. Agents of the committees every ward and township, and return to the committee chairman the name, place of residence and politics of every vote tion day those that registered are checked off. The committee then knows what per cent of its vote remains unregistered and where it lies, Letters are addressed to the unregistered vbt- ers by their respective committees, ui upon them the importance of voting, and. if alter the next to the last registration day any are still unregistered a persenal interview is ec- cured by an agent of the committee. With such arrangements it will be st if any considerable namber of voters in Ohio are barred from voting this year by the registra- tion law. It should be stated in this connection also that under the present law only those voters who live in the larger cities are required ty resister again this year. In the villages and townships the old registration holds good. EX-CONGRESGMAN LAMISON’S VIEWS. Charles N. Lamison, a democratic ex-Con- gressman of this state, who spends most of his time in New York city, but still retains his resi- dence at Lima, Allen county, just as Senator Brice does, was in the city last week, fresh from the campaign in the empire’ state, To Taz Star correspondent he spoke cofifidently of the Prospects for his party there, «There is no question about the result there to my mind,” said he. “The Hill and Tammany men are sincerely at work in the in- terest of Cleveland. I think it will bea walk over.” F 4 i +i if i Pri Pt tl E i f, i i 3 EF ! 5 Gi 4 a} a fey i ul lie i i r E is s if he wi | be | | | | | | ing about harmony in the repubiftan party. | Magee was at the meeting, as were several prom- inent members of the ha salen | tion. ‘Magee held several conferences with Stevens, | chairman of the Stevens committe, and it isbaid offered him many inducements to resign from the chairmanship. Stevens and his friends gave Magee to understand that unless Moveley's resignation as chairman of the Mone- Stevens was at first fa toward Magee, but his friends would not let | ai) ‘erme Miss EL own wre = Ms ter aoa Menthe Lao Prices | Former ‘IND BLACK LaCks ROWE UF Ta clnge French style. ‘Tot Get Lae pe Patino Presta a3 MM" 5 CURMINgR he T™: FADED TAN SPRING DRESS WILL Dye a rich clomsy bleck. Come early and evotd the rash. him come down, and after chree hours of con- | Don't pack your light suit away, tom ference the committee adjourned without tak- | prove food for moths. // dyed will be servicesbie ts ing any action. ‘cool weather Stevens is the recognized leader of the col- ANTON FISCHER, ored republicans. and for bim to have been overridden by Magee would have been to have meurred the everlasting enmity of the negro Fepublican element in Alabama. 5 No sooner had the Stevens cnnmaitien of | journed without reaching any apparent results than Mr. Vaughan's withdrawal from the e ional race in this district was an-| nounced. Vaughan isa white man anda rep- | utable lawyer. He was nominated bj Stevens faction on the straight repul ticket. All along be has declared that be would not withdraw from the race under any cireum- stances. His sudden withdrawal immediately after the fruitless conference between iages and the Stevens leaders has caused a | sensation and much speculation. } Atthexame time that Vaughan withdrew from the congressional race three white mem- bers of the Stevens committee Arthur Bing- ham, J. W. Hughes and William Vanghan—re- signed from the committee. Hughes and Bingham are Vaughan’s right-hand men, and their resignation is thought to mean that here- after the white republicans and the negro re- publicans will be separate and distinct factions. On top of all this the announcement is made that Rev. Wm. MoGill, colored, editor of ‘the Headlight, « weekly negro republican paper, hhas been placed in the race for’ Congress fr tia district. He takes Vaugban’s place, but whether il receive negro support or not remuins to seen. It is a notorious fact that very few negroes will vote for the election of another negro to office in Alabama, so the situation has become more of a puzzle than ever. ‘aughan’s friends declare that he has not withdrawn in favor of Joseph Parsons, the re- publican who was nominated by the fuxioniste for Congress and who is receiving the support of the third party and the Moseley wing of the republicans. However, Vaughan's withdrawal is sure to be of great benefit to Parsons, as it | leaves the race for Congress in this district | practically between Turpin, the democratic Rominee, and Parsons, the fusionist. Magee has been getting in his work with his party and is doing more to unite the factions n democrats like to admit. The withdrawal of Vaughan will probably be followed by the withdrawal of other straight republican nom- inees, so that all the republican strength can be | thrown to the fusion candidates in the hope of | defeating democracy. that the failure of Stevens to resign was a put-up job, by which he was to remain at the head of the negro faction in order to be able to swing them into line for the «uy port of the fusion ticket, and that money i¢ being used to accomplish this end. It is known that Stevens has more influence with the negroes than any other leader they ever had, and ehould he re- sign they would become incensed at Magee and the Moseley faction. scheme to fool them by keeping Stevens osten- sibly at their hend, and in November having | hel all to vote the way Magee wants them, which will be for the fusion ticket. He thinks by giving this ticket the united blican sup- portand the sy of the K ites and re- publicans it can be elected. The plam is a very shrewd one if it doce not miscarry. MAGEE'S SUCCESSFUL WORK. There is no doubt that much progress is be- ing made by Magee in his scheme to unite the republicans, and the democrats are becoming anxious at the turn affairs have taken in the camp of their enemy. Much mystery hangs on all of Magee’s work. le has succeeded #0 well thus far that there is no *elling what may turn up next. THE DEMOCRATS. Democracy basa bigger hustle in it now in Alabama than ever before in its history. The visit of Gen. Adlai E. Stevenson, candidate for Vice President of the United States, to this state bas done incalculable good for the party. At Opelika yesterday Gen. Stevenson was greeted by the largest crowd that has ever beard Seatac cae ne eee fe 8 al ; There was © grand parade and big, barbatos. It was by far the biggest democratic demot- stration that has ever taken The people were charmed with bim. He at Decatur tomorrow morning and et Honte- ville tomorrow night. 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