Towanda daily review. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1879-1921, 1881-10-04

common prudence dictates that the Pres
ident should be Republican, but it is
not reasonable to expect that the Demo-
Gratis will yield everything in the organi-
zation, and in the interest of harmony,
Republicans should concede something
for the sake Of peace. The plan fore
shadowed by an interview between Burr
of the Press and a conspicuous Democrat
ic Senator, appears to US patriotic and
Just under the circumstances. The in
terviewer said: "You do not then think
that the Democrats will have any cand-
date for the Presidency Of the Senator
81 do not. The present plan is for
Committee Of Democratic and Republi-
can Senators to be appointed to agree
upon compromise and an equitable adj
justment of the differences between the
parties and distribution Of the privileg
cs and patronage of the Senate. This
Committee will doubtless meet in Wash
ington next week, and unless something
unforeseen should happen will have
their labors completed so that when the
Senate convenes there will be no chance
for friction and no opportunity for arous-
ing partisan feeling. l regard it rs ex-
ceedingly important that during this eX-
ira session of the Senate there shall be
no act committed or word spoken which
will tend to excite the present fcverish
condition of the pnblic mind. All my en-
ergies shall be bent in that direction, and
1 know that it is the feeling among all
the leading Democrats in the Senate, for
this question of Seuate reorganization
has been quite thoroughly canvassed
among them in the past few days"
ssDo you express the general sentiment
of the party so far as you have been able
to gauge if from your discussion of this
question:"
81 have stated to you what believe to
be the feeling among leading Democrats.
I doubt whether there is one who is not
willing and even anxious to dispose Of
this question in accordance with the plan
/
is one anxious to be President of the
Senate under the existing circumstances.
AsI said, the only stumbling block IN
che way will be the reorganization of the
Senate committees, and that may not be-
If the Republicans are as willing to COM
promise the differences as the Democrats
and hope they are, there will be no
trouble whatever, and all. will be arrang-
ed before the Senate meets. That is,
providing always that David Davis will
be satisfied with and accept the arrange
great power and will be very impor-
tant factor in the quiet solution of the
question under consideration
eff I was at liberty to use the name of
the distinguished man who gave me this
information the country would recognize
the authority by which he spoke. Prob.
ABLY no man in the Democratic party
knows more of the aims and purposes of
that organization or has larger hand in
shaping them than the one whose CONVEX
satiou upon this important matter have
reproduced.
,"Soon after I met this Democratic
Senator chanced to meet Senator Blair
of New Hampshire. | told him of the
talk above quoted and he said: Il am
glad to hear 1t, but hardly believe that it
will prove true. 1 have no doubt but
that the conservative men in the Demo
cratic party are in accord with the views
expressed by your informant, but it is
the aggressive men that carry a caucus,