Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-08-14
P1unb ON Politics.

Kansas City Journ4l, 7th.
Hon. P. B. Plumb, United States Sena-
tor from Kansas, arrived in this city via
the Missouri Pacific at 7:30 o'clock last
evening, returning home from Washing
ton. After the adjournment Of Congress,
the Senator, being Chairman of the Com
mittee on Expenditures, was detained IN
Washington several weeks finishing GER
tain investigations commenced before
the session closed, and arranging mat
tiers for the next session. After com
pleting this work he made a several
weeks visit to North Carolina, and is
now returning to his home In EmpOria
for the first time since congress convened
last December. He looks unusually we'll
and hearty, and expresses himself as
feeling entirely in accordance with his
appearance.
A Journal reporter met Senator Plumb
on the depot platform Immediately upon
his arrival and interviewed him briefly
upon the political situation.
"The prospects could not well be more
hattering for Republican success than at
present" ,.said he in respOnseto an inquiry.
''The campaign has hardly opened yet,
but in my Judgment the conditions are
much more favorable for the Repubh-
cans now than they were at the same
period in either of the last three Presi-
Dental campaigns, and if their chances
continue to improve as the campaign pro-
crosses as they have during all previous
campaigns, it is almost safe to say that
Cleveland will not carry a single Northern
State. In fact, it don't look now as
though he will get the Solid South, much
less anything IN the North"
"Is this flattering condition due to the
superiority of the Republican candidates
or superiority of party organization"
"To both as well as to the demOraized
and disOrganized condition Of the Dem
Ocracy. They are fighting among them
selves all along the line, and especially
in States which they must carry in order
to be successful. Their platform is bad,
their candidates worse, and their party
organization in the doubtful States so
weak that they had just as we'll throw up
the sponge, for they cannot hope to carry
even the strength that they did in 1880.
Blaine is bound to carry New York, In
diana, California and Ohio, and, as L said
before, If the campaign continues as it
has opened, he viii carry every North
ern State"
"Was there any political significance
in your trip to North Carolina?"
Nothing of the sort. The trip was
purely one of pleasure and sight seeing.
went upon the invitation of Washing
ton friends who reside in that State and
had a very pleasant time"
"What do you think Of the political
situation in Kansas"
AZ know very little of the condition of
affairs In my own State, having been
away for so long. 1 shall be terribly sur
prised, however, if Col. Martin does not
redeem the State from BOurbOnism by
the old fashioned forty or fifty thousand
majority"
"What figure will st. Johns Presiden-
tial race cut in the campaign?"
"None at all, either in Kansas or any
other State. The prohibition vote will
not be as large this year in any Of the
States as it was two years ago. A lead
ing Indiana politician told me day or
two ago that there would not be to ex-
coed 1000 prohibition votes polled in
that State this year, and in Ohio, where
the temperance people have always
polled from 10000 to $4,000 votes. it is
almost certain that the total vote cast for
the prohibition ticket will not exceed
5000"
Senator Plumb left via the Santa Fe at
10 o'clock for Emporia, and after spend
ing short time home will return East
and assist in the campaign in Maine.