Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-20
NJ 'KINLEY HAS FAITH.
He Says He Will Have More
Votes on the First Ballot
THAN OTHER CANDIDATES.
The Major Goes Over the Field and
Makes a Calculation.
FORAKER WILL BE ELECTED AGAIN
And Republican Senator will be Chosen
to Succeed Payne
THAN OTHER CANDIDATES.
FORAKER WILL BE ELECTED AGAIN
ASA REBUKR OF CORRUPT ELECTIONS

Major William Mckinley, Jr., of Ohio,
accompanied by Mrs. Mckinley, came up
from Somerset last night, where they had been
spending the summer, and stopped at the
Monongahela House. The Major stated
he had been having a quiet time at this
little resort in the mountains, and he was
on the way home to prepare for the opening
of Congress, and to put in some good licks
for Foraker in the coming campaign. For
the nsxt week he will be located at East
Liverpool.
"What do think of your chances for the
Speakership?" was the first question asked.
'I am a candidate" he replied, "and 1
will say that will go into the Republican
caucus with more votes than any other can
didate now in the field. You lsk me what
an 1 doing for myself. Why, nothing.
What could candidate do? 1t is a ques-
tion of individual preference, and whoever
is elected it will be done pleasantly,
THEIR CHOICE MADE.
s'The older Congressman have already
made their choice, and it is difficult to say
what the newer men will do. No one can
tell either who will be elected.
"Let us take the individual candidates and
see if we can measure their strength. Reed
will undoubtedly receive the solid support
of New England, % votes. Illinois will
stand by Cannon. likewise their own
delegations will vote for Bur-
roughs, of Michigan, and Henderson,
of Iowa. Ohio has 16 votes,
-; orl
get as many from this State as think, I
will 60 ahead of the % votes of New En-
gland. Burroughs and Cannon will have
some scattering votes in the West.
have some friends in New York. There
are q votes in that State, and the papers
state that as two-thirds of the members vote
so will the others. 1t is doubtful if any of
the candidates will have IA votes from New
York, SO that the delegation will be divided
among all the aspirants. Suppose, however,
one should receive 8 votes. The South
ern members
HAVE THEIR PREFERENCES,
and have some good friends in that sec
ton. Now this is how the situation stands,
and you see how hard it would be for any
man to say who will be elected.
"But the Speakership belongs to the
West. 1t may go farther west than Ohio,
but to the West it should go. Carlisle will
be the leading candidate on the other side.
81 don't think there is any necessity for
an extra session of Congress unless there is
some special legislation that the President
wants enacted. If there is anything, he
hasn't made his wishes known. The work
to be done in connection with the admission
of the new States can easily be attended to
in the regular session.
Tariff and internal improvements will
be the work of the coming Congress, but
did YOU ever see House that did just what
the people expected they would do?
PREDICTIONS FOR OHIO.
''You ask about the political situation in
Ohio. Foraker will be elected, and
Republican Legislature will choose a
Republican United States Senator as re-
buke for the questionable methods used in
the election of Senator Payne.
"Are you Senatorial candidate?"
"Weli, how many things would you have
me running for at the same time? Let us
look to the election of the Legislature, and
the Senatorship will take care of itself"
Foraker will have a majority of from
$1,000 to %, 900 votes for a number of rea-
sons First, the State is foremost Republi-
can; Foraker is a brilliant progressive,
intensely popular man, and before the
campaign is over will create an issue of
some KIND that Will adQ 10 MS cre0lt. he
is full of resources, and will make the issue
himself; he has been good Governor and
has given the people clean administration.
For these reasons he will be overwhelmingly
reelected"
AS TO HALsTEAD AND JoHNsTowN.
The Major said he hadn't read any of the
leading papers of the State for a month,
and he wasn't posted on the political situa-
ton in detail. He didn't know anything
about the move to make Halstead Senator.
He is interested in the future of Johnstown,
and will make an effort to secure Con-
gressional aid for the place, though he
could give no assurance that Congress
would act favorably. He believes Pitts
burg shippers are entitled to tree nayiga-
tion, and he favors a canal to Lake Erie, or
any other plan that will develop Western
PENNSYLVANIA and Eastern Ohio.
He had heard that Colonel Bayne would
vote for Reed, ard he was little anxious
to know how the Colonel sized up the
Speakership contest. He did not know how
Congressman Dslzell would vote.