The Butler weekly times., 1890-05-07
4 SCHEME UNCOVERED.
How the Republicans Will Try
to Perpetuate Their Power
Deep-Laid Plot Exposed by a Drunken
Roaster-Census Enumerator POr-
ter to Be Depended On by
the Radical Bosses.

ter to BE Depended Oh Dy
the Radical Bosses.
Plttsburg, Pa, April 29.-It was
known that upon the occasion OF the
Americus banquet last Saturday
night that Congressman Bayne be-
came so exhilarated that he was un-
able to stand on his feet when the
time came for him to respond to the
toast the "Ways and Means on
which committee he holds such a
prominent position, and that the pri-
vate secretary Of the pious Wana'
maker, who was here as the repre-
sentative of the Postmast general,
gazed upon the popping corks until
he became enthusiastic enough to
figure as the chief in pretty stiff
Sunday morning game of poker at
the Seventh Avenue Hotel, in which
he met with disaster, but not until
to-day was it discovered that during
these hours of revelry important po-
litical secrets were revealed.
The Americus Club is emphatical-
Iva Quay organization, but numbers
among it's members not few adher-
ents of Chris Magee, of whom Con-
gressman Dalzell is the chief. It
was with one of these faithful fol-
lowers of Magee, though some other
persons were present, that Frank
Willing Leach, the private secretary
and factotum of the chairman of the
national republican committee, be-
came involved in a lively argument
some time after the close of the ban
quet proper In such company the
conversation naturally drifted npon
Quay's leadership of the party, and
then the Magee man became indig-
nant. He loudly proclaimed that
Quay had sacrificed the organization
for the sake of one victory, that the
coming house of representatives
would surely be overwhelmingly
democratic, and that, foreseeing the
signs of disaster, the chairman was,
according to common report, getting
ready to resign.
Don't fool yourself" responded
Leach in half-angry. half-fighting
tone; "that meeting Of the republi-
can committee on May Z, is called
for far different purposes than the
acceptance of Quay's resignation. 1t
is called to take official action upon
plans, which, perfected by Quay and
some of them under his direction al.
ready well under way, promises to
insure the permanent control Of all
branches of the government to the
republican party"
THE REPUBLICAN SCHEME.
Leach stopped amoment and then
abruptly asked his companion:
''Who is taking this census, any
way7'
Robert P. Porter and his assist
ants, I suppose" was the somewhat
surprised reply.
eyes, and you can just bet that it
will be taken right" was the speedy
answer.
''What do you suppose Quay
spent all those weeks liz Florida for?
Fishing! Well, hardly. Let me tell
you, and here his voice became at
once emphatic and mysterious, ''that
a Southern negro will have to be
very conspicuous to be counted in
the census this year.
"What do you meant"
"Just what I say. The census
enumerators will discover very few
southern negroes this year. The
negroes will not kick, and nobod,
else will be allowed to. You can Sc,
in moment the momentous result
OF this. We expect to have the cen
sus completed by June 20, thank
to the amended laws. The certif
cate Of Superintendent Porter is al