Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-10-21
WASHINGTON CITY.
REPUBLICANS 90 NOT EXPECT TO
CARRY TIE NEXT HOUSE.
mshoneS Pitiabie Plight In the Party
They Want the South soiid--A Plot
TO stcni tho Nest House.
IRON our Reealsr corre.ponaentl

organs, the Republican leaders do not
expect TO carry the next House Of Rep
resentatives. They are aware OF the tact
that they will meet with losses in the
northern and western States, and they
know to moral certainty that on nc
count of the sectional legislation that
was attempted in the last Congress, as
well as the passage OF the unjust tariff
bill, that the southern psoplo are so
wrought up that the Democrats will
make almost clean sweep Ia the latter
section if the best people turn ont at the
polls next month and do their duty.
REPUBLICAN TACTICS
A favorite trick Of the Republican
leaders has been for the past ten or
fifteen years 10 yell themselves hoarse
about free ballot and fair count, and
the meanest, most disreputable charges
have been made against the South IN
connect on with the State and national
elections In order 10 keep up the
bloody-shirt issue the Administration and
the Republican leaders IN Congress have
utterly abandoned their party IN the
south 20 the negroes, with John NJ.
Lsrgston as the recently appointed
leader.
TURNED DOWN.
Malone, the man who sold out his
people 10 enable the Republicans TO con
troll the United States Senate when bis
vote was necessary to give tho "grand
old party control q that body, has
been shamefuly turned down, aud a ne
gro bolter has been set up in his stead as
the boss OF al that is left of the Republi-
ran party IN the State of Virginia, thus
driving from the ranks daily white men
who have heretofore affiliated with the
Republicans.
Ii is an open secret here that the Ad-
mnistration and the Republican leaders
generally are hopeful that the Demo
Gratis viii carry the southern districts al
most solidiy-the more solid the various
delegations the better for the purposes
u toe Radicals who have their schemes
10 work IN the next two years.
DOODLE CAMPAIGN.
Money is being spent layishly in the
northern and western States, ana the
leaders of the Republican party are
hoping that they can prevent the loss OF
any great number of members next
month i'm the country north Of Mason
Ulxon's limo They have received
some substantial advantages in the adj
mission of the Sex new states, and tins
vlI so Tar '.vard helping to offset the
l,,al in Ohio
A urFp-LAID pLOr
There is u report floating around 70
the eject that deep laid plot IS being
arranged to steal tie next House If Re
uuh,icaus lose at the approaching cleo
non There may bc nothing IN the
stories that ara heard but IN view Of the
uuscruwlous crowd az Radicals who are
at present manipulating the wires for
hc Republicans almost anything that
th,v might resort % would not be sur
pricing Reed. Lodge. Mckinley, Can
non. KOwcIl. and many others who could
be named. vii! mo-: stop at poltical rob
n berry N they can wr,st control OF the
y House from the Democrats n the next
q Congress. and which they expect them
to hayo when the returns are ou received
N November
no CREATE RIOTS.
It has been whispered around hero
lint the Republican plan IS TO have
riots stirred mp in many portions OF the
South ON elect0n-day, and the United
States marshals and their deputies are to
De relied upon to precipitate the trouble
Then the party organs are to whoop mp
things declare that the elections IN the
South have been nothing but farces
that negroes have been bulldozed and
shot that bnllot-boxes have been
stuffed. and in view of such state OF
things 1t viii be perfectly proper for a
partisan clerk of the House TO make mp
the roll regardless Of the certificates OF
election sent on To Washington by the
various State officials in the South. The
party press will Ice expected to work up
tho outrage question 20 white heat III
the North and West 20 80 20 give ample
excuse for the action that has been
hiuted at,
OFFENSIVE.
or course, if the result is against the
Republicans IN the North aud West and
the Democrats should carry the House
bv the Old-tme majoritios that they have
had in tine past the conspTators will
crawl INTO their holes like cowardly
sneaks and deny that they ever had any
such intentions. This sort of talk ~
well understood by the Democratic lead
ers IN the south, and the prevailing
opinion Is that there will be no riots or
local disturbances in that section on
election-iay to amount to anything.
The Federal officials in that section
Auv, g., az 20 TnpIfR thA
populace % riot aud bloodshed. Some
may he anxious TO carry out such 7 Ian,
but. aside from their cowardlce, they
have sense enough to know that should
they aii IN any such business IN response
to WISHES OF the diahohcal Radicals IN
tho North, who are limiting at such u
programme. that 1t would he a sorry day
for the miuions who might undertake to
boz the leaders IN this proposed move
mcuL
TIRED OF APOLOGI2ING.
4 number Of southern people who
have been here within the past few days
declare that if the Republicans want any
disturbances and are fools enough TO
start them they Will be met in way that
will cause the originator of the scheme
any amount Of trouble and sorrow 1t Is
said that the people in the far South have
become tired OF constantly apologizing
for the things that are done by the law
less classes, and that If the Republican
ofi.co-holders do not show more dis
erection than 20 allow the Tom Reed
gang 10 lead them into trouble there wall
b. some music this year TO prove that the
South will insist on managing her own
state affairs.
PEACABLK-
The prevailing belief Is that the ap'
preaching election viii be about as
peaceable in the South as il has been in
the most thickly-inhsbited Quaker sec
ton Of old Pennsylvania 1t depends,
though, largely ON what course the Fed
eral officers pursue, but the most con
seryative opinion is that the latter wi
come 10 the conclusion that as the lie