Los Angeles daily herald., 1890-01-30
CALVIN s. BRICE.
He Gives HIS Views as to How HI
WAS Elected.

was Elected.
A correspondent of the New York Star
interviewed Senator. Elect Calvin S.
Brice with reference to his recent elec-
ton to the Senate from Ohio. He said:
81 am tired, and am glad it's over, aud
l guess everybody else is. My friends
have worked like beavers, and they de-
serve, as they certainly have, my eternal
gratitude.
s'I confess my surprise at the course OF
the New York World, for its editor knows
me personally, and ought to know better
than to suppose me capable of the things
his paper 80 freely and SO recklessIy
charges. As for the Cincinnati CONNER
cial Gazette and Murat Halstead, 1 can
only say that did not expect anything
different from that source. Halstead has
mental, moral and ocular strabismus.
He cannot think straight, act straight or
see straight. There is one thing that
gives me peculiar satisfaction, and I'll
tell it, for am satisfied the Commercial-
Gazette will never publish it. When the
campaign opened in earnest, couple of
weeks ago, you remember what a furious
onslaught the Commercial Gazette began
on the subject of Doodle. Well, /
| really think Halstead made himself
believe that | was going in boldly to buy
| a seat in the Senate, and he made up his
mind to catch me. He sent up here as
detective Colonel Boyle, of the police
board of Cincinnati, with instructions to
get on our trail and hunt us down.
Colonel Boyle started off very fresh, and
wrote to his chief that he was on hot
trail, and that he had discovered some
poker games, anu that he was sure that
was the way the Brice money
was being scattered. Well, mat
ters ran along for a few days,
and Colonel Boyle was not quite so sure
that he had US. Finally, after the eau
Gus, he came frankly to General Rice,
told what his mission bad been and who
sent him on it, and then came out like a
man and said: General, it is due to
Colonel Brice and his friends to say that
I have not discovered the first thing that
would lead anybody to suppose that
dollar had been used improperly in all
this fight. l believe it has been clean,
straightforward, honorable contest, and
Brice has won it because he had the
most genuine strength. l will go back
to Cincinnati aud tell the editor of the
| Commercial Gazette just what have told
yuu. And he did. And I notice that
the c.. G.. has much less to say about
Senatorial actions, etc.
| "We started out on the principle
that if thing was worth having it's
worth asking for, and so we opened up
personal canvass of all the Democratic
members. guess some of my friends
visited every Senator and Representa-
tive within two weeks after it was known
that he was elected. If we couldn't get
him to name Brice as his first choice,
why, We got him to name us for his Sec
ond choice. | was the first choice of
twenty-five of the forty members neces-
sary three weeks before the Legislature
met. Then we got the Endorsement of
all the active politicians, and dozens of
them came here at their own expense to
work for ue. There are eighty eight
Democratic county committees in Ohio.
We got resolutions passed by ffty-seven
of them indorsing us and aeking the Leg
| islature to elect US. The others were
non -committal. None of them declared
against US. So, you see, the canvass was
simply bit of systematic work most
faithfully carried out by my friends. OF
course this cry Of corruption and Doodle
has annoyed us greatly. l don't mind it
so much myself, bCt it makes me mad
that the honest men comprising the
Democratic majority should be 80 as
sailed. 1t is all we'll enough to accuse
me of bribery, but to do that accuses ct
the same time other people of being
bribsd."
''Senator, as chairman of the national
committee, and now as United States
Senator, you have come to be looked
upon in some respects as national DEM
ocratic leader. Do you care to cay any
thing about the politics of the future ?"
| "No; think not. 1t is too early to
talk of 1892, and there is very little going
on before that. Again. as chairman of
the national committee am only an ex-
ecutive officer, put there to execute the
will of the party speaking through its
committee. 1t would be manifestlv i'm
proper for me to say in advance what
think ought to be done or how the cam
paign ought to be fought. I know what
is in your mind. You want to ask me
who ought to be the standard bearer. OF
course l am not going to tell you any
thing at all about that, and you mustn't
ask me. There is plenty of good ma
terial, though, and we will have no
trouble selecting a candidate when the
time comes"