Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-12-11

WASHINGTON D. c., December 10.-While
the Democratic Advisory Committee are
conferring in New Y ork and devising plans
for securing the election Of Democratic
Senators in the doubtful legislatures in
Wyoming, California, Montana, North
Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas, there is a
conference of Republicans being held here
in Washington having Just the opposite
purpose.
Some of the leading spirits of the Re-
publican party are assembled at the Ar
lington. General Clarkson, Warner Mil
Ter. G.. N. Bliss, General Alger, George
NJ. Pullman, General Estes, of California;
Joe Manley and Representative Johnson,
of North Dakota, were assembled in the
lobby of the hotel this morning. 1t was
said that their meeting was by accident; 4;
that there was no politics in it. Both Mr..
Manlev and General Clarkson told report
er that the meeting was accidental. 1t was
quite a coincidence that they should all
happen here on the same day and all have
stopped at the same hotel.
About II o'clock in the morning they all
retired to a private room to discuss the CO.
incinence of their meeting. General Estes
and Mr. johnson, who are not so particu-
larly close in their association with the
other gentlemen as to render their presence
a thing to be expected as matter of
course, are quite familiar with the Sena-
tOral situation in California and North
Dakota.
1t is understood that the other subject
discussed after the coincidence OF their
meeting was disposed Of was the Sena-
torial situation in the several doubtful
States, and that plans were made to meet
the move Of the Democratic Senatorial
Advisory Committee, who are trying to
secure the election Of Democrats TO COM
plete the Democratic control Of Congress.
The whole subject, it is said was thor
oughly canvassed, and some Of those pres
ent were satisfied that the Democrats
could be kept from having majority in the
Senate if the proper sort OF work was
done.
SENATOR VOORHEES, LAUGHS AT 1T.
Senator Voorhees,, Of Indiana, laughs at
the statement of Mr.. Hale and other Re-
publican Senators TO the effect that they
hope the Democrats will secure control OF
the Senate and the Republicans will throw
nothing in their way. The report he char
acterizes as absurd.
'The idea that the Republicans will
stand back and give in an inch, said the
Senator, us as ridiculous as the story that
the Democrats are afraid TO meet the issue
and organize the Senate. Both of them
are too absurd to receive moments
thought"
Mr.. voorhees, saws that instead Of fear
| ing TO assume the responsibility the Dem
ocrats will take every precaution to secure
the grip they now have on that body.
| When asked ifa special effort was TO be
made 10 watch the close States where the
election of Senators was a matter of doubt,
Mr.. Voorhees, said that the interests of the
party would be watched wherever it had
| interests and that included the States
where the Republicans were trying TO steal
! the Senators. The statement that the
| Democratic party is afraid 10 undertake
! the revision of the tariff, Mr.. VOORHEES,
prouounces as an insult to the intelligence
| of the men who compose that party.
There never were truer words spoken
| than those used in the Democratic platform
! to characterize the Republican party policy
| We have denounced it in our platform as a
| robbery and fraud, and preached it from
| every stump in the country. The Senate
is lust as enthusiastic in the matter of the
| coming revision of the tariff as the House
can possibly be, and is perhaps more set IN
! its purpose We will assume all RESPONSE
| bility. and are readyto begin tomorrow II
need be. All the intelligence and wisdom
| of the country is not in the Republican
| party, and when that party dies all wisdom
| will not die, nor will all wisdom have de-
parted when its majority has departed
! from the Senate. The Demo
crotic party can be depended upon 10 dC
! two things-remove the unjust burdens o.
taxation from the necesssries Of life auc
provide the necessary revenues for the
| Government. The Republicans are prone
! TO talk ofour mistakes. We may have mede
mistakes, but theirs have been crimes. Il
we were tyros in the science of government
we could not do worse than they; but We
will give the people relief from the bur
dens with which they have been op
pressed since the Republicans came int
power. The vote OF the people at the re
| cent election shows wherein they put theil
confidence, and that confidence will not b
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