Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-13
To Keep His Hands Entirely Off the
Contest Now on in Alabama.
HOW HE COULD HURT HIS PARTY.
Admirers Of the Chairman Believe He Can
Break the Solid South.
GRESHAM As A THIRD PARTY SPEAKER
rrRoM A srArr coRRrsponnrrr,

| otate OF AlaDama to-day. Il am an advo.
cate of Kolb and believe he was honestly
elected. would be glad to see him get
any assistance that would be of real benefit
to him. But the trouble is, the mass Of the
whites who supported Kolb would resent
the interference of Republicans, and es-
pecially that of the National Republican
| Committee, which would be sort of official
| interference and somewhat distautiy sug-
gestive of a force bill The bulk of the
whites who supported Kolb are Democrats.
| They claim to be the real Democrats Of the
State. They think they are capable of at
tending to their own affairs, and if they
lind they cannot, they Will know the rea-
son why"
The Alabama Kolb man may be right,
| but he does not know Carter The gentle
man at the head of the National Repub-
lican Committee is daring to the point of
being spectacular. There is no telling upon
what neck Of woods he NAV land himself,
be 1t the most unpromising soil, and at
tempt to cultivate it in the interests Of Re-
publican success.
Enthusiastic Admirers OF the Chairman.
During the last day or 40 1t has been my
good fortune to meet two or three persons
who are here In q very quiet way to look
over the field In Washington, to find out
without the knowledge of that very-much-
alive civil service reformer, Mr.. Theodore
Roosevelt. how the ground can best be
worked for q liberal contribution of
shekels for the use of the committee. These
gentlemen speak in terms of the most
enthusiastic admiration of the shrewdness
of Chairman Carter in catching hold of the
situation, and predict that he will perform
wonderful feats of proselyting in what are
apparently the most impossible of places.
Tom Carter already has before him every
point of the situation in Tennessee, North
Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia, and
he is going to work those States as they
were never worked before in the interest of
any party" said one of these gentlemen
to-day. "While he is confident to the point
of conviction that the Republicans will |
all of his hopes of success upon the result |
In the Empire State. He knows there are |
unusual influences at work in many of the |
States, Republican as well as Democratic. |
and that it will not do to hazard everything |
on the casting Of the die in New York.
Looking for q Rift in the South.
s'While little doubt is felt In regard to
the result In Kansas, Iowa, Michigan and
Wisconsin, the very fact that the Demo-
Gratis consider those always solid Republican
States at national election good ground
for missionary work, Is enough in itself to
suggest to the Republican managers that
while those States must not be neglected, it
will be good generalship to strike at what
have been considered strongholds of the
enemy in the very heart of the Solid South.
great Slate of New York, but, at the same
time, if 1t should happen that New York
went in favor of the Republicans Chairman
Carter does not propose to endure the
humiliation of being beaten outside of New
York by fuke in some of the Western or
Northwestern States, and SO he intends not
,nly to raise merry thunder in New York
md those States, but he will try his utmost
70 carry two or three Southern States. It
would be great feather in his cap if he
'ould break the solid South by victory in
wen one of the States that are admitted by |
ome of the more candid Democrats to be
n doubt"
Gresham as a Peoples Party Orator.
The apparently authentic information
hat Judge Walter @. Gresham will take |
he stump for the ticket of the Peoples
arty in the national campaign aroused an |
immense deal of gossip here to-day, and
be speculation was very lively as to what
is influence will amount to. OF course the
eyotees of each party are likely to interpret
he possibilities according to their own
fishes, but many of the Republicans are
,rced to admit that this step Of Judge {
resham will lose considerable number of
otes to the party in Indiana and Illinois.
is generally confessed, moreover, that
lis acquisition will add much to the
rength and dignity of the Peoples party
j over the South and West
Mr.. Dunnung, editor Of the National
7atchnan, paper published by the MEM
nf o. In 81
-day that the conversion of Judge
resham was not . thing of to-day. "He .
Is been in sympathy with us almost from
e inception of the Alliance movement"
i'd Mr.. Dunnung, ''and especially made
secret of his change Of faith after the
ganization Of the Peoples party, which
vested the movement of its class feature
ID made it the movement of every
oughtful person who observed the abso-
to grasp which the corporations, trusts
ID millionaire spectators had fastened
ION the Legislatures, the press and the
urts of the whole country and of the
aole world
Great Cause for Congratulation.
"While the acquisition of Judge
resham is cause for congratulation, as that
any good and great man would be, his
tual value in votes is something that ,
b |
Irty movement, however, is too large
ID Is growing too fast for the as
stance of any one person to count for as
uch as IL would when the organization was
eak, and the sport of those who do not
en- yet have more than faint compre-
nsion of what 1t means. A few campaign
eeches from Judge Gresham must do q
st deal of good, however, and in some of
e Western Republican States where there
a possibility that the vote of the Peoples
rty may be larger than that of the COM
ned vote of. the old parties, such cham I.
On may carry enough new weight to make u
3 victory absolutely certain. K
"a Northern man of the Judges reputa- -
n for ability and probity can also do ff
rk of Unreasonable value to the party in ~
} South. No, have no doubt whatever as h
the truth of the report of the entrance of =
dge Gresham into the campaign for our v
rty. Knowing what do, would be sur
sed if it were otherwise"
Popularity Of Judge Crouuse. :.
Judge Crounse, one of the three Assistant o.
,retaries Of the Treasury Department, Ii
who contemplates offering his resigna-
n very soon on account of his nomination 81
the Office of Governor Of Nebraska, is
. of the most popular of the high officials +,
It have ever been in Washington. He |
never contracted even the symptoms of
It disagreeable disease known as the
yelled head, which has afflicted so many
h officials to the extent of destroying, in
reat measure, their usefulness.
udge Crounse il well known to the peo-
of Allegheny county for the strong
sonal interest taken by him in the move