Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-01
Includes Attempts to Knock Ont
Democratic Congressman.
CABINET MINISTER'S HUsTlING
For the Reelection Of the President and He
Doesn't Object.
THE RUMoRs OF MANY TRADES DENIED
rrRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT

Republican Committee, Secretary of War
Elklns, Messrs Kerens, Malone and
others, are comprised in denial of some
of the immaterial points of the news sent
out in regard to it and in an admission of
all Of the important assertions that more
attention is to be given to Western States
which are alleged to be in doubt, and that
the utmost efforts are to be made to break
up the Democratic combination in the
South, especially in Virginia, West Vir-
ginia, Tennessee and Alabama
The gentlemen also held a consultation
with Secretary Edward Mcpherson. for 70
long the alert and sagacious wheelhorse of
the Republican Congressional Committee,
in regard to the situation in the Congress
sional districts, and mapped out a pro-
gramme in accordance with developments
upon the present time, for assaults ON the
Democrats in those districts where there is
the best chance to wrest members from the
other side, and thus reduce the extraor-
dinary majority which now rules the House
to something like fair proportions, and if
possible to wipe it out altogether.
A New Light on an Old Problem.
One of the gentlemen interested as an
active worker in the Republican harness
threw a new light on what has been consid-
cred a strange apathy of the Republican
Committee in regard to the result in the
silver States He does not believe that it
is good policy to spend any great amount of
time or money on those States. They at
best entertain very Indifferent friendli-
ness toward the Republican party on the
tariff question, and on the silver question
they place much more faith in the Demo-
Gratis than in the Republicans. He asserts
that the amount of money wanted in the
silver States, if spent in the Democratic
States of the East and South that are now
largely in sympathy with the tariff
policy of the Republican party, would
be productive of far greater good
than if it were spent among the sparseIy-
settled States of the Rocky Mountains,
whose representation in the electoral COL
lege and in Congress is so Insignificant In
the Democratic States where manufacturing
is rapidly increasing there is correspond
ing increase in the feeling in favor of the
tariff, and in his opinion it is only ques-
tion of a. few years, if it does not occur in
the immediate future, when the judgment
in support of a strong protective tariff will
make it impossible for q free trade party,
under the guise of ''tariff REFORM" to carry
States that are fast following in the wake
of Pennsylvania in the development of
mining and manufacturing; such as the two
Virginias, Tennessee and Alabama, which
- A Ill
The smartest Thing to Do.
In the small States a political organiza-
tion is almost as expensive to maintain as it
is in the most populous, and this strategist
of the party argues that the smartest thing
to do is to concentrate everv effort on the
big States which are in the doubtful column,
and not only in the way of spasmodic move
ments, but to maintain constantly q small
standing army of agents to agitate and to
SOW broadcast the literature of the ,party
and the theory of the high tariff that it
benefits the masses as well as the manu-
facturers, notwithstanding apparent low
ness of wages at times with the accompani-
ment of strikes, none of which phenomena
are at all traceable to any lack Of virtue in
the tariff.
''The Democratic party" this gentleman
that it is able to thrust on the people as
truth, and if we can only constantly present
the truth to the masses in any of our States
where prosperity of the wage worker and of
the farmer, as well as of the manufacturer.
depends upon the prosperity of mining and
manufacturing, we will occupy impregnable
ground, and the perpetuity of the Re-
publican party will be assured. With all
the astuteness Of our politicians we have
been to a great extent working at random
in our methods of campaigning, and think
from this time on new policy will prevail,
and that we shall put into operation a ma
chime SO scientifically arranged that it will
always do its work smoothly and success
fully"
Rumors Of All Kinds of Trades.
Secretary Mcpherson, of the Congress
sional Committee, figured out to the gentle
men who have been in conference with him
that no less than 23 Republicans could be
elected from the Southern. States, with
proper effort, and that large gain will be
made in the North. Mr.. Mcpherson does
not specify for publication the districts in
which he hopes to make sufficient gain to
reverse the majority in the House.
In this connection it may be stated as
onetof the many rumors that one hears
every day in regard to party movements,
that the Republicans are making extensive
to trade Republican votes for
Democratic electors for Democratic votes
FIR Republican members of Congress. This
is probably of q piece with the assertion
that Great Britain is about to revive the
'corn laws" in retaliation against the Me-
Kinley tariff act, which is said to have
from the fruitful Imagination of
Chairman Harrity, along with the reports
of widespread preparation on the part of
the Republicans to colonize voters in In
diana and New Jersey.
Possibilities of the Peoples Movement.
One of the possible results of the Con-
gressional elections which is freely pre-
dicted, is that the balance of power in the
next House will be held by the representa-
tives of the Peoples party. This will be
more. satisfactory to the Republicans than
If the majority is held by the Democrats by
ever so slender q thread, as it will prevent
the organization of the Fifty-third Congress
by the Democratic party.
Such condition would surely culminate
in the election of a Peoples party Speaker,
who would treat the Republicans with spe-
,ial friendlIness, as the supporters of the
Peoples party in the South detest the Dem
ocrats with cordiality tenfold greater than
The feeling of opposition they entertain for
he Republicans The situation" in that
event would be decidedly novel one,
without its counterpart in the previous his
tery OF, the House. It is possible that |
Tom" Watson and Jerry" Simpson are
position in the chair that has |
been made 80 famous in recent yeGrs BY the |
occupancy Of Mr.. Carlisle and Mr.. Reed.