Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-29
CARTER IS TOO BUSY
Irving to Be Elected Senator to Call
Committee Meeting.
SCARCITY OF AVAILABLE FUNDS
alone Sufficient to Block the Permanent
Campaign Bureau.
SCARCITY OF AVAILABLE FUNDS
MEETING OF NEW FORKS LEGISLATURE
ryRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENCE

ryRoM STAFF CORRESPONDENT
NEW YORK, Dec. 2S-DespIte all the
rumors there-is no call out for meeting of
the Republican National Committee here
or elsewhere next month, and no one COM
petent.to speak with authority regards one
as probable. To begin with, there lie no
necessity for such gathering, which not
only entails expense of money, but of time
as well on many men. 1t is doubtful
whether quorum of the committee could
be brought together unless some emergency
should arise more pressing than any now IN
sight
The committee is taking no part in the
fight for the doubtful Western Legislatures,
that matter being left entirely to the local
committees in the several States One
reason for this is the lack of interest evinced
bv Republicans in the result of these squab-
bles There is a disposition among num-
Der of influential marty leaders to let the
United States Senate go to the Democrats
with the rest of the National Government,
and while they would not go so far as to
give up Senate seat rightfully Republican
thev nevertheless decline to enter into con-
test for it. Hence the National Committee at
the outset resolved to keep clear of the
muddIe, and they have done So
Carter's Personal Ambitions.
The only instance in which any of the
committeeman have become interested is in
Montana where Chairman Carter is per-
sonally concerned in the outcome and hopes
to be the next United States Senator He
is giving the matter all of his attention and
intends to remain on guard until the selec-
tion is made. One of his fellow-committee-
men heard from him by letter yesterday,
and in that communication he stated that be
would not be East before the emiddle of
January. If the Senatorship is deadlocked
he will not come then. Probably he has
written to the same effect to other Eastern
committeeman and on that is based the talk
of committee gathering.
One of the matters set down for discus
sion at this mythical meeting is the estab-
lishment of a national campaign bureau
This has been talked over and over again
until it has become rather tiresome to those
who know what it means. Like many other
good suggestions for party management it
has always ended in talk. No one enters
any serious objection to the plan, but some
how it ALWAYS fails of execution. Just now
the main reason for its probable failure is
the lack Of funds 1or its maintenance. The
National Committee have none to use that
wav, nor will they enGeavor to raise any.
ln6Ec 10 Sklll SOuu6 lnOCDI6uuess from IQe
recent campaign, aud the officers intend to
clear off every dollar of that before incur
ring any new obligations. To be at all
effective, q campaign bureau would need
nearly $4,000 year at its disposal, and
anyone who thinks that the job of collect
ing that amount OF contributions is an easy
one had better make some experiments
Bliss Takes Vacation.
Cornelius n. Bliss has just returned from
q vacation trip to JekYll Island, off the |
Georgia coast, which a number OF Northern |
men have purchased and made into win |
ter camping-out spot. Mr. Bliss missed his |
vacation last summer by accepting the |
treasuryship of the National Committee, |
SO he took it this month. Jekyn Island is |
about ten miles in area and has hard |
beach for driving and plenty of game for
sportsmen. The club owns it entire and
has erected comfortable cottages for the
members families. 1t takes from Sc TO 40
hours to get to Brunswick, Ga, from winch
point you have only IL miles to travel
Speaking of his trip and the delights of
Southern travel, Mr.. Bliss said to me: sit
is marvellous what an amount of Northern
money has been spent along the South |
Atlantic seaboard in creating winter resorts
Millions have gone into investments of that
sort, and soon there will be a complete
chain of places stretching from Old Point
10 the point OF |
Florida. The surprising part of it is that
all of them seem to be making money, which
demonstrates to my mind that the American
people are more ready to spend money in
healthful or pleasursble pursuits than any
other nationality"
The New York Legislature.
The Legislature meets a week from to-
dav and for the second time since Francis
Herman was chosen Senator in 1875 both
branches are in the hands of the Democrats.
The first time was last winter The Senate
is a hold-over. The Assembly Is new
body, however, and stands "A Democrats to
81 Republicans. Senator Hill is already
on guard at Albany and the Tammanv
brayes intend to go up the river next week
"on skates" as one of them expressed it to
me. They are on the hunt for everv-
thing to be had from the Speakership
down. The "slate' for Senatorship and
Speakership seems firmly fixed on Ed Muir
ply and young Sulzer of this city respect
lively, but there is good deal of mystery
about the purposes of Boss Hugh McLaugh-
lin, who wIelds the same power in BROOKLYN
that Croker does here
Mclaughlin controls the II members
from Brooklyn and the anti-snappers would
give worlds to have those votes cast against
Murphy for they would defeat him. Nc
Laughlin understands their value. as well
as anyone, and his silence indicates that he
is driving a hard bargain with Hill and
Murphy for standing by them. He NAV
succeed in knocking out Tammany's