The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-12-11
DEMOCRACY'S CONSPIRACY
Republicans Propose to Thvart the
Plots to Steal Western Legislatures.
Conferenceof Party Leaders, at Which the Sem
storial Situation Was Discussed-voor-
bees Breaks INT In an Interview.
Republicans VIII Not Be Idle When Don
cratic Plotters Are ar Work.

Republicans Will Not Be Idle When Demo-
cratic Plotters Are at Work.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.-While the Dem.
ocratic advisory committee is confer
ring in New York and devislng plans
for securing the election of Demo-
cratic Senators in the doubtful legislatures
in Wyoming. California. Montana. North
Dakota. Nebraska and Kansas. there is q
conference of Republicans being held here
in Washington having just the
opposite purposes. Some of the
leading spirits of the Republican party
are at the Arlington. Mr.. J.. S. Clarkson,
Warner Miller, C.. n. Bliss. General Alger,<
George N. Pullman. General Estee. Joseph
Manley and Representative Johnson. of
North Dakota, were assembled in the lobby
of the hotel this morning. 1t was said
hat their meeting was by &C
oident, that there was no politics
in it. Both Mr.. Manley and Mr..
Clarkson told a reporter that the
meeting was accidental. 1t was quite a
coincidence that they should all lave hap
pened here on the same day and to have
stopped at the same hotel. 1t was ex-
planned that Mr.. Manley was here on pri-
vate business. that Mr.. Clarkson was on
his way to Mexico. that Mr.. Bliss was GO
look after the N~icaraguan canal business,
and that General Estee had business before
the Supreme Court
About III o'clock In the morning they all
retired to q private room to discuss the
coincidence of their meeting. General
Estee and Mr.. Johnson. who are not par
ticularly close in their association with
other gentlemen as to render their presence
q thing TO be expected as q matter of
course, are quite familiar with the sem
atorial situation In California and Nor tn
Dakota. 1t is understood that
the other subject discussed after
the coincidence of their meeting
was disposed of was the senatorial situa-
tion in the seven doubtful States, and that
plans were perfected To meet the move of
the Democratic senatorial advisory COM
mittee. VINO are trying 10 secure the eiec-
ton of Democrats TO complete the Demo-
cratic control of Congress. The whole sub
ject. it is said, was thoroughly ~canvassed.
and some of those present were satisfied
that the Democrats could be kept from
having q majority in the Senate if the
proper sort of work was done.
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
buO DOnbtc anu tndb tuO hOpuDllLbUo Will
put nothing In their way. The report he
characterizes AS absurd. THE idea that
the Republicans will stand back aud give
In an inch" said the Senator. "is as ridicu-
lous as the story that the Democrats are
afraid to meet the Issue and organize the
Senate. Both of them are too absurd TO re-
ceive Q moments thought"
Mr.. Voorhees, says that instead of fearing
to assume the responsibility the Democrats
will take every p~recautlon TO secure the
grip they now have on that body. When
asked If o special effort was to be made to
watch the close States where the election
of Senators was q matter of doubt, Mr..
Voorhees, said the lnterests of the party
wouId be watched wherever 1t had inter-
ests. and that included the States in which
the Republicans are trying TO steal the
Senators, The statement that the Demo-
cratic party is afraid TO undertake the re-
nounces as an insult to the intelligence of
the men who compose that party. There
never were truer words spoken" he said,
than those used in the Democratic plat
form to characterize the Republican party
policy. We have denounced it in our
platform as q robbery and a fraud, and
preached &c from eyery stump in the
country. The Senate IS Just as enthusiastic
In the matt@r 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 responsibility and are ready TO
begin tomorrow IT need be. All the in
telligence ana WISDOM or the country Is
not in the Republican party, and when
that party dies ell wisdom will not die.
nor will all wisdom AVE departed when
its majority has departed from the Senate.
The Democratic party can be de-
pended upon to do two things
remove the unjust burdens of tax
alton from the accessories of life and
provide the necessary revenues for the gov
rDment The Republicans are prone to
talk of our mistakes. We may have made
mistakes, but theirs have been crimes. If
We were tyres in the science of government
we could not do worse than they; but we
will give the people relief from the burdens
with which they have been oppressed since
the Republicans came into power. The
vote of the people at the recent election
shows wherein they put their condolences,
and that confidence will not be misplaced"