The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-08-13
AFRAID OF The PEOPLE,
Campaign Being Con-
Quoted With Secrecy and
Stealthiness
Carter and q Very Few Others
Only Arc Taken Into
Confidence
ON Faith and Crepe In tho
Dark.

New YoRK, Aug. 12.-"It's an under
ground campaign which President Harri'
son and his first lieutenant, Carter, hav.
begun" WAS remarked al republican head
quarters, 518 Fifth venue. yesterday, b
one Of the srequsntsrs Of that place. "Irl
q part Of their scheme to mako II appea,
that nobody ID taking much interest in The
work. As q matter OF fact, there have been
important things going on in tho vicinity Of
the headquarters house sincs IL Wal
opened.'' The house and some Of the other
gathering places within easy reach, il vas ex-
planned. were secured in furtheranoe Of the
plan of the president TO conduct : Hoosier
campaign of the sort that 10 in vogue in
certain sections Of the presidents wi
state.
Certainly the arrangements referred TO
are such a. toallow work to be done in a
secret. mysterious way. The headquarters
house ia but three blocks from the Grand
Central station. In the few DAYS that the
campaign has been going, visitors have
come to tbs station, gone BY . quiet street
up to Forty. third street. and. Fastening to
the house, have been concealed In Mr.. Car
ter's private room up stairs. They have
eone away attracting very little notice.
The headquarters house 10 but four blocks
from the Union League club. Within the
doorsof the club house the chairman and
the treasurer, with such visitors as they
bring, may concoct schemes unobserved by
the world md al secure from the pryinR
eyes of newspaper men as II they were
locked in an underground dungeon.
At least one conference has been held At
the Union league within a week. the details
of which are not known to any except the
participants. It is said that ono member
Of tho executive committee, who has been
reported az away on a summer vacation,
was concealed in the club house one day
for some time. and then communicated
with several prominent republicans who
dropped in during his stay.
in the city arc stunning public places.
Chairman Carter. who remained at the
Fifth avenue hotel, where politicians usually
are 10 be found, until it was reasonably
certain that Mr.. Thomas G. Plat would
not come to visit him. has gone to the
Plaza. He thus puts a distance OF nearly
forty blocks between himself and the state
Newspaper men, who, he thinks. are de-
sirous OF informing tho public of his move
ments. Ex-Chairman Clarkson makes his
headquarters at tho Plaza, too. whom he il
in the city, and the hotel 10 tho usual stop
ping place OF Jacob Sloat Fassett.
''Ihe scheme is to keep the public in the
dark" said the person already quoted. 'Its
a nice scheme. too. For example. a New
England capitalist could come to the city.
20 to headquarters. leave his check, and
vanish, and nobdy need know that he had
been in the CITY" . " r. H. ~
If President Harrison returns from Loon
Lake any time within a fortnight. he will,
it ia said, stop in this city for a day or two
and consult with the tail of the ticket and
some others. Some talk was heard Of a
visit to Loon Lake by Chairman Carter
and perhaps one or two others Of the com
mittee, but the persons Immediately inter
ested saik that no such visit was contem-
plated for the present. at any rate.