Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-20
THE CHAIRMAN AT. WORK
At the Capital, Where He Will See
President Harrison To-Day.
PEOPLES PARTY's EARLY OPENING
Its First Meeting to Be Held at Vincennes,
Indiana, To-Day.
A PECULIAR FIGHT on IN NEW YORK
rrRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT

TFROM A STAFF CORRESPONDENT.1
WASHINGTON, July 19-Chairman Car
ter, of the Republican National Executive
Committee, arrived in Washington this
morning and was naturally the center Of
much interest, as the executive manager Of
the coming campaign, to prominent men,
bers of his party. Mr.. Carter went to the
Capitol soon after his arrival and spent
most of the day there in consultation with
leading Republicans, who were all anxious
to hear from his own lips the details of the
gathering in New York which elected Mr..
Carter Chairman.
Perhaps the most significant, if not the
most important, of many conferences which
Chairman Carter held at the Capitol was
his conversation with ex-Speaker Reed,
whose strained relations with the President
have been well known. Ever since the
President, disregarding MI. Reeds personal
and emphatic protest, appointed political
foe to Mr. Reed in his own Congressional
district, Customs Collector at Portland, the
ex-Speaker, who felt that he had placed the
administration under great obligation by
iamming the force bill in the last House,
and at the same time by defeating free
tion to the President. Mr.. Reed violently
opposed General Harrison's denomination,
both before and during the Minneapolis
Convention, and it is generally understood
in Washington that Mr.. Reed has been one
of the most irreconcilable members of the
defeated Republican faction.
Carrying the Olive Branch.
For these reasons, thus briefly rehearsed,
l,oir
Reed to-day, following, as it did, his diplo-
matte visit of Cancellation to Mr.. Platt in
New York Yesterday, was regarded as an
other effort to carry the olive branch of
peaee from the White House to another dis
gruntled Republican leader. Mr.. Reed ac-
cepted Mr.. Carter's invitation to luncheon
with all the alacrity of New England ap-
petite, but, at the same time, with a reserve
Of manner which indicated that it would
take more substantial pledges of better
behavior in the future on the part of the
President than a treat to Q midday meal to
conciliaue him.
Mr.. Reed and Mr.. Carter talked for a
long time together after this repast, and
there is good authority, which cannot, how
ever, be subpRnaed to the witness box of
quotation marks, that Mr.. Reed has con-
sented to allow Chairman Carter to PATCH
up treaty of peace between himself and
the White House.
A Conference With Several Senators.
Mr.. Carter also had conference to-day
with practically all of the Republican Sem
ators now in Washington. His office of
Land Commissioner does not admit Chair
man Carter to the floor of the Senate, so
those conferences with individual Senators
were necessarily held either in the Senate
restaurant or in the committee rooms.
Among those with whom Mr.. Carter talked
were Messrs Aldrich, Allison, Mcmillan,
Sawyer, Washburn, Hiscock, Quay, Squire
and Manderson, all Of whom congratulated
Mr.. Carter upon his decision to accept the
National Republican Craftsmanship, and all
OF them gave him a great deal of advice
about the management of the coming cam
paign. All of this advice. together with
all that he learned in New York. Chairman
Carter will sleep over tonight, and, after
giving it thorough mental digestion, will
pour it into the Presidents ear tomorrow
morning, when he will go to the Executive
Mansion by appointment.
The New Chairman's Plans.
Chairman Carter said to THE DISPATCH
correspondent tonight: "There has been so
much published, in both the Republican
and Democratic newspapers, about the meet
ing of the Executive Committee in New
York, that cannot tell you how to add
anything to the accounts that have already
appeared, although l might easily tell you,
If chose, how to subtract from them. 1
shall go to the White House tomorrow
morning to resign my position of Commits
sioner of the General Land Office. After
nv resignation has been attended to you
can guess as well as L that the President
and may have some interesting subjects to
talk about
"As to the management of the campaign,
it is probable that the President may do me
the honor of consulting me about the Ad-
visory Committee, which is yet to be ap-
pointed. Besides that extraneous commit
tee, there may also be selected sub-com-
mittees or branch committees to attend to
the campaign on the Pacific coast, in the
great Northwest, in the Middle Western
States, and also special subcommittee to
look after the effort of the Democrats to fuse
with the Third party organization in Kansas,
Nebraska and other States"
One Question Quay Won't Answer.