Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-10-22
He Is Confident of a Working Re-
publican Majority.
WILSON AND HOLMAN TO Be DEFEATED
Gen. leFeyre's DoIefuI View as to
the Result in Ohio.
D RIFT ALL ONE WAY

Congressman Apsley of Massachusetts.
vice president of the republican congress
sicral committee, has arrived here TO take
charge until the end of the campaign. He
| has been here much of the summer cooper
ating with Chairman Babcock. The latter
has left to look after matters in his own
district, and Mr.. Apsley will remain until
election. He assumes charge at a very crit
ical time, for it is during the last two weeks
of a campaign that great mistakes or great
successes are often made. Mr.. Apsley is
exceedingly confident and hopeful of the re-
suit of the election. He has hitherto said
very little, but he said today:
Il do not conceal my confidence that the
republicans Will have a good working ma
jorlty. and will organize the next House.
The people of the north, / know, have not
| attached much importance to reports that
there could be republican gains in the south
They Rave practically abandoned hope as
to the country south Of the Potomac river.
But think we can safely rely upon repub-
lican gains from Virginia, Maryland, West
Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and
LOUISIANA. There is not the danger of fraud
that there once was. The men who are
running on the republican ticket under
stand their rights. and know how to main
tain them.
Confident of Wilson's Defeat.
"As for Chairman Wilson of West Viz
ginia, 1 confident he will be defeated
They are making tremendous efforts to save
him. The democrats are using large sums
of money in that district in his interest
Excursions are being organized, and rail-
road tickets are given away as freely as
street car tickets. But l believe that Mr..
Wilson will be beaten, and think that he is
himself confident of his defeat.
Our understanding is also that Holman
will be defeated. That report has been
heard in SO many campaigns that 1t Will
probably not be credited but the informa-
ton now points to his certain defeat.
Springer of Illinois is also in very seri-
Gus peril Maj. Connolly, who is the candi-
date against him. is exceedingly popular
both in his own party and in the democrat
&c party, while Springer Is being strongly
opposed by some of his own party
Gen. LeFevre Doleful.
Ex-Congressman Ben. lie Fevre of Ohio
takes very doleful view of the situation
in his state. Fresh from the state which he
has served so many years in Congress- he
said to a democrat, who is a personal
friend in the greatest confidence: IF We
work without interruption until election day
and make no mistakes, and are perfectly
united, l believe that we shall be able to
keep the republican majority in Ohio down
to one hundred thousand"
The Information seemed to be too amusing
to be kept, and although Ben Lar'evre
made the statement in the utmost earnest
ness his democratic friend. could not re-
strain himself from taking others into his
confidence and with them the public.
Drift All one Way.
Gen. Butterworth. in addition TO the COM
nts on the situation which he made in
The Star Saturday, says this OF his western
trip:
Il have given the month of October to the
reI publican congressional campaign commit
tee anu the STUMP L tray cling from
the Wes- to the east. L have been in Ne
braska, Iowa, Illinois, and am going TO
New York 1t seems to me that the drift
Is all one way. In Nebraska, where the
pCpulistS have been So important a factor in
Politics, there is certain to be d general re-
VulSion. l told the people from the stump
that their Endorsement OF populism was i'll
3GfhlS the business interests and the credlI
of the state. Some said to me that the in
formation would not lie welcome, and would
Ice resented. L found on the contrary, that
1t was welcome and the democratic business
men very generally agreed with me- l dis
covered that the democratic business men
Of Nebraska and Kansas are generally GO
ing to vote the republican ticket, in order
to rid their state OF the incubus of populism
ana TO restore them TO the rich state, 10 the
prosperity at hGme and the credit abroad
which they deserve. The democratic busi-
ness men are suspicious of the democratic
politicians, because they have consented in
the past TO unions with the populists, and
have become to much involved with them.
The Situation in Iowa.
In Iowa." said Gen. .Butterworth, Il
found that the democrats have made a gen
cral fusion With the populists, and are be-
ing compelled to support their most tanci-
full doctrine The pOpulists have platforms
which declare, in general way, that ever,
thing that Is Is wrong, and that everythmg
that Is not Is right They have indorscJ
everything that is fanciful, ridiculous an.
Impossible in government. Their entire drift
is toward absolute state plte.nalisrn an
state sociaiiSm. Ihe consequence is that
they have disgusted the democrats who ar.
business men, and thousands of common
sense democrats who are not business men
and that these democra is Will do nothtu-
10 aIu IN TINS union. Iowa, 1t seems 10 me-
VIII be overwhelmingly republican"