The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-11-14
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WASHINGTON, d. c., Nov. s.
The surprising result in Indiana and the
claim of the republicans that they will
have majority in the legislature of that
state in 1896 has set the greedy politicians
of that party to wagging their heads and
setting in motion a train of gossip as to
whom the republicans will send as senator.
In this connection it is said quietly, but
with more than ordinary earnestness, that
the republican brethren of Indiana will
shortly have the extreme pleasure of well
coming back into their family the Hon.
L. 7. Kitchener, who, having kept out of
the campaign until he saw that the others
had done the work for the party, is now
proceeding with a great deal Of care TO
cast his weather eye toward that senator
snip. In fact, he is said to have gone so
far as to begin TO prepare his maiden
speech in the hall of the upper house. He
will be aided by the particularly honest
and upright Dudley, and the two Of them
believe they may be able to make use
of some "blocks-of-five' game to bam-
boozle the republican party.
They are already engaged in laying
wires and Kitchener may return to the
At any rate he is scheduled to be there
before the next legislative campaign, and
c. w Fairbanks and the rest Of the
crowd who have already measured them
selves for a seat in the senate had better
watch out This is all the talk among the
Indianians at the national capital and
they expect to see a merry fight on, as
the crowd that has been at work for the
republicans this fall are not expected to
be exuberant in their brotherly greeting
for the man who has been silent in Wash
ington and let them do the work and now
wants TO Sep in and take all the plums in
| the pudding.
still Republicans Are Unhappy.
One would think that the returns that
have come in from all over the United
! States could leave the republicans nothing
| to hope for. Nevertheless there is a great
amount Of worriment being given rein in
! the camp Of leaders of that party and
| they are at their wits end to think what
the outcome will be- The reason for
! this is that they have got too much Of a
majority and they are greatly afraid that
! when the time comes this majority will
| run away from all restraint and plunge
/ the party into such eXcesses that the
| buried in 1890.
/ Chairman Babcock said to The Sentinel
| correspondent today that he would much
| rather have majority Of twenty-five, be-
| cause there could be more compact and
would be solidified by the very dangers
| presented by the appearance Of schism.
| He has good reason to fear, because the
party is split up on a dozen different
! questions and when 1t comes together
| there will be a three-ringed circus in the
| attempt to control their votes and voices.
Reed VIII Hold the Sceptre.
Reed will be the ring1naster. He has
the present majority so abjectly his SER
wants that they dare not do anything
without his consent, and he even swears
at them in his impatience to show that
| he is the boss Of their side. His same
way will probaly continue in the next
congress for the very simple reason that
there will be no other republican in the
| house with either brains or backbone
enough to make a contest With him. How
| ever there will be an attempt on the
part of Harrison, Mckinley, Allison,
| Sherman and the host Of other republican
| candidates for the presidency to prevent
Reed being in too great control, and they
| are likely TO attempt to work up booms
| for julius Caesar Burrows of Michigan,
| Serene L. Payne of New York or one of
| the dozen men who have acted as Reed 3
/ clowns during two or three congresses and
! cut capers at the crack OF his whip. But
| Reed will undoubtedly bulldoze himself
/ into first place and attempt TO run things
| in his own favor. One thing he will most
| assuredly try to do will be to keep the
| republicans from going to an extreme on
/ the tariff issue He is too shrewd a
| politician not TO know that in a short
4 time the people will see the revival under
| the new tariff law and will come to appre-
| ciate its benefits so much that they will
! not stand any inward tendency in the
1 tariff LEGISLATION of the country. He as
\ much as expressed such a feeling at Ann
| Arbor. But it is doubtful whether he can
| control the house. There will be so many
| radical protective tariffites that he viii
| find himself holding onto the horns Of a
wild bull and carried hither and thither
/, by the brute in its fury.
Democratic Leaders Hopeful.
The democratic leaders, now that they
| have sounded the greatest depth of the
| defeat they have met with, are beginning
to look around and to believe that what
| has been done in two years can be undone.
| Chairman Faulkner believes that the re-
! suit was due to great extent to the stay
| ing at home of democrats, just as repub-
| leans stayed at home in 1890. He looks
| forward, however, TO the next campaign
! and believes the democrats will be sue
| cessful in it. They are not killed by any
means. In 1872 they were defeated by
| Grant and people said that the party could
never rally again; that 1t was killed for
ever However. at the next congressional
election the democrats came together again
| and with their old-time vigOr waged one
of their enthusiastic campaigns, with a
| result that they swept the whole country,
| making 1S1 changes of seats in the house
| and scoring the greatest victory in the
| history Of the country. There is indeed
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