The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-08-24
HEADQUARTERS TALE.
What Leaders Are Saying at the
Political Centers.
OBSERVATIONS on A WHEEL RIDE.

reported To Republican Chief by tn,
Rider-Fuslon Negotiations Continue "a
Interest the silver Men-The Idaho Dif
hcuity-Mckinley Said To he Booked
Tor some speeehes-Herrmanns Joke ON
| Jones-The Question of Where Dave
| Hill Is "At"-Notes
WASHINGTON, Aug. "a Chairman Bah,
cock, of the Republican congressional cam
palgn committee, has returned from New
York. He had conference with Chair.
man Hanna, of the national committee.
ana feels very well satisfied with the result
OF the campaign thus far He says that
Hanna reports everything i'm good shape
ana the work Of the campaign progressing
very satisfactorily. Babcock SAYS that tho
congressional campaign committee is in
daily receipt of information tending to
SHOW the successful work of thecommittee
In sending out literature He SAYS that
the reports show that the people are very
anxious to read the documents Our OBJ
Iect, said he, ''is not so much to make
proselytes in sending out this literature
Dut to arm our own people, so that they
may be beinformed and ready in arguments. ="
Young Politician ON Wheel
Chairman Babcock has had call from
friend who had wheeled all the way
from Chicago to New York and then TO
Washington The young man is the son
of Republican leader in Chicago, and he
took an interest in the political situation
In the various states through which he
passed. He told Babcock that he found
the Republicans united in Indiana The
same condition existed in northern Ohio
but in the southern part of the state he
found considerable silver sentiment among
the Republicans. In Delaware and New
Jersey the Republicans said they were
sure to win. In western New York he
found good deal OF silver talk. even
among Republicans Upon the whole he
reported the outlook very favorable.
Interested I'm the Fusion Question.
Senator Butler. chairman of the Popu-
list committee, says that he has been re-
ceiving some very favorable reports from
different states where there have been dis
agreements between the Populists and
Democrats as to fusion on electors. 1t is
now believed that the offer of the Popu.
lists i'm Texas to take seven of the fifteen
electors will be accepted In West Nir-
ginia the committees have about agreed
upon division, giving the Democrats
four and the Populists two electors 1t is
also stated that the chances of fusion i'm
North Carolina have improved 1t was
stated at Populist headquarters that they
believed the Idaho fusion would be ar.
ranged so as TO give the silver Rcpubli-
cans n share of the offices and an equal in
terest in the campaign, the electors to be
divided among the three parties. The
national Populist committee, it was stated,
will insist upon this and will be joined in
It by the Democratic national committees
What the Matter Is in Idaho.
Some of the silver leaders in Washing
ton are not at all surprised mt the course
of events i'm Idaho. One who has re- emily
from the west says that the re.
suit is largely due to the course Senator
Dubois has pursued in Idaho. Instead of
cutting loose from the Republican party
Dubois and his friends went into the Re.
publican committee and carried il by one
and instead of organizing as
silver party or inviting fusion maintained
that their organization is Republican, The
Populists and Democrats claimed thatany
organization ought to be for
If il claimed the name, and in
sisted that Dubois must leave the Repub-
ican party as Teller and Pettigrew have
lone.