Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-08-22
DOINGS.
Political Gossip at Washington
and Chicago.
BABO0CK Has A NEWS BUDGET,

Some of Which Was Gathered Awhecl by
tinue to Watch the Fusion Feature
Trouble Out in Idaho Explained-Re-
port at Chicago That Major Mckinley
Will DO Some StumpinG-DemOcratic
Observation-Disclosures On Chairman Jones.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 22.-Chairman Bah
cock, of the Republican congressional cam
paign committee, has returned from New
York. He had a conference with Chair
man Hanna, Of the national committee,
and feels very we'll satisfied with the result
of the campaign thus far. He says that
Hanna reports everything in good shape
and the work of the campaign progressing
very satisfactorily. Babcock says that the
congressional campaign committee Is in
daily receipt of Information tending to
show the successful work Of the committee
In sending out literature. He says that
the reports show that the people are very
anxious to read the documents. "Our OBJ
ject," said he, sis not so much to make
prosclytes in sending out this literature,
but to arm our own people, SO that they
may be informed and ready in arguments"
Young Politician on q Wheel.
Chairman Babcock has had IA call from
friend who had wheeled all the way
Washington. The young man is the son
of n 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 o; 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 In Texas to take seven Of the fifteen
electors will be accepted. In West Vir-
ginia the committees have about agreed
upon n division. giving the Democrats
four and the Populists two electors. 1t Is
also stated that the chances of fusion in
North Carolina have improved. II was
stated Mt POpulist headquarters that they
believed the Idaho fusion would be ar
ranged so as to give the silver Republic
cans 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 committee
What the Matter L. i'm Idaho.
Some of the silver leaders in Washing
ton are not at ali surprised at the course
OF events in Idaho. One who has recently
returned 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 it by ono
majority, and instead of organizing as u
silver party or inviting fusion, maintained
that their organization is. Republican. Tho
Populists and Democrats claimed that any
Republican organization ought to be for
Mckinley if it claimed the name, and in
sisted that DUBOIS must leave the Repub-
lican party as Teller and Pettigrew have
done.