Evening star., 1898-10-25
Serious Results Are Apprehended in
the Keystone State.
ADMINISTRATION APPEALED tt
The Condition in North Carolina
Exciting Much Concern.
DEMOCRATIC STATEMENT

| The republican managers in Pennsylvania
have appealed to the administration and to
the national managers for help to overcome
! the factional differences in the party in
| that state. The visit of the President to
Philadelphia is expected by the politicians
tc arouse the enthusiasm of the republi-
cans to such a temperature that it may
serve to at least partially weld the fracture
in the party.
| While no one expects the President to sub
ordinate his high office to the ends or neces-
| stiles of politics by favcring either faction
| the politicians calculate that the effect of
| his presence in Philadelphia is bound to be
| salutary.
Harmony COunseIed.
Chairman Babcock of the republican con-
| gressional committee has written a letter
| to Senator Penrose of PENNSYLVANIA, SEN
| ator Quay's colleague and supporter advo-
| eating harmony of action among republi-
| cans. Tae letter says:
| My Dear Senator: You are no doubt
aware that this committee is making an
| active campaign to elect a republican ma
| jcrfty in the next House. We find no diff
| fculties anywhere far as national issues
are concerned, but our danger arises en-
| tirely from oVel-confidence and local rartv
| differences.
| Il am advised that there are a humber
| of districts in your state in which there
| is great danger to the republican nominees
| and l write you this letter to call your
| attention to the situation. OF all the states
| IN the Union, Pennsylvania ought to stand
| by the republican party and the present
| administration and not permit local fric-
| ton and indifference to rob Us of four or
| five members of Congress. and l wish you
| would endeavor to impress this upon rep
| reSertative republicans in these doubtful
| districts and enGeavor to show them the
| o 1iS-.c hat
publican party and the nation if the free
| silver democrats populists should con-
| troll the next House
1T will entirely block the administra-
| tCnS policy far as the Setllen nj of
| the war measures is concerned; it will 1ar-
| alyze business interests and open again the
| question of the free coinage of silver |
| beiieve that the results on November
| will have u greater bearing on the pros
| perity and general advancement of .he ma
| uon than any ether congressional election
held In the last fifty years. Yours very
| truly,
(SignedD -. W. BABCOCK, Chairman"
A Note of Alarm.
| Senator Penrose is using the letter in his
| speeches, in one of which he said:
1T may be that the community at large
| does not realize the actual peril that con-
fronts US. In the present Congress there
| are 206 republicans 129 democrats, q pop
| uiists and one vacancy. giving a republic
can ma ajority of fifty-fiVe
| 1t is roughly estimated that fifty-nine
congressional districts are likely to be los.
TO the republican party, or are at least in
doubt 1t requires only change of twea-
tE-elght votes to put the next Congress be-
yona the control of the republican party.
Moreover, it must DC remembered that
republcanlSm reached its hIgh-Water mark
| in the election of President Mckinley. We
carried many districts in that election
which cannot properly be ranked in the re-
publican column. Under any circumstances
We would expect to lose those districts at
| this election
The North Carolina Situation,
The situation in North Carolina is caus-
| ing the republican managers great concern,
not only on account of the present cam
pagn, but also for its bearing upon futlre
elections in that state. 1t is claimed that
popular government is at stake in the
present issue in North Carolina
The claim put forward by the republicans
of North Carolina is that North Carolina
is now the only state south of the boz der
states where the negro vote and have
his vote honestly counted. This privilege is
accorded him under laws passed by COM
bination of republicans and populists the
latter being offshoots of the democratic
party who advocated ali honest ballot and
fair count in North Carolina. AS long as
that law is on the statute books, only the
most bare-faced intimidation, it is said,
r ght of suffrage which the Constitution
now guarantees him.
The republicans Of North Carolina claim
that under the cry of resistance to negro
domination the democrats trying to in
tmidate the negroes this fall and prevent
them from going to the polls The object
of the democrats, it is alleged, is to be the
control of the legislature and the ultimate
amending Of the election laws which will
again give them absolute domination in the
state.
The aim of the republican managers will
be to get the negroes to the polls cleo
ton day, Notwithstanding the threats of
the democrats The question is whether
they can urge the timid negroes to the de-
sired sticking point of asserting their
The suggestion has been made that if as
surances of federal support We're given the
negroes might be put into line at the polls,
and this delicate question is now under
consideration at Washington.
The Democratic Statement.
The democratic statement of the situa-
ton in North Carolina has been presented
through the dispatches of The Stars corre-
spondents in that state. 1t is, in brief that
a condition of negro official domination ex-
lists which is intolerable and which has
been forced upon the really dominant race
by the republican party. The allegation
is made that this has ceased to be entirely
a party question and has now become a
racial one, in which the white republicans
are interested as well as the democrats
THE GOOD OFFICES OF FRANCE.