Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-10-03
Mr.. HANNA'S APPEAL
No Doubt Of Result if All Republi-
cans Will Vote.
ANXIETY REGARDING TIE NEXT HOUSE
Many Districts Carried by a Small
Margin.
ISSUES OF THE CAMPAIGN

The effect of Senator Hanna's presence
in Washington and the work he did in
stimulating the republican congressional
committee for renewed efforts is already
being felt in the campaign Mr.. Hanna
spent considerable time at the committee
headquarters, and said he did not care
who knew that there was some anxiety felt
in regard to the next House. He wanted
the people to understand that it was not
going to be a walkover and what the re-
publican party should do, and what the
congressional committee. as we'll as him
self, were trying to do, was to get out the
republican vote this fall. There will be
no doubt of the result if this can be done.
he says, and from now on every effort will
be made to arouse the republicans.
You will See said Mr.. Hanna to a Star
reporter Saturday before he left for New
York, the exact situation of the campaign
at present when I recall to you that in
1895 there We're sixty congressional dis
tricts in which members were elected by
a majority of less than thousand votes.
This was true of democrats as we'll as re-
publfcans. The majority of these districts
were carried by less than 800 plurality, and
you can see at once how important 1t is to
arouse interest and activity in these dis
trlctS. The republicans must not let the
utiioSidtS ScI dIiGdu Ol lHell III WOTh. L
have every expectation of the republican
majority in the House, and it is to the in
terest not only of the republicans, but of
the country at large that the next House
should be in accord with the President. SO
as to carry out his policy and sustain him
IN the great matters of state and govern
ment which are to come before the next
House. History shows that usually the
Congress elected during the middle of an
administration has a majority adverse to
the dominant party. There are many rea-
sons for this action by the people, the chief
among them being the apathy among the
yo:erS, and the result of patronage. The
offices have been distributed and the men
who worked in the presidential campaign
with the hope of reward afterward have
either secured places have been diSap-
pointed, and they lose interest in the con-
gressional election remain away from
the polls because of their disappointment.
We 90 not want history repeated this year,
and. as L have said, tits to the interest of the
whole country to have the House of Rep
resentatives in accord with the President.
Republican Pledges Fulfilled.
THE republican party has carried out
its pledges made at st. Louis as far as a
Senate opposed to US has enabled US to.
The prediction that prosperity would follow
the election of Mckinley has been verified
and no one dare dispute this. The country
is now prosperous because confidence has
been restored. and the question at the polls
tnlS ran Is, snail We maintain that conf
dence and keep prosperity or shall we I'M
settle conditions again. The war has been
successfully Waged and victories have
been great and glorious. There are tre-
merdous questions yet to be solved, and the
Presidents policy in regard to these mat
ters is to be carried out. Shall we have a
Congress willing to aid him in the wonder
fully successful policy he has already pur-
sued, or will the people of the United States
by their votes declare our war a failure
and refuse SlStIin the PrpSi6pDt2
There is another question also in the
congressional elections and that is the
financial one. By The republican victory in
1896 the country declared that silver was
no longer issue. BIT the democratic
party is still declaring 1t l. issue, and IN
all the state conventions he d SO far, eXcept
Connecticut, New Jersey and New York
the Chicago platform has been reaffirmed
Senator Jones, chairman of the democratic
national committee, in his speech in ST.
Louis in August last stated that silver as
an issue was not dead and would not be
until the democratic party declared it so
He stated that the democratic fight would
be made at this election on this issue and
would be continued as long as the demo-
cratic party saw fit. With the official head
the issue for this campaign, it remains for
the people to again show by their votes
whether silver is really an issue in national
affairs not
Mr. Hanna is going to Ohio this week
but he will also keep an eye on the con-
gressional campaign, and will see that the
republican party is kept alive to the issues
and that every effort will be made to bring
out big vote.