The Saint Paul globe., 1900-04-29
capital Chat.
Washington Gossip. Political and
Otherwise. for tine Readers
Of the Globe.

WASHINGTON, April 2S.-The leaders
of the Republican. Democratic and Popu-
list parties are going to devote a great
deal Of attention in this campaign to the
states south of the Mason and D -Xion line
The Republicans at least desire to hold
their own in this great section and have
some hope that they may be able to make
gains in some of the congressional dis
tricts. They probably understand, as well
as do most people at large, tSat it will be
utterly impossible for them to carry any
state in the South, unless IT be Kentucky
Tennessee or Maryland. That they will
carry all three is said to be impossible
by the Democrats and conceded by the
Republican leaders.
[ have heretofore pointed out that it
will be a question as to how Maryland
will go for the presidency, but 1t is
thought that the state will not swing into
the Republican column in November.
kentucky, sometimes regarded as doubt
full, will, Democratic leaders from thaS
state. say, give Col Bryan and his associ-
ate on the Democratic ticket its vote thh5
fall. Internal dissension among the Re
publicans Of Tennessee makes 1t practi-
cally impossible for the Republicans to
carry that state Figuring from the
standpoint of the claims set up by the
leaders Of all three parties, the Mckinley
ticket this year, If elected, must secure
its strength from the Eastern, Western
and Northern states.
A great fight, however, will be made in
the South for supremacy, and If the Re
pubhcans carry one Of the states of this
section they will probably regard this as
a victory for them. Whether or not the
Republicans can hold their own in the
various congressional districts from this
section now represented by Republicans
of course cannot be decided until after the
polls close on election day. The Repub
lican congressional campaign committee,
as l stated the other day, hope at least to
hold the districts they now have in the
South. but the Democratic congressional
leaders emphatically declare that they
will not be able to do so.
i The South, in this national presidential
and congressional campaign, will proba-
bly, be solid for the Democrats, with the
assistance Of the Populists. In other
words, the combination of Democrats and
third party leaders will, it is believed, be
strong enough to prevent the Republic
ans from making any gains and the lead
ers of this party will undoubtedly be per-
fectly satisfied If they are able to hold
what they have at present in this sec
ton.
The national shipping subsidy bill will
not pass the senate before 1t adjourns, on
or about June Il There was a fair
chance for the measure to &C through the
senate before Senator Hanna devised
plan to bring about the defeat of Matthew
Stanley Quay. Had it not been for the
scheming senator it is pretty generally
known that Gov. Stones appointment of
Mr.. Quay. to fill the vacancy from Penn
sylvania. would have been ratified.
The shipping bill, it is said. is the only
one that Senator Hanna was anxious to
have passed before the adjournment of
the first session of this congress. The
Quay men In the United States senate.
having become disgruntled over Senator
Hanna's course in connection with the
Quay case. have without doubt made up
their minds to defeat the shipping bill II
1t comes up, or prevent its consideration
before the summer recess Is taken. BY
doing this they believe they viii be able
to get even with Mr.. Hanna for his un-
expected opposition to the seating of Mr..
Quay as a senator from Pennsylvania.
The country at large may not know the
importance of this split in the Repub-s
lican side of the senate, but congressional
prophets declare that the measure, as it
is now before the senate, would be an
excellent one to have become a law at an