The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-07-29
IN .PARIIs
Republicans Abandon Hope Of III
Among Opponents
CAMPAIGN LINES ARE DRAWN lr,l
Hnnnn's Abandonment OF y
Held N OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES,
Tanner VIII Incite st,,
Chicago Daily Chronicle.

Chicago July 26.-That the a,u
party VIII make a united stand !.
Imperialism and mllitarism. tina, N
party lines have been estahl.A.,
that the republican organization lin
no direct attempt to reach tba !,
American vote through the bur.,.
agencies employed four years aso i. |
a few of the guide lines on n. N
campaign which are conceded Al 4.
republican headquarters.
! The republican oranizatiou. "a
in the Chronicle of yesterday IN
away with Its foreign bureaus in n.
ent campaign. The reason ass,s
the elimination is stated thus l.
Chairman Henry C. Payne of tho y.
al committee;
"The republican National commas.
1896 duplicated great deal Of WAL
by the State committees. Now Il.
committees are splend!dly oreani,.,
We shall leave TO them as mueh !,
campaign work as we can consis,anns
effective organization In lgae ~
issue was paramount and party liz.
loosely drawn, This year we sh,ll
to the plan of 1892 and turn over +, II
deal OF work which the National n.y.
tee assumed in 1896 Party lines =
tightly drawn this year and lhs,s
necessity OF maintaining the NJ
bureaus"
Party Factions at peae.
Mr. Payne's diagnosis of the preHp, 4
campaign work comedies with tbe Nh
given by ether prominent Republican, N
concede that the various factions, MI
in the democratic party have been ~ &
and that the struggle in next More.
viii be Joined between the two NJ
parties. In other words. the gossin,y NJ
ilonal republican headquarters ip3s Il
either tina, the party management ~. +
little support from the so-cauea q, II
vote or is 50 confident Of that supnos \ h
II has seen fit to ignore ANY specific h, Y
nition OF the various nationalities T.
Chairman Payne naiyely admits ,h,t
foreign bureau organization undo, b
National republican committee in lsg N
effected in great emergency Nh
emergency theoretically. he conceds. N
not now exist, Mr.. Payne expresse, M
confidence In the outcome next fall h
is apparent from various interview
In republican headquarters that the W.
nittee Is "in the air" as 10 which t,E
10 strike first 1t apparently Is the N
ten Of the party managers to try 10 h r.
~ silver issue IN what are concel7a 4
be the hotheds Of white metal sert,.
and to defend imperialism in haE
where the people will not listen to d
arguments. Is
silver Issue Is Quiesccnt
Should any pretentious effort be n
to force the silver issue, however, th
dications are that the attempt will
Secretary Charles A. Walsh Of the lis
cratic National committee announce, IN
terday that 30 per cent OF the appHAr
made to the democratic organlzatos H
campaign literature called for aah.E,'
perialist and antitrust literature
The remaining 10 per cent" as
walsh. calls for Literature bearing
the currency and banking measures al 81
ed by the republican congress Praali
ly. | may say, no calls are made iof ]; rs
literature Independent OF specific MT
relating to banking measures"
What docs this mean" serrssE
Walsh was asked
1T means" he replied, "that mpEi
ism. miIitarism and trusts are the 81
Of the day. The people are deyoilug Z.
interest this yenr to the paramoua
sues. II Mr. Heath is properlg q. #
when he Is made 10 say that appllaii
made at republican headquarters are S
FOUND money literature then the Teis 81
ans fear an exploitation OF imperii
md kindred issues"
Hedges Is Due Tomorrow, n
Henry c. Hedges of Mansfield, 0hl'
Dls been appointed chairman Of the ~ III
srs' committee under the direction d
'epublican National committee, Is eifs
I'd to report here tomorrow, No infa, a.
Ion Is volunteered as 10 the psrsonas
he speakers who will take the stump
he republican ticket, but there an
'ellent reasons for believing that ne e.
ime Lincoln republicans will not las n
he acclaim.
1t is apparent from all that appear
ne surDlce that the republican msl's
lave not settled upon a definite pm
and that Senator Hanna w
Tonsulted before stamping inYita1pn
extended republican leaders whose y.
20 the McKirley administrators
-hove suspicion. II has been hgafsi
emocratlc leaders that few Of tue ~
eaders IN the republican party WI
ent TO go before the country under s.H
Mission to force a revival OF the
question. On the other hand, nAs E
I the republican notabl n who have I
d company with the adinlnistra'1el
one so because OF their rebelli9n ~
he imperla,ist policy. Such men y
churz, Tom Reed, ex-Presdent n.
nd Henry Z. Johnson have deche
doption OF the Puerto Rlcan Dill.
Illinois Congressman Lormer, wne
he head Of the local republican \.
rganizaticn, and upon whom H
ates must depend largely for sapgs
n record as having voted againN
'uerto Rican measure.