Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-23
COMING CAM PA|GN
The Republican Congressional
Committees Plans.
CHAIRMAN BABC0CK
SAYS THE PARTY HAS KEPT ALL
ITS PLEDGES.
Headquarters Will Be in New York
but Distribution of Documents
Made From Here.

The headquarters of the republican con-
gressional campaign committee will be open
ed in New York about the middle of July.
Chairman Babcock and Secretary Over
street will take up their quarters there and
the fall campaign for the election of the
Fifty eighth Congress will be ON.
There is not a single question to be dis
cusSed on which the republican party can
be put on the side of the defensive" de-
ciared Mr.. Babcock to a Star reporter to-
day in discussing the political outlook of his
party. The democrats seemed at first to
want to take up the Philippine question,
but 1 imagine they have already scorched
their fingers, and future attacks on the
army, particularly before the people, will
doubtless not be indulged in.
Kept All It's Pledges.
''The republican party has kept all of it's
pledges. and looking at the campaign as a
whole there Is no reason for doubt or dis
couragement. There are, of course, several
state factional fights which will require
careful attention. 1t will be the aim of the
committee now, as 1t has been in the past,
to separate the congressional and state
campaigns in such states. The nomination
of Judge Pennypacker in Pennsylvania has
undoubtedly obviated what looked like a
split in republican forces in that state In
my own state Of Wisconsin there are indica-
tions that a red-hot state fight is on among
the republicans. We have succeeded here
tofore In harmonizing the two factions when
1t came to support of the congressional
ticket, and l feel quite confident that this
can be done again. There are two or three
other states in which this condition pre-
walls at the present time, and which is be-
n nr u, of,,lI
any question Of national politics
From this it will be seen that the fall
campaign Is essentially one of local condi-
lions In this connection the coal strike
may be mentioned. A strike is always a
cause of apprehension In politics There is
danger of political Developments, and 1t can
never be predicted in advance what these
developments may be.
Reciprocity Cannot Be Manipulated,
Cuban reciprocity cannot be manipulat-
ed as campaign argument against the re-
publican party in the Campaign. Cuban
reciprocity IS an administration proposition.
The House passed the Cuban bill At the
same time the members of that body from
beet sugar sections of the country made a
record on which they can go before their
constituents without fear or trembling
While Cuban reciprocity has so far failed
in the Senate that failure cannot be charged
TO derelictlon of duty on the part of the
House. There is nothing at all to indicate
that Cuban reciprocity will cause the loss
to the republicans Of a single seat in the
House"
The reapportionment of the country under
the twelfth census, under which the next
Congress will be elected, has been a subject
OF most careful calculation by the congress
slonal committee Mr.. Babcock has esti-
mated that the democrats gained an adyan-
tage of eight members through the passage
OF the apportfonment act. However the re-
publicans have doubly made this up IN the
redistricting of states.
The Meeting Saturday.
The first meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the campaign committee was held
Saturday afternoon In the District commit
tee room of the House. New York was
then finally decided upon as the headauar-
ters of the committee. The distribution of
literature, however, will be made from this
city, and a floor of the Union building has
been rented for this purpose. Mr. Dave
Moore will have charge of the republican
reading matter, which is now being, gathered
together.
From Mr.. Babceck's view point, the Fifty
eighth Congress will be controlled by the re-
publicans, and this without any great or ex