The Savannah morning news., 1902-09-02
WILL TALK TO GET VOTES.
REPUBLICANS ARE ARRANGING TO
TAKE THE STUMP.

| Them Fearful of the Results I'm
| Some of the Close DistrictE-Win
work systematically, Though,
| and Their Most Effective Spell
binders VIII BE Put in the Field.
| President Is Regarded as Doing
Good Work for His Party in New
| England, Though All Dc Not Agree
With Him in His Position on the
Trusts.
Washington, D. c.. Sept. 1.-Infor-
nation received here from the head
quarters of the Republican Congress
ionaI Campaign Committee in New
| York indicates that the campaign man
ayers are preparing to put out on the
stump an array of spellbinders such
as is very unusual except in a Pres
idential campaign.
The Committee has been receiving
reports from all parts of the country,
i indicating that the voters are apathet-
ic, and that, up to this time, the
masses of the party are only taking
a very listless interest in the cam
pa1gn. 1t is the object of the SPELL
binders campaign which is now being
opened to infuse life into the party,
get the voters enthusiastic, if possible,
and keep them so until after their
ballots are deposited on the day of
the elections.
Republicans Are Frightened.
A study of the election figures shows
that, counting the vote cast, respec-
lively, for the Republican and the
Democratic candidates for the Pres
idency as the normal votes of the two
parties, the Republican vote always
falls off much more in off years than
does the Democratic vote. The Re-
publican managers have been looking
into these figures and they are not en-
| tirely satisfied with the conclusions
thrust upon them. They are frighten-
ed. They find that. If the falling off
in their vote, as compared with that
of 1900, is as great as present signs
indicate, it may be there will be dam
ger pr the loss of enough
close districts to give the
| Democrats the control of the House of
| Representatives in the next Congress.
1t is to prevent this that they are
getting the big guns of the party into
| the fall campaign, and every Repub-
lican representative who does not have
to fight for his life in his own district
will be expected to take the stump in
other districts to help out his brethren
| who are in danger of defeat.
| Like ROoseveIt's Talk.
While the speeches which President
| Roosevelt is delivering in New Eng
| land are not in the form of partisan
campaign speeches, and while his
| treatment of the trust question does
| not meet with the approval of all Re-
lpublicans, the managers of the party
| believe that he is doing effective cam
| paign work, especially in his talks
| regarding the policy of the admins
tration in the Philippines. 1t is be-
lieved by the campaign managers that
his talks on this subject will tend to
counteract in part, the dissatisfaction
that may exist among the Republicans
of New England, which has been the
headquarters of the anti-imperialist
movement.
| Secretary of the Treasury Shaw is
the only member of the cabinet who
has thus far been billed to speak. He
has dates assigned to him
beginning in Boston on Oct. 8
and winding up in Des Moines, Ia, ON
| Nov. g. He will not be on the stump
continuously during this time, how
ever.
Where the NJ. CTS Will Speak.
Speaker Henderson, who is regarded
| as one of the strong cards in the Re-
publican list of speakers, will be pro-
| vlded with a private car and will de-
| liver speeches clear across the coun-
| try from the Atlantic coast to the
| Rocky mountains. He will be given
dates in as many as possible of the
| close districts which the Republicans
| of nf ~
close districts where they believe an
extra effort may result in wrestling a
seat from the Democrats
Representatives Payne of New York
| the leader of the House; Dalzen of
| Pennsylvania and Grosvenor of Ohio,
| the big three" of the House of Rep
resentatives, will be star speakers,
| principally in Pennsylvania, Ohio and
| West Virginia. Uncle joe Cannon
| of Illinois and Col. pete" Hepburn
| of Iowa, who are two of the most eff
| fective stump speakers the Republi-
cans have, will be given all they can
| do in close districts. Mr. Hepburn's
own district is generally classed in
| this category, but when he was in
| Washington few days ago he said he
was not uneasy about it. He will,
however, put in more time in his own
| district than in those of his brother
Republicans.
Three BrOtherN For Congress.
| Conditions are not altogether such
| as the Republican managers would
| like to have them in California, and
| Representative Littlefield of Maine will |
| be kept in that state during most of
| the campaign. Representative Lands |
| of Indiana, who, by the way, has two |
| brothers also running for Congress this |
| year. and who is regarded as one of !
| the best rough-and-tumble takers In |
| the party, will speak in his own dis |
| trict and will then put in two weeks |
/ in close districts in the Middle West. |
| Other Republican representatives |
| who are scheduled to speak outside |
of their own districts are Messrs. Will |
liam Alden Smith. Hamilton and Cor |
liss of Michigan, Dayton of West Viz |
ginia, Boutelle of Illinois, Esch and |
Cooper of Wisconsin, Foster of Yer |
mont Tayler of Ohio Hill of Connectf- |
cut and Bartholdt of Missouri The |
latter will speak in German in Wiscon- |
sin and Iowa.
Among the Republican senators for /
whom dates are being made are Han /
ma and Foraker of Ohio; McComas of |
Maryland and Spooner and Quarles of |
Wisconsin. Senator Hanna, who is re-
garded as a strong card, especially in |
view of his position in regard to the |
coal strike, will speak in several of /
the larger cities.