Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-09-04
WASHINGTON LETTER.


conducted on whirl-wind lines, at
least in so far as the Republican
side of it is concerned. Probably
never before has such a galaxy of
able speakers been summoned to-
gether as those who have signified
their willingness to speak this fall.
Ever since the adjournment of Con-
gress, Colonel Casson, of Wisconsin
sergeant-at-arms of the House of
Representatives, has been working
indefatigably with this end in view,
and, judging from letter he wrote
recently to friend in the Depart
ment of Agriculture, his work has
not been is vain. The formal cam
paign will be opened by the Secre-
tary of the Treasury, who will ad-
dress an immense audience in
Boston on October s. Secretary
Wilson will speak in Iowa, and
the attorney general has promised
a number of brilliant speeches on
the trust question, although time
and place has not yet been determ-
ined. The three great leaders of
the House, Representatives Payne,
Dalzell and GrosvenOr, will be
heard in Pennsylvania, Ohio and
West Virginia and probably in
several other states. Speaker
Henderson will be provided with a
private car and will elucidate Re-
publican doctrines in almost every
doubtful state, if any state can be
properly called doubtful. Repre-
sentative Littlefield of Maine,
whose reputation as powerful and
persuasive orator is well-known,
will go to California to assist in the
good work. Representatives Lands
and Watson will take the stump
and work with exceptional energy.
Representatives William Alden
Smith, Corliss and Hamilton, all
Of Michigan, will be heard in many
states outside their own. The
great meetings to be held in the
large cities will be cared for very
largely by prominent senators,
Messrs. Hanna, Foraker, Spooner,
Quarles, McComas and others hay
ing promised every assistance.
The Republican committee has been
economical in its expenditures for
literature with view to conserving
its funds for the purpose of enabling
the leading eXponents of Republi-
can policy to explain by word OF
mouth the benefits to be derived by
retaining a strong Republican ma
jority in Congress. Mr.. Murat
Halstead will address New York
audiences on the Philippine ques-
ton and Mr.. Ferdinand Ziegel,
! president Of the Commercial Travel
lers Club, will address Swedish,
Polish and German audiences. In
light of the vigorous campaign
which will be conducted by the Re
| publican leaders the efforts of the
Democrats seem somewhat futile.
Mr.. W. \. Wishard, Solicitor of
Internal Revenue Of the Treasury,
| has just returned from Indiana and
describes the situation in that state
i'll glowing terms. He says that a
| full corps of state officers, with the
exception of governor and lieuten-
ant governor, will be elected and
that he regards the prospects of
every Republican candidate as good
Notwithstanding that the campaign
has not actually opened. Mr..
Wishard bases his sanguine pre-
dictions on the fact that the demo-
Gratis are badly divided and are
fighting among themselves. He
says the free silver Democrats and
the gold Democrats can never
unite, that they are both absolutely
tenacious of their own views and
are suspicious of each other. In
fact, he states that in many in
stances the hatred by the silver
faction OF the gold faction is more
bitter than that felt for the Republi-
cans. Under these circumstances,
there will be much scratching of
ballots and the Republican ticket
will be elected by a majority of
from 10, 600 to $4,000.
The news comes from New York
and is generally credited, that the
great anthracite coal strike will end
on next Tuesday. The fear that
the price of coal would be serious
ly enhanced by the forced idleness
of the mines has been an occasion
of worry to the Republican leaders
as they feared it might have some
effect on the fall elections but that
fear is dissipated by the cncourag-
ing news in regard to the mines.