Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-09
Democrats Will Devote Their
Efforts to Eastern States.
REPUBLICANVIGILANCE
WILL NOT BE LELAXED IN WEST
ERN STATES.
They Are Intent on Carrying the
House-Cheering News by Messrs.
McCleary and Curtis.

The democratic national executive COM
mittee. at its meeting in New York yester-
day, decided not to open branch headquar-
ters in the west All the artillery of the
committee is to be brought to bear upon the
campaign in the eastern states.
In some quarters this action is construed
to mean that. the democratic national man
ayers have given up hope Of accomplishing
anything in Indiana or Illinois and will
concentrate their efforts upon New York,
New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island,
Delaware, West Virginia and Maryland.
Only general supervision will be maintain
ed over the western situation. and this Will
be intrusted to an advisory committee,
hereafter to be appointed.
This public withdrawal from the western
campaign will not cause the republicans TO
relax their vigilance in the west, it is said.
The republican managers are reasonably
confident of carrying all the states be-
tween the Pennsylvania line and the Mis-
sissippi river, north of Kentucky, West
Virginia and Maryland, but they have an
other stake beside the electoral vote.
The Congressional Elections.
The republican campaign is to be main
tanned I'm Ohio. Indiana. Illinois, Michigan
and Wisconsin for the effect it will have
on the congressional elections. The
republicans are intent upon carrying the
House. and they will fight for every inch
of ground that affords fighting room in the
close districts of those states
In all of their calculations the rcpubh-
cans are able to estimate victory in the
presidential election without the aid of
New York. No democratic table can make
any kind of a showing without New York.
Politicians regard with significance the cdi
torial announcement in the New York Sun
n a
revolution can enable the democrats To
carry the presidential election. The sun s
estimate of the outcome is based on the
off-year state vote of 1902 in the states
which the democrats assume TO be doubt
full. and shows that under normal political
conditions those states were strongly re-
publican and can reasonably be expected
to go republican this year.
Cheerful Republican News.
Cheerful news for the republicans was
brought from the west today by two we'll
known members of the House SIr. Curtis of
Kansas and Mr.. McCIeary of Minnesota. In
their sections the political skies are Sc
rene and only favoring gales watt over the
prairies and pine lands.
minnesota will surely go republican,
said Mr.. McCleary to Star reporter this
afternoon. There was some friction. to
be sure over the gubernatorial nomination.
but that is being adjusted and will turn out
satisfactorily.
There is no trouble for the republican
ticket in any congressional district, but on
the contrary, We have good prospect of
gaining one district now represented by
democrat. / think, and this belief is shared
by men who are well posted on the condi-
tons there, that the Minneapolis district
will return a republican to the next House.
Mr. McCleary is receiving many congrat
ulations on his great tariff speech. which
was published in the Congressional Rec
ord, some time after Congress adjourned.
,ntl-- tod
during the session. 1t was more than
speech, being a compilation of facts and
arguments sustaining the theory and prac-
tice of the protective tariff system. Some of
the experts have told Mr.. McCleary that
the speech will rank with the notable tariff
argument of Senator John p. Jones of Ne
vada in 1900 which has been declared one
of the greatest tariff speeches on record.
Tbe McCleary speech has been taken as
a campaign standard by both the national
committee and the congressional campaign
committee
MI. Curtis Prediction.
Mr.. Curtis of Kansas is the first man
who has come to Washington from the
west recently who hasn't declared that the
crops this season are the finest ever grown
Mr. Curtis admits that rainy weather has
hurt the crops some in Kansas. he was
derloring the fact that Kansas will pro-
duce "only'' GOOO0,0OO bushels of wheat
this harvest, besides some few score mil
lion bushels of corn
kansas is going republican by 40,OC0 or
10000" said Mr.. Curtis. "and will return
eight republican representatives to the
House There is little contest in the
second district Mr.. Bowersocks, and in
the first my own. We will both win out
by good majorities. We are not afraid of
the west on the presidential or congress
sional tickets and If the east will do as
we'll by the republican tickets the west,
Roosevelt will have smashing majority"
Mr. Curtis is accompanied by Mr. w. X.
Stubbs, republican state chairman of Kan
sas. and the two are going on to New York
to carry the cheerful news to Chairman
CorteIvOu and Chairman Babcock.