The Hawaiian gazette., 1906-10-05

tive John Sharp Williams, and, prob
ably. Charles A. Towne the ex-senator
from Minnesota and now a Tammany
Representative. 1t is expected that Mr..
Bryan will begin speaking under con-
gressional committee auspices within a
few days. Representative James L.
Lloyd, of Missouri, who is in charge
of the Chicago branch headquarters, Is
looking after Mr.. Bryan's Western tim
erary Apparently there is now no
intention of bringing Mr.. Bryan east
to speak again
The usual aggregation of spellbind-
ers for both parties will be in the field
by the second week in October. AS
far as the Democrats are concerned,
their orators will, for the most part,
move entirely independently of the
congressional committee. The Repub-
licans are maintaining speakers bu-
reau at their New York headquarters
and will do a lot of work in sending
speakers to close districts.
Neither party is certain yet of arous-
ing much interest. The state cam
paigns are likely to command more at
tention. The reports from districts to
the Democratic congressional commit
tee here show surprising lack of en-
thusiasm among the candidates and
the voters. 1t is understood that about
the same kind of reports reach the Re
publican headquarters.
The Republican managers are all
sanguine of good majority in the next
House but not as cock-sure as their
statements, indicate. The Democratic
managers do not see how they are go
ing to ELECT majority. Chairman
Griggs hopes that the sullen, uncom-
municative voters, whose convictions
his workers can not fathom, will re-
buke the party in power. He extracts
some comfort from the reduced Re
publican majorities this year in Ore
gon, Vermont and Maine, and also rea-
sons that this campaign is likely to
eventuate as did the last election for
Parliament in England. No one
thought the Liberals had a ghost of
show" said Mr. Griggs recently, but
they swept the United Kingdom
WAITING ON GOMPERS.
The Democratic committee has not
picked much fighting ground yet 1t is
waiting to see what President Com
pers is going to do. Massachusetts and
Rhode Island are the only two New
England states to which the commit
tee is giving any attention. The three
Boston districts and the Lowell dis
trict are being closely watched. II ex-
Representative Thayer should take the
Democratic termination In the Worces-
ter district. the committee would have
some hope OF gaining seat there. 1t
received communication a few days
ago from prominent Rhode Island
Democrat. This encouraged the COM
mittee 10 believe that the Providence
district Will remain Democratic. The
developments I'm the other Rhode Is
land district, represented by Mr.. Cap
ron, are being followed but the infor-
nation here is that Mr.. Capron viii
overcome the organized labor opposi-
tion.
In New York. Pennsylvania and New
Jersey II is not yet clear what districts
II will he worth while for the Demo-
Gratis to contest Many OF the nomina-i
tons nave not yer been made. Ex-
Representative Kerr, of Pennsylvania, |
who was an official of the congressional |
committee. recently wrote here that the |
Democrats should gain five or six dis J
tricts in that state easily. Republicans |
generally are eoncedlns IN private that |
they will lose as many as that both in |
Ohio. Illinois. and Missouri In those |
four states apparently the COMPRESSION
al fight will be heaviest and those four
states viii undoubtedly determine the
size OF the majority one way or the J,