The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-07-27
.GR|GGS FOUND
MONEY SCARCE: /:
Believes, However, That Republi-.
cans Have Bigger Pile Than
Willing to Admit.
PRESIDENT m AND THE FI: TARIFF Al: / !; /
Said That Conference Held At.
Oyster Bay5Wasz Alto
gctller Harmonious.
PREsID ENT AND THE TARIFF:

)yster#B5'ay was TO-
gctllersHa
(From5 our Regular Corresp ondent)
lvAst11NGTCN.3t D. c., July 2O.----Denl-
ocrats nre not taxing much stock In tho
Republican talk Of scarcity OF money for
campaign purposes this year. It is
shrewdly suspected that there is more
money In the treasury Of the Republican
Congressional Campaign Committee than
the manager arc willing to ALLOW the
|@public to know about. ] 7 Is ussert ted that
va large amount of inoncyssWa left over
from tie campaign two years ago, md
5cnat thls WILL .Ee used where j t will do
the most good. Meanwhile. the talk OF
3povertySis heard at the Headquarters Of
the Cons Committees zSo OF both
parties. ~
Judge Griggs, chairman Of the Demo-
cratic committee. returned from New
York to-lay, where he had been for
some timo for the alleged purpose Of
soliciting 5colitrbnt lions for the campaign
fund. .aS Il re y. 4as 5t$} N, {. MS } Wa j8
i8s''1 didn't send tho gold back & by cx-
press, and didn't bring h It with me- 3
said Judge Griggs. A1oney Is scarce this
year. The other side. say they haven't
any money They have more than we
have. Il ntributions,,to campaign funds
arc scarce and srnnl oeoDl e. II are t
taking the interest III politics one would
expect to see manifested on the eve \ Of
a congressional election. ''3%
It Is sbclieved that It will be next to
impossible for either litical party to SCI
cure campaign funds III New York this
year. Tho State { law enacted last win
tor renders It impossible for q corpo-
ration TO contribute i to n political cam
8pnign, either directly or indirectly. AS
Sthe law was approve In February II
lis unreasonable8t to suppose that tho coh-
$tributions were made before that time.
The campaign was too far or.
Trouble for Littlefield.
Tho Democrats at Headquarters profess
to- he delighted with the conditions In
the Sixth Maine District, where the labor
element IS united with q tho Democrats
& In efforts to compass the defeat OF Rep
resentative Charles Edgar Llttlefield. Tho
Demo .rats are running Daniel ]. Nc.
Gilllcuddy former Mayor OF Lewiston,
and a lawyer and stump speaker OF great
f ability. lie Is already deep in his scam-
palgn, and the letters received from him
at Headquarters Indicate that he Is en-
couragcd to believe that the next repre-,
sentative from the Second Maino will be
a Democrat. # NJ " S& s33i, l 55i tea
The friends of Mr.. Llttlefleld are not
greatly encouraged, although they are
putting forth strenuous efforts to elect
: him again. He has opposed everything
tic workingmen have demanded In Cons.
gresB since he has been mombor OF
that body. although few years ago he
was at tho anvil enrning his bread with
ID lAN> ,%o,
turing towns OF Lewiston, Androscoggin
and others are full OF workingmen, and
there nro numerous B large i. stone
quarries in the district employing huns
Sdreds, possibly thousands. OF stone
cutters, all93of them affiliated with the
/ Stone-cutters Union, These are said to be
opposed to Mr.. Iittlefed almost to q
man. We're Mr.. Littlefed an ADLER man.
the proverbialS Estate pride of Maine would
probably save him from defeat, Int lie
is. hardly big enough to arouse this SEN
timent. Eli III liis IN 58 III
Speaker Cannon Will 90 into Mr.. Lit
5tlefleld's district In " few days and Will
make q number OF speeches, CJncloNJ
wants to make speeches IL Massachu-
sets, but Chairman Sherman, OF tho Res
publican Congressional Committee, La un-
!, decided as to whether he Will let tho
speaker talk In sMassn chusotts.t Mr.. Can
non wants to visit several OF The large
cities In the Bay State, Including l3os-
ton, Springfield, Worcester and Lynn,
sIIe was told that the sentiment In those
places IN. favor OF tarift reform was very
strong. which only made him the moro
inslstent that he he sent there, But Mr..
Sherman and President Roosevelt doubt
tho wisdom Of flying In tho face Of this
sentiment, and, 1t Is said, that Senator
Lodge who Is closer to the President
than U.s. any other man, agrees that u
would not DO we'll to have too much
standpat talk In Massachusetts this Tall,
Every Republican member Of Congress
from MASSACHUSETTS,, Is In favor 81 res
Vision Of tariff duties III. M q IN
Question Of Tariff.
1t transplreA that tho conference held
at Oyster Hay this week between the
President and Chairman Sherman, Speak
or Cannon Representatives LoldenslAger5
and MCKINLEY, with Senator Penfoset
coming IN at tho tail-end, wag not chs
tirely harmonious. II " said that some
OF those who, took part In the CONFER \
encaS urged that the campaign DO con-&
Quoted on less rigid lines, In SO far ~
thaAtariY Ia concerned--in other words,
. that, the party do mot stand quite 20
pat, y.
Mr., Mckinley especially, Ii said 70
nave urged that there DO some letting
IN In this direction, He Isl said to have
informed tho other conferees that since
Going home to his district, he has found
tho sentiment In tho Republican. par " 20 i
tnr rnu