The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-10-23
DEMOCRATIC DISTRICTS TO GO
REPUBLICAN
Congressional Committee Invading
Every Democratic District, Many
Of Which VIII he Recovered by
the Republican Party.
Philadelphia, Oct. %


Philadelphia, Oct. %.
AT least four and possibly FIVE
Democratic districts will be recover
ed by the Republican party next
month, and not a single district at
present represented by a Republican
viii send a Democrat to Congress-"
This was the prediction made to-
day by Congressman j. Hampton
Moore, Chairman of the National Re-
publican Congressional Committee of
Pennsylvania, after he had gone over
carefully the latest reports from
county chairmen and candidates
throughout the State.
The Congressional Committee is
preparing to invade every Demo-
cratic district. 1t expects to carry
the Fifth District now represented by
Michael Donohoe, a free trade Dem
ocrat; and the Eighth District repre-
sented by Robert E. Diffenderfer.
also a supporter of the recent tariff
for revenue only measure forced
though the last session of Congress
and vetoed by President Taft.
A special committee of business
men and trades people is to be ap-
pointed in the Twenty-sixth District
where A. Mitchell Palmer, leader of
the reorganized Democracy in Penn
sylvania, has long held sway.
At the outset of the campaign it
was taken for granted that Mr.. Pal
mer had things all his own way, but
rapid and complete change in pub
lie sentiment on the tariff question,
and the aggressive fight being made
by Mr.. Palmer's opponent, F. A.
Marsh, Jr., who has both the Repub-
lican and the Washington party nom
nations, have completely changed
the complexion of affairs in that dis
trict.
The subcommittee, under the di-
rection of the Congressional Commit
tee, will make an active campaign
for the next three weeks among the
wage earners of the Twenty-sixth
District. Already Palmer's record on
the tariff for revenue only bills, and
especially his introduction of the
steel bill which would have affected
the greatest industry in his district,
employing thousands of men and
supporting directly and indirectly
tens of thousands of people, has
made serious inroads upon his pop
ularity.
1t is the intention of the commit
tee that the voters of the district
shall know where Mr.. Palmer stands
on the tariff question, and his en-
phatic reputation of Sam Randall,
the famous Democratic protectionist
from this State, will be put into the
hands of every voter in Northamp-
ton, Carbon, Pike and Monroe coun-
ties.
All the information received by
Chairman Moore, tends to show that
many of the old-time Democrats, in
the Twenty-sixth District, will break
away from Palmer, and that he will
have his hands full from now on un-
til election day looking after his own
fences.
In Congressman William B. Will
sons district, the Fifteenth, compris-
ing Lycoming, Clinton, Potter and
Tioga counties, and also in Congress
man Curtis II. Gregg's district, the
Twenty-second (Butler county, the
chances of substituting Republican
Congressman for Democrats, are
growing brighter every day, accord
ing to Mr.. Moore. Here, too, COM
mittees will be appointed to wage
war by conducting a campaign of
education on the tariff.
The Congressional Committee is
sending out large packages of sup
plies to county chairmen, and addi-
tional consignments of literature and
buttons are expected later.
The few prominent speakers at the
disposal of the committee have a
very strenuous pogram before them
for the next three weeks. Ex-Gov-
ernor Augustus E. Wilson, of Ken
lucky, is in Du Bois, to-day, will be
in Clearfield tomorrow, in Pittsburg
on Thursday and in Erie on Friday. |
In most OF these places he will be
expected to make at least two, and |
in some cases three speeches. The |
Govrnor is very fluent talker and |.
his reputation as the liberator of !
Caleb Powers, and the suppressor of |
the Kentucky night riders, makes |
him an object of great interest wher- !
ever he goes. He is not in any sense
of the word a factionalist, but he is !
firm in his adherence to the straight |
Republican ticket from top to bot |
tom.
Secretary Nagel, of the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor, will |
speak under the auspices of the COM
mittee, at Norristown, on the 23rd, |
and at Lancaster where there is to .
be big meeting in the interests of |
CONGRESSMAN William II GrieSt