Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-07-10
REPUBLICANS PLAN
CAMPAIGN FOR 1884
Party Leaders Will Meet in
Chicago Tomorrow to
Shape Policies.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Preparations for a Nationwide drive
to regain in 1884 some OF the lost Re-
publican power in Congress are being
made quietly here by leaders OF the
Republican party. Part OF their plans
will take shape this week In Chicago
where another of a series OF confer
ences of Republican sectional leaders
Is to be held tomorrow.
The Chicago conference, to be held
under the leadership Of Everett San
ders, chc man of the Republican Ma
tional Committee, will find party
spokesman from Illinois, Indiana. Ohio
Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota. Wis
consin and Iowa reporting on the po-
litical situation in their States and the
prospects for success a year hence.
Regional meetings have been held
previously in Washington, New York
and Boston, marking the only outward
show of Republican activity in the "po-
litical dog days" Behind the scenes
however, there have been many other
quiet discussions of party plans.
Issues Being Drawn.
Issues for the 1884 Congressional
campaign and the 1886 Presidential
election now are being drawn, based
in large part upon the Roosevelt
emergency legislation. Predictions have
come from some of the leaders that
the Republicans will make sizeable
gains in seats in the House OF Repre-.
SentativeS.
At present the Republican Nationa
Committee is maintaining only skele-
Sanders is spending most Of his tins
in his Office, and is keeping in close
contact with State leaders.
A few blocks away from the Nationa
Committee headquarters are located
the offices of the Republican Fedora
associates, of which Ogden L. Mills
Secretary of the Treasury under Presi'
dent Hoover, a chief campaign speaker
of 1882, is chairman.
Associates Compiling Record.
Unostentatiously the associates have
been compiling the record of the Roose-
welt administration and shaping the
issues for the coming campaigns. Twice:
a month the Executive Committee OF
this group, composed of Mills, Walter
F. Brown, Postmaster General in the
last administration; Walter E. Hope
William R. Castle. jr., and John Rich
ardson, meets either here or in New
York. Arch Coleman. general secretary
and w. Irving Glover, director OF
organization, also have taken part IN
these meetings.
The associates say their present pur-
pose is to keep the party alive and 70
present a national viewpoint for local
leaders. They intend to take part IN
the 1884 congressional race.
Representative Smell Of New York
the minority leader Of the House. al
ready has stepped to the firing line for
the Republicans. He has had an ex-
change with Postmaster General Farley.
chairman of the Democratic Natlonal
Committee, as well as House and Senate
Democratic leaders, and friends pre-
dicted there would be others before the
Summer ends.
Expect Activity.
Observers here look for considerable
Republican activity to come into the
open next January when Congress
meets, with the party then offering more
opposition to Democratic proposals.
Little is being said, meanwhile. about
the Republican candidate for Presloen!
in 1896. When the subject is mentioned
the names of Herbert Hoover, Mills
Senator Reed of Pennsylvania, Repre-.
sentative Wadsworth of New York and
Smell are brought into the discussion
But the discussions thus far have little
more than touched the surface.