Show ALLEN G i THURMAN His Views on the Condition of the Republican Party SECRETARY ELAINES LETTER To Senator Frye on Protection and Trade Vith the Spanish Colonies and South America Special to TnEllRRALD Examiner Dispatch Nnw YOUK July HA noild special i from Columbus Ohio says exSenator i Allen G Tliurman takes just as much interest in-terest in tho political situation of the country as ever When your correspondent asked him what ha thought of the present condition of the Republican parry he was not a whit loth to talk The Republican leaders are surely niadly desperate he said They are ready to dash to any extreme ex-treme to perpetuate their power Their motto is Break down this solid south and mark you they are going to carry out this principle to the utmost letter but this is a fatal error Their party does not need the solid south nor any part of it I is the solid south that has made the solid north When the solid south Is broken there will be no longer a solid Republican north The race issue has been the party sole one since the war By Haunting the bloody shirt and pointing to the solid south they have kept as many northern states in the Republican line as they can ever hope to gain in the south by such an outrageous and infamous measure as the Lodge bill When asked i this federal election bill is likely to pass the Senate the Ohio leader answered decidedly hI must say that I think it will push through I is a signifi cant fact that the leaders are endeavoring to bring Teller and other western Senators into line by the partys action on the silver bill I have said that the Republicans are madly desperate asd they are Look at the way they are making electoral votes for their candidates and incidentally making mak-ing states in the west Wyoming a state The thing is rediculous Tliey had to let women vote to make a respectable number of voters in the state I journeyed through Wyoming myself not many years ago My recollection of it is as a stretch of sagebrush sage-brush and a pile of rocks |