Show dins br heeds are atry Sani nine tote specials I 1 nov 15 the can for the ia becoming very active and every congre agman who arrives m Wab hington 18 immediately buttonholes buttonholed button holed by one ot the candidates or the gentlemen who are working the canvass for them mr aeed and his friends are claim ing everything lodge of massachusetts goes BO far as to say that they will have eighty five votes on the first ballot which is five legs than a majority of the caucus and that he will have a to nominate him on the second or third ballot mr lodge in bis estimate counts upon the full delegations 0 new kNew england and pennsylvania the pacific slope and the new elates with a few scattering votes from other section the other candidates concede mr reed fifty or sisty votes only there sa no doubt that new york and pennsylvania will decide the jasue the one has twenty two and the other twenty one voles tt kiich of themselves will constitute nearly one fourth of alie entire caucus the pennsylvania crople have not declared for any one but hive on the understanding that they will vote as a unit aliey made a pledge to each other before the of the lart house not to commit themselves to any candidate and not to finally decide who to support until the time should come whether the unit rule will hold or not is a question sir heed has some very etring frienda in that stata while mckimley McK icley has active Bup but it is that the chairmanship of the committee on ways and means must be conceded to pennsylvania before aliey will agree to support any |