Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1896 — HANNA GIVES IT UP [ARTICLE]

HANNA GIVES IT UP

Manager Privately Admits McKinley Can’t Win. DOOMED TO DEFEAT. The Palmer and Buckner Ticket Is Simply a Decoy. 'Tin Openly Charset! that the Indianapolis Candidates Will Be Withdrawn Just Before Election Day— Shameful Use of Monejf by Republicans—Bryan’s Earnest Appeal in Congress for Railroad Men—Results of Recent State Elections Favorable to Silver Usurycrats Are Scared. From Democratic national headquarters in Chicago comes the assurance that Mark Hanna and the Republican managers have abandoned all hope of electing McKinley. This assertion is made positively and is based upon evidence of the most indisputable character. In a private conversation held at the Lexington Hotel Chicago, a day or two before going to New York, Mark Hanna made these remarks: "McKinley's chances are exceedingly doubtful. It is no use denying that we have lost the labor vote. Debs and his following have led the labor vote to Bryan, while the farmers are all crazy on free silver. I am afraid McKinley will not win."

These statements were made by Mark Hanna in the presence of two or three gentlemen whose names are known at national Democratic headquarters, one of whom gave out the information, and his reputation for veracity cannot be Impeached. Mr. Hanna and the RepubBcan managers will, of course, deny this; but it is absolutely true. This is not all Mark Hanna's trip to New York was for rhe purpose of stirring up the Eastern bankers and obtaining enough money to carry, if possible, a majority of the House of Representatives. The money power has been informed that if it desires to defeat the passage of the free coinage act it must put its money into the Congressional campaigns. In order to divert attention from their own program the McKinley managers have given up the election of Bryan. This ruse will not work because it is positively known that during Mark Hanna’s visit to New York he made personal appeals to the banking power, telling them that the only thing which will prevent free coinage be a liberal disbursement In doubtful Congressional districts. He has given up all hope of electing McKinley. Bryan’s marvelous tour through the East, the intense enthusiasm and countless crowds which greet him on his return to the West, recent polls of Central and Western States, and the failure of Mark Hanna and his corporation satellites to coerce the labor vote has brought about this feeling of desperation in the breasts of the national Republican managers. Every poll that has so far been taken by the Republican managers in the Central Western States indicates an overwhelming majority for Bryan. They Indicate a defection of from 20 to 25 per cent, of the Republican vote, while the Democratic gold defection is less than 2 per cent. The Republican managers have not been able to deny these facts. Every return made to Democratic headquarters indicates that the free silver movement is on the increase; every poll made of the Central Western States indicates a big majority for Bryan. In the Republican strongholds of the Central Western States the free silver feeling is most strong. The labor vote is shown to be for Bryan, as stated by Mark Hanna, and as already known by the national Democratic mhtiagers. The McKinley managers are making a big noise about the size of the Hanna gold parade in Chicago, but when it is remembered that at least 25,000 of the coerced laboring men who marched in the parade will vote for Bryan the Republicans have no reason for jubilation. Goldbug employers may compel their employes to march in a Republican parade, but, thanks to the Australian ballot, they can’t compel them to vote for the Mark Hanna crowd. The McKinley managers have no hope whatever of controlling this vote at the polls.

The moat conservative Democratic estimates give the free silver forces a I large working majority in the next House of Representatives, while the present free silver majority in the Senate will be Increased. The McKinley managers are simply desperate, and are trying by wholesale lying, wholesale debauchery and wholesale intimidation to stem the tide which is certain to engulf them in November. Another thing that has carried consternation is the declaration of Governor Altgeld that Bryan will sweep’ Illinois by a tremendous majority. It is conceded by every intelligent voter in Illinois who knows Governor Altgeld that he is one of the most conservative men in the State, and never makes predictions unless he is assured of the fact. Governor Altgeld in a signed interview to the New York Journal says: “I have been in all sections of the State, and I find the outlook very much itiore favorable than it was in 1892. We carried the State then by upward of 22,000 majority. “From present indications I will say that Bryan will sweep this State by a tremendous majority. Hanna’s hirelings are making much noise, but the people are with us. (Signed.) “JOHN P. ALTGELD.” . The great daily newspapers, and particularly those of Chicago, with one or two exceptions, are deliberately perverting and suppressing facts, and ut T tering falsehoods regarding the cann paign. There are more than 200 Bryan meetings in Chicago every night. The audiences at these meetings range from 500 to 7,000, yet not one line appears concerning them in the McKinley press. These papers are continually making assertions that the Democratic campaign managers have abandoned Bcy-an; that Bryan is sick; that there is dissension in the Democratic and PopuHatfc ranks; that the Democratic managers are without funds; that they have, acSDoos and millions of money wrested fiass taine owners: that the silver boom ;

is on the wane; that the labor vote is for McKinley: that McKinley will carry Illinois and other Central Western States by incredible majorities. These lies are only a pqrt of the plan of the McKinley managers to delude the public outside of Chicago. Their statements are lies—every one of them. As a matter of fact organized labor is overwhelmingly for Bryan; business men—with the exception of the large merchants and bankers—are also for Bryan: 30,000 Republican voters in Chicago are for Bryan; 30,000 Populists in Chicago are for Bryan: and four-fifths of the railroad employes are for Bryan. The Republican managers may make these men march in McKinley parades; they may make them join McKinley clubs; they may prevent them from attending free silver rallies, but they cannot prevent them from voting. They Are Scared. In connection with a description of the remarkable demonstration on the occasion of Bryan’s visit the Philadel-

phia correspondent of the Boston Globe let some significant facts escape. The correspondent says that old newspaper men and politicians who have seen the demonstrations in Philadelphia for years back agree that in numbers and enthusiasm the Bryan demostration surpassed them all. There were 6,000 in the Academy of Music and 12,000 in the street. As a corollary to this evidence of the popularity of Bryan, he affirms that he has it from the highest Republican authority that it is the Intention of the Republican managers of the State to raise a campaign fund of $1,000,000, and that’the banks that have never before contributed a cent to politics are making large contributions. In fact, he asserts that the banks are assessing themselves fixed amounts based upon the amount of their deposits. Of course tills contribution of the banks is ostensibly “for the protection of the depositors.” but the Republic pointed out clearly the valuable bank privileges involved in the gold standard which unify the banking interest on the side of the Hanna syndicate. Despite the vigorous assertions of the gold press that the Bryan demonstrations in the East mean nothing, the fruit of them in Pennsylvania is a million-dollar slush fund contributed by the privileged interests pooled in the McKinley enterprise.—St. Louis Republic. Gold Is Coming Back. This time last year when the banks and the big New York syndicate were trying to force issues of bonds, the papers were filled every day with stories of millions of gold going abroad. But now when the gold speculators are

frightened by the issue which their greed has forced to the front, we hear of millions of gold returning. Certainly there can be no business inducement for the shipment of gold from Europe to America, and if any is coming, and this is very doubtful, it is an English effort to bolster up McKinley's chances until after the election. If gold is coming back there is a political reason backing Its return. Indeed, England is only lending it to American parties to help fasten the iniquitous gold standard on this country. Republican Funds from EuropeIt has been a favorite myth of American protectionists, repeated year after year, though no free-trader could ever get a trace of reality, that money was collected abroad to aid the free trade movement here, and great lias been the indignation worked up over this assumed interference in our politics. But here is a definite statement from a reliable source which shows that the raising of money for the Republican side of

this campaign is not confined to the syndicates, trusts, corporations and capitalists on this side of the Atlantic. An American of character, writing from abroad, says: “I have seen ,a subscription that has been opened at Monroe & Co.’s, bankers, Paris, for what is called the ‘honest money’ campaign fund, which means that money is being collected in Europe to influence the American elections. I have seen an appeal for this fund put up in the following language: “ ‘The main point is to realize your danger and to subscribe quickly and liberally. Remember that only sixty days remain in which earnest work can be done.’ ” With bond syndicates and railroads and pools and trusts and corporations of all sorts to draw on at home, even the political daughter of the horse leech might be satisfied without going abroad. But McKinley is to be elected if money cap do it.—San Francisco Examiner. Ingersoll on Silver. Macaulay once wrote that if the great moneyed interests found it to their advantage to challenge the law of gravitation, they could obtain the services of very able men to denounce and ridicule that best established of physical laws. This great truth is being exemplified in the present campaign. At Chicago the other night Bob Ingersol denounced Bryan and the Democrats for advocating the free coinage of silver. Here is a quotation from Col. Ingersoll's lecture on “Farming,” as reproduced from the Illinois State Register and published in pamphlet form by G. S. Baldwin, 184 Madison street, Chicago—page 5:

"For my part I do not ask any interference on the part of the Government, except to undo the wrong it has done. I do not ask that money be made out of nothing. I do not ask for the prosperity born of paper. But Ido ask for the remonetization of silver. Silver was demonetized by fraud. It was an imposition upon every solvent man; a fraud upon every honest debtor in the I'nited States. It assassinated labor. It was done in the interest of avarice and greed, and should be undone by honest men. The farmers should vote only for quch men as are able and willing to guard‘find advance the interests of labor.” PALMER AND BUCKNER DECOYS. This Ticket to Be Withdrawn Just Before Election Day. The gold Democratic ticket, the decoy ticket of Palmer and Buckner, is to be withdrawn in favor of McKinley just before election, and it is expected to throw consternation in the silver camp by tlie action. The scheme was made known at Grand Rapids, Mich., by a man in a position to know, and he broached it to a friend who is an unquestioned authority. It came up in a conversation in a hotel over election probabilities. One of them was a gentleman known all over Michigan who has been announced all over the State as being a bolter from the Chicago platform, and a well-known politician from Detroit, who stands very close to Joe Manley of Maine. They were talking of the probabilities' of Michigan going for Bryan and general chances of election, and the Democrat stated his belief that the gold Democrat ticket would be of material benefit to Bryan, for, while it would not poll many votes it would eut just enough figure in close States like Michigan to give Bryan the electoral vote. The Detroiter only laughed, and he confidentially stated that there will be no gold Democratic ticket in the field on election day. “But what do they intend to do with it?” was asked« “Wliy, it was all understood befdre it was put up,” answered the Detroiter, and he mentioned as his authority the man who is reputed to stand closer than any other man in the United States to President Cleveland. “We know very well that the thing is getting close, and that every vote will be needed to knock out this silver craze, and nobody knows this better than the President and his friends.” “But how can the Democrats stomach McKinley’s protection ideas?” was asked. “Oh, that is all understood,” was the answer. “MeKinley is only a figurehead in this business, anyway, and the real protection power in Congress is Tom Reed. There is no possibility of disturbing the tariff for two years, anyway, and Reed has promised that there will be no tariff tinkering under McKinley. Reed did not make that promise for nothing, and in return they are to get the work out of the decoy ticket until election, when it is to be pulled down and all the strength thrown to McKinley.”

Bryan and the Women. The women of the United States are for Bryan. They admire his honesty, his fearlessness, his ability. At all the Bryan meetings the American women have testified their admiration for the brilliant and brave candidate for free silver. They have espoused his cause because they understand that the country needs more money, and that free silver will restore business, set the mills going, and give to all money to buy bread and clothes for themselves and their families. Women are very determined in their opinions, and when they espouse a cause they do so with their whole heart and soul. They believe in Bryan—they respect, they admire him. In the great struggles of the past the women have always played an important part. They have encouraged and counselled the men. A great European statesman once said: “If I have the women with me, the men have got to follow.” Bryan is to be congratulated upon having won the women to his cause, and we call upon them to enter earnestly into the great struggle now in progress. The United States is making a supreme effort to break away from the clutches of England, who would mercilessly force the gold standard upon us and hold us in her power. England is sending over ship-loads of gold to capture the American people. Women of America, we call upon you to prevent your husbands, your lovers, your sons, your friends from casting their votes for the gold standard. It means slavery for Americans, with England for our master. Save the eoun-

try, as you aided in saving it in the revolution. Save it that your children may bless ypu for tearing down the golden idol and restoring freedom to our land. Silver Party’s Estimate. Secretary Difenderfer of the Silver party has given out his estimate of the result of the election. He gives Bryan 282 votes. McKinley 107, and makes the remaining fifty-eight doubtful, with the chances, he says, that a majority of the latter will be for Bryan. The estimate is the first given by Mr. Difenderfer, and has been arrived at, he says, after a careful survey of the field and from Information received at his headquarters. Regarding Ohio, Mr. Difenderfer says that from the beginning of the campaign the letters from that State have indicated that Bryan would carry it. “Since the first of the month,” Mr. Difenderfer says, “our information from that State has indicated more strongly than before the defeat of McKinley.” As to some of the other States, Mr. Difenderfer said: “I believe that Maryland and West Virginia are for Bryan, but have put no State in that column unless I felt certain that it would be carried.” Here is Mr. Difenderfer’s estimate: Bryan— Alabama 11 Idaho 3 Arkansas 8 Illinois 24 California 9 Indiana 15 Colorado 4 Kansas 10 Delaware 3 Kentucky 13 Floridia 4 Louisiana 8 Michigan 14 Mississippi 9 Missouri 17 Montana 3 Nebraska 8 Nevada 3 North Carolina. .11 North Dakota ... 3 Ohio 23 Oregon 4 South Carolina.. 9 South Dakota ... 4 Tennessee 12 Texas 15 Utah 3 Virginia 12 Washington .... 4 Wyoming 3 Georgia 13 Total 252 McKinley— Connecticut 6 New Hampshire.. 4 Massachusetts ..15 Pennsylvania ...32 New York 36 Vermont 4 Rhode Island ... 4 Maine 6 Total 107 Doubtful — lowa 13 Maryland 8 Minnesota 9 New Jersey 10 West Virginia . . 6 Wisconsin 12 Total 58 Looking to Nov, 3. Although there still remain a few weeks of the Presidential campaign, the lines are divided so clearly all over the country, that the indications of the result are already becoming apparent. The Republican managers have apparently recognized that the demand for free silver is firmly fixed with the agricultural element. This is shown by the fact that they have practically abandoned campaigning in the rural districts, and are concentrating all their efforts upon tire big cities, thus hoping to make up what they lose .from the farming vote. But the Republican Campaign has been a failure from the* start. It has been a parade of the moneyed interests and the meh of millions and the nat ural result has been to open the eye; of labor, and to make the workingmai recognize that those who have foi years been oppressing him', ’’ are now united for McKinley. This is so apparent that organized labor everywhere has declared for the champion of free silver, and with it the leaders will secure the votes of the great majority of working men. Another feature which has seriously crippled the Republican candidate is his evasion of the financial issue, and his refusal to face the masses and an-

nounce what policy he will pursue If elected. In strong contrast with the picture of McKinley hiding in his cupboard is the true Americanly of Mr. Bryan, in meeting the masses, and boldly discussing the issues of the great politieal struggle. The American people naturally see that the Canton statesman is playing the skulker, and they have no sympathy for him. Every day reveals that the prominence of Wall street and the conspicuousncss given to the millionaires of the Eastern States is arraying the West against the great money centers. From present indications the free silver sentiment will carry all the States, west of Ohio, into the Democratic column, and even that State, which in 1892 gave but 1,072 plurality for Harrison, may be considered doubtful. The Republican strength is confined almost entirely to the New* England and a portion of the Middle States. Giving them all of New England and admitting the possibility of McKinley carrying the Middle States and Maryland, the Republicans would have but 128 out of 224 electoral votes necessary to win. Where to get tjie remaining necessary 96 is a question which it would bother even Mark Hanna to answer. Giving Mr. Bryan the electoral votes of the entire Southern States and the Pacific coast States interested in silver, together with the Dakotas arid Kansas, in which States the Populists are very strong, he will have 200 electoral votes. For the remaining 24 he has good fighting chances in Illinois with 24, Indiana 15, lowa J 3. Nebraska 8, Ohio 23, Wisconsin 12, and Michigan 14. Of these latter States Illinois and Wisconsin went for Cleveland in 1892, and the cause of Democracy seems to be much stronger now than it was then, because it has young, vigorous and honest management.

McKinley’s campaign is one of desperation. while that of the Democracy is favored with the advocacy of a sentiment which is popular everywhere, except in the sections controlled by the' money power.—Philadelphia Item. Why He Joined the Gold Pnrade. Yes, Sandy, I’ve been marehin’ in th’ gold pnrade to-day; But, even if I lose me job, I’m goin’ to hey me say. The half o' them that carry canes ’nd holler ez they walk Are for free silver when they vote, ’nd gold men when they talk. You see, it’s this way, Sandy, lad; the bosses be for gold, ’Nd them that has to work or starve must do as they be told. The boss he says: “Now, byes, turn oat,” 'nd what’s a mon to do? Parade, o’ course. 1 did that same, ’nd so, my lad, would you. I have a wife ’nd child at home that look to me for bread, ’Nd when I thinks o’ Mary Ann ’nd Nellie’s curly head, I do some things I wouldn’t do, if I could have me way—'Nd that’s the reason I turned out ’nd marched around to-day. I’ve heard the bosses promise now for 10, these many years; I’ve voted as they asked ’nd then repented, lad, in tears; I haven’t seen no good times yet, ’nd so it isn’t strange ’ That me 'nd lots of other chaps are lookin’ for a change. We’ve had gold now these many years—at least some folks have had— But you ’nd me have seldom seen the color of it, lad. We've toiled to make the bosses rich, ’nd starved ourselves to pay The taxes, while the goldbugs grew still richer every day. I talk aloud for gold because it’s policy to keep A little roof above my head, a place in which to sleep. But when it comes to votin’—then I’m goin’ to vote to please Myself, nd not the men I serve by grindin’ on me knees. I’m going’ to vote for Bryan, ’nd the reason why’s because I think some change is needed in the makin’ of our laws. They favor rich mon as they stand, no matter where you go; ’Nd poor men when it comes to law stand mighty little show. I’m marchin’ with the goldbugs, but I’m toilin’ with a crowd . That’ll cast their votes in silence, for they dare not speak aloud; But they’ll find we'te not been sleeping when election day is past, ’Nd they come to count the ballots that the workingmen have cast. ■ —Chicago Dispatch. Amusin’. The funniest incident of this camlaign thus far is the assertion by the Cleveland Leader that H. K. Thurber’s iconomic opinions are not worth anyihing because, he failed to properly manage his own business. If the Leader’s man will join one of those Canton excursions he will find at least one other person in the Thurber class. Those who favor the financial plank of the Republican platform are as fallows: ' The bankers, money lenders, capitalists, monopolists, millionaires, bondholders, speculative promoters and all their parasites.