Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1896 — SWAMPED WITH LETTERS. [ARTICLE]

SWAMPED WITH LETTERS.

Four Thousand a Bay Pour In on the President-Elect. A Canton correspondent says: The Fresident-elect has not attempted as yet to answer any of the great mass of telegrams and letters which have been deluged upon him. except in the special instances of Chairman Hanna, Mr. Bryan, and one or two others. The telegrams have come at the rate of 3,000 a day, and the letters exceed 1,000 daily. Possibly later, when normal conditions are restored, a uniform code of acknowledgment and response will be prepared, somewhat similar to the plan adopted*by Mr. Cleveland. As far as possible, Mr. McKinley will give the communications his personal attention. Some unique messages have reached Mr. McKinley. One telegram was in impassioned poetry. Another, from Wyoming, stated that a woman presidential elector would vote for McKinley for the first time in history.