Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1900 — WASHINGTON LETTER [ARTICLE]

WASHINGTON LETTER

*Mr. McKinley’s return to Washington this week is to be followed by increased activity of the administration in the campaign. He and bis party managers are desperate, and every scheme that'will get out voters is likely to be in full swing these last weeks of the campaign. Voters in states which the republican managers consider doubtful, who are employed in the government departments in Washington, have all been given to understand very plainly that they must go home and yote or take the consequences. What states the republican managers consider close or doubtful may be judged from the fact that this notice has been given voters from New York, New Jersey., Connecticut, West Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana. Illinois, and Michigan. That they haw Do expectation of carrying Kansas or Nebntskn -or any of inter-mountain states of the far West, may be judged from 'their haviqgleft .the voters from those-states free to use their own discretion about’ going home to vote. ‘ ‘ , i Mr, McKinley is counted upon by the party/bosses to do something | official to try to raise a hurrah beI tween’ this .and election, Just ; What this’will be- has Dot leaked lout, rilthodfgh the expectation has. ; It will be "well for the democrats to ! be on the lookout, for any sort of move cm the part of the adminis- “ tration that may be calculated to catch and enthuse those who do hot look below the surface of things aud to .be. prepared to cuunj teraot the effect of any,such move, jAs a statesman, history may hot give Mr. McKinley a very high | rank, but as a slick politician, up, Ito all the tricksi of the trade and ! having the ability to originate i some of his own, Mr. McKinley is ' a top liner,' and will bear close WRtching. , Republicans are now privately admitting that Bryan nnd Steven-! son will carry Illinois, although they are publicity claiming that: they will get a majority in the rest of the state to wipe out the j Bryan majority they concede Chi- 1 : cago wilLgive. To concede Chi- j cago is to concede the state, as the ! : state, as the returns in 'd2, when ! the state Waß carried by Cleveland, •and in ’96, when it was carried by i | McKinley, show that as goes Clip I fcagoso goes the state. | The Cninese trouble is now put ! forward as an excuse for the failure of the administration to. do ! something towards compelling the Sultan of Turkey to pay those long-standing American Missioni ary claims. It will not be surprising if a big bluff is made , just before the election of using j force to compel the Sultan to [settle up. Hints have been dropi ped of suoh an intention on the. i part of Mr. McKinley for the purj pose of injecting, a little spread ! eagieisin into the closing days of , the campaign, to try to head off thq stampede towards Bryan in a I number of states, j Representative Livingston,. of S Ga., who has been campaigning !in New Jersey, where he is well known and popular, said of his observations in that state: "No;body has ever accused me of being a rainbow cha,ser. Usually I lam charged by my friends with ; being too conservative in matters I like this- After years of exper- | ience I think J am prepared to -peak | with some feeling of confidence regarding the drift of public sentiment, I have campaigned in New Jersey before this year, and 1 know J about the state. Here-j tofore, I have felt that wo stood j no show in New Jersey, and in previous campaigns.. I have very frankly told the party managers A's tfe lose that state. Results. then allowed that my judgement was correct, and 1 coniiddntially believe that the result next /month will show tjint my judgement was right when I decl«ro;aß I do now, that Bryan will i get the ten electoral votes of new Jersey, u The state is naturally democratic anyhow, which gives a big advantage to start with., Four years ago .the people there were stampeded away from us by the tnttefy against -silver-. That question is not an issue in New Jersey at present. Indeed, • you!v»r.y>seldom Jhear it niefkmed. The aJerseyites l net thinking nfid talking about nothing but the IrOBts; muLgimperialism. ‘ Theffe issues hatfe aroused the Clil (lemo.oxalic spirit in N.ewj Jersey.? and I verily believe the .deimicyacjl /s [ Stronger''there today than ever! beform .I'bavo’bedii speaking, to ( the biggest crowds in tljat. ataty • <thatdHlt-# <het*n assembled tin many] r d tlwUfthet^ -Hr. ißfyaii*gt>es bherw, 'he > w(il be ' gW(4ed by -the largest-’niid'-irtOsY eVJthtwani*tic‘ e<ootn*u»ring pf the! eyer i<ihy ; l Ofsn « <iir -tlmt « jinrt [uf,,i xtho, ertufltry. •’Jft-New- vbrk,, judgement, were as safe for Bryan -oe-N«w Jersey is> we could all- be-

gin to prepare for the good time coming when Bryan is in the White House and Adlni Stevenson is again the presiding officer of the Senate! The administration seems disposed to make'the defeat of Senator Pettigrew the pararaount'issue in South Dakota. Postmaster General Smith has gone to join Boss Hanna, Senator Frye, and other republican big guns in stumping that state and in trying to down Pettigrew, and incideutly. of course, to capture the electoral votes of the state for McKinley. Reports from the state say that the campaign is red hot and that the democrats are confident of winning. .