The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-10-23
ashington Letter.

WASHINGTON LetttTs
Washington, October 10th, 1896 =
Senator Faulkner calls Senator Quay's
absurd claim of go electoral votes for
Mckinley burlesque, and says that
Ouays knows the battle Is lost and be-
lug compelled to put out some KIND OF
figures he made them SO large that no
body would believe them. a slgnIhcaut
result of the publication of Quay's figures
was the.- immediate effect upon the bet
ting fraternity, the members of which
NAV he counted upOn To recognize
bluff when they see 1t The most reck-
H. s of the gamblers were offering odds OF
8 TO l on Mckinley until Quay claim
was made public. They at once reduced
them to to l and in some cases the
most they will now offer is to D, and
there are reasons for chewing that the
money to offer these odds comes from
Mark Hanna's corruption fund.
Senator German returned from New
York this week As usual he refused
to be interviewed, but he reiterated his
statement that Bryan would carry Mary
land.
The returns from polls made In near
ly all the congressional districts are suf-
ficieutly complete to indicate how the
next house will stand, a d an estimate,
which is regarded by the Democratic
congressional committee as very con
seryative, shows that 100 silver represen-
tatives will be elected, including Demo-
Gratis, populists and silver Republicans.
That will give the silver men control of
the house by comfortable working ma
iority and ensures the early enactment
| of law providing for the free coinage
| of lvAr, if the estimate be correct and
MIR Bryan be elected, and Democrats
have no doubt of either, as Mr. Bryan
| has said that if elected he would call an
| immediate extra session of congress for
the express purpose of providing for the
| free coinage of silver, and the senate Is
| solid for silver and will remain so.
A Washington hote. proprietor has
| stirred up regular hornets nest by IN
viting 1.-The other hotel proprIetors to
meet at his place "fOr the purpose OF
| contributing to the Mckinley and Ho-
bart finance committee" Many hotel
men have publicly condemned this
scheme and announced that they would
neither attend the meeting nor contri-
butte, and the following resolution, unan-
imously adopted shows what Democrats
generally think of it: Resolved, That
| the Columbia Democratic Club denoun-
ces the action of I. E. Roessle, proprie-
tor of the Arlington Hotel, Washington,
ID c. (who in the past has been the ben
eficiary of Democratic patronage
through national committees and repre-
sentative Democrats of the various
states,) in his personal efforts to tax the
hotel men of this city in behalf of Nc
| Kinley and Hobart finance committee,
and we earnestly call upon the, hotel iJfU GfF2~
.GtG.s tStGas s. g. WSSnlGgto without regard
| to their political affiliations, who dc
not wish to confine their trade to one po-
! litical party, to repudiate and repel this
| contemplate effort to array them In
such a partisan movement Resolved,
| That when hotel men arrogate to them
selves the right to dictate to the people
what their political course should be,
we reserve-and shall exercise-the
right to notify the travelling public OF
our political faith as to whom they
should patronize when they visit Wash
| ington."
Secretary Morton has in published
interview allowed it to bo seer that the
administration thinks that'Ithe Republi
can party is making a great mistake IL
Dragging OF strength and not doing more
work" and is very much afraid that
Bryan is going to be elected.
If the Washington Post, gold organ
though it be, keeps on increasing the
Bryan vote in its estimates il will be con
ceding his election before the votes are
cast In its latest table it gives Bryan
305 electoral votes and Mckinley 165
leaving II in doubt. If Mr.. Bryan only
has to get l9 electoral votes out of thes
| n his election can be put down as
reasonable certainty, as the states from
which those n votes are to come ar
Illinois, Maryland, Delaware, West Vir
ginia, Minnesota, Michigan and Ken
lucky.
As a rule neither Democrats nor Re
publicons think Archbishop Ireland
letter will benefit Mckinley. A Kansa
man, now in Washington says: at
quite possible and very probable tina
the letter of Archbishop Ireland wi
prove boomerang, and cause more los
than gain to Mckinley. The temper @
good many of the Western A. P A
members is such that they are very ap
| W icSCHl on ~ III y VI dOHISS iIOtu
Catholic source, and thus the letter q
his reverence may be a sort of Burchar
affair for which Gov. Mckinley will ow
him no thanks.
No matter how much money Hanna
committee gets it wants more, and it ha
actually had the impudence to open a
office in Washington, and send circu
lar letter to all government officials
asking them to call to see the agent i
charge of that office, and suggesting tha
if they do not care to call the agent wi
r call on them at their residences Ye
t this is an administration elected b
Democrats. NJ.
Fatal Fight,