The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-05

| and he summarizes his conclusions In
the following dispatch 10 his paper un-
der the date Of Charleston, ". Va, oGto-
Der /:
| "Evcrywhcre In these rough mountains
| the political orators are riding from VII
lagc to village. and the mounted mall
carriers scatter tons OF campaign lltera-
| turc among the log cabins 1t Is the
| ilerccSt struggle known 10 West Virginia
since the civil War. but an honest sur
vey OF the whole situation reveals tho
| fact that the state is now Republican.
| Facts are unqucstlOnable. The free
silver men are absolutely without money
and stand face to face with a COmbina-
| tiOn Of Republicans and honest money
| Democrats that cannot be broken.
! ] have been permitted 10 see the ac-
| tual returns made 10y the Republican
leaders In all parts Of the state 10 the
! state committee At Wheeling. l have
| also visited the leaders Of the VARIOUS
| parties and factions and have made In
| dependent investigation among voters in
the city and country. West Virginia will
give Mckinley O majority Of at least TO-,
900 votes. This Is my real opinion.
DrmnrrRtIc Machine Exhausted.
Last aight Mr. Ohley, secretary OF the
Democratic state committee. admitted
that the party was now without the
means OF carrying on an effective cam
| paign. The Democratic organization
has exhausted It's resources" he said. IF
we could get $4,000 l would he willing To
| guarantee Bryan majority OF 10000
votes. believe the state Is Democratic
now by 10000. but whether we can hold
Our own without funds In the face of
the campaign which the Republicans are
making is serious question. Our prin-
Cipal trouble In this state is that we are
without money. We have spent all we
had in spreading political documents
and paying the expenses Of our speakers.
Thirty thousand dollars would make
| West Virginia safe. We have used
about $4,000 already.
| TO my mind we are In as good CondI-
! ton rs we were In 1892. The railroads
are using their whole power 10 swing
| the labor vote over TO Mckinley and
| have succeeded in making strong
| showing. btu; the truth Is that the men
are deceiyng their employers. They
will vote for Bryan on election day. no
| matter what they say now"
There you have Il burst Of light.
-Four years ago the Democratic ma
tlOnal committee spent $4,000 in West
| Virginia and only succeeded In carrying
the state by n plurality OF ala. not
withstandlng the fact that Mr.. Cleve-
| land was candidate and the party was
united.
To-day the party is split from top 10 3
| bottom II Is without funds and has
no; only Its shrewdest leaders, but also
| the Democratic administration 60 fight.
II Is useless to attempt 10 disguise the
fact that since 1876. when West Virginia
gave Tilden majority OF li.564. the
stale has been swinging away from the
Democratic column and is now distinctly
Republican.
South No Longer Solid.
| The Solid South is broken az last. This
Is the first of the eleven southern states
to enter the Republican party. In 1850
the Democrats carried West Virginia
| by about II 900. In 1854 by about 1900.
In 1855 by 606. In 1892 ~ +.lIi. But in
| 1894 the Republicans swept the state
md rolled up majority Of 1889. That
was only two years ago. The Democrat
lc organization is In worse condition
now. 1t has lost 5000 or 5000 more OF Its
voters no: to speak OF the large number
Of influential and experienced Democrat
ic managers who are to-day supporting
Palmer and Bucknor, or hnye gone over
to Mckinley outright.
On Their Knee. TO tho Popnlists.
The political spectacle In this rough
and picturesque old country is pathet-
ic. Here Is the Democratic party in
| one 0f Its former stronGhhld' Offering
two out Of the six presidential electors &
to the Popullsts. whose whole vote is in f
the nriGhbOrhood Of 1000. possibly 5000.
The Democrats humhly hcg for fusion
and the PopulSts strut about scorn-
fully. The Populsts will Yield in the
| end but they have fosccd tie proud old
Democracy down on It's knees.
\ Democrat who realizes that his
party has maintained an unhrOkcn front
during che century may well Stop to
an1lyzn the revolutionary programme
which issued from the furious hySiera
hC the Chicago convention AMI ask why &
the party Is now at the mercy OF head y
lCnE. reckless P0pulists. while It's bold s
est and wIscst leaders have turned their
backs upon II.
The Democrats Of West Virginia only
offer the Populists nnc-,hlrd of Nthe
presidential electors but nlso ask them +
to agree not 10 mako serious campaign e
against the Democratic state ticket
And The organization to which the De-
mCcraCH su"s for nid can bc under
stood by the fact that tho populIst
CdndidatH Ter governor Is Colonel Fitz-
gerald, TIE eccentric person. to put 1t
mildly, who forced tho waiter girls In
his New York restaurant to wear bloom Z
| CrS To this pass have The Democrats
OF Wcet Virginia come. Such is tho ma Z
'urc Of BryaGism.
The Democratic party here has not /
only accepted free silver but II Is sur- !
rendering tn PonuiIsm In every way,
Its prestige Is gone Its ancient policies
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