Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-10-19
WASHINGTON LETTER.
Washsnoton. Oct. 18TH. 1896.
Eo1AI ooRnssrouDnNon OF ZEE MoNIroa.

Washington, Oct. 18TH, 1895;
Mckinley and Hobart will to, dead
certainty, carry Iowa, Illinois, Indi-
ana and Ohio This is no ante cleo
ton buncombe, but it is a calm seri-
GUS statement of facts, based upon
full reports from every Congressional
district in the states named which are
now in the hands of chairman Bah
cock, of the Republican Congression-
al committee. Just compare this
statement with the claims put for
ward for Bryan, the most modest of
which include Indiana and Illinois,
and you will get fair idea of how
hopeless the popocratic campaign re-
ally is :. The latest of these claims
was made by chairman Butler, of the
populist. National committee, and
presents a, total of 232 electoral votes.
Now deduct the electoral votes of In
diana-Butler very CONSIDERABLY con-
cedes. that Illinois, Michigan, Iowa
and Ohio are in doubt-and Bryan is
a defeated man, even though he
should carry all the other states
claimed by Butler, among which are
the two Dakotas, Washington, Wy
oming, Kentucky, Kansas, Nebraska,
Oregon, California, Maryland and w.
Virginia, II states, of which more
than half will to dead certainty be
carried for Mckinley. 1872 will come
much nearer to the number of cleo
toral votes Bryan will get than 232.
The Republican Congressional cam
paign is in just as good condition as
that of Mckinley and Hobart. There
are enough republicans whose elecl
ton to the House is now absolutely
certain ascertained by actual person
al contact with the voters-to insure
a republican majority of more than
80 in the next House, and there are
publicaus have an even chance to
win. Taking the whole situation, it
is conservative estimate to place
the republican majority in the next
House in the neighborhood of so.
That isn't as big as it is in the pres
emit House, but it is big enough to do
business with.
Representative Hepburn, of Iowa,
has been in Washington foN the pur-
pose of comforting with the republi
can Congressional committee. He
says Iowa will give Mckinley not less
than $4,000 majority, and will send a
solid republican. Congressional dele
CATION: Mr.. Hepburn. says .Bryanss
in Iowa has not helped
his cause any, and has probably injur-
ed it some by his making assertions
without backing them up with proof.
According to Mr.. Hepburn, the Iowa
people care taking nothing for grant
ed in this campaign; they are mailing
everything"
Representative Coffin of Maryland,
who has been actively campaigning /
in that state, says nothing can prev
ant its electoral vote from being cast /
for Mckinley and Hobart. In his own
language, maryland is as sure to go
for Mckinley this fall as Pennsyl-
vania is.'
Republicans as a rule have not |
been considering that the party have
more than fighting chance to carry
Missouri, but recent news from that |
state indicates that it will be carried !
for Mckinley. For instance, a poll
has been made in one of the Con-
ed as reliably democratic, as it has
been represented in the House by
democrat for years. The poll shows
that 50 per cent. of the entire vote of
the district have declared their inten-
ton to vote the republican ticket in
November. With the same ratio of
gain throughout the state, the repub-
licans will have an immense majority.
Mr. w. B. Thompson, treasurer of
the republican Congressional COM
mittee, has just returned from Michi-
gan. He says he hasn't the slightest
doubt that Mckinley will carry that
state and that the Congressional dis
tricts are all right, the gold democrats
alone having strength enough in sew
eral of them to swing the balance of |
power to the side of honest money. |
He says that practically the entire
business interests of the state are tax
ing an active part in fighting the free
coinage of silver.
-
; Betting men have increased the
odds on Mckinley in order to coax
the popocrats to put up little money |
but they have not succeeded. In one |
place, much frequented by politicians |