The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1896-10-23
WEST VIRGINIA
ALL RIGHT.
The Majorityi For NJ KIniey and
Atkinson
WILL BE VERY HANDSOME.

Desperate Tassies q the Desperate Pope
cratic Leaders 70 DO Crooked Work.
Ceiored Voters Arrested without causs.
Democratic Lies About Money .nd the
Use Of It-Lst Every Republican and
Honsss Money Man DO HIS DUTY.
The desperation Of the Watts Free
Silver Popocratic party Is wen shown by
the many schemes. tricks and efforts at
deception resorted to by them to avert
the overwhelming defeat which they
are to meet on November 3 in this State.
One of these schemes Is to publish
broadcast the foolish falsehood that
! prominent Republican leaders have CIV
enup the fight. One day the Wheeling
Register publishes that Chairman Hanna
no longer has hopes Of the election Of
Kinley and the day following It gives
the statement to its readers that Chair
man Dawson has given up West vir-
4 ginia, which, despite emphatic denials,
It reiterates in vain attempts to pump,
s some sentiment Of enthusiasm from q
divided. disgraced and defeated party.
Republicans, be on your guardi Be
not deceived by the eleventh hour roor-
backs that are sure to be manufactured
and circulated by these same desperate
schemers. They will tell You that the
free silver cause is growing that fifty
Republicans in one neighborhood have
come over" that lone hundred in an
other have embraced that fallacy," and
that two hundred somewhere else are
beside themselves in enthusiasm over
the boy orator Of the Platte.'" Believe
none of these things MCKINLEY will be
elected, and West Virginia will 90
j strongly for sound money, reciprocity
and protection.
Out of % counties in the State, three
Of them will give over z, 600 Republican
majority each, and five more will give
from ], 900 to z, 900 Republican majority
each. There are but two Democratic
counties IN West Virginia that will poll
as much as 1000 majority, and neither
Of these two will reach 900. OF the 90
out OF the s. counties in the State, which
may be classed US Democratic or doubt
ful, the Republicans will carry several.
Indeed, it Is q certainty that the Repub-
licans will carry ut least 10 more coun-
ties in the State than the Democrats,
and the average Of Republican MAORI.
ties Is several hundred by county than
those OF the Democratic counties. This
tnsures not only the election of Akin.
SON and the whole State ticket, but also
majority of from $1,000 to %, 600 for
Mckinley. We will carry all of the
four congressional districts and will have
9 large majority in each branch Of the
Legislature.
Preparations have been made In at
least one county, and presumably in
many others, by the Watts managers to
4bribe poll clerks and other election Off
ces TO facilitate the corruption Of voters
and the cheating of the ignorant. The
details of these plans are known to theil
Republican State committee, who cau-
tion every Republican to watch every
polling place and thwart these dastardly
schemes.
Another device Of these beaten leaders
Is to secure the arrest Of hundreds Of
colored Republican voters for frivolous
causes and put them in jail Just before
the election to prevent them from voting
the Republican ticket. Democratic
deputy marshals have boosted that they
were going to lessen the Republican vote
In several counties by these outrageous
arrests.
For weeks Democratic newspapers
have published the most absurd stories
about the many thousands Of dollars Of
campaign funds that have come into the
possession of Republican committees.
Even Bryan, in his Wheeling speech,
repeated the startling falsehood that
$500, 900 had been put into West Wiz.
ginia for the purpose of carrying the
State for Mckinley. That a presidential
candidate of a once great party should
give utterance to sucha monstrous false.
hood is evidence both of a desperation
OF the cause and the calibre of the can.
d1date of the free silver, 18-t reputi;a-
tlonists. The fact is that the Repub-
hcan State committee has been seriously
handicapped for lack of funds in carry
ing on their campaign. The circulation
OF this lie about Republican campaign
money is intended to subserve two pur.
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