Middletown transcript., 1896-10-03

8 a NES the Republican
f1gV managers pur.
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with the assist.
, ance of the sound money Democrats, to
put number of Southern States In the
, Republican column than they would
have done had they considered the
states necessary for Republican success
to be in doubt. This charge upon the
South is not rainbow chasing. 1t is
approved as good politics, and as prom
| ising substantial results, by some of
the shrewdest workers and managers
| in the Republican party. To start with
there are four Southern states-Mary-
land, Delaware, West Virginia and
Kentucky-which are almost certain
to be carried by Mckinley and Hobart,
and which are privately conceded by
many silver men as being already lost
| to Bryan. There is a fighting chance
for the Republicans to carry North
Carolina, although it has been lessened
by the fusing of ths Democrats and
POpulists, which some Republicans
think ought to have been and could
have been prevented. Tennessee Re-
publicans have assured the National
Committee that the state can be car
ried for Mckinley if the Committee
will lend its help to get out the full Re-
publican vote, and the committee has
promised to do so. The Republicans
will also make lively fight in Ala
bama, not with the expectation of elec-
ting the Mckinley and Hobart elec-
tors, but of indirectly helping the
sound money Democrats of that state
to carry some of the Congressional dis
tricts and to elect the Palmer and
Buckner electors. The Alabama Dem
ocrats and Populists are so hot against
each other that they will probably not
fuse.
According to Comptroller Eckels,
who has been making sound money
speeches in Illinois, Bryan is thorough
ly beaten and will not carry a single
one of the Mississippi valley states. He
also says the Altgeld is making his
canvass for Gov. of Illinois independ
ent of the Bryan cause, but that he
will be beaten anyway.
Even the women in the District of
Columbia are taking an active part in
the fight for Mckinley and Hobart and
honest money and the right to earn it
by honest toll. The Auxiliary Women's |
Republican Association has been or
ganized, to assist the Mckinley and
Hobart marching Campaign Club. |
This is the first women's club organ
lied in Washington during the present |
campaign, its object being, as stated
in its constitution, ''to unite the wo-
men of this community in educational
work and social influence for the
maintenance of the principles of the
Republican party in the home, in the
state, and in nation.u
Bryan has proven himself to be big
ger man with the Democratic machine
of New York than Senator Hill is.
He said when Hill's candidate for Gov
ernor, John Boyd Thacher, wrote that
letter, expressing his willingness to
run for Governor on platform endor-
sing the Chicago platform, while de-
claring himself unalterably opposed to
the free coinage of silver, that Thacher
would have to get off the ticket, and
now, 10 and behold, Thacher is off the
ticket. Democrats in Washington
will not be surprised if this last humil-
iation put upon Hill by Bryan results
in Hill coming out for Palmer and
Buckner or sulking during the CAM
raign.
Chairman Babcock, Of the Republi-
;an Congressional Committee, has just
from New York, where he
conferred With Chairman Hanna, Sem
ator Quay and other members of the
Republican National Committee, and
le is in very jubilant state of mind.
He says that everything is going Nc
Kinleywards, and that the Republican
Who tint contented with the present =
Irift of public sentiment must be hard :
% satisfy indeed. I
There is great joy among Republi- Z
ans hereabouts. Speaker Reed has
romised to address a big Mckinley q
nd Hobart meeting to be held in y
Washington, early in October, under =
be auspices of the National Union y
republican Club, and Representative y
owen, of Maryland, a Democrat who 81
J doing good work for Mckinley has
r0mlSed TO ADDRESS the same meeting.
fany Republican organizations in
laryland, Virginia and West Virg- os
MIA, have already signi6ed theirains 81
sntion to take part in this meetingi al
nd there is little doubt that it will be sl
mammoth affair. u
81
News which is coming to Washing be
IN from all along the line of Bryan's
astern tour makes it certain that his We
'dical utterances and his appeals to th
ass prejudice are making strong Nc of
.inley men out of thousands Of con-
'rvative Democrats who might have
the free coinage doctrine,
at who cannot stand the smash-up,
OWN with everything, which is being
reached nv Rrvan Thooo mon ID ,,of 4