Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-10-18
THE CLOSING FIGHT.
Republican Efforts In the West
spies Entering Virginia.

spies Entering Virginia.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., October H.
Special 1.-The friends and managers Of
Mckinley and his campaign, including
his boiling Democratic force-bill allies.
are watching the closing days Of the
campaign with more than ordinary aDpre-
hension The fight Of Mark Hannas
bari and the moneyed powers against the
people has narrowed down TO a few
States In the Middle West. Illinois Is to-
day the centre Of the great battle-ground,
as II has been almost from the beginning
Of the campaign, and the hardest lighting
Of the honest voters against the buying
capacity OF the combined McKinleyites
is yet TO be done there. The latter pre-
tend to be very sanguine. and while they
are just now saying very little, they are
thinking and planning. and placing cor
ruption funds where they will do the
most good. The battle is also raging in
Michigan, Indiana. and Kentucky, but
the hand-to-hand encounter between the
bar'l and the people IS I'm Illinois. Every
move is watched by the leaders on both
sides. and a position is no sooner taken
by one than the other proceeds promptly
to checkmate 1t.
BRYAN'S CHICAGO VISIT.
The terrible menace TO the Mckinley
fOrce-bill combine IL the contemplated
visit of William Jennings Bryan 10 Chi
cago, where. 1t is announced, he will put
in a week Of great work among the labor
ing people of that city. 1t is an open Sc
cret that the Republicans had expected
to carry Illinois with Cook county. which
includes the city Of Chicago The State,
outside Of Chicago, IS overwhelmingly for
NV N
money and the coercion OF labor carries
Cook county by an overwhelming majori-
~, the battle is lost to him, while Bryan
stu has the advantage in the general re-
suit. no matter how Illinois goes. The
Republicans will, however exhaust every
possible resource of corruption, coercion.
and manipulation, and they Will draft
their most a6roit spell-binders into the
city to cope with Bryan. II is said that
among the orators to bs pitted against
the peoples candidate are such repre-
sentatives of the monopolists and trusts
as Senator Thurston. OF Nebraska; Sena-
tor-elect Foraker, Of Ohio; Burke Cock
ran and Chauncey NJ. Depew, of New
York. and they will even drag old Ben.
Harrison into the din of battle, besides n
host Of lesser lights. who will be at work
all over the city. just as are the honest
election" boiling emissaries of Mark Han
ma I'm Virginia.
Every indication looks to as decided a
triumph in Illinois as is assured in Vir-
ginia. which was abandoned long ago by
the Republicans. as far as the electoral
votes are concerned, for not one of these
can be bought. The feeble and amusing
efforts OF the legal emissaries OF Mark
Hanna In the Old Dominion are now d.
rected with q forlorn hope to capture pos
eli. "a flo1 ri M
will fail ANONYMOUSLY In this.
MKINLEY EMIsSARIEs.
1t is understood here, and pretty well
established. that the "honest-election"
gentry OF Virginia, who are handling
Mark Hannas corruption fund for the
purpose OF buying election judges, are
covertly importing Pinkerton detectives
into Virginia, in large squads. in twos
and threes. and singly, as may seem best
The same class Of thugs and cut-throats
that Carnegie brought from Cincinnati.
Chicago. New York, and Baltimore 10
Homestead. Pa, 10 say and murder
honest worlkmen. who were asserting
their rights, are now being drafted into
Virginia by the pure heightened honest
money" advocates, who are handling
Hanna's bar'l for the purpose Of de-
bauching votes and tampering with and
intimidating election officials. For the
past week, / am informed by those who
are familiar with the class and their
methods these Pinkerton creatures of
the Virginia boiling contingent have been
passing IN small numbers into Virginia
In all sorts of DISCUSSES. and they are
now laying their plans 10 operate in the
places TO which they have been assigned
by the kid-slove BoltiDg Democrats who
are endeavoring 10 corrupt Virginia for
Mark Hanna.
Let the people and the officials of the
counties and towns look cut for the
thugs. They are easily detected. and in
every instance. where caught, they
should be placed behind the bars, and
kept there. If not more summarily dealt
with by being treated to a dose OF tar
and feathers by Indignant and outraged
communities.
CONSUL~GENERAL LEE.
A call at the State Department this
morning developed the information that
Consul General Lee was IN constant and
regular communication with the officials
there. They would not divuge anything
I'm relation to the reports received from
him. but said that they were eminently
satisfactory 10 the Secretary and the
President. The Consul-General was dis
charging the duties assigned TO him in
the manner contemplated when he was
entrusted with the mission, for which he
has been found well qualified. At no time
had he intimated a desire to come home.
There was no immediate danger now
from yellow-fever. and even If there was,
General Lee is not the man 10 leave such
an important post at such a critical time.
1t is expected that his family will join
him at an early day.
II General Lee were al home. there Is
no doubt that he would be with his peo-
pie.
PERSONAL AND POSTAL.
Hon. John Y. Rlxey, Democratic candi-
date for Congress in the Eighth Virginia
District IS in the city to-day, stopping
at the Metropolitan.
Colonel Robert w. Burke and wife, OF
stanton, are on a visit to friends here.
soiourning az the Metropolitan. Also,
Mrs ]. J.. Beck and Miss Donley, of the
same city.
L. NJ. Scott, OF Greensboro. N. c., is
in the city, at the Metropolitan.
NJ. Il Grlmsiey OF Jefferson, Va. is at
the Ebbitt.
George NJ. Ball has been commissioned
postmaster at Great Bridge. Va.
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Big Day for Mckinley.
CANTON O.. October 17.-Major Nc