The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-02

it never was so compactly for Demo
c,.acv as this wear. With this strong
suppol-t. the detection of gold Demo
crafts will not lose the Democrats the
State if the gain from Republican lar
mers is ANYTHING like the surface signs
would indicate. There is no reliable
data upon which to base predictions
upon this vote, and it is because OF
the absence of this data that all caIcu-
lations are unreliable.
'If [ could Judge the feeling in New
York by the meetings which Mr. Bryan
addressed in Brooklyn and at Tam
many Hall Tuesday night, | would say
that greater New York would give
a big majority for the Democratic tick
ct. No &hwo such meetings were ever
held in the Empire State. More than
10000 Tammany men stood two hours
in the rain Tuesday night hurrahng
and waiting to get glimpse of their
presidential candidate. Tt was a tr1D-
ute from the workers that showed how
intensely in earnest they are. Mean
while, within the sacred walls, 5000
people, every one armed with small
American flag, were shouting them
selves hoarse and hurrahing in man
ner heretofore unknown even there
where enthusiasm is no new thing.
Old Tammanyites said that the rank
and file never loved a man as they
loved Bryan, and THAT if the leaders
had sought TO carry the organization
against Bryan, the members of Tam
many would have walked out bodily,
leaving only the building on Four
teenth street and few leaders. They
are mostly new converts, but they have
the zeal of new converts and are ready
to go to any length to elect Bryan.
They have lost confidence in Hill, and
say that whereas he was once peo-
pies man, he has become corporation
agent since he went to the Senate.
They talk of him very bitterly, and the
way he buncoed them by the Thatcher
nomination, receives their hot denunci-
ation. Speaking of the Thatcher with
drawal, the talk in New York is that
Hill was forced to make him withdraw
or see the committee unceremoniously
take him off the ticket. A we'll known
Tammany man, who had been a friend
of Hin, gave me the true genesis OF
Hills recent strange movements.
Hills public life up TO his election to
the Senate was true to the interests of
the working people. DE fought cor
porate greed, and defended the com
mon people. He has long had his heart
fixed on the Presidency. He would sac
rifce anything to get 1T. He Thought
in 1892 that he was sure to win the
prize, but although he had his own
States vote, which he got in midwin-
ter, because he saw that money would
wrest it from him if postponed, he saw
Cleveland get the prize, because he
had the great corporate influence be-
hind him. After he got in the Senate,
Hill determined to make bid for their
support. He reasoned with himself
that he had the people, and that If
he could get the great corporations too,
he would be invincible. He forgot that
YOU cannot serve God and Mammon,
and in trying to get both he lost THE
confidence of the people, and it is GER
tain that the gold syndicates and bond
grabbers, which he defended in the
Senate, will desert him just as soon as
they learn that he cannot serve them
longer. Hill has made the mistake that
many politicians before him have
made, and he has wrought his own un-
doing. If the Democrats lose New
York. it will be laid at his door. If
they win, it will he in spite of him,
and he viii get none of the credit.
Hill is no longer a political factor.
This sentiment in other forms was
freely expressed
THE best place in the United States
to obtain public sentiment from every
section of the country is Washington
City. The clerks here come from every
quarter. They take their local paper,
and keep in touch with their old homes.
In spite of the fact that their salary
has am increased purchasing value,
they are mostly for silver and Bryan.
Why? Cd They think more of the
prosperity of the home folks and the
country than of their own salary. (2)
They know that if the gold standard
is made permanent, Congress will re-
duee their salaries TO the gold basis.
The feeling in Washington is that Bry-
an will win. There is supreme conf
demce in the result among those who
lived in the South and West before go
ing to Washington, and they get this
confidence 10y their letters from the
homefolks. These letters are nom
official, and give the true situation.
At Democratic headquarters the news
from all SeCblOnS Is HOSb SIICOuIdB1 ing
and there is a feeling of confidence,
based upon the tidal wave for free sill
yer that grows in force every day. 1t
is fact in this campaign that no Re-
publican who has come out for silver
has turned back after putting his hand
ITO the pillow, and that they have all be-
come Jealous to convert their neigh
bors. They are numbered not only
by the hundreds of thousands in the
West, but by the thousands in the East,
where it has been popularity supposed
that free coinage could have no foot
hold. No man could see the enthusi-
assn of the crowds that greeted Bryan
in New England and the Middle States
without feeling that this is a campaign
in which the plain people of Massachu-
setts and Connecticut as we'll as Ne
braska and North Carolina, believe
that Bryan's success means better
things for them and their children.
They have the zeal and confidence of
crusaders, and their number grows
daily as the cause is presented. Bry-