Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-10-14
THEY ARE CONFIDENT
viRciS,ASs AT WASHINGTON SURE
OF BRYAx's ELECTION.
LIBERALIZATION AMONG NEGROES.
This Contingent of Voters Distrust-
full of Bcitocratic-Repnb Com
: bsne, and probably WIN Not Vote
Oregon All aieht.

Especial 1.-The Virginia contingent at the
national capital are not only enthusiastic
over the situation In their own State.
but In the entire country. They are con-
fiaent OF a solid silver delegation from
Virginia, and an overwhelming majority
OF the electoral vote of all the states for
Bryan and Sewall. the candidates OF the
Democratic party.
Last night largo crowd of Virginia
Democrats went over 10 Alexandria to
hear that well-lnown orator and most ef-
fective stumper. Hon. James w. Mar
shall, make speech In behalf OF the
Democratic National ticket and John +.
Rixey. the party candidate for Congress
an the Eighth Congressional District. IL
is needless to say that Mr. Marshall car
ried the crowded house by storm He
had II In an uproar OF enthusiasm from
start to finish. and ne succeeded in win
ming back into the Democratic fold not
q few OF those who had been decoycd into
the support OF the Mckinley ticket nomi-
mated at Indianapolis.
Some recalcitrant Democrats I'm Wash
fngton, who had heard Mr.. Marshall be-
fore. went over. just 10 hear him again,
but with no idea of being turned from
their purpose OF voting either for the
decoy ticket or for Mckinley outright
These gentlemen were called back and re-
converted by Mr.. Marshall, and they re-
turned to Washington better Democrats
than ever before. They became con-
tvinced by the eloquence and sound argu-
ment of the speaker that II Thomas
Jefferson, the founder of the Democratic
party. were living to-day, he would be
with the people--the masses OF his party
and not with the trusts, moDopollsts.
home and foreign syndicates, and the
moneyed kings Of the Countrywide would
he aristocrats. who to-day would be the
wearers OF purchased titles but for
wise provision in the Constitution, when
the fathers of the country. who foresaw
the possibility OF such n calamity, had
inserted therein. He brought 1t home to
them that the election of Mckinley would
be nothing more than the peipetuation
OF the present depressed condition OF the
country and Of the hard times. which
are chiefly the result Of Republican legis-
lation-combned with Cleveandism.
MFR. Marshall was cheered TO the echo.
and a resolution OF thanks was passed,
with a request that he return and speak
again.
THE NEGROES DEMORALIZED.
Commercial, political. and pleasure
tourists. who have been in various por-
lions of Virginia and other Southern
States. and who drop in here from time
10 time. agree In saying that. politically,
the negroes are in most demorailzed
condition throughout that section Ihey
are in a terrible quandary--distrustful OF
their own leaders, and suspicious OF desc
oh am "a "
ers: don't like dem white Democrat law
yers. neber had any use TO emf The
negroes can't understand the combina-
tion. and they honestly believe 1t Is n
bargain between the Republican leaders
and the Mckinley Democrats TO betray
them into something-they don't know
what. All explanations and argument
only serve to confuse and befuddle them,
and they are Disguised with condition
of politics in which their own white lead
ers have Joined hands with the Demo
Gratis, as they know the Boilers to nave
been all their lives.
AS a result, a large portion of the ne
eroes in the South, and particularly In
Virginia. will not go to the polls and
vote. They are not particularly in love
with the election law, anyhow, and with
the suspicious and mysterious combine
of their former enemies and old friends,
for a purpose they cannot understand
they have concluded that IL would be
foolish for them to vote.
In many places the tourists above re-
ferred TO found that the negroes care
very little about voting. They have IN
yariably mads enemies by doing so. ana
q, has never done them any particular
good so they are Indifferent about the
exercise of the franchise. Those of them
Who do vote must be paid This class
Of negroes will vote for the man VINO
s.sees, them last. 1t Is all they can
realize from the ballot. and they make
the most of II at every election NOW,
upon this class the Republicans and their
boiling Democratic McKinleyite allies
viii have chiefly 10 rely. and inexnausu-
Bile as Mark Hanna's barl seems to be-
II will give out under so heavy drain as
This ~ the combine proposes to make
anv show at the polls on November Sd
next. II Is almost an impossibility 10
buy everything and eyerybody-speli-
binders. leaders, heelers. lawyers, ana
emissaries-to pay. for trains to haul al
legged voters TO Canton. and then 10 come
down and purchase almost every negro
vote.
The Mckinley. force bill Democratic
boiters are in hard luck. Under the
negro pressure their Hanna bari In VIZ
UtniQ Will soon give OUT anu Nh'iNs Vs.
where win they be on the an OF NoVe"-
Der next? They win simply be nowhere.
sECTIoNALIsM.
Here r. a paragraph from the WASH
ington correspondence Of the Alexandra
s'Gazette," which does not fairly state
Mr.. T. f. Roessle's expression. The
'Gazette" says:
Everything In The city, as well as IN
the North. in the way Of Republican and
boilers politics, goes TO show that IN
stead Of sectionallsm having been
abated, ii Is as rife now as ever. Indeed,
go Intense il The feeling. that those who
entertain IL think u conduces to their
own selfish interest to carry il into their
business acairs The proprietor OF one
OF the largest hotels here. the Arlington,
on Saturday last told an acquaintance
that the condition of affairs was like that
OF 1861: that n he had had his way all
the traitors then would have been driven
out OF Washington. and that II he
thought that one OF his employees now
favored the Democratic ticket. he would
discharge him on the instant"
The first portion of the paragraph is
all right, but the latter part misquotes
the Arlington proprietor.
He said the Bryan and Sewall cam
paign was the same old Southern fight