Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-10-19
THE POLITICIAN.

Senator Quay's announcement by
authority of Republican National Com
mittee, that Mckinley and Hobarts
election is now assured and that they
are absolutely certain of getting 27O
electoral votes, with strong probable
ity Of receiving more than 800, was not
made for bluffing purposes, but as an
assurance to the business interests OF
the country that the danger, more ap-
pretended than real, of Bryan's cleo
tion and its consequent upsetting OF
values is over, and that capitalists may
now go ahead with the business enter.
prises which they have been holding
back, causing a general stagnation in
all lines of business, with the certainty
that they will receive 100-cent dollars,
instead of Bryan 50-cent dollarsa from
all the investments they make. This
information has been anxiously sought
after by those interested in large busi-
ness enterprises all over the country,
and as soon as the members of the ma
tional committee were assured that no
mistake had been made by those who
had been charged with the task Of as
certaining the actual status of all the
states it was deemed best to give it to
the whole country as well as to the in
dividuals who had asked for it, 1t is
merely in line with the general policy
of the Republican party to stand by
the business and industrial interests of
the country at all times. There is no
occasion for the Republicans to make a
bluff at this time, when every intelli-
gent man knows how strongly the
tide of public opinion is running
against Bryan and his 50-cent dollars,
and the popocratic platform of riot,
ruin and repudiation. This country is
once more proving to the world that
common sense is it's ruling sentiment,
whenever time is given to consider any
important question, just as it has
proved hundreds of times in the past
and will continue to prove in the fu-
ture, and common sense teaches that
honesty is the best policy for govern
ments as well as for individuals.
Col. Thomas T. West, of Fort Worth,
Texas, is we'll posted on the politics of
the Lone Star State. He is now in
Washington, and he says: ''If l am
not mistaken Texas is going to give
the people of this country the greatest
surprise on the 3rd of November.
There is no predicting results on ac-
count of the mixed up state of things,
but the conditions are very squally for
the silver democrats. Their candidate
for governor, Culbertson, will, think,
suffer defeat at the hands of Kearby.
the populist candidate. In the district
now represented by Judge Culbertson,
Cyclone" Davis is sure of being elect
ed to Congress. 1t is pretty certain
that he was elected in '94 but the
court was against him. Hawley, Re-
publican, will be Miles Crowley's sue
cessor in the Galveston district. Jen-
kins, Populist, will defeat ex-Con-
gresham Lanham. in the Fort Worth
district and Mr.. Bailey will have the
fight of his life to keep Populist from
getting his seat in the House. In the
San Antonio district Judge Noonan
will be reelected by the Republicans,
and in the Dallas district Barney
Gibbs, formerly 1t. Governor, now a
Populist leader, will down the silver
Democratic nominee. All in all, lool,
to see a terrible shaking up of the
Lone Star free silyerites, and if some
pretty level-headed men are not away
out of their reckoning McKinleys race
is not at all in the nature of forlorn
hope"
1t remained for the popocrats to be
the first political organization that
ever made specific money charge for
speeches made by it's Presidential can.
didate. This is what is being done on
the Bryan tour The charges are from
$50 to $500, according to the anxiety oi
the popocrats of the town to hear and
see Bryan and the money must be paid
in advance or Bryan will not stop al
the town although he may have to pass
through it.
The latest news from Illinois indi
Gates that Altgeld is much more anxi
Gus to save his own official neck thar
to go down with the Bryan wreck, and
offers are being made in his behalf tc
trade votes for the Mckinley electoral
ticket for votes for Altgeld for govern
or. But the Republicans are certain O.
carrying Illinois for Mckinley without
any trading, and they intend to cleo
Republican governor, too.
If there had been the slightest proba
bility of Bryan's election the popocrat
would have compelled the Withdrawal
of either Watson or Sewall from hi
ticket as no set of men with ordinar,