Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-11-02
THE OUTLOOK.
Republican Prospects in Ten
nessee and North Carolina.
What Leading Men Say on the Po-
|itical Situation.
General Confidence in the Overwhelming
Election Of Mckinley.

This state made "A record in border
warfare in the other great national
struggle and it is not improbable that
she will be found after the battle of
the ballots to have done something al
most if not quite unprecedented. 1t is
quite plausible to argue that with the
wave of sentiment which seems GER
tain to sweep Kentucky and Mary
land into the Mckinley column. Ten
nessee is in fairway to be carried from
her national mornings. That is some
thing. however, which it is idle to ar
que with Popocrat and many of the
Mckinley Democrats when the propo-
sition is advanced, seem disposed to
look non committal at best or incrcdu-
lous at worst.
Your correspondent met in Washing
ton one of the heads of great south
ern railway system and he said, while
he was for Mckinley and believed
thoroughly he would win. he would
advise no one to rely on either North
Carolina or Tennessee. The road OF
which he is a representative has lines
| in both states and he is in position Ia
know something about the situation,
He is a southern sound money Demo
crat and he doesn't, evidently. believe
| there are enough like him to throw
| those border states into the Union OF
sound money Republicans and Demo
Gratis. There are those who do. though
| 1t will he wonderful if they are found
there Wednesday morning but there
are not Il few of those who ought t.
know as much about it as anyone, who
are as confident Of Tennessee going
Republican as they are that Kentucky
Will. The concourse of opinion favors
Kentucky. however, indeed there are
those who say they think Bryan will
be elected who also admit there il;
good probability that Mckinley will
carry both Kentucky and Maryland
and the Republicans feel sure of it. 4
Baltimore carriage manufacturer. yes
tcrday, told the writer that but one
business man of his acquaintance in
Baltimore would vote for Bryan and
from all he could gather Bryan was
losing ground in his stronghold in the
southern counties.
Full as all the newspapers are of il.
tiiN IdidtS tHt tension OF
the situation until he actually comes
in contact with it here and there The
widely differing claims are enough to
keep this tension at concert pitch.
The man with business interests.
wages. savings at stake may feel
sure 1t will be a Mckinley landslide.
and that view of it is by no means
rarely found in this part of the coun-
try but he cannot he quite easy in his
mind until the slide has slid But if
the business interests are in fret the
government clerks at Washington are
IN stew. unless all signs are misleaI l.
ing. They have not forgotten Bryan's
slap at civil service in his Washington
speech, neither can they disabuse their
minds of an idea that something unex-
pected may happen. The Washington
newspapers seems to to uncertain
ty and while ostensibly for sound
money dignity the bluff of Chairman
Jones with discussion as if he really
meant 1t. Your correspondent met Mr.
Babcock at the Normandie, THURSDAY.
and he seemed disposed to regard the
eXtravagant claims of the Popocrats
as not worthy of notice. He said h,,
received nothing but what was enco,,r.
aging from all sides and not one con
gressional district reckoned to send a
sound money Republican had given any
sign of doing otherwise Three weeks
ago he gave out an estimate that the
next House would aSsuredly contain
VA Republicans who could be relied
upon to vote for protection and sound
money. He now feels equally sure of
more than 220. He appreciated most
heartily the absurdity of the talk that
MI. Bryan's speech making the pa st
rev days is to turn the tide. 1t is an
other instance of reliance on wind.
sad prominent gentleman who mad
Just returned from the West You
nave noticed how much Mr.. BRYAN has
been in evidence for what there is Of !
nm. We'll the so-called Democratic" or
sanlzation is made up in a large de-
gree of those who have always enter
tanned a notion that they could talk
me country into a political millennium
ana TINS is one of the times thew
thought they had chance. In the
communities they have been set 10 |
canvass they have done a good deal |
more talking than the voters. rho |
voters will talk Tuesday and it wont
be in free silver strain mark th;t "