The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1896-09-11
W ashington. Letter

Washington, sep. 4tn, 1870 line
McKinleyites haven had much to en-
thuse over before so they are making the
most of the Vermont election by yelling
themselves hoarSe over what every IN
| tcllgenI man knows to have been fore
| gone conclusion, This isn't worrying
| the Democrats even little bit Sena-
| tor Faulkner, chairman of the Demo
| cratic congressional committee. says of
| il: eve made no attemp, to carry the
state while the Republicans have spent
| lots of money and have eXerted every
| energy to win. | am told that house
| TO house canvass was made by proml-
nent Republicans" Senator Harris. of
| Tenn. one of the old Democratic war
| horses. said: ''If the Republicans can
| find anv comfort in the Vermont cleo
ton thev are welcome to 1t. They will
| need A great deal of comfort before the
| campaign is over" Secretary Offend
| erfer. of the silver committee, said
The effect of the election will be to
| unity the south aud west and middle
west The election shows that the east
| is making a sectional fight, and do not
| know anything which could have hap
| pened that would have made more silver
| votes We had no idea of carrying Yer
| mont, and we haven't any idea of carry
/ ing Maine. We have not done anything
in either state"
The Democratic national committee
| has decided to sccede to the request of
| the Pennsylvania miners, and Will send
Senator Tillman, of : G. upon a ten
| days s'umping tour of the coal section.
| Che Democrats do not expect to carry
| Pennsylvania for Bryan, but they have
| excellent reasons for expecting TO give
the Republicans some very unpleasant
surprises in a number of the congres
| -IOual districts OF the state
Senator German WAS at Democratic
| headquarters this week, and il Is expect
! ri that ON now on he will take an &c
i've part in the management of the cam
| oaign He believes that Bryan and Se
wall can be elected.
| Every Alabama Democrat in Wash
nglon regards DIR. Museley's recent in
| erview about the rosy chances of the
| republicans TO carry that state as moth
| ing more nor less than an attempt to
| get part OF Mark HInua's Dig cam
Jaign fund. and one Albanian says of
| 1t: In view of the tringency of the
money market down our way, the true
blue Democracy would be pleased to see
Dr. Moseiy pull any amount from Mr.
Hanna's piethoric political purse
| Ne rather enjoy the fun, and
the money goes into circulate n As
| to how the stat8 viii go, Mr. Percy
| Giark, VINO took an active part in the
| ate state campaign aud who Is now in
| Washington cOnferring with members OF
! the Democratic national commi tee,
says: i say 1t with a knowledge of the
conditions existing that the straight
| Bryan and Sewall ticket unfused, will
-arryAlsbama 10y 100, 900 majority"
Rev Sam Small, who has Just re-
urned from a stumping tour of the
states named, said to Chairman Faulk-
ler: Nebraska is safe for Bryan be
.ond the shadow of doubt, Missouri is
safe, Illinois looked so when ! was there
few davs ago. and Ohio Is dou' tfui :"
Mr. Small was also very emphatic in
;aying that Nobody out west wants
| Watson" He has gone back to Illinois
o take the stump.
The number of applications from clubs
for membership in the National Associ-
Ition of Democratic Clubs has been
| steadily increasing, but the record was
this week broken when fifty-three appli-
cations were received in single dav.
Mark Hanna's convention of boiling
Democrats, which met at Indianapolis
| this week, excited scarcely ripple Of in
terest at Democratic headquarters, and
1t is not expected that its ticket will ex
cite any more interest among the Demo.
cratic voters of the country II was a
fake convention from start to finish. and
it is doubtful whether a dozen of the men
Who participated in it will vote for the
ticket they helped to nominate. They
tend voting for Mckinley, but have
put up counterfeit Democratic ticket
in the hope that it may catch the votes
IF some Democrats who cannot stomach
Mckinley and who might have voted for
Bryan, thus adding to McKinlev's s
chances to win. 1t would really have
been more manly for the convention to
have endorsed Mckinley instead of put
Ting up dummy ticket, and the result
would have been precisely the same on
the 3rd of November.
Ex-Secretary Hoke Smith left Wash
ington this week. He made a recordas
secretary of the interior which has never
been surpassed, and left the work of
that great department in better condi-
ton than 1t has been for years He al
so left many warm friends who wish him
success in all his undertakings. NJ.