Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-09-11
THE PRESIDENTIAL CANVASS.
Everything Now Pointing to the Success Of
Sound Money.

NdSililSloii, sept lu-lhe events OF
the last two weeks have materially
changed political expectations of the
people here and the politicians at the
various headquarters which are To-
Gated here. Washington is now con-
fident that Mckinley will be elected.
This was not the case a month ago.
! only the long haired enthusiasts cling
tc the belief that the Popocrats can
carry the country. When the BRYAN
ties now assert. as they do verv freely.
that the result in Vermont was lust
what they expected they are not
speaking truthfully. The free silver
| noise was present there lust as else
where.
Albion X. NeaZey, a son of the inter
state commerce commissioner uho
| had Travelled through the state cam
paigning with Representative Powers
remarked a few weeks APO tha, thn in
coming of the free silver issua had
strengthened the Democratic orpaniza-
ton in that state. ana he was fear
full that the results might be = dis
appointment to the sound NANCY in
tcrests Of the country. If was freely
asserted at the Hrvan baadouartn,e
| the extreme least thai tho ro,nl,ic,ne
there would need to save al, thair am
munitjon for home cons,,,n,,;on ,nd
| that Vermont would cnntrihutn eop,e
| testimony in that direction 7, f,.,
| the condition in that state may no ,vol,
| likcned to that of tho man whn wanted
| to take an order for six car-Inods of
frogs le"s. and when he failed to fur-
nish the four dozen frogs ordered dn-
| dared that he had Judged bv tho noise
| he had heard that there must he rs
many carloads as on examination ne
had found there ver, individuaI frors
| The silver mon made the noise in Yer
mont. but they failed ia he co,,ntaa
Since the returns from this nuarter
| have been in. there is no longer any
talk of carving the war into the enc
my's country with any hope of success.
neither is the East warned thai if VIII
have its hands full to take care of it.
self. The leaders at The Bryan head
quarters are now wing with one an
o;ber in a,onba sizinp tba ,,rnhahilitine
-, -
'ii" ~ "l'''i 'i'"9 81 ie'iu"Iirdh success
III Maine next Monday, From their
talk one might lapitimatnlv infer that
.,t -,
amy '"lS 9ii"i' oA an apso1ulel9 uilai-
nous vote Tor the Republican nominees
would he an acreea BILE SUNRISE from,
49,.
ia" ''dt' "iiNlS NJ HtMai lives.
The proportions of the Indianapolis
convention. and the earnestness and
49,, .,
Zt''l WIN NhlCh me hdtiohai b"fll"-
cratic party is entering the campaign
is another feature that tho more car
,+l r,.
'i'u III ahiteS iooh upon Nlih aldfH'
soma tor Faulkner is willing to con
cado that tho Ip3iora,,.Ife tfclyat win
, 80 va
WORN greater INJURY % ihe bryan Gauss
in kentucky than anywhere else hui
contents bip,ealf Win III ,at,actio,.
III.
tHdt zen rainier record as nllltafN
governor there viii offset the influence
of Blckne, on the ticket Eanorts from
NtltuthE 40 not justify inns coinpla
cent view and several Kentuckyians
uo,y in th,. CITY who saw they hnlav4
"'iN "' ei'OF N''N
mat bfyah VIII pc elected, acknoWi-
edge that that result will have to b.
brought ato,lt without tbe al,ctor.,i
,.n,o ~ t;o,t,,i,,.
>nt' - htituckH'
The National Democratic ticket practi-
cally insures the state to Mck nlcy. Be-
sides tho Bryan Democrats who hold this
view. senator Butler. chairman OF the
PopuliSt national committee, is of tn,
same opinion. te thinks the rejection by
the BrNdnltcS there Of the propOSitiO of
the I'opuisls for fusion on the electoral
ticket. puts that state out OF the reach Of
Bryan and SeWalf
Perhaps the most significant change
that has come over the political situation
Is the Increasing firmness OF party alegi-
arce IN that section of the Republican
party supposed to be more or less silver
izcd. When the nominations had beer
made at st. Louis ana Chicago. II was The
commoncst assertion that old party lines
had been swept away. and that hence
forth there was a combination OF silver
men on one side ana sound money men on
the other regardless Of former afiilia-
nohS. As the campaign develops. the
surprising tact = becoming more ana
more manifest that thousands Of voters
on cach sue are perfectly wiling 10
chahGt iielf oplhlohS 10 agree with the
iofinaI deciaratlohS Of thtlr party. IN
utdi MARY rama, from Wil1ch reports are
Sltdui% coming INTO inc neaduu3ftefS
mere ihlS conuillon IS Freely acknoWI-
o4seu by ooth sldcS. khe kepuhhcans
VINO ma pecn supposed TO ne aitectcd by
! ne SILVER cry declare mat they haye not
hetn accuStoncd 70 iooK 10 the Demo
gr3tiC ParaX Tor t4o alhuouncGnent OF
i'o.iticat ruins, dHu lnht uIilli tht,r own
tHI.S coiioS out lol SiiNtr tIley VIII hoid