Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1896-10-30
From Our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 10th, 1896.

quay absurd claim OF 2VO electoral
votes for Mckinley a burlesque and says
that Quay knows the battle is lost and
being compelled to put out some kind
OF figures he made them so large that
nobody would believe them. A
significant result of the publication oI
Quay's figures was their immediate
effect upon the betting fraternity, the
members of which may be counted
upon to recognize bluff when they
see it. The most reckless OF the
gamblers were offering odds of 3 to
on Mckinley until Quay's claim was
made public. They at orce reduced
them to 2 to l and in some cases the
most they will now offer is 7 to 5, and
there are reasons for believing that
the money to offer these odds comes
from Mark Hanna's corruption fund.
Senator German returned from
New York this week. AS usual he re-
fused to be interviewed, but he re.
iterated his statement that Bryan
would carry Maryland.
The returns from polls made in
nearly all the Congressional districts
are sufficiently complete to indicate
how the next house will stand, and an
estimate, which is regarded by the
Democratic Congressional Committee
as very conservative, shows that 100
silver Representatives will be elected
including Democrats. Populists and
Silver Republicans. That will give the
silver men control of the house by q
comfortable working majority and en-
sures the early enactment of law
providing for the free coinage of silver.
II the estimate be correct and Mr..
Bryan be elected, and Democrats have
no doubt OF either, as Mr.. Bryan has
said that if elected he would call an
immediate extra session of congress
for the express purpose OF providing
for the free coinage of silver, ard the
Senate is solid for silver and will re.
main 90.
A Washington hotel proprietor has
stirred up regular hornets nest by
inviting all the other hotel proprietors
to meet at his place "for the purpose
of contributing to the Mckinley and
Hobart finance committee" Many
hotel men have publicly condemned
this scheme and announced that they
would neither attend the meeting nor
contribute, and the following resolu-
tion, unanimously adopted shows what
democrats generally think of it:
" Resolved, That the Columbia Demo-
cratic Club denounces the action of
I. E. Roessle, proprietor Of the Airing
ton Hotel, Washington, d. C. (who in
the past has been the beneficiary of
Democratic patronage through Ma
tional committees and representative
Democrats OF the various States,) in
his personal efforts to tax the hotel
men of this city in behalf of the Nc
Kinley and Hobart finance committee,
and we earnestly call upon the hotel
prOprietors of Washington, without
regard to their political affiliations, who
do not wish to confine their trade to
one political party, to repudiate and
repel this contemplate effort to array
them in such partisan movement.
Resolved, That when hotel men ar
rogate to themselves the right to
dictate to the people what their
political course should be, we reserve
and shall exercise - the right to
notify the travelling public Of our
political faith as to whom they should
patronize when they visit Washington
Secretary Morton has in published
interview allowed tito be seen that
the administration thinks that " The
Republican party is making great
mistake in Dragging OF strength and
not doing more work." and is very
much afraid that Bryan is going to be
elected.
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If the Washington Post, gold organ
though it be, keeps on increasing the
Bryan vote in its estimates it will be
conceding hts election before the votes
are cast. In its latest table it givet
Bryan 200 electoral votes and Nc
Kinley 165, leaving n in doubt. l
Mr.. Bryan only has to get 19 electora
votes out of these II, his election car
be put down as a reasonable certainty
as the States from which those u
votes are to come are Illinois, Mary
land, Delaware, West Virginia, Min
nesota, Michigan and Kentucky.
As rule neither Democrats nor Re
publicans think Archbishop IrelandI
letter will benefit Mckinley. A Kan
sas man, now in Washington says
"It is quite possible and very probable
that the letter OF Archbishop Irelant
will prove a boomerang, and cause
more loss than gain to Mckinley