The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-10-11
Farmers Furnish Teams From Place to
Place School-House Campaign
Bryan Club of 100 Republicans
100000 Majority.
BY Henry George.

BY Henry George.
Columbus, o., Oct. al find that
Democrats consider this city as that
part of the State where the gold Dem
ocrats, or assistant Republicans, as
they call them, are strongest. One of
the reasons to which they attribute
this is that here is the home of Exon
| gresham Outhwaite, now member
| (by Mr.. Cleveland's appointment of
the Ordnance Board. Mr.. 0tdwaite
gave me the gold Democrats estimate
of their strength in this way:
From various sources of informa-
| ton we have reason TO believe that the
sound money Democrats in Ohio equal
10000. In this county (Franklin) we
put them at 500 TO 1000, of whom
something like 600 or roo are in this
city. The vote for Palmer and Buck
ner ought to be two and half times
as much, or $4,000, for the State, while
one-third as many, or say between
5000 and 5000 Democrats will prefer to
vote for Mr.. Mckinley
Considering what the total vote Of
Ohio is likely to be, this is not a very
brilliant estimate of the part Of the
sound money Democrats are likely to
play in the coming election. But the
highest estimate that the silver Demo
Gratis make for the sound money
strength is 1000 for the State and 500
for this county. They do not, however,
admit that this will be the Palmer and
Buckner vote, but say that the greater
part of these gold Democrats will vote
directly for Mckinley. And in this
part of the country, according to Allen
w. Thurman, they are showing their
belief that the Palmer and Buckner
ticket can only draw from the vote
that would otherwise he cast for the
Republican candidate by helping the
Republicans to fill up the certificates
of 5000 voters which are required by
the 5th of October to give Palmer and
Buckner a place on the official ballot.
HOW IT HELPS BRYAN.
That both sides should wish to help
the third party ticket to take the
field may seem inconsistent, but it is
easily explained. The Republicans are
in complete sympathy with the Adj
ministration Democrats, regarding
them as l1indling fire in the rear of
their opponents and believing that,
though they may not cast many votes,
vet their campaign, by putting we'll
known Democrats on the stump to OPP
pose Bryan under the Democratic
name, will considerably increase Nc
Kinley's strength. On the other hand,
The regular Democrats think that the
spectacle of Cleyeland's office-holders
and corporation attorneys speaking
against Bryan till really help him,
and that the Palmer and Buckner vote
will lessen what would otherwise 60 to
Mckinley
The opening of the Administration
Democratic campaign, which, in this
city, took place on Tuesday night, was
hardly encouraging. Mr.. Cultivate
presided, and the principal speech was
that OF Virgil II. Kline, the Western
attorney of the Standard Oil Com
pany The not large hall was poorly
filed, and that mainly by well-knOwn
Republicans, WI lie the spectacle of
representative a most notorious and
INSCRIPTIONS trust denouncing the
Chicago convention and it's nominees
as dishonest assailers OF property
rights is not calculated to hurt Bryan
with THE masses in Ohio
I find that the Democratic State
Committee, which is located here, is
very far from virtually giving up
business, as has been telegraphed East.
1t is hampered by the general Demo
cratic lack of funds which to the
regular politician everywhere renders
political work an attempt to make
bricks without straw" But it is
ready to give figures that to the mind
of the acting chairman Colonel W. A.
Taylor, prove beyond peradventure
that Bryan will carry Ohio 10y round
majority. /, however, care little for
political figures at a time like this,
which reminds me more of the Mayor
atty campaign in New York in which |
was engaged ten years ago than any
thing / have seen since. The regular
politicians, whatever their side, can
only argue from what has been to what
will be, whereas this is pre-eminently
a time when old party lines are broken
and new forces are asserting them
selves.
CHANGE AMONG POLITICIANS.
What care more for is the evidence
of interest and the opinion Of dispas-
sionate men as TO the general tenden-
cies of Thought and feeling. Now, in
Columbus, as everywhere else in Ohio
that have been, or have heard from,
and ] have had more specific informa-
ton than / can detail, it is clear that
! the Populists are working earnestly
with Democrats, and that the larger
! part OF the Prohibitionists are also
with them; that full Democratic vote
will come to the polls; that the Demo-
cratic loss on the currency question
will be comparatively small, and that
a great change is going on among Re-
publicans. What puzzles the politi-
cians-Republicans, Democrats and
Third party-is the difficulty they have
in making up their lists, difficulty
arising from the disinclination Of
many voters, both in city and country,
to say for whom they win vote. This
difficulty compels all parties to put on
their lists as doubtful" many more
than they like to. In the towns this
indisposition of men to say whom
they will vote for arises from a general
feeling of those depending upon others
r.. a L l.