Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-07
THE POLITICIAN.


restoration Of the prosperity of our
country. Every week since the Re-
publican National convention met has
added materially to the strength OF
that confidence. The principal event,
of course, in the current week was the
unprecedented Republican majority in
Vermont-an emphatic and convincing
answer to the Popocrats that sentiment
in favor of the free and independent
coinage of silver at the ratio of 10 to
was increasing among the farmers and
workingmen of the eastern and middle
states 1t is probable that a larger
percentage of the voting population OF
Vermont can properly be classed as
farmers and workingmen than 1of
any other Statesin the East Look at
the vote and try to discover the al
legged silver sentiment The campaign
in the State was fought entirely on.
national lines, the Republicans stand=
ing squarely upon the St Louis plats
form and the Democrats upon the Chi
cago platform, and the Republicans re-
ceived the largest majority ever given
in state election, and the largest
since the war in any election. Secre-
tary Mercer, of the Republican Con-
gressional committee, says OF this great
result: 1T means that the conserva-
tive people of this country propose to
turn out in strength at every polling
precinct of the land and register bal
lot for sound money, natural prosper
ity and good government. take the
increased vote of Vermont as an indi-
cation that the vote to be cast in No
vember will be one of the largest ever
polled in this country, and l believe
the victory for sound money will be in
Just about the same proportion as the
Repu blican victory in Vermont"
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Practical Republicans are not allow
ing themselves to count upon any cleo
toral votes for Mckinley and Hobart,
but it is daily becoming more evident
that the Democrats will have hard
task to carry number of Southern
States They admit themselves that
Maryland, Kentucky and West Vir-
ginia may go Republican, and they are
getting alarmed over Virginia, Ala
bama and LOUISIANA. Col. j. A. Kemple
who has been stumping in Virginia,
said: 1.-The sound money element is
very strong in Virginia The sound
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fort to influence the farmers, who at
this time are the most misguided class
of citizens whom l found in Virginia.
NY impression now is that the chances
are more than even that the electoral
vote of Virginia will be given to Nc
Kinley and Hobart" Hon. Taylor
Beattie, of Louisiana, who is Repub-
lican candidate for Congress said: 'lf
the vote were fairly counted, feel
sure that Mckinley would get the
State, but no doubt the same tactics
which counted out Pharr in the guber-
material race will again be employed,
so as to throw the electoral vote to
Bryan"
The Democrats, Populists and Silver
ties are in bad way, and each is al
ready beginning to blame the other for
the overwhelming defeat which is cast
ing its black shadow over them in ad-
vance. The several National COM
mittees are also in deep financial dis
/ tress, and Chairman Jones has been
asked to come to Washington to see if
some way of raising money cannot be
devised. The millionaire silver mine
owners have read the signs of defeat
and have refused to contribute to a
losing campaign, and the appeal OF
Chairman Jones for small contributions
from the people has not been produc-
tive of cash enough to run the machine
and the credit of the Democratic ma
tional committee, which it seems is ex-
pected to foot all the bills, is strained
to the breaking point. According to
current gossip the most of the money
which this committee has had came
from Treasurer st. Sohn, who did not
contribute the money, but advanced it
with the understanding that he should
be reimbursed from the contributions
which were expected from the silver
mine owners, and from Mr.. John R.
Mclean, and both of these have re-
fused to put mp their money.
Senator Warren, of Wyoming, was
in Washington last week. He says
that Mckinley will certainly carry
Wyoming, Nebraska and South Dako-
ia as well as three or four of the Pa
cific coast states.
Very little interest was shown in
Washington in the news from the Dem
ocratic sound money convention at In
dianapolis. While is projectors say it
was intended to help Mckinley, few
Republicans expect that single cleo
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