Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1896-10-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.
FROM OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON, Der. 10TH, 1896.

The rainbow chasers have again in
vaded the Bryan camp, and are making
some very tall claims, such as that Iowa
will go for Bryan by $4,000. Ohio by
30 900, and New York, New Jersey
and Pennsylvania by substantial plur-
alities. Mr.. Bryan may be elected
most people in Washington believe that
he still has chance, even if it be not
quite as good chance as Mr.. Mckinley
has-but with the possible exception OF
Iowa, which IS thought to be doubtful
although strongly claimed by the Nc
Kinley people. he stands no more show
of carrying one of those states than he
does of carrying Vermont, or than Nc
Kinley does of carrying South Carolina
The alleged basis for this new outbreak
Of the rainbow chasers is a newly dis
covered undercurrent in favor Of silver
among the workingmen. Its real pur-
pose is probably to frlghten the McKln
lev managers into Withdrawing some
of their forces from the middle West
where the presidency will really be won
or lost.
Secretary Morton did more to help
Bryan than any member Of the admin
istration has yet been able to do towards
injuring him when he gave out that
interview charging the ex-Confederate
generals with trying to accomplish thro
flee silver what they failed to do by
force of arms. 1t Is doubtful if there
is man in Washington, excepting the
Secretary himself, who does not today
condemn both the spirit and the Ian
guage OF that interview. Secretary
Morton meant to injure Bryan and free
silver, but he has made it certain that
thousands of votes in the south will 60
to Bryan that he would not otherwise
have gotten, and he has not alienated
any Bryan support in any other section,
This is not the first by number of times
that Secretary Morton's tongue has
gone off half-cocked, so to speak. While
most people have their own opinion as
to which policy will be the best for the
country, there are very few who 20 so
far as to charge their opponents with a
desire to destroy the government. In
a heated political argument. man may
say many foolish things, but down in
his heart he knows, whether he be a
gold man or silver msn, that his op-
ponent is actuated by precisely the same
sentiment as himself-a desire to what
will add to the prosperity and future
greatness of the country; and that the
only difference between them is one Of
opinion as to what will accomplish that
purpose,
According to Mr.. Reese H. VOORHEES,
son of Senator Voorhees,; who has just
returned from Indiana, that state is
trembling in the balance and will 60 to
Bryan or Mckinley, just as the labor
vote desires to go. He says that both
the republicans and democrats confess
privately they are at sea in regard to
the bulk of the labor vote, which both
are still making extraordinary efforts to
capture. The political managers at
Washington believe that there are 9th.
er states in which the balance of power
is held by the labor vote, and in which
they have been unable to get any relia-
BILE knowledge of how the bulk of that
vote will be cast, but they are not talk
ing about it, at least not for publica-
ton.
While the positive announcement, al
ready made in some newspapers, that an
agreement has been reached between the