The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-10-01
WASHINGTON.
FROM our Regular corresponden.

encouraging news from other States
to make up for the discouraging
stories from New York which indicate
the almost certain loss Of that State.
1t is admitted by republicans that the
fusion which has been completed in
North Carolina between democrats
and populsts makes that State GER
tain for Bryan. In Kentucky the
democrats and populists have salts
factorily fused, which places that
state in the Bryan column. a letter
received at silver headquarters from
d. w. Atkinson, president ofthe Free
Silver Club. of Sparta, Mich, says:
/" Silver is bound to win in Michigan,
because every party in the state has
advocated free silver until the present
campaign, and there are thousands of
republicans and prohibitionists who
can't and won't surrender the convic-
ton of life time at the command Of
a few politicians who change color in
a single night. In any ordinary cam
paign the democrats and populists
combined are tight match Tor the
republicans. and now when thousands
of prohibitionists, and hundreds Of
republicans, are joining us there can
be no doubt of the result. Hon.
John c. Cannon, of Kans. says:
You need have no fears about
Kansas, as the leading republicans
themselves in private conversation
concede Kansas to Bryan. l have
bet with leading republican that
Bryan's majority will not be less than
20, 900. and l offered to increase the
bet and he declined. A republican
poll of the State shows that Bryan viii
carry it by over 10000" Mr.. J. W.
Armstrong. of Richmond, Missouri,
says Bryan will carry that state by
more than 6o,ooo majority, and there
is equally encouraging news from
Indiana, Iowa and Illinois.
Washington capitalists have no
votes, unless they retain a residence
in one of the neighboring states, as
some of them do, but they are trying
to control the votes of all those who
happen to be in their debt, rs may be
seen by the following letter which
was sent to a Virginia voter AS
you are aware, the friends of free
silver and gold respectively declare
that if their candidates are elected the
country will enter upon an era of
prosperity. They respectively de
clare that if the other side is elected
misery and trouble will be the result.
AS l favor Mckinley l believe that
within a few days after the election Of
Bryan all gold in the Treasury will be
Withdrawn, and there will be a terrible
panic in money affairs, from which it
will take the country many years to
emerge. After Bryan's election one
of the first things done will be the
calling in of all debts by creditors,
because they do not wish to be paid
80 cents for each dollar loaned. |
hope you will not regard this letter as
a threat or an intimation that you
should vote otherwise than you con.
scientiously believe to be right. Our
company will do after election just
what you would do under the same
circumstances. l hope you will be
able to take up your note and col
lateral before election" This letter
needs no comment, but it really is a
shame that there is no law to reach
and properly punish the men who
write such letters.
The sensational statements con-
cerning the payment of money to the
officers OF the Knights of Labor by
the Democratic Congressional Com
mittee were very quickly disposed Of
In connection with the publication of
their organ, the X. of l.. maintain
printing Office. The Democratic
Congressional Committee gave that
printing Office some campaign docu-
ments to print, and as matter Of
course paid for the work when it was
done, and the checks-one for
SI,coo, and one for SSoo-were
necessarily made payable to the
National officers of the K. of l.. who
are in charge Of the printing Office
owned by that organization. Some.
body connected with a Washington
bank through which these checks
passed told about them and thereup-
on was built the sensational state
ments.
Mr.. JEFF Chandler, once prominent
in legal circles in ST. Louis and in
Washington, but now residing for the
I benefit of his health at Los Angeles,
Cal, IS in Washington Speaking OF
republican claims as TO California, he
/ said The democratic and Popu-
lis, vote combined exceeds the repub-
lean vote in California by $4,000.
I The most thorough fusion has been