The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-10-09

From our regular Correspondent !


Feeling that the election of McKin-
ley and Hobart is now absolutely as
sured, the republican managers purpose
giving more attention to q spirited at
tempt, with the assistance ofthe sound
money democrats, to put ,number Of
Southern States in the republican
column than they would have done
had they considered the states neces-
sary for republican success to be in
doubt. This charge upon the South
is not rainbow chasing. 1t is Improved
as good politics, and as promising sub
stantial results, by some of the shewd-
est workers and managers in the re-
publican party. To start with there
are four Southern States-Maryland,
Delaware, West Virginia and Ken
tncky-which are almost certain to
be carried by Mckinley and Hobart,
and which are privately conceded by
many silver men as being already lost
to Bryan. There is fighting chance
for the republicans to carry North
Carolina, although it has been lessen
ed by the fusing of the democrats and
populists, which some republicans
think ought to have been and could
have been prevented. Tennessee re-
publicans have assured the National
Committee that the state can be car
ried for Mckinley, if the Committee
will lend its help to get out the full
republican vote, and the committee
has promised to do so. The republi-
cans will also make a lively fight in
Alabama, not with the expectation of
electing the Mckinley and Hobart
electors, cut of indirectly helping the
sound money democrats of that state
to carry some of the Congressional
districts and to elect the Palmer and
Buckner electors. The Alabama dem
ocrats and populists are so hot against
each other that they will probably not
fuse.
According to Comptroller Eckels,
who has been making sound money
speeches in Illinois, Bryan is thorough
ly beaten and will not carry a single
one of the Mississippi valley states.
He also says the Altgeld is making his
canvass for Gov. of Illinois independ-
ent of the Bryan cause, but that he
will be beaten anyway.
Even the women in the District of
Columbia are taking an active part in
the fight for Mckinley and Hobart and
honest money and the right to earn it
by honest Toll. The auxiliary Wom-
ems Republican Association has been
organized, to assist the Mckinley and
Hobart marching Campaign Club.
This is the first women's club organized
in Washington during the present
campaign, its object being, as stated
i'll its constitution, "to unite the women
of this community in educational work
and social influence for the mainten-
anceof the principles of the republican
party in the home, in the state, and in
the nation"
Bryan has proven himself to be a
bigger man with the democratic ma
chine of New York than Senator Hill
is. He said when Hills candidate for
Governor, John Boyd Thacher, wrote
that letter, expressing his willingness
to run for Governor on platform en-
dorsing the Chicago platform, while
declaring himself unalterably opposed
to the free coinage of silver, that
Thacher would have to get off the
ticket, and now, 10 and behold, Thachel
is off the ticket. Democrats in Wash
ington will not be surprised if this
last humiliation put upon Hill by
Bryan results in Hill coming out fol
Palmer and Buckner or sulking dur
ing the campaign.
Chairman Babcock, of the Republi
can Congressional Committee, has JUS
returned from New York, where hi
conferred with Chairman Hanna
Senator Quay and other members o
the Republican National Committee
and he is in very jubilant state o
mind. He says that everything is go
ing McKinleywards, and that the re
publican who isn't contented with tn
present drift of public sentiment mus
be hard to satisfy indeed.
There is great joy among republi
cans hereabouts. Speaker Reed ha
promised to address a big McKinle.
and Hobart meeting to be held il
Washington, early in October, unde
the auspices of the National Unio
Republican Club, and Representativ
Cowen, of Maryland, a democrat VII
is doing good work for Mckinley ha
promised to address the same meeting
Many republican organizations i
Maryland, Virgins and West Virgins
have already signified their intentio