Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-10-06
NATIONAL POLITICS.
A FEW POINTERS,

st. Louis.-J. K. Hickey, the widely
known Missouri politician, writes from
New York as follows:
had a talk with Mr.. Beriah Wilkins
proprietor of the Washington Post, to.
day. Mr.. Wilkins represented Ohio in
congress several terms. He keeps in touch
with the political situation there as we'll
as any man in the country. His paper
has been neutral, and think his personal
predictions are toward gold. He said,
however, that Information from his old
district in Ohio, from the most reliable
sources, led him to believe that Bryan will
have 1890 majority there. In the last
election the Republican ma ajority was 800
Mr.. Wilkins received letter from one
of the leading railroad mechanics at Cleve.
land, saying that Cleveland would give
Bryan $4,000 majority. At the last cleo
tion Cleveland went Republican by 5000.
Mr.. Coneer, formerly chairman of the
member of the Republican national COM
mittee, dropped into Mr.. Wilkins office a
few days ago and told Mr.. Wilkins that he
had apprised Mr.. Hanna that Cleveland
was lost to the Republican party.
Mr.. Wilkins says that careful poll of
the state, made to ascertain the true situa-
tion, gives Bryan the state by $4,000 ma
iority.
If the Republicans can take any COM
fort from the situation in the state of
their nominee they are Welcome to it.
Mr.. John @. Sheehan, the leader of
Tammany, states that he w0uld stake his
reputation as leader and political prog
nosticator on the fact that New York will
give Bryan it's electoral vote. The senti-
ment here for Mckinley is confined al
most wholly to misguided business men,
bankers and brokers, who do not know as
much about finance, as science, as the
average farmer does. These mon are
noisy; you hear them in the hotel corri-
dors; they are around the Offices in Wall
street, talking about the overwhelming
defeat OF Bryan. The last United States
census shows that the merchants, bank
ers and brokers of the country comprise
only per cent Of the total vote of the
country. If all we're to vote for MsKin-
leg, which is not the case-as know per-
sonallY of prominent bankers and brok-
ers who are earnestly for Bryan, but who,
for polioy's sake, refrain from expressing
themselves-if all of this class that are
assuming that they are the only business
men in the country, were to vote for Mo-
Kinley, what would 1t amount tor
This is q contest between avarice and
despair. The gold standard policy has
brought this country, with the most
abundant harvest it has ever produced, to
the brink of bankruptcy. To-day the
people, the thinking and working people,
who have an Interest in the government,
are awake to the fact that on this Issue
the welfare of humanity depends, and the
thousands and tens of thousands who
brave the elements to see and hear the
young giant who is leading them, who
even sit up until O'Clock in the morn
ing to catch glimpse of him, mean busi-
ness. The people are aroused more
thoroughly than ever before in the his
tory of the country, not exceeding 1776
or 1860.
You would be surprised to note how
readily the people of the east have pos.
sessed themselves OF this money question.
The night that Mr.. Bryan spoke at Tam
many Hall every point he made on be-
half of the white metal was instantly re-
sponded to BY the great crowd.
The reliance of the Republicans in this
campaign is money. Millions have been
subscribed on the pretense of circulating
literature, but this money is really raised
to be used in the purchase of votes for
Mckinley. The American people, how
ever, are not purchasable; and, more
over, the Australian ballot system will
defeat the purpose of the Republicans.
II these bribe-givers spend their money
in the belief that they are buying votes,
they will find on the 3rd day of Novem-
Der that the goods can not be delivered.
The Democratic party in thie state is
in the hands of it's friends. The organiza-
tion will be complete and compact;
speakers will address the voters from
this time on in every county and town
ship in the state. In this city, 500 speak
ers have been selected to speak day and
night from now until election.
predict without hesitation that Bryan
will be elected president of the United
States by the largest majority ever re-
ceived by any candidate for that Office,
and that his election will stimulate and
revive the business of this country in
way that those who now oppose us and
assert that the restoration of sllver coin
age will produce panic will thank the
men who have espoused the Bryan cause
and who will have taken the country out
of an "opium den," as it we're, and started
a prosperity which insures the employ
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