Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-10-02
.BRYANS CHANGES
FALLING OFF,
The Campaign In the East
Has Been Abandoned
by the Popocrats.
REPUBLICANS ACTIVE.
Bryan's Claims of Strength
Disproved by Facts-Po-
litical Conditions
In the East.

NEW YORK, Sept 80.-The campaign Of
Bryan has fallen fiat in the east, and his
managers no longer take tho trouble to
disguise the fact. Already the Washing
ton headquarters, which were established
nt tho special request of Chairman Jones,
have been closed up, and the headquarters
in this city, which never had any vitality,
ere MS quiet and as still as Il Nebraska
graveyard Even Bryan's attempts to gal
vanize the corpse of the eastern Democracy
have met with no response, and, save for
the tribute which curious people have
paid, his visits to New Jersey, New York,
Connecticut and Maine have been abso-
lutely unproductive. Every one now real
ICES this situation and comedies the hope
lessness Of any attempt to promote Bryan
candidacy in this part of the country, gg,
eept Bryan himself and g few aelqded
RQpocrats
The logic of the situation is inexorably
and irrevocably against bryan, In the
Empire State the Democracy is 10 badly
and so hopclessly div idcd that only band
full Of Democrats Of the Tammany Hall
stripe ideotify themselves with his CAM
paign. The decentralization Of the party
was complete enough when representative
men like ex Governor Flower, Perry Bel,
mont William @. WhltneY, haarke Gocs-
tan and General Daniel r. Sickles deserted
it and declared that the cause Of sound
and honest money was doarcr to them than
any party, But this aislniegration Of a
ence powerful and united political organ
izatiOn was completed when the Demo
Gratis ut their convention nominated "A
man, Mayor Thatcher of Albany, whose
first act was a Republication Of Bryan's plat
form.
since that time all hope OF carrying New
Work for president, governor or any other
olfice has been abandoned. 1t is because Of
these conditions and because of a growing
and powerful sentiment In favor Of the
Republican candidates that Mr.. Hackett,
chairman of the Republican state commit
tee, not only claims the state for MelIin-
lev and Hobart by 200 600 plurality, but
asserts that New York city, the home Of
Tammany and the GihsplEar Of the De-
mocracy will give she Republican candi-
dates an emphatic majority away up in
the thousands,
Not the least remarkable feature of tho
situation here IS the fact that the work
inglnon are strongly In favcr of sound
money, ana recent secret ballot made up
of tie votes of thousands of worSingmen
in all sorts of factories, shops and mills
discloses a handsome majority for NcKin-
ley.
This is the situation IN New York II
should be remembered that it was only
few weeks ago that the Bryanitcs were
claiming that New York and the entire
east were honeycombed with silver senti-
iRent, and so eonfdent Of this was Mr.,
BRYAN after his return west from his first
speaking trip that he told thousands Of
his hearers that New York would certalns
" vote for free silver ana all the eastern
states would show tremendous gain for
the doctrines represented by him and the
Chicago platform. Since then the states
of Vermont and Maine have spoken against
the silvery heresy with an emphasis and
distinctness that even the boy orator can
not misunderstood.
It was as futile for Bryan to claim New
York and to make eXtlavagbnt boasts with
respect to Vermont and Maine as 1t was
for him in his recent Philadelphia speech
to fish for the electoral vote Of Pennsylva-
mia, which so competent jury as Alex
Mcclure, the veteran Democratic editor of
the Philadelphia Times, declares will be
east foI Mckinley py 100000 more votes
fhan the Bryan ticket will receive. The
samo reports may with figures changed,
but the general result unaltered, BIO made
with reference to the other states Of tho
eastern and middle Atlantic seaboard.
1t should not be inferred, however, be-
cause the outlook is so bright and the or
panization so effective in these states that
the members of the Republican national
committee are idle. 1t is not proposed by
any Of them that overcOnldence shall
ruin the prospects of a campaign already
full Of the brightest promise or that it
shall lead to Indifference OF neglect in a
single state. No state or section of n state
is deemed so certain that effort in behalf
Of the Republican candidates can be ahan-
aapea
On the contrary, the committeeman have
in effect adopted the motto which Mr.. 10
seph II. Manley adopted In the Maine cam
paign-namely, to conduct the campaign
as II the result depended upon single
vote With this object in view the COM
mittee, both at its headquarters here and
in Chicago, are working day and night to
make the assurance Of Mckinley election
douhly sure, and speakers and doqgments
are being sent TO all parts of the country
in the effort to carry out this important
work
The simple contrast between the active,
energetic, well organized work of the Re.
publican committee ana the disorganized
and leaderless conduct of the PopocFatio
campaign is OF itself striking indication
Of the drift and tendency Of affairs in the
political world,