Middletown transcript., 1896-10-31
MIDDLEToWN. DEL. OCT. 81, 1896.
Washington
Letter

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4 4 HE march of Nc
ESSsS% Kinley and Ho-
)5EHff bart to victory
SHMNS has been as stea-
UZIIKA%( dy and sure as
NS[HE(N that Of Napole-
fHW(mSH on's Old Guard
vNIN\kNJ in the days when
SkSSN itknew no defeat.
ISA)N 1t has gone on
from day to day
since the campaign opened; there has
been no halting, no hesitation, no re-
treating. There has been but one cry,
"On to Victory" Each week the ex.
tent of that victory has had to be en-
larged by the conservative men who
have managed this great campaign, be-
cause they decided in the beginning to
claim no state until absolutely certain
that the vote of that state would back
up the claim made. The first announ-
cement OF the certainty Of the election
of Mckinley and Hobart, the conse-
quent triumph Of honest money and OF
the right to earn il by houest toll, and
the maintenance of our National
honor, only claimed 260 electoral votes
Just 46 more than the number necessary
to elect, a little later the reports re-
ceived by the Republican managers
justified raising the claim to 302 votes,
and now the situation justifes the
claim of 325 certain electoral votes
with a probability Of "A additional
votes. In other words, there are Ionly
7S electoral votes that are certain fol
Bryan. This last claim is made by
Vice-Chairman Asley, of the Republi-
can Congressional Committee, the man
who while occupying the same posi-.
tion two years ago called the turn on
the Republican landslide in the Con-
gressional election in a manner that
surprised the country and showed that
his figures were backed by actual in
formation. The same gentleman now
says that information received since
Chairman Babcock recently made his
claim for 194 Republican members Of
-tbr next House justifies his claiming
224.
1t is the general impression in Wash.
ington that Mckinley and Hobart W i'll
receive the largest majority of the
popular vote ever cast for Presiden-
tial ticket, and not a few men are pre-
dieting phenomenal msjorties in states
considered doubtful a month ago.
Secretary Mercer, of the Republican
Congressional Committee will this
week 60 home and will remain in
Nebraska until after election day. Mr..
Mercer is not going because he regards
his presence in the District as neces-
sary to his reelection to Congress-he
is already certain Of tlia but merely
because his work in Washington is
completed and he wisllrs to add his
vote to the majority that Nebraska is
going to give Mckinley and Hobart.
Maj. Saunders, M Louisville, KY,
now visiting Washington is of the
opinion that the insults given to Secre-
tary Carlisle will do Bryan great injury.
He said OIL the sui JIG: "Most un.
dnubtedly the Effect Of the ruffianly
treatment of Secretary Carlisle will be
to weaken Bryan. There is not COM
munity in Kentucky in which the peo-
pie will 10. re ent the iudignity offered
Mr.. Carlisle. 1t was an u'rage of an
unpal donable sort, and l have nc
doubt that the insult was deliberately
planned"
A special report from the State De-
partment, on the currency system of
the world g greatest nations and their
relations to pricesof all sorts of COM
modities, including human labor, ia
important, timely and highly instruc-
tive. 1t shows beyond the shadow of
a doubt that fiuctuating standards
cause the greatest loss to toilers; also
that in every country which has a
gold standard, the tendency of wages
has been steadily upward and the cost
of living has been just as steadily les
sened, while exactly the reverse is true
of the countries tina! are upon silver
basis. In Mexico about the only peo-
pie who receive what would be cohsid-
cred even fairly good wages In this
country are those who are specially
skilled In the mechanical branches,
and most of them are natives of the
United States. These are cold, hard
facts which cannot be refuted by the
silver rainbow chasers. The United
States is not exempt and cannot by
legislation be exempted from the mex
orable rules Of business and commerce.
II placed upon silver basis it could
not expect that its experience would
differ from other countries which have
tried and are trying that basis.