San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-01
M'KINLEY SURE.
NO ANXIETY AS TO HIS ELECTION
Is FELT NOW.
The Republican Managers Will Turn to
the South, and Work Just to Make
the Majority Larger.


that the election of Mckinley and Ho-
bart is now absolutely assured, the Re-
publican managers purpose giving
more attention to spirited attempt,
with the assistance of the sound mon-
ey Democrats, to put number of
southern states in the republican col
umn than they would have done had
they considered the states necessary
for Republican success to be in doubt.
This charge upon the south is not
rainbow chasing. 1t is approved as
good politics, and as promising SUBJ
stantial results, by some of the shrewd
est workers and managers in the Re-
publican party. To start with there is
Delaware, West Virginia and Kentucky
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 a fighting chance for the Re-
publicans to carry North Carolina, al
though it has been lessened by the flu
sing of the Democrats and Populists,
which some Republicans think ought to
have been and could have been pre-
assured the National Committee that
the state can be carried for McKin-
ley,if the committee will lend it's help
to get out the full Republican vote,
and the committee has promised to do
so. The Republicans will also make a
lively fight in Alabama, not with the
expectation of electing the Mckinley
and Hobart electors, but of indirectly
helping the Sound Money Democrats
of that state to carry some of the Con-
gressional districts and to elect the
Palmer and Buckner electors. The
Alabama Democrats and Populists are
will probably not fuse.
According to Comptroller Eckels, who
has been making sound money speech
es in Illinois, Bryan is thoroughly
beaten and will not carry single one
of the Mississippi valley states. He al
so says that Altgeld is making his can
vass for governor of Illinois.
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's 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 cam
paign,its object being, as stated in its
constitution, ito unite the women or
this community in educational work
and social influence for the maintain
ance of the principles of the Republic
eau party in the home, in the state,
and inthe nation"
Bryan has proved himself to be big
ger man with the Democratic machine
of New York than Senator Hill has. He
said when Hills candidate for COVER
nor John Boyd Thacher, wrote that
letter expressing his willingness to run
for governor on a platform endorsing
the Chicago platform, while declaring
himself unalterably opposed to the Tree
coinage of silver, that Thatcher would
have to get off the ticket, and now,
low and behold, Thatcher is on 1t
will not be surprised if this last humil-
iation put upon Hill by Bryan results
in Hill coming out for Palmer and
Buckner or sulking during the cam
paign.
Chairman Babcock, of the Republic
can Congressional Committee, has just
returned from New York, where he con
ferred with Chairman Hanna, Senator
QUAY and other members of the Repup-
lican National Committee, and he is
going McKinleywards, and that the lie
publican who isn't contented with the
present drift of public sentiment must
be hard to satisfy indeed.
There is a great joy among Republi-
promised to address a big Mckinley an
Hobart meeting to be held in Wash
ington, early in October, under the au-
spices of the National Union Repub-
lican club, and Representative Cowen,
of MARYLAND, a Democrat, who is do
ing good work for Mckinley has prom
ised to address, the same meeting. Ma
ny Republican organizations In Mary
land, Virginia and West Virginia, have
already signified their intention to take
part in this meeting, and there is little
doubt that it will be a mamoth AFFAIR.
News which is coming to Washing
ton from all along the line of Bryan
eastern tour makes it certain that his
radical utterances and his appeals to
class prejudice are making strong NC
Kinley men out of thousands OF con-
sentative Democrats who might
have swallowed the free coinage doc
trine hut who cannot stand the mash
nm, down with everything, which is
being preached by Bryan. These men
do NOT believe it to be criminal for men
IN he thrifty and accumulate proper
~ mr. that il is wrong for the govern
ment to protect this property II need
be. Some of Bryan's remarks read
like quotations from the speeches. OF
the men who started the French revo-
luton. and no sane man wants TO see
a "Reign of Terror" to the country.
cEN1rINE KENTUCKY DUEL.