The Arizona sentinel., 1896-10-10
WASHINGTON LETTER.
(Fron Our Regular Correspondent.t
 WASHINGTON, Sept. 18th, 1886

" ASHINtION, OepI. Iobu1- 1OSo
 Feeling that the election. of McKin- Hey and Hobart is now absolutely as sured. the Republican managers pur- pose giving more attention to spirited attempt, with the assistance Of the sound money Democrats, to put a number of Southern States in the Re- publican column than they would have, done had they considered the states necessary for Republican suc- cess to be in doubt. This charge upon the South is not rainbow chasing. 1t is approved as good politics, and as promising substantial results, by some of the shrewdest workers and managers in the Republican party. To start with there are four Southern states Mar land, Delaware, West Virginia and Kentucky which are almost cer- tain to be carried by Mckinley and Hobart, and which are privately con- ceded by many silver men as being already lost to Bryan. There is a fighting chance for the Republicans to carry North Carolina, although it has been lessened by the fusing of the Democrats and Populists, which some Republicans think ought to have been and could have been prevented. Ten nessee Republicans have assured the National Committee that the state can be carried for Mckinley, 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 & 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 Congressional districts and to elect the Palmer and Buckner electors. The Alabama Democrats 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 Illionis, Bryan is thor oughly beaten and will not carry a single one of the Mississippi valley states. He also says that Altgeld is making his canvass for Gov. of III. independent of the Bryan cause, but that he will be beaten anyway.
 Even the women Tn 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 Women's 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, it's object being, as stated in it's constitution, Ito unite the women of this community in educa- tional work and social influence for the maintenance of the principles of tho Republican party in the home, in the state, and in the nation"
 Bryan has proven himself to be 8 bigger man with the Democratic machine of New York than Senator Hill is. He said when Hills candj- date for Governor, John Boyd Thacher, wrote that letter, expressing his will ingness to run for Governor on plat form endorsing the Chicago platform, while declaring himself unalterahly opposed to the free coinage of silver, that Thacher would have to get off the ticket, and now, To and behold, Thacher is off the ticket. Democrats in Washington will not be surprised if this last humiliation put upon Hill by Bryan results in Hill coming out for Palmer and Buckner or sulking during the campaign.
 Chairman Babcock, of the Republi- can Congressional Committee, has just returned from New York, where he conferred with Chairman Hanna, Senator Quay and other members of the Republican National Committee, and he is in 8 very jubilant state of mind. He says that everything is going Mckinley wards, and that the Republican who isn't conteuted with the present drift of public sentiment must be hard to satisfy indeed.
 There is great joy among Republi- cans hereabouts. Speaker Re- d has promised to address a big Mckinley and Hobart meeting to be held in Washing ton, early in October, under the auspices of the National Union Republican Club, and Representative Cowen, of Maryland, a Democrat who is doing good work far Mckinley has promised to address the same meeting. Many Republican organizations in Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia. have alread signified their intention to take part in this meeting, and there is little doubt that it will be mann moth affair.
 News which is coming to Washing ton from all along the line of Bryan's Eastern tour makes it certain that his radical utterances and his appeals to class prejudice are making strong Mckinley men out of thousands of conservative Democrats who might