The morning times., 1896-11-03
In Politics.

III POllltCS.
The day before election found all the
Headquarters practically deserted. There
was no news of any kind, and callers of
note are thing OF the past. Had some
one dropped in yesterday at either one III
The chairInen's rooms the first question
that would have greeted him ia:
WHY aren't you at home to vote!
All arrangements have been completed ut
Republican headquarters for Receiving the
returns. The framework for n large screen
which Is 20 20 up in front Of tn" Normandie
was placed in position in the Afternoon.
The special wires are III and nuthir" r.
mains from the standpoint of Mr.. Rat-
cock, but t. flash one Republican gam
after another on the screen. Nearly all
the clerical force has been discharged, ana
only half a dozen young ladies are oeIng
kept for emergencies.
AT the Pnpuiist headquarters Chairman
Butler and Secretary EGscrton will re-
ceive returns i'll Senator Buffers rooms.
They expect to have "A most Joyous tine.
At Democratic headquarters everything
j. ready to record the landslide which every
ore of the officials expects is coming Tor
BRYAN. No arrangements have been made
for turning out the lights early and gong
home.
Already the politicians are beginning to
speculate OH the results, with an IT.
Especially Is this true conCernIne the neNt
House of Representatives. Should Bryan
ne elected and with him free silver Con-
grssS the campaign for the spCa kership md
with i. the fight for House offices would
start in " Wedne>dav. MCMlilln and kiChart-
son Of Tennessee, Bland of Nil souri,. BAILEY
OF Texas. and Livingston OF Georgia are
among the puSSible candidates. II Is an
open secret that the two gentlemen from
tennessee McAiiIIin ana Richardson, are
avowed candidates, and its current gossip
that they haveIeft Hc Stone untUruad during
tine campaign 10 impress upon all the silver
Democratic candidates for Congress mat
they would he pleased II have their III
Gorsement in the event ui the success uT t'ie
silver here>y. The reason the campaign Ior
the House officers would immediately 10!
low the announcement II BryanS ricctl"il
j., however, the general understanding that
he would call an extra session at once after
his inauguratrn.
But with the election Of Mckinley
lively fight for the empty honoTs which the
minority viii have a their disposal mag he
expected. This Will bc especially ST. for
yne Speaker>hIp. as the man who captGTes
the nomination this time Will use it with
good effect in the event of the Democrats
carving the House two years hence. The
fact that Tom Reed had been the uliHurIIy's
candidate for Speaker in the Forty-ninth
and Elrtleth Congresses gave him The adj
vantace in the Fifty-first Congress, when
he easily beat Mckinley and Cannon and
Burrows. Then. again, the mlnnrityS
candidate for Speaker can pose before the
country as the leader of his side oil the
chamner.
Thercare more Republicans around Wash
Iuntpu who want vote than there
Democrats This has been shown by the
half-fare tickets issued by the various
Headquarters. Yesterday Republican head
quarters We're crowded with voters want
ing To 90 home. During lie day several
hundred got their tickets. The Repub
iiCans alone have furnished these voters
with the proper certificates To the number
OF 1000. The Democrats do not approach
this figure. Bryan has not been very pop
ular here since the speech he made IN the
old baseball park.
Senator Faulkner, chairman of the Dem
Ocratic Congressional committee, left last
night for MartinSburg to vote. He will
vote early in the morning and Ee back i'll
the city by noon today. In talking of
the outlook yesterday ne said:
II will be frank. If Bryan is not elected
by good, big majority. am The worst
fooled man in the United States. Il have
not based my faith on the figures of poll
ticians. l got left two years ago. and
made !. vow then never to depend on re-
ports sent n by committees l am III aking
my prediction now on what l know; on
what the people have told NE. In Il
thousand and enc ways 1 have sathc---t
it up.
,r.ct to have a more pleasant election
evening than dId two years ago. i feel
sure of it,"
Capt. Buriingame, OF Iowa, Il former em-
plcye OF the Senate, was up around Re
uublican heaGuuartcrs yesterday afternoon.
He was confident that the Silvcritcs Were
beaten.
.Itell you, "hc said, we've got them this
time. have five SONS and two sons ia-iaw
and they will all vote for Mckinley to-
morrow. I'm soUy l haven't got more.
One of my boys is with the San Francisco
Chronicle and l received Il telegram from
him this afternoon saying that California
would go for Mckinley. That Reed meeting
Saturday night did the business.
II have another son in Chicago and he
writes that that city will go for Nc
Kinley by at least 100000 majority. We
have them sure
The good work that The Times has done
for the cause of sound money is no better
illustrated than by this little story:
Judge E. &. Foster, connected with the
Department of Justice under Harrison, has
large gold placer mining property down in
New Mexico. Everybody down there is for
free silver, but Judge Foster, wanting to
keep posted on Washington news, sub
scribed for The Times. During the summer
he was in the East and left his foreman
Joe" In charge OF the property.
Inc Times Kept Coming along promptly
and Joe, Knowing good thing when.he
saw 1t, kept reading it just as regularly
he read the sound money editorials ana they
Converted him. Much to Judge Fosters