Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1896-10-13
VIRGINIA CONCEDED.
wELL-ISNOWN, REPUBLICAN SAYS
1T WILL GO FOR BRYAN.
HANNA DOODLE AMONG BOLTGRS.
Mckinley Campaign Funds Denied
10 Radical Lenders, and Turned
Ticket-PersonnI Items.

Ticket-PersonnI Items.
! WASHINGTON. ID. c.. October r.
(Special.)-A well-known Virginia Repub-
lican, whose name would be an authority
for any statement he might make, and
who IL thoroughly posted on every phase
OF the present political campaign in every
section Of the State. comedies the triumph
OF Bryan by between 1900 and 2OOO
majority. This gentleman. for party
reasons, declines TO allow the use OF his
name. He discussed the situation In Vir-
ginia. however, in confidential manner.
with few friends to-day. and. though
he is a partisan Of somewhat extreme
type. he does not allow his judgment to bs
affected by prejudice, campaign hurrah.
or party feeling. Added 10 all this. he
is one Of those who has something TO ex-
pect in the way of patronage In the
event of McKinley's election. which gives
all the more force and value to his views
| at this time lie makes all due allowance
for the detection OF the decoy-ticket
| Democrats. and those Democrats who
will vote openly and above-board for Nc
! Kinley. and he also takes into considera-
tion the accession to the Democrats OF
| free-silver Republicans and the liberal
! contingent Of negroes. who will certainly
be induced. as he terms 1t, to vote for
Bryan and Sewsel.
CONGRESSIONAL
J with the matter Of fusion so satisfac-
| torily settled for the Democrats, he takes
| the congressional districts, estimating
| that the vote for congressman will be
| about the same as thar for electors, and
| no figures IL out in this way, OF course,
making the smallest possible majorities
from his standpoint on the Democratic
| side.
In the First District ne allows Jones
| nenocraD 200 majority over Tyler tRe-
nubllcan: in the Second. Young Demo-
| cram 1000 over Wise Republicam; in
! the Third. Lamb Democrat, l,5lO over
Lewis Republcan) in the Fourth. Epes
DemocraO. 900 over Thorp Repub1canl;
| In the Fifth, Swanson Democrap, 5'V'
over Brown Republican); in the SIKH
| Otev DemocraD, $500 over Hoge tke-
rubiicanl. in the Seventh. Hay Demo
craD 300 over Walker Republican); In
the Eighth. Rixey DemocraD. 1900 over
NcCailu Republican); in the Ninth, VIII
/ uaros memocraD i.S00 over walker
Renublicam and in the Tenth, Flood
| nenocraD. 100 over Host kepupncln)'
OF course. all these majorities Will be
much more than doubled when the elec-
| tion takes place. IT should also be re-
marked that this closely-calculatlng he-
nublican does not attach much import
| ance 10 the decoy-t:cket vote, or 10 the
proposed methods Of its virginia hian-
agers "a influence the election by means
! Of he
! nortions Of the State. lie estimates, ana
| nat verv literally. that the entire decoy
ticl<et vote will not exceed 1000 In the
whole state. and that this vote VIII De
poIled I'm the cities, as II has no sfehsth
| or following whatever In the county
,,hore moreover. the legal emissaries
aforesaid win be accorded very unpleaS-
ant reception.
HANNA MONEY AMONG BOLIENS'
Recent arrivals here, and especially one
or two gentlemen in to-day, state tna'
the efforts of the bolting Democrats III
the last few days in Virginia 10 Hidne
converts among the Democrats 10 'he
decov ticket are attributable 10 the re-
ceint of a huge campaign fund, donated
bv Mark Hanna. This is the backbone
that his caused such a squirt among the
toI,ir,, Democrats but II is gratifying
say tnhi lilt iNtihbAsNnh 'NN-+N N-
paign carried on by the decoy-tcket
sneIl-binders has resulted In dismal
failure. Hanna forgets, as do his local
agents. that the people OF Virginia are
not purchasable. The whole matter III
a nutshell-and Il will be well for the Nir-
ginia Republicans TO know ii, If they are
not already informed-is that Hanna's
noodle mas been transferred from them
TO the boiling leaders. 1t Is stated on
prettv good authority that It was feared
the Republican campaign fund could not
be trusted in the hands of Virginia Re
publicans-that IT might stick" and
that IT might not reach the places or the
people where 1t would do the most
good on this representation by GER
tain Interested persons, the "astute"
Hanna transferred his Virginia Doodle
fund 10 the alleged "hOnest-money' man
ayers. and they are now disbursing IT i'm
a wild. reckless sort of way. in the vain
hone of buying Virginia for Mckinley,
as their chosen master. Hanna is doing
all over the country.
Hasn't II come TO a pretty pass with
the Republicans I'm Virginia when such
leaders as Colonel Lamb. General Brady.
General Edgar Allan, General James 4.
Walker. and others. are left out I'm the
cold. and the Mckinley campaign In the
and turned over. wholesale and re-
tail to the bolting Democrats? Let them
ponder over this. They are. no doubt.
bordering very seriously just now, and
it must be a doleful and dismal ponder.
BATS FOR THE BOLTERS.
There is more behind which the bolt
Ing Democratic Mckinley men are look
ing forward to in the sweet by and by,
and which will make the prospect awful
" gloomy for the deserted and aban-
doped Virginia Republican lenders. IT is
understood that. in the event that Nir
einia goes Republican, and that McKin-
lev IS elected--two OF the rcmOtest pos
sibihties-the bolters will not only fan
heir 70 the Federal patronage in the
State. but will also be rewarded by seve-
raj fat places. both IN this country and
abroad. This is said to be the bargain.
and II Is rumored that certain persons
are already being named and slated for
certain good places in the event OF Nc
Kinley's election. This will account 10
the white people of Virginia for the zeal
recently thrown into the campaign by
the Democrats that bolted their regular
party ticket. and are endeavoring TO sad
die upon the southern people another
force bill. social equality, Republican
administration.
General James u. Brady and Judge Ed
mund Waddil arrived here this evening.
and soon afterwards disappeared. They
came presumably. to look after funds.
and probably 10 know who was TO run
the Republican campaign In Virginia
Chairman Babcock. of the Republican
Congressional Committee. whose head
quarters are here. Is not n disbursing Of
fetal He merely receives reports and