The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-14
GOLD RUSH LINE
IS IMPROBABLE
II Is Being Made Strong for the Final
Assault.
THE ODDS ARE BIG IN ITS FAVOR
Proposal to Desecrate the sabbath.
Altgeld's Party Want to Use 1t for a
Political DemOnstratiOn..No othing
Is Sacred to the POpocrats..Oficiai
Authority Is Necessary Before They
Can Garry Out Their Plan.

Chicago, Oct. 13.-Both the Republic
cans and Sound Money Democrats are
devoting all their energies to the
strengthening of their rush lines for the
final skirmish. During the past twen-
ty-fOur hours Mark Hanna has held
individual consultations with all his
chiefs of staff, as well as with large
number of leading spellbinders who are
temporarily in the city, and he has
reached the conclusion that there Is not
a single weak place in the line through
which the PopocratS can break. so
we'll have the states, IN which the OPP
position Is making its last struggle.
been filled with speakers that there VIII
be q dozen Republicans to talk gold,
tariff and reciprocity for every free
silver speech made by Bryan. In lndi-
ana, Michigan and some other states
the PopocratS are on still hunt,
but agents of the Republican national
executive are following their every
move and checkmating their efforts.
Senator Quay's table given out last
night Is indorsed in the main by Colonel
Payne, who has been dubbed the sta
tistician of national headquarters"
Colonel Payne had about completed
the latest table of his own when that
of Senator Quay was read. The latter
places five more votes in the certain
column and eighteen more in the doubt
full column than does Mr.. Payne. The
latter's table gives 265 electoral votes
certain for Mckinley and fOrty-nine
doubtful but probably Republican.
Other tabulators at headquarters give
Mckinley 292, this estimate taking from
Bryan all the western coast states,
because of Information received by the
national committee, that the free silver
strength in these states has been great
ly Overestimated.
Reports are coming In daily by wire
and mail to the effect that the red-hot
campaign that, at Mr.. Hanna's direc-
tion, has been carried on in Oregon.
Washington and California. has taken
those states out of the doubtful col
umn.
DEMAND FOR SPEECHES.
The gold standard Democrats are
deluged with requests for speakers. A
deputation from Kansas Is here today
with the offer of special train for
any man of national reputation who
will make flying tour of the state for
the next ten days. Senator Villas was
asked last night to undertake the trip,
but this morning begged off, and efforts
are now being made to secure Senator
Lindsay, Of Kentucky. Palmer and
Buckner are at Cincinnati this morn
ms, anu VII So tiliouSSl lViiicssVC anu
Alabama to New Orleans. returAng
here on Monday for twelve days on the
stump in this state. Wisconsin. Mime
sofa and Iowa. Richard w. Knott, of
Kentucky, took the stump last night at
Litchfleld. and Comptroller Eckels
makes the first of ten speeches at his
home In Ottawa on Friday. And so
the record might be multiplied at
length. There is no question but that
the National Democrats have in the
closing days of the campaign, when
hard work Is more urgently needed
than ever proven themselves a much
more formidable auxiliary of the Re-
publican army that is battling for
sound money and national honor than
had been anticipated by their friends
or looked for by their foes.
A CHARACTERISTIC ACT.
There is good deal Of unfavorable
comment today over the semi-oilicial
announcement that the Popocrat sill
yer campaign is to wind up on the
Sunday before election with great
street parade. intended as an offset to
the Chicago Day demonstration. Chi
cago makes no pretension to q New
England Sabbath, but. nevertheless,
political parades have so far found no
place in its style of observing the first
uay OF the week. Some people are in
clined to the opinion that nothing else
hut desecration of the Sabbath might
he expected from q party that stands
for everything opposed to law and or
der, and that the selection of a Sunday
for its closing effort is in line with it's
whole campaign. 1t requires, however,
municipal permit in order to march
through the streets either Sundays or
week days, and the proposed attack on
the sanctity of the Holy day may en-
counter some obstacles at the city hall.