The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1896-10-22
WASHINGTON.
From our Regular Correspondent.

SAYS that Quay knows the battle is
los, and being compelled to put out
some kind Of figures he made them
so large that no body would believe
them. A significant result OF the
of Quay's figures was
their immediate effect upon the bet
ting fraternity, the members of which
may be counted upon to recognize a
bluff when they see it. The most
reckless of the gamblers were offering
odds OF {, to on Mckinley until
Ouay's claim was made public. They !,
at once reduced them to to I and ,
in some cases the most they will now !,
offer is 7 to S, and there are reasons
for believing that the money to offer
these odds comes from Mark Hanna's |
corruption fund.
Senator German returned from
New York this week. AS usual he
refused to be interviewed, but he
reiterated his statement that Bryan
would carry Maryland.
The returns from polls made in
nearly all the Congressional districts
are sufficiently complete to indicate
how the next House will stand, and
an estimate, which is regarded by the
democratic Congressional committee
as very conservative, shows that 100
silver Representative will be elected,
including democrats, populists and
silver republicans. That will give the
silver men control of the House by a
comfortable working majority and
ensures the early enactment of law
providing for the free coinage Of
silver, if the estimate be correct and
Mr. Bryan be elected, and democrats
have no doubt of either, as Mr.. Bryan
has said that If elected he would call
an immediate extra session of Con
gress for the express purpose of pro
viding for the free coinage of silver,
and the Senate is solid for silver and
will remain so.
A Washington hotel proprietor has
stirred up a regular hornets nest by
inviting all the other hotel proprietors
to meet at his place for the pur-
pose of contributing to the Mckinley
and Hobart finance committee" "
Many hotel men have publicly con-
demned this scheme and announced
that they would neither attend the
meeting nor contribute, and the fol
lowing resolution, unanimously adopt
ed shows what democrats generally
think of it Resolved, That the
Columbia Democratic Club denounces
the action of L. E. Roessle, proprie-
tor of the Arlington Hotel, Washing
ton, ID. c. (who in the past has been
the beneficiary of democratic patron
age through National committees and
representative democrats of the vari-
Gus states), in his personal efforts to
tax the hotel men of this city in be-
half of the Mckinley and Hobart
finance committee, and we earnestly
call upon the hotel proprietors of
Washington, without regard to their
political affiliations, who do not wish
to confne their trade to one political
party, to repudiate and repel this con
temptible effort to array them in such
a partisan movement. Resolved,
That when hotel men arrogate to
themselves the rightto dictate to the
people what their political course
should be, we reserve-and shall
exercise-the right to notify the
travelling public of our political faith
as to whom they should patronize
when they visit Washington"
Secretary Morton, has in publish.
ed interview allowed 1t to be seen
that the administration thinks that
"The republican party is making a
great mistake in Dragging of strength
and not doing more work" and is
very much afraid that Bryan is going
to be elected.
If the Washington Post, gold organ
though it be, keeps on increasing the
Bryan vote in its estimates it will be
Conceding his election before the
votes are cast. In its latest table il
gives Bryan ao5 electoral votes and
Mckinley los, leaving II in doubt,
If Mr. Bryan only has to get I9
electoral votes out of these II his
election can be put down as a reason
able certainty, as the States from
which those II votes are to come are
Illinois, Maryland, Delaware, West
Virginia, Minnesota, Michigan and
Kentucky.
AS a rule neither democrats mol
republicans think Archbishop Ire
lands letter will benefit Mckinley,
A Kansas man, now in Washington
says: "It is quite possible and very
probable that the letter Of Archbishop
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