Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1896-09-26
!: The Republican Party stands
/: for honest money and the chance
!: to earn it by honest toll.
{: WILLIAM MCKINLEY.
THE POLITICIAN.

The popocratic National committee
this week formally abandoned the fight
for Bryan in the East and Middle states,
by abolishing the Washington branch
of its headquarters. Other reasons are
given, but everybody in Washington
know the real reason to be that Chair
man Jones has been convinced that
Bryan has no show to carry a single
state in the East and that the cost of
maintaining the Washington branch of
his headquarters was just so much
money thrown away. Itwas originally
intended that the work done at the
Washington branch of popocratic head
quarters should be almost entirely of
a literary nature, and Clark Howell, of
the Atlanta Constitution, was placed in
charge of the bureau which was to
teach eastern voters the beauties of
free silver and the Chicago platform,
with Representative Richardson, of
Tenn, as his chief assistant. Mr..
Howell has found things SO warm in
Georgia that he has been able to give
very little time to the bureau, and
Richardson came near having a fight
with Butler, the chairman of the popu-
list committee, and was transferred to
Chicago. This left the bureau in charge
of young man whose sole political ex-
perience consists of having succeeded
in getting himself sent as one Of six
delegates from the District of Columbia
to the Chicago convention, and now the
bureau is busted, just as the whole
popocratic ombination will be on the
3rd of November. This leaves the popu-
list headquarters in rather peculiar
position. Senator Butler is in Wash
ington, but there will be nobody repre-
senting the popocratic National com
mittee in Washington for him to confer
with, as Senator Faulkner, of the
Democratic Congressional Committee,
which, of course, retains its Washing
ton headquarters, has no connection
with the popocratic National commit
tee, and nothing to do with the man
agement of anything but the Congress
sional campaign.
Senator Elkins, of w. Va, enioys the
reputation of being one of the shrewd-
est and most careful political observers
in the country. For that reason his
opinions were eagerly sought while he
was in Washington this week. He
said of West Virginia: 81 have no fears
of the state; its electoral vote will be
cast for Mckinley by at least IL. 900 to
$4,000 majority. l am not indulging in
braggadocia, and my estimate is con-
servative. The fact is that the silver
cause is losing force daily. Apart from
its espousal by the democratic party
free silver alone couldn't carry over
three states in this Union. The West
ern people are not nearly SO crazy over
this silver delusion as Eastern people
imagine all the fools do not reside
west of the Allegheny Mountains, and
that fact will be very apparent when
the vote is counted" OF the general
result Senator Elkins said "The elec-
toral votes of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois,
Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan are
surely McKinley's. In Minnesota, Kan
sas, Nebraska, California, and, l may
add Kentucky, there is also a chance
of winning, but the battle is won with
out them. Mckinley will have major
ity of Mt least SO in the electoral col
lege." Senator Elkins will, in addition
to stumping his own state, make some
speeches in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois
Mr.. Lawrence Gardner, secretary Of