The evening times., 1896-09-21
REDUCED RATE FOR VOTERS
Railway Passenger Agents
Meet Mr.. Gardner.
CHAIRMAN STEVENS HERE
Caims Everything West of the Mirs-
sissippi Except MfnnesOfa-SenatOr
Stewards Figures Apropos Gen.
Recommendations Chairman says
Mckinley Win Carry tile State.

ra Iroaa i'nes diverginG from Washington
| he'd conference with Secretary
Lawrence Gardner at Democratic
| headquarters this morning. The OBJ
| .ect tne meeting VII, ti.r ad1ustiiIent or
| "A rate and TIL e deviscm cDt Of n plan OF denii
fication for residents of the district of
| Conimb.a who may wish to travel 10 various
States to reg sler and again iu November
| 10 vote.
The Chesapeake and Ohio system was rep
resented by George NJ. Bond, the Fennsyl-
vania Railroad by Coin b. Studds aud the
Baltimore and Ohio by 5. b. Hege.
IL was agre ed that these roads shall Offer
| to all prospective voters uniform rate II
one fare for the round trip to any STATE:
| reached by these lines or their auxIiiari,'-
| This agreement was reached after only Il
| brief discussion, the rate having previously
been informally agreed upon.
MATTER OF FIDENTIFICATION.
| The matter of Identification by the is
! sue of certificates to those persons eligible
| 10 oeuerit by the reduced rate. was sub
| jcct which required more lengthy considera-
ton by the conference. In general 1T is
| expected to require that certificate to be
| signed In the presence of n committee ofthe
| that for the purpose of identification the
| certificate or the raiiTo3d ticket issued
| for the certificate must be signed again.
The signature iring required 10 CORES
| poId TO the first ore.
The most di!iicult quest ion of eligibility,
however, is one for which The Democratic
managers themselves win be held re-
spOusibe The railroads viii require that
las, SnI
termning 10 whom certificates OF elisi-
biiity shall be issued The whole plan
viii probably be anrounCed tomorrow:
CHAIRMAN STEVENS HERE.
Ac.ing Chairman Stevens OF the national
Silver party, arrived last night from the
West, and was busy attending to corte-
spundcncc and receiving callers at head
quarters tins morning.
senator Stewart called on him, and among
other things, talked about Gen. Il rosvenor's
ngurrS Oh the election They expressed
! tnnesclves as being greatly amused there
ny. Senator Stewart Slapped Chairman
| Stevens on the knee, and said:
Il u1deTS; and that GrUsveDor has gwen
| us Nevada and Colorado" Tiicn they both
laughed uproariously ..
before Dir. Stevens told what we're his
| views of the puticsl situation in the West
| as he has recently seen it, Senator Stewart
electoral Votes.
That is, he said, we are perfectly sure
| of 20 votes. We count everything SOLID
South Of the Potomac river and there a r.,
only two States West OF the Mississippi
which are IN any way doubtful. Those are
Iowa and Minnesota. If we can only get
four more woes We are all right. l think
Connecticut will give them"
Then lie asked Mr.. Stevens what he had
seen and heard about Iowa and Minnesota,
aud was assured that the silver managers
there had recently reported very hope
| fully. HIS own observation confirmed the
| reports, Mr.. Stevens said
Chairman Stevens Will remain in Wash
inEtou only three or lUur days, when he
VIII go To Chicago, tU remain the creates
part OF the time during tie campaign.
FIVE IMPORTANT STATES. e'
Their is the place for us To do ouT hard
WORK, said he. The real fighting ground
| of tins canvass is in OHIO Inuiana, ilIiHnis,
Michigan and Minnesota those five States.
lll the others, where there is any doubt,
are Of secondary Importance
Chairman Stevens said lie Cuuid not i'm
agine Il more enCourB ginl; state of politics
than is found Throughout The te rritUry west
of the Mississippi River. lie claim, every
State foF Bryan. with the possible eXccp
tioa OF Minnesota.
alr +. H. r. Green. chairman OF the
rived in town last night. He is the son
of Mrs. Hetty Green, OF this city, and
CANE with Cumhined purpose of private
business and politics.
Mr.. GTecu visited Republican headquar-
ters this morning and talked with Chair
man BibCoCk. lie drcli.ed that Mckinney
will carry Texas by $1,000 majority He
rcjCices in The fact that the Democrats
and Populists have not fused there. hut
that, on the contrary, there Is practically
Il fusion between Fopnlists and Republicans
''All the Populists i'll Texas want is L
share i'll lccai Iolitlcs- when we gave
them the state ticket they were perfectly
salts fled to indorse Mckinley electors.
,, They still cling to Watson and yet in some
places when we asked them about Watson
they said, oh, let him 60
MCKINLEY AND WATSON
'.AH the leading PtpuIst stump speak
crs are talking for Mckinley and Watson.
and their INTEREST," in the State ticket is So
absorbing that we hope soon to make them
conccde another point and make il McKin-
Icy and Hobart We shall carry the stat:
surely"
When Mr. Green was asked his opinion
of The situation in the south west generally,
lie replied, with smile:
"Oi, the state of TeXahiS so big that the
Republican State chairman cannot see be
yoDd its borders"
tio1ai committee, looked over a large piic
of letters from the West this morning.
while lie declared that he had absolutely
no fears concerning the alleged movements
oI middle Of the-road PupGllstS i'll the West.
He asserted that the had positive kruw.
edge that no rev convention will be held
i'll Nebraska. He also stated that Judge
Duffy, the strong silver Republican can,ii-
date, Nominated III The Second Kansas dis
trict Representative Mercer'sb, would
surely be elected.
Senator Faulkner was presented with Z;
beautiful bouquet of roses this morning in
honor of his birthday. 1t was the gift Of
four clerks. Dr. A B. Mitchell, NJ. T.
Byrne, +. b. keefer ana Z. II. Talbert. The
bouquet consists of sixteen white rns.s
with a large red one in the middle OF the
buuch.
NEWS FROM ARKANSAS
The secretary of the Arkansas Republican
League writes Chairman Babcock as fol-
lows:
We feel that il our State election had not
been held until the time of the Presidential
election we would have Leld the Democrats
down in much better shape, notwithstiind-
ing their gigantic election frauds AS it
is, the $4,000 of Chairman Jones. of the
Democratic national committee, advertised
TO the world the day after election, has
now been cut down to ma jority OF 40 GOO
Before the election some Of the Demo
cratic papers insisted that their candidate,
for governor would have 100, 900 ma alority.
We are now Of the opinion that Bryans ma
joIity in Arkansas will be many thousands
less than the Democratic majority in the
State election
Our authority for this statement is based
upon the TACT that many Of the Democratic
business men, and some OF the most promi-
Dpnt Democrats in the Stltp wi In, b:ly nj