Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1896-10-03
WASHINGTON LETTER
ELECTION ASSURED.
Mckinley and Hobart.
THAOHER OFF THE TICKET IN NEW
YORK.
Bryans Radical Speeches Go Against
Him.
(From Our Regular Correspondent }
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2S. 1895.

(From Our Regular Correspondent
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2S. 1896.
Feeling that the election Of McKin-
lev and Hobart is now about absolute
ly assured, the republican managers
purpose giving more attention To
spirited attempt, with the assistance
of the sound money democrats. to put
anumber of southern states in the re-
publican column than they would have
done had they considered the states
necessary for republican success to be
in doubt This charge upon the south
is not rainbow chasing. 1t rs approx
ed as good politics, and as PROMISING
substantial results, by some OF the
shrewdest workers and managers in
the republican party. To start with
there are four southern states Mary
land, Delaware, West Virginia ana
Kentucky-which are almost certain
to be carried by Mckinley and Hobart
and which are privately conceded by
many silver men as being already lost
to Bryan.
There is a fighting chance for the
republicans to carry North Carolina, al
though it has been lessened by the tus-
ing of the democrats and Oopulists,
which some republicans think ought
Co have been and could have been pre-
vented. Tennessee republicans have
assured the NATIONAL Committee that
the state can be carried for Mckinley
III the Committee viii! lend its help to
get out the full republican vote, and
the Committee has promised TO do SO.
The republicans will also make live
ly fight in Alabama. not with the eN-
pectatiOn of electing the Mckinley
and Hobart electors but OF indirectly
helping the sound money democrats Of
that state TO carry some of the Con
gressional districts and TO eject tn,
Palmer and Buckner electors. The
Alabama democrats and populists are
so hot against each other that they
will probably not fuse.
BRYAN ALREADY BEATEN.
According to Comptroller Eckels
who has been making sound money
speeches in Illinois. Bryan is thorough
ly beaten and will not carry a singh
one of the Mississippi valley states
He also says that Altgeld is making
his canvass for Governor of Illinois in
dependent OF the Bryan cause, but tina
he will be beaten anyway.
WOMEN TAKE A HAND
Even the women in the Dis trict o
Columbia are taking an active part il
the fight for Mckinley and Hobart ant
honest money and the right to earn i
by honest toll The Auxiliary We
mems Republican Association has beei
organized, to assist the Mckinley an,
Hobart marching campaign club. Thi
is the first women's club organized il
Washington during the present cam
paign its object baing, IS stated ~ Il
constitution, ito unite Che women 4
this community in educational wor
and social influence for the mainte
nance of the principles of the republi
can party in the homes, in the stat
and in the nation"
HILL INUNDATED.
Bryan has proven himself To be
bigger man with the democratic ma
chine of New YORK than Senator Hi
IS. He said when Hills candidate fo
Governor, John Body Thatcher, wrot
that letter, expressing his willingness
to run for Governor on IA platform en-
dursing the Chicago platform, Will
declaring himself unalterably oppose
to the free coinage of silver. tn,
Thacher would have TO get of I'll
ticket, and now, 10 and behold, Thacl
er is off the ticket. Democrats
Washington will not be surprised
this last humiliation put upon Hill [
Bryan results in Hill coming out Pa
mer and Buckner or sulking during Il
campaign.
CHAIRMAN BABcocK HAPPY.
Chairman Babcock, of the Republ
can Congressional Committee, b
Just returned from New York, whe
he conferred with Chairman Ham
Senator Quay and other members
the Republican National Committs
and he is in very jubllant state
mind. He says that everything is g
ing McKinleYwards, and that the I
publicans who isn't contented with {
present drift of public sentiment mu
be hard TO satisfy indeed.
SPEAKER REED TO TALK,
There is great JOY among republica
hereabouts. Speaker Reed has pr
missed to address a big Mckinley a
Hobart meeting to be held in Was
ington, early in October, under /
auspices of the National Union RepU
lican Club, and Representative Cove
of Maryland, a democrat who is dol
good work for Mckinley has promis
to address the same meeting. Ma
republican organizations in MarylaT
Virginia and West Virginia, have
ready signified their intention to ia
part in this meeting, and there is
tie doubt that it will be mammS
affair.
BRYAN's EASTERN TOUR.
News which is coming to WashiI
ton from all along the line of Brya
eastern tour makes it certain that
radical utterances and his appeals
class prejudice are making strong
Kinley men out of thousands of Ct
servative democrats who might hi
swallowed the free coinage doctri
but who cannot stand the smash
down with every thing, which is be
preached by Bryan. These men
not believe it to be criminal for n
to be thrifty and accumulate prope
if need be. Some of Bryan'S rema
read like quotations from the speec
of the men who started the French
Volution, and no sane man wants
see "Reign of Terror" in this co
try.