Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1896-09-16
CAPITAL ITEMS
Interesting Items Cleaned at
the Capital by the Tribune
Reporter.
All the Important Doings of
Great Men During Va
cation.

hPpuDlIChu IIdIAdSSlo Id1t ~ OeA
er sources OF information, they
would know from the tone of the
speeches made by Bryan and his
followers that the POpocrats were
ON the run. They have already be
gun to explain their defeat by al
sorts of ridiculous charges about
capitalists compelling their EN-
ployees to support Mckinley and
Hobart. But the Republican man.
ayers know from other sources
direct reports from the states
that Bryan is already licked and
that if the election were 10 be held
this week Mckinley and Hobart
would be easy winners. The Bry
an managers know this too and
that is one reason why they are
struggling so hard on the stump
and through the literature they
are distributing to arouse class
prejudice in favor of Bryan. But
they are barking up the wrong
tree. The average American voter
knows a thing or two, and having
onee made up his mind by bringing
his common sense to bear upon the
questions at issue he will not allow
that decision to be upset by his
prejudice,
The mere desperate Bryan S
chances get the larger grows the
demands of the Populists. Tom
Watson compelled the Popocratic
managers to set aside their original
program and agree that Bryan and
himself should be notified of their
nominal ton and he has now started
out to compel them to take Sewall
r. # the ticket and put him on.
Watson has not minced matters.
3Ir has told the Popocratic manag-
rs that could choose between put
SAG him on the regular Bryan tick
@e5 and the certainty of losing sew
sal of the southern states, and if
fry do not decide by the time
s3ayan comes east again, this week,
~ is said that Watson, who is also
g oming east, intends to compel
Bryan to publicly choose between
Aim self and Sewall as his running
nste- The Popocrats say that
ssewall will not be taken off the
t3tket, but they are reported to be
bringing all sorts of pressure upon
z 70 take himself off the ticket, so
421at the Popul1sts may be satisfied
by Eutting Watson on.
A fair specimen of the misrepre-
sen tation which IS the most prom
xent feature of the campaign that
5s being conducted in behalf of
Bryan, Reputation and anarchy
Bass the statement of Senator
Faulkner, chairman Of the Demo
cratic congressional committee.
* bat the Republicans had sent an
ia ormous quantity ofliterature into
arkansas. The Republicans sent
ESQ literature at all into that state, I
Except to a few hundred individ-
sss.1s who made specific requests for
IL because they did not feel able to
waste good material in state
@Aere the election machinery
.-a.ald be so manipulated as to
saagn out any desired Dem
oeratic majority. In fact the de-
mand for literature has been so
great that the Republican commit
lee has had to cut down the guam
tity asked for in all states that are
as surely Republican in
asrlpr TO supply the demand in states
hat are regarded as doubtful The
knowledge that the figures in the
alleged big Democratic majority in
arkansas represents the crooked
7Esark of dishonest election officials
Gather than honest votes deprives
laesn of any. significance.
1t can be stated upon the best
that at conference held
q New York city this week be-
ween Senator Hill and number
# prominent Tammany Hall Dem
rcrats the opinion of every man
resent was that Bryan hadn t the