The Press., 1896-10-22
Washington Letter.
WashinUtnn- -.Oct. 12ih. @SQE


 The rainbow chasers have again invaded the Bryan camp, and are maklug some very tall claims, such as that Iowa will go for Bryan by 37,OOO, Ohio by 30 900, and New York, New Jersey and Pennsyl- vania by substantial pluralites. MT Bryan may be elected-most peopl" in Washington believe that he still has q chance, even if it he not quite as good a chance as MT. Mckinley has-but with the possible exception of Iowa, which is thought to be doubtful although strongly claimed by the Mckinley people, he stands no more show of carrying one of these states than he does of carrying Yer mont or than Mckinley does of carrying South Carolina. The alleged basis for this new outbreak of the rainbow chasers is a newly discovered undercurrent ill favor of silver among the working men. Its real purpose is probably to frightrn the Mckinley managers into withdraw ing some of their forces from the middle west where the presidency will really be won or lost.
 Secretary Morton did more to help Bryan than any member of the admin istration has yet been able to do towards injuring him when he gave out that inter view charging the eX-cOnfederato generals with trying to accomplish through free silver what they failed to do by force of arms. It is doubtful if there is a man in | Washington, excepting the secretary him self, who does not to day condemn both the | spirit and the language of that interview. Secretary Morton meant to injure Bryan and free silver, but he has made it certain that thousands of votes in the south will go to Bryan that he would not otherwise | have gotten, and he has not alienated any | Bryan support in any other section. This is not the first by d number of times that Secretary Morton's tongue has gone half cooked, so to speak. While most people have their own opinion as to which policy will be best for the country, there are very few who go so far as to charge their opponents with desire to destroy the government In heated political argu- ment, man may say many foolish things, but down in his heart he knows, whether he be a gold man or a silver man, that his opponent is actuated by precisely the same sentiment as himself-a desire to do what will add to the prosperity and future greatness of the country and that the only difference between them is one of opinion as to what will accomplish that purpose
 According to Mr. Reese H. Voorhees,, son of Senator Voorhees,, who has just re- turned from Indiana, that state is trem- bling in the balance and will go to Bryan or Mckinley just as the labor vote desire it to go. He says that both the repubIi- cans and democrats confess privately that they are at sea in regard to the bulk of the labor vote, which both are still mak- ing extraordinary efforts to capture. The political managers at Washington believe that their ale other states in which the balance of power is held by the labor vote and in which they have been unable to : get any reliable knowledge of how the } bulk of that vote will be cast, but they are not talking about them; at least not ! for publication.
 While the positive annOuncement,w which 5 has been made in some newspapers, that
 an agreement has been reached hetWeeI 3 the U. 5. and Great Britain on the Vene ; zuelan boundary question was a littl' premature, there Is little doubt that thu t negotiations now under way will soon s probably before the Venezuelan Boundar, Commission reports in favor of the con Y tentions of Venezuela, as there is every n reason to believe it will report-result il 3 satisfactory understanding which cal r be honorably accepted by Venezuela an' I the long disputed questions of boundar, S be submitted to arbitration which vii = settle it for once and all.
 r Once more the rumOr is current il Washington that President Cleveland ha t become tired of the continued failure 0 Spain to put down the Cuban rebellion F and that he has caused hint to be con 6 veyed to the Spanish government of his , intention to recognize the independenc U of Cuba, if the present status on the Is $ land is maintained for three month j. longer. President Cleveland was yer
 near to taking that step last spring, an
 it is believed would have done so but fO
 political considerations. Such action O. 3 his part this winter would be merely al
 ticipating the act of his successor, as it pretty well understood that whether Nil s Mckinley or Bryan be president, tn . recognition of Cuban independence woul 8 not be long delayed after inauguration.
 The Philosophy of (iCyyrs.