The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1896-10-23
(From our Regular Correspondent)
WASHINGTON LETTER.

WASHINGTON, ID. G., OcT. -, '96.
Mr.. Bryan's managers have AS {
surances which are as positive as iiIl
is possible TO make them in advance
of the actual announcement OF th'
vote, that Delaware, West Virginia,
Maryland and Kentucky, all OF
which are being claimed by thu
republicans, ae as safe for Bryan IA
Georgia and Florida are. 1t is just
as well known to Mark Hanna "a
it is to the democratic managers
that Mckinley will get no electoral
votes from the South, but he Il
keeping up his claims with th'
hope that it will help him to stem
the Bryan tide that is rapidly rls-
ing in the middle West, and which
is threatening to sweep everything
even McKinley's own state, before 1t
Many democrats would like toI
know by what process of reasoning
President Cleveland arrives at the
conclusion that it is not consistent
with strict propriety to mlngleI
actively in the pending campaign
(these are his own words) and then
writes in the same letter his com
mendation of the boiling democrats
to be read at gold meeting al
which member of his Cabinet,-
Secretary Morton-was the primer
pal speaker. They would also like
to know the sort OF proprety which
allows the President to write In fav-
or of gold, and the members OF hi
cabinet to write and speak in favor
of gold, without affecting their ofh-
cial status, but which makes work
ling for silver cost minor Federal
oiiicials their positions. And while
they are at it they would be glad to
know if President Cleveland does
mot consider it actively mingling IN
1.-The campaign to be holding consul
Itations in the White House to de-
wise means for keeping democrats
lfrom voting for the regular demo
lcratic ticket, as he has been doing
lsince he returned to Washington
They do, if he does not. 1t woulc
seem to most people that Preslden
cleveland is quite as actively ming
ling in the present campaign
ilagainst Bryan, as he did in eithe
Iof the three campaigns in which h'
G was the democratic candidate, II
lhis own behalf. That word min
gle" must have been carefu
|chosen, for MIR. Cleveland has no
been mingler, as most people un
derstand the term, since he was drs
elected President.
Senator Faulkner says of the re
ported boast Of the republicans tha
J. they have money enough to buy vi
Z the doubtful states this year. -
have never known an election II
any stat to be carried by th'
, purchase of votes, and | do no
think one will be carried that wa,
this Fall. The opportunities to us
money effectively have passed, al
q all the large combinations hav'
: been completed. | do not heliev
that the lack of money will preven
the democrats getting out their ful
vote on election day. This is
campaign in which the people ar
sufficiently interested in the resul
h to come out themselves.
'e In the House, on Nay q, 1890
Mr.. Mckinley made speech II
: which he used the following Ian
gauge: "When merchandise is tn
. cheapest, men are the poorest, an
the most depressing experiences i
the history Of our country-aye, i
] lall human history-have been whe
Everything was the lowest an
] cheapest, measured 10y gold, fc
everything was then the highest an
dearest measured by labor. "
Senator Butler, Chairman of tn
'. .Populist National Committee, ha
given out his first estimate OF II
! result of the election. He give
Bryan 232 electoral votes wlthol
!, drawing on Illinois, Michigan, lows
:" Delaware or Ohio, in all OF which B
thinks Bryan has an equal chane
N to win.
Reports from the Pacific coas
are all one way-for Bryan. III
Secretary Of the Democratic Sta'
Committee of California writes th'
, the state is sure for Bryan 10y vel
large majority, and Mr.. c. Cole,
Los Angeles, in the same state, sa,
lin a letter to Senator Faulkner
all 'This state will give very lars
nd majority for Bryan. think mo-
ali ali than $1,000. 1t cannot be figure
at less. You need not waste u
> party energy by sending sPeake
lout here. While we would like
n. see and hear them, we do not ne,
1t. them. Don't scatter. Break u
~ enemies lines. The Chairman
tho Damocratic State Com mlttee