Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1896-10-03
THE POPOCRiTS
Abandon Washington Head
quarters Believing Fur
ther Work Useless.
M'KINLEY'S CHANCES
Growing Brighter and He Will
Have a Majority of Fifty
Electoral Votes.
WASHINGTON, Sept. %, 1S9
From our Regular Correspondent

From our Regular Correspondentl
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2S, 1896.
The popocratic national committee thiI
week formally abandoned the light fol
Bryan in the east and middle states
by sbolishing the Washington branch
OF its headquarters. Other reasons are
given, but every body in Washington
knows the real reason to be that Chair.
man Jones has been convinced that
Bryan hes no chow to carry single
state in the east and that the cost OF
maintaining the Washington branch OF
bis headquarters was go much money
thrown away. 1t was originally intend
ed that the work done at the Washing
ington branch of popocrstic hesdquar-
ters should be almost entirely of liter
ary nature, and Clark Howell, of the
Atlanta Constitu ton, was placed in
charge of the bureau which was to teach
eastern voters the beauties of free silver
and the Chicago platform, with Repre-
entative Richardson, of Tennessee, ss
his chief assistant. Mr.. Howell has
found things so warm in Georgia that
he has been able to give very little at
tention to the bureau. and Richardson
came near having a fight with Butler.
the chairman OF the populist committee.
and was transferred to Chicago. This
loft h0 ht,r oh ~
man whose sole political experience con.
slsts OF having succeeded in getting him
self sent as one of six delegates from the
District Of Columbi to the Chicago con
vention, and now the bureau is "bust-
&C" just as the whole popocratic COM
blnstion will be on the 36 of Novem Der.
This leaves the populist headquarters
in q rather peculiar position. Senator
Butler is here, but there will be nobody
representing the popocratic national
committee in Washington for him to
confer with, as Senator Faulkner, OF the
democratic congressional committee,
which, OF course, retains it's Washiug-
ton headquarters, has no connection
with the popocratic national com mittee, |
and nothing to do with the manage
ment OF anything but the congressional
campaign.
Senator Eikins of West Virginia, en-.
joys the reputation OF being one of the |
shrewdest and m ost csreful Political OBJ |
servers in the country. For that reas- !
on his opinions were eagerly sought
while he was In Washington this week. |
He said Of West Virginia: 81 have no
fears OF the state; its electoral vote Will |
ha for MaK nj hv NJ looot 0D0 /
to 10, COO ma jority. l am not indulgipg |
servRtive. The fact lie that the silver
cause is losing force daily. Apart from
it's espousRl by the democrstio party
free silver alone couldn't carry three |
states in the union. The western peo-
pie are not nearly SO crazy over this ell. !
YER delusion as eastern people imagine;
all the fools do not reside west of the |
mountains, and that fact will |
be very apparent when the vote is |
OF the general result Senator Elkins |
said: "The electoral votes of Ohio, In. |
di ma, Iowa, Wisconsin and Michigan
are surely McKinlsy's. In Minnesota,
Nebraska, California and, l |
may add, Kentucky, there is also q |
chance Of winning, but the battle is won |,
without them. Mckinley will have q
majority of at least fifty in the electoral
college," Senator Elkins will, In addi-
ton to stumping his own state, make
some speeches in Ohio, Indiana and IL
lipois.
Mr.. Lawrence Gardner, secretary of |
the democratic congressional committee
admits that he has drawn several checke |
for amounts in the neigh 5orhood OF
$1,000 each to the order of Genersl-Sec-
retsry Treasurer Hayes, OF the knights
OF Labor, but says they we're ia pay
ment for printing done for the commit.
tee. He denies knowledge OF drafts
paid to other officials of the X. of l.. in |
the Middle Western states, but it 10
positively asserted that such drafts have /
passed through Washington banke, and |
1T is certain that the men who got the |
money on them did not do any printing |
for the democratic committee.
Nothing but amusement was caused |,
among the repu blicans in Washington /
by Senator Hills clumsy attempt to
catch the votes OF both gold democrats /
and popocrsts for his candidate for /
governor in New York. or course Hill |
knows that New York ia bound to 60
repu blicsn this year; he was only after
retaining bis hold on the party machine
in his state. The popocrats are calling
Hill such pet names as TRAITOR" irene.
gads" etc.
The avidity with which the popocrats
are making use of Bismarck's letter to
Gov. Culbertson, o: Texas, shows how
bard up they are for arguments. The /
letter ia a very poor argument at best, as
Bismarck merely says be sees no objec-
tion to the adoption Of the free coinsee
Of silver by the people of this country
''if they should find it compatible with
their interests" but it becomes really
worthless when it is remembered that it
WAS Bismarck who demonetIZed silver
in Germany and put that country on
gold basis. OF course be has no objec-
tion to our going on a silver basis, but
he wishes Germany to remain on gold
basis.