Morris tribune., 1896-11-04
CAPITAL ITEMS
Interesting Items Cleaned al
the Capital by the Tribune
Reporter.
AL the Important Doings OF
Great Men During Va
cation.

over the result VI GIlc SlCCGIOI' L ia
Is because they are perfectly conn
dent that the election of Mckinley
and Hobart is assured. This con
tidence was born not of visionary
hopes but of complete knowl
edge of the situation so far as II
can be movable in advance, OBJ
tanned through trustw orthy sources
In every state. There are still sew
eral states in which there is still an
element of doubt, because OF the
failure of considerable number OF
ysters to declare in advance how
they will vote, but even if every
one of these states should be car
ried by Bryan it would not affect
the result. There are enough alb
solutely certain states in which a
majority of the voters have de-
cIared their intentions to vote the
Republican ticket, to elect McKin-
ley and Hobart by majority in the
neighborhood of fifty electoral
xetes. So too, there enough con-
gressional districts which are abso-
lutely certain to elect Republicans
to give the Republicans the control
Of the next house by majority
that will not fall far short of that
In the present house.
The chances seem to favor the
election of enough Republican SEN
atars to give the Republicans cor
troll of the senate after the 4th of
next March but it is not like the
presidency and the house a certain
~. That is the only regretable
xhin g about the situation. If the
Republicans cannot control the
senate without the votes of the sill
yer Republicans who prevented the
passage of the house bill providing
the necessary revenue to run the
government at the last session of
congress and later bolted the ma
tional convention, there will be a
aonbt about the legislation of the
Bsxt congress that may lessen the
extent of the business boom that
IS g,ing to follow the election of
Mckinley, and that would be
misfortune, indeed, as The country
needs all the business it can posi-
bi. get,
1t is somewhat amusing to fol-
low the efforts of the betting men
I'd make some money out of the
election on their information that
Bic Kill ley is a sure winner. They
have offered odds as high as five
and SIX to one that Mckinley will
BE elected, but have not succeeded
ia placing much money and during
the past week it has been sprctical-
BY an imrossibility for them to
C oak any Bryan money out. They
are now offering even money to
any an cunt that Bryan's entire
vote in the electoral college will not
DE as large as Mckinley's majority
and there re no takers.
The POI ocrats are trying hard to
Keep up brave front and to pre-
tend that they have information
that causes them to feel confident
of Bryan's election, but they are
got succeeding in fooling anybody
and some of them admit in private
conversation that while they still
hope that Bryan will be elected
fheydo not believe he will be.
Others among them are already
trying to discount the defeat Of
Bryan by charging that the Re-
pnblicans are preparing to buy
votes by wholesale and to do, other
ridiculous things.
The secretary of the silver party
national committee practically adj
IN tilted his belief that Bryan and
silver would loose in this campaign
when he allowed it to become
known that his committee was
az1aking arrangements to establish
headquarters in New York City
for the purpose of continuing the
"a citation in behalf of silver after
election. If his committee believed
that Bryan and silver majority of
the house were going to be elected