Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-09-15
REPUBLICANS ENCOURAGED
Letters Received From Many States Showing
Good Outlook.
Oregon Said to Be Safe for Mckinley,
Missouri o. X. and Bryan Not
In 1t In Nebraska,

Republican managers say they do not
give to the public the contents of many
letters received by them, regarding it bad
policy, but that they have all the encour-
agement they want in hundreds of letters
daily. These letters cover every state
Among those today was one from A. Soren-
son, editor Of the Evening Telegram of
Portland, Ore, who writes:
Oregon for Mckinley.
''The outlook for Mckinley in Oregon is
improving daily, and 1 feel confident that
the republicans will carry the state by a
safe majority. Many men have been con-
verted from the silver ranks 1 know per-
sonally at least twenty-five. That is good
straw. The sound money democrats will
as rule, as 1 believe. vote for the Nc
kinley and Hobart electors. Republican
League clubs. Patriotic League clubs, ETC.,
are being organized everywhere throughout
the state and great enthusiasm prevails.
Senator Mitchell has taken off his coat and
Is doing great work for Mckinley, and no
doubt his services will prove very valu-
able The campaign is being well conducted
In oregon. Nothing IS being left undone.
You can bet that Oregon will be placed in
the Mckinley column
Missouri o. X.
A. D. Grant writes from ST. Louis:
AAAAoo eAiC AOOhiHS DflSuteT mere Ody Dy
day, but it Is to be hoped that some of our
great orators will be sent out here to help
US. This city Is crazy to hear Thomas B.
Reed. Tonight we are to have Bryan with
Us. The crowd will go, of course as they
you'd so to any other circus, but the un-
Cercurrent here Is not for that gentleman
by any manner of means, and his speech
will cost him several thousand votes The
state Is all o. K. for Mckinley"
j. E. Beard of Broadway Va writes.
The republicans of this precinct have Or
ganized Mckinley and Hobart club and
started off with 13S names"
From Nebraska.
Samuel c. Sample, well-known republi-
can Of Butte, Boyd county, Neb., writes:
''Bty1 comfy Is situated in darkest Ne
braska,' politically speaking, and always
gives populst majorit.es. With Holt county
1t is the paradise of pops. A careful can
vass of the county warrants me in sayin g
that it is probable that our people will
carry it. The great majority of populists
are old-time republicans, and they do not
relish being delivered into the democratic
camp. If this is indication Of the feel
ing in the state at large, Bryan surely
isn't IL 1t. -
In South Carolina.
E. A. Webster, the republican leader of
South Carolina, talked today with Chair
man Babcock over the situation in that
state. Mr.. Webster does not predict the
election of Mckinley electors, but he says
that the republicans will make the fight in
several congressional districts interesting
to the democrats. Mr.. Webster's policy
so far, has been to have well-known buSi-
ness or professional men nominated by the
republicans. He hopes by this to secure
the aid of gold democrats. The republicans
will make their hardest fight in the first
second and fifth districts. The first district
convention is in session at Charleston
today, and Mr.. Webster thinks that it may
put up a gold standard democrat of
Charleston and support him.
BrO>vnloyv Denies a Story.
The congressional committee is in receipt
of letter from Representative w. P
Brownlow, republican candidate for Con-
gress in the first district of Tennessee, in
which he states that the rumor that he
il.dorsed the free coinage Of silver or that
he had given any interviews to the press
expressing himself as favoring free silver
is untrue and without any founda ton what
ever. He says: Il indorse and stand with
my party on the platform of principles
adopted by our last convention at ST.
Louis, and am an ardent supporter of Hon.
William Mckinley for President Hon.
George N. Tillman for governor and of all
other nominees of the republican party
The information is entirely satisfactory to
the congressional committee, and the candi-
dacy of Mr.. Brownlow has received its full
Endorsement.