Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-09-23
As SEEN IN WASHINGTON.
In the Opinion of Chairman Jones, Demo-
cratic Prospects Constantly Grow Bright

In the Opinion of Chairman Jones, Demo-
cratic Prospects Constantly Grow Bright
er.
The Washington correspondent of
The News and Courier, writing under
date of last Friday, has the following
to say of the political situation through
out the country:
Senator Jones fired bomb into the
Republican camp today when he put
forth claim that Bryan will carry sc
out of As states. When the chairman
of the Democratic national committee
was in the city few days ago some of
the Republican papers tried to make it
appear that he was discouraged, and
some of them went so far as to state
that he was weary of his job as direc-
tor general of the Bryan campaign and
desired to retire in favor of Senator
German. Of course all that kind Of
talk was mere rot, and the first official
statement from Democratic headquar
tiers after Senator Jones returned to
Chicago from his eastern trip shows
that he proposes to keep up his aggres-
sive tactics.
The Republicans have claimed that
the Bryan enthusiasm was dying out,
but the report of Representative Ap-
sley of Massachusetts, who has just
returned from an official tour of in
spection through the middle west and
northwest to the Pacific slope, is far
from encouraging to the Republican
managers. Mr.. Apsley is vice chair
man of the Republican congressional
committee, and he put in four weeks
consulting with the party managers in
the territory mentioned. In spite Of
the extravagant expenditure of money
by the Mark Hanna committee, con-
servative Republicans confess that the
Mckinley movement does not keep
pace with the Bryan style of cam
paigning.
At Republican headquarters there is
no longer any talk of capturing two
or more southern states. A few weeks
ago it was claimed that Florida, North
Carolina, and possibly Kentucky and
Louisiana, would be found in the
Republican column. The remarkable
ovation given Mr.. Bryan in Kentucky
and North Carolina knocked all Re-
publican calculations as to those two
states into a cooked hat, and the Re-
publicans have practically abandoned
all idea of securing the electoral vote
of any southern state for Mckinley.
The Republican congressional com.
mittee are figuring on scheme by
which they hope to secure majority
for the gold standard in the next house
of representatives. Secretary Mercer,
of the Republican committee, is au-
thority for the statement that in Geor-
gia, South Carolina, Alabama and
Tennessee the Republicans will be or
dered to refrain from putting up cam
didates for congress. The plan is for
the gold standard Democrats to put
up tickets in opposition to the silver
candidates, and the Republican voters
will be expected to support the candi-
dates for congress on the Palmer and
Buckner ticket.
Some of the Republican leaders of
the south refuse to act upon the sug-
gestion Of the congressional committee
in this connection, fof they would
rather make the race for congress
themselves and take the chances Of
making a contest in the event of the
election of Republican majority in
the house of representatives. 1t is
understood that missionaries will
shortly be sent south to try to induce
the objecting Republicans to rally to
the support of the sound money Demo
Gratis in the congressional contest.