The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1896-10-16
DIR WASHINGTON LETTER.

WAsHINGToN. ID. c.. October 18TH.
MIR. EDITOR MIR. Bryan's managers
have assurances which are as positive as
it is possible to make them in advance of
the actual announcement of the vote. that
Delaware, West Virginia, Maryland and
Kentucky all of which are being claimed
by the republicans. are as safe for Bryan
as Georgia and Florida: are. 1t is just as
well known to MaIk Hanna as it is to the
democratic managers that Mckinley will
get no electoral votes from the South, but
he is Keeping up his claims with the hope
that it will help him to stem the Bryan
tide that is rapidly rising in the Middle
West and which is threatening to sweep
everything, even Mckinleys own state,
before it.
Many democrats would like to know by
what process of reasoning President Cleve-
land arrives at the conclusion that it is
not consistent with strict propriety to
mingle actively in the pending campaign"
these are his Words and then writes in
the same letter his commentator of the
boiling democrats to be read at Il gold
meeting at which member of his Cabinet,
Secretary Morton-was the principal
speaker They would also like to know
the sort of prOpriety which allows the
President to write in favor of gold and
the members of his cabinet to write and
speak in favor of gold without affecting
their official status, but which makes work
ing for silver cost minor Federal officials
their positions. And while they are at it
they would be glad to know if President
Cleveland does not consider it actively
mingling in the campaign to be holding
consultations in the White House to de-
wise means for keeping democrats from
voting for the regular democratic ticket,
as he has been doing since he returned to
Washington. They do, if he does not. 1t
would seem to most people that President
Cleveland is quite as actively mingling i'll
the present campai IN, against Bryan, as
he did in either of the three campaigns in
which he was the democratic candidate, in
his own behalf That word "minele" must
have been carefully chosen. for Mr.. Cleve
land has not been Il mingler, rs most peo
pie understand the term, since he was first
elected President.
Senator Faulkner says of the reported
boast of the republicans that they have
money enough to buy up the doubtful
states this year: Il have never known an
election in any state to be carried by the
purchase of votes and do not think one
will be carried that way this fail. The OPP
portunities to use money effectively have
passed, as all the large combinations have
been completed. do not believe that the
lack of money will prevent the democrats
getting out their full vote on election day.
This is Il campaign in which the people
are sufficiently interested in the result to
come out themselves
In the House, on May eth, 1890, Mr..
Mckinley made a speech in which he used
the following language: When merchan-
disc is the cheapest, men are the poorest,
and the most depressing experience in the
history of our country-aye, in all human
history-have been when every thing was
the lowest and cheapest. measured by gold,
for everything was then the highest and
dearest measured by labor
Senator Butler, Chairman of the Popu-
list National Committee has given out his ]
nrst estimate of the result of the election. |
He gives Bryan 232 electoral votes with
out drawing on Illinois, Michigan, Iowa. |
Delaware or Ohio. in all of which he |
thinks BRYAN has an equal chance to win |
Reports from the Pacific coast are all |
one way-for BRYAN. The Secretary of |
the Democratic State Committee of Cali
fornia, writes that the state is sure for |
Bryan by very large majority. and Mr..
G. Cole, of Los Angeles, in the same state,
says in letter to Senator Faulkner This |
state will give very large majority for
Bryan. l think more than oO,OOO. 1t can
not be figured at less. You need not
waste the party energy by sending speak
ers out here. While we would like to see
and hear them. we do not need them
Don't scatter. Break the enemies lines
The Chairman of the Democratic State
Committee. of Oregon, writes that a poll
IF the state has been taken and that Bry
ans majority will certainly exceed 1000
md may go as high as 10000, while the
Secretary of the Union Bimetallic Party
If the same state, says: 81 see no reason
% doubt that Bryan will win this state by
rom 5000 to 10000
Secretary Edgerton. of the Populist
National Committee, who was for several
years Chairman of the Populist State
Committee of Nebraska, and who is thor
'ughly posted on existing conditions in
hat state, says Bryan will get 10000 pop
Hist votes, 10000 democratic votes, 10000
liver republican votes and 1900 prohibit
ionists votes, total Of $4,000, while
Mckinley will get $4,000 republican votes
nd 5000 gold democratic votes and that
out of the Congressional districts will !!
ertainly elect silver men.