The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-06
READY FOR THE BALLOT
Congress Will Surely b Demo-
cratic.
A HANDSOME MAJORITY
Heavy Gains Are Certain Throughout
the East and West-New York
II Bothering the
Republicans.
Washington Bureau of the standard, /
No. Has q street n. w. !

warrington bureau OF the Sl0n04r0,f
No. 1145 q Street n. w.
Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Washington. Nov. 5.-The campaign
Is now over nj nothing remains but
20 cast and coun the votes. There will
be closing political rallies all over the
country Monday night. but these final
meetings are hardly expected to infu-
ence any voters to change their minds.
They are really not designed for that
purpose. The object of the rallies Of
the night before election is to enthuse
the working members of each political
party. and make them more effective
at the Tuesday battle Of the ballots
More than 500 We political meetings, with
that end In view. will be held through
put the United States tomorrow night.
At the headquarters Of the congress
sional committees Of the two political
parties the shipment Of documents
ceased early this week.. and all the
work Is now at an end except telegraph
&c answering Of inquiries from dis
tricts all yer the country. Both COM
mittees have worked very hard for the
last four months. The republican on
gressional committee. by reason of a
preponderating campaign fund. has
sent out many more documents than its
democratic competitor, but its work
has not been characterized by the same
care or enthusiasm that has been shown
by the democratic committee. The
chairman and secretary of the republi-
can congressional committee have been
greatly embarrassed by the fierce fights
made against them in their own home
districts. to which they have given
more attention than to the image
ment Of the national campaign.
None of the managers of the demo-
cratic campaign nave been interested
in the election as candidates for con-
gress. and they have therefore been
able to give much closer attention to
their work. Vice Chairman Osborne
bore the brunt of the battle here up
10 one month ago, when he went to
Wyoming and has since had direct
charge of the campaign in the noun
tain states. His reports to the commit
tee from the West have been of the
most cheering and confident charac-
ter. He say that all the Rocky noun
tain states will do handsomely by the
democratic party and the silver cause.
and that Wyoming will be no laggard
1n the race.
StCfttdTN JAMES hcTT Oh GtnnSylNd-
mia has remained here paying the clos
est attention to developments of the
contest, m the end of the campaign
finds him absolutely confident that h
results viii be favorable. He says the
democratic tide has been rising so fast
that he has not been able to keep up
with IL, n he sees no reason to re-
duce his claim of more than so demo-
cratic and silver majority in the new
house He saws thu chances Of dannn-
cratic control of congress have been
increasing, rather than diminishing.
yer since the first week i'm October.
The democratic look for
heavy gains i'm New York. Pennsylvania
and the middle western states. and for
an almost clean sweep in the great
reaches beyond the Mississippi river.
The republican managers are tonight
whistling bravely as they prepare to
pass the cemetery on Tuesday. They
say that of course they do not hope
10 carry states like Colorado. Montana.
Utah and Idaho. for the free silver
advocates are loo firmly planted there
10 be dislodged in one campaign" But
the party claim, as gathered at repub-
1ican headquarters, is hat the free sill
ver vote will be largely reduced, and
that the republicans will gain much
that they lost in 1896 in the far West.
I'VE shall carry California by a big
vote" said an officer Of the republican
committee this evening. THE party Is
in splendid shape, and the conditions
there are the same that prevailed in
Oregon when the election was held last
June. There is In enormous democrat
&c or fusion vote to ovecome in WASH
ington state. Ii was a majority of
about $4,000 two years ago. 1 am GER
tain, however. that the majority will
be cut away down this coming Novem-