The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1899-09-14
WASHINGTON.
'om our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, Sept. II, 1900.

Washington, Sept. II, 1900.
Democratic success in the Ohio
campaign will spell defeat for the re-
publicans IN the National campaign.
That much is already plainly apparent,
young as the campaign is. The ad-
vantages of this situation are altogeth-
er on the side of democracy. Mr.. Nc
klnley knows that his chances for
next year will vanish if he fails to hold
Ohio this year also, that carrying
Ohio this year will add particularly
nothing to republican chances of sue
cess next year. That is why the sit
uatlon is so advantageous to demo.
Gratis II they can carry Ohio it will
practically settle the Presidential cleo
tion year ahead, and If they fail to
carry 1t, the failure will not injure the
partys prospects. 1t isn't only from
democratic party leaders that good
news from Ohio comes. 1t comes also
from long-headed business men, such
as Mr.. II. Krucken, of Cincinnati,
who said, while in Washington: "The
democracy of Ohio has a golden op-
portunlty, IN my opinion, to elect its
candidates in the coming election.
John R. Mclean has many elements
OF strength. but his greatest hope is in
the intense dissatisfaction that has
grown up against the leaders and poll.
cies of the republicans. The chic!
hostility is against Senator Hanna, and
many and keen are the knaves that
will be welded against him. In fact,
the discomfort is growing stronger
each day, and if a political revolution
is not brewing, am greatly deceived"
Every republican official in Wash
ington who has the slightest reputa-
tion as stump speaker, from MIR. Nc
Kinley down, has been invited-in re-
ality ordered-to help out the Hanna
ties. Mr. Mckinley will not 60 so
far as to take the stump, unless Hanna,
after he returns and looks over the
field, tells him he must. 1t is not
surprising that he should shrink from
making such an exhibition of his high
office.
1t was only by the shire wed manip-
ulation of Mr.. Mckinley, while he was
in Philadelphia, that the administra-
tion escaped severe raking over be.
cause of the methods followed by the
Pension Bureau. Knowing that an
attack by the G.. A. r. encampment
on Commissioner Evans would be
generally recognized as an attack up
on him and his entire administration.
Mr., Mckinley went to encampment
to head the attack off, and he sue
ceeded, so far as a formal resolution
of attack was concerned.
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Judging from the talk of New York
democrats who come to Washington,
Col. Bryan is likely to come very near
to getting a solid delegation to the
National Convention from that State,
Notwithstanding the scheming against
him by few individuals. One New
Yorder said: "Bryan clubs are being
organized in every election precinct in
Kings county, which shows that the
rank and file Of the party in that
county are for the Nebraskan, just as
the mass of democrats all over New
York State are for him. He is strong
er in New York by far than he was in
1896, and that he will get the electoral
votes of the State in 1900 | have not
the slightest doubt"
There is no truth in the Statement!
that an agreement has been reached
on the Alaskan boundary line. Neg
citations are still pending, and an
agreement is no nearer than it has
been several times before when some
new proposal upset all that had pre-
viously been done.
The Industrial Commission created
by the last Congress, is again holding
daily sessions in Washington, the par
ticular subject now under lnvestiga
ton being trusts. The Commission
has authorized some of its member:
to attend the conference on trusts, tc
be held at Chicago, next week, under
the auspices of the Civic Federation
but the republicans being in the ma
jority, the Commission took especla
pains to instruct its representatives tt
that conference that they should b'
merely onlookels, without any author
ity to do or say anything that will