The Anaconda standard., 1899-10-24

has gone for the last ten years. The
democratic management. which is real
ly Mclean in person, is having next to
no speaking. With the exception of
Mr.. Bryans' hasty trip through the
state there will be no work on the hust
lngs. There is, however. much excel
lent work being done for the demo-
cratic ticket, including a house-to-house
canvass-the first thorough one ever
made by the democratic party in the
state something on the old Tilden
plan 1t is also reported that the state
ate communication with represen-
tatives in every school and path dis
trict in the state, which Is the kind of
thoroughness that tells.
The five counties of Hamilton Guy
ahoga, Lucas, Franklin and Montgom-
cry, embracing the large cities of Gin
cinnati. Cleveland, Toledo, Columbus
and Dayton, poll only ne-third of the
total vote of the state. In 1896 they
cast $4,000 votes In round numbers in
the Ohio poll Of 100000. These FIVE
counties gave Mckinley $4,000 of the
47,497 plurality recorded for him in the
state in 1896. Thus it will be seen that
If they all go against the republican
party (and they have all so gone in
municipal contests since 1886 the prob
lem involved in the Ohio election of
this year will be very near solution.
The reports from Kentucky are not of
an overly encouraging character, but
those from Nebraska continue excel
lent. There seems no reason to doubt
the success of Ex-Governor Silas A.
Holcomb, the democratic and populist
candidate for governor. He is splen-
did campaigner and has several times
carried the state for governor, running
handsomely ahead of Bryan in 1896
The attempt to discredit Bryan by the
publication of the so-called prefer
money to honor" letter-a political
failed utterly Even the Washington
Post has denounced 1t as peanut poll
tics of the f1imsiest description. Sena-
tor Thurston's expression of opinion of
the status of Bryan in Nebraska, here
tofore published in this correspond
ence, will undoubtedly be demonstrated
to be correct at this years election.
Maryland continues a particularly
bright and rosy spot In the democratic
horizon. In addition to the natural
tendency of the state to swing back to
its old political moorings, the demo-
cratic party is aided by a republican
quarrel of huge dimensions and by the
extravaganza and unpopularity of the
present republican administration
which went into office on a reform
tidal wave and has not done any re-
forming since it got in. In a speech at
FREDERICK eX-CongreSSman 1Sidor Ray
ner now the democratic candidate for
attorney general has punctured Cover
nor Lowndes' claim to being a reform
er in the following stirring words:
Governor Lowndes is as shrewd and
scheming politician as was ever grad
uated from the political seminaries,
When he is framing his political con-
tracts at the Maryland club, he is an
ardent reformer, but when he is din
ing and wining at republican leagues
and banduets he is as bitter an enc
my of the democratic party as the ex-
tremist fanatic from the shores of New
England. When he leaves his home
amid the celestial regions of Allegany
county and lands in Baltimore city, he
envelops himself in his dazzling domi-
no of reform SO that he can f1irt grace
fully with the independent vote of the
city"
The plain meaning of what Mr.. Ray