The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1899-11-11
VOTES FOR HANNA.
The Ohio senator Is Destroying Dad
Effects of Democratic
CnIumnies.

AS the campaign for votes nears its
disposition on the part of the wavering
to line up with the parties with which
they have heretofore affiliated. This
in obviously due TO the usual attempts
of the party whips, who appeal in the
most natural way for the votes that
have been counted on in the ante-elec-
ton pool books. The lines are closing
up, and each party makes the boast
that il has made inroads on the others
strength, but the closer the campaign
approaches to election day the more
apparent becomes the fact that the
changes will be fewer than the party
organizations and managers have been
led to expect by the reports of local
chairmen.
The republicans have had to carry
heavy load in Mr.. Hanna, but the
junior senator has shed the opprobrium
with the skill of tightwire performer,
and he has even become positive favor
lite in certain localities. The opposition
press. ever since Mr.. Hanna's entree as
leader, has played upon n prejudice
that was not warranted, and a,propor-
ton of the voters in the remoter dis
tricts was made to believe that Mr..
Hanna was only a vulgar boss, surfeited
with ignorance and conccit. lie has
been caricatured to anNeXtent that re-
calls the assaults on Mr.. Blaine. The
senator himself never seemed to mind
this very much, but his more sensitive
friends did They induced him to show
himself to the people. and there is no
doubling the fact that he has saved
many votes to the party.
The republicans in the last days of
Che campaign will have many speakers
of national prominence in the field and
the campaign will end in a cataract of
eloquencc. Among those lately billed
are Senator Burrows. of Michigan;
Congressman Lands, of Indiana; Graft,
of Illinois; Durham, of California, and
DalzelI, of Pennsylvania, and Webster
Davis, of Kansas City. A strenuous ef-
fort to have Scnator-clcct Depew, of
New York, speak in Columbus with SEN
ator Foraker was unsuccessful, and
Senrror Burrows was substituted.
The only foreign orator of note inn
ported by the democrats was Mr.. Bry-
an, who made three days tour of the
counties in the strongly democratic
northwest, where n great many fol-
lowers of the late Mr.. Brice showed
signs of n faltering allegiance and were
Indifferent for the further reason that
McLean's newspaper has vilified in turn
Thurman, Pcndleton, Ward and many
cries are rcvered by the so-called "moss-
backs" who roll up the majorities in
that section year in and year out.
Several candidates for county Offices
declined to run on ticket headed by
Mclean, and one county convention de-
nounced the democratic standard bear
er by resolution. Hence the trip of Mr.
Bryan, whose presence was hailed with
delight by the republicans, who remem
Der that the republicans made gains
wherever Mr.. Bryan spoke two years
ago.
The cause of Jones, of Toledo, does
not seem to grow with what ii feeds on.
He is evidently losing strength daily
under the whips Of those who are round
ing up the voters. The novelty having
worn off, his followers are drifting
away. Mr.. Jones presented petitions
containing $4,000 names, fact that has
no weight. Two years AGO the negro
protection party got 10000 signatures
and pollcd AT votes in the entire state,
The populists had $4,000 signatures and
5000 votes.--Columbus (O) Special, in
! n. Y. Times Dem.).
Widespread PROSPERITY.