Marietta daily leader. (Marietta, Ohio) 1895-1906, 1900-10-21
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dent Mckinley is having an extraordi-
nary experience, and one that is very
! fiattering to him as an official and as
an individual. He is getting almost
as many assurances that he will be
triumphantly elected from prominent
democrats as from prominent republic
by word of mouth from his callers and
in writing. 1t is really astonishing
how many prominent democrats there
are who have not Topped and do not
intend to do so, but who will quietly
vote for Mckinley and Roosevelt be-
cause they do not consider Mr.. Bryan
a democrat and because they regard
his defeat necessary for the welfare of
the country. The President has prl-
vate letters from prominent democrats
that would mske the biggest sort of
sensation if they were published, but,
of course, they will never be published.
person to President Mckinley, very
unusual proceeding, as foreign minis
ters usually communicate with the
President only through the Secretary
of State, translation of a dispatch
for the Emperor of China rendering
his thanks for the attitude maintained
by this government in all the recent
troubles in China.
The secret of why ex-senator Hill, of
New York went stumping in Virgin
ia when the Bryanites needed him so
much more in his own state Is out.
1t was let out by Virginians with whom
Mr.. Hill talked while in the state. Mr..
Hill went to Virginia to lay wires for
his own nomination for the Presiden
cy in 1904 by rejuvenated democratic
party, and he told his friends there
that Bryan hadn't a ghost of a show
to carry New York or to be elected.
Mr. Hill wants to head the movement
Immediately after Bryan's defeat to
repudiate him and his populistic and
anarchistic isms and install a new
leader, but there are several other gen.
tlemen perfectly willing to assume the
role of Moses in the democratic party,
among them Mr.. Cleveland, Mr.. Car
M Nv,
Dickinson.
Mr.. l.. r. Michener, of Indiana, Gen.
w. w. Dudley's law partner, has just
returned from trip home. He went
there to get some informatlon-in his
own words: Il was interested in learn
ing for myself the exact political con-
ditions in Indiana. l did not go to
indianapolis, and | did not get my con-
stumping. One who secures his views
from stump speakers will likely have
them on a bias, and one who gets his
views from political headquarters is
likely to have another bias" AS a
result of his two weeks mixing with
all sorts of Hoosiers, Mr.. Michener
says he is absolutely certain the gold
democrats of Indiana are not support
ing Bryan that the Germans, on the
issue of sound money, are more solidly
with the republicans than in 1896, and
that the state will go republican.
Mr. A. A. Wilson, who was close
friend of Mr. Cleveland and president
of one of the big democratic clubs un-
til the campaign of 1896, when he op-
posed Bryan and free silver, when
asked 10 define his position in the pres
ent campaign said: 81 stand now
where l stood in 1896. l do not see
any real difference in the questions at
issue. / was opposed to Mr.. Bryan
then as now. So far as Imperialism is
concerned, l consider that question a
farce and not an Issue. l know many
gold democrats, and they stand just
where | do"
Col. w. c. Tolford, of Columbus, O.,
who is visiting Washington, said OF
the political out look: There is no
use talking about the republican ma
iority in Ohio; it will be big. l have
Travelled over Michigan, Indiana, Wis
consin and Illinois considerably OF
late, and the indications are all one
way. Those states are just as certain
for the republicans as Ohio. 1t seems
to me as though most of the old-line
democrats, the deep dyed-in-the-woo
fellows were planning to unite to give
the candidate from Lincoln such a
walloping that he won't ever rear his
head again, after which they can star
anew, reorganize the party, and put VI
some candidate who will be able tC
command substantial following"
Secretaries Gage and Long made
speeches to the New England Cottor
Manufacturers Association an Organi