Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-05

willie It is confidently believed the state
stands good for at least 10000 majority
for the national ticket. Eliminating Ken
lucky from the contest and placing Mary
land in the doubtful column. eliminating
that state, II you please. Mckinley will
certainly carry q sufficient number Of the
states swept BY Bryan four years ago to
1895.
THE deathbed claim Of the Bryanite par
ty Of New York. Indiana and Illinois is
practice of claiming everything in sight.
The republican conditions in these states
are far better this year than four years
ago. with the possible exception of Greater
New York. where Croker has been making
personal management. determined to
maintain control of Tammany and the, city
organization. whereas four years ago he
openly showed his feeling toward Bryan
ana MS indifference as to the result by
remaining with his race horse stables in
England.
General Felix Agnus publisher and editor
or the baltimore American, who has not
oeen enthusiastic In his support of the pres
emit national administration, and who has
taken an active part in the factional re-
publican complications in Maryland. tele-
IaI me late this afternoon that Mary
than $1,000 plurality, although he was
inclined to believe that the republican plu-
rality would exceed 10000. West Virginia,
which has been claimed by the Bryanites
during the past few days for some unex-
platnable reason, Is In my opinion as GER
tainly republican. both for the electors and
the legislature on joint ballot. as Is the state
OF Ohio. The only state that would take
out Of the Mckinley column of four years
ago and place on the doubtful side Of the
ledger Is Kentucky. and that state only
for the reason that the infamous Goebel
election law gives the Bryanites an oppor-
tunfty that they have not up to this time
refused to accept for the preparation of
outrages upon the ballot.
Mr.. Bryan's Stiffness.
Mr.. Bryans stiffness during the cam
paign, attempting to make one issue serve
two purposes by pushing 1t forward in one
section of the country and suppressing 1t
In another; his determination to deceive
the people and to not meet in the open
fairly and squarely this question which the
voters themselves have declared to be para
mount have injured him during the past
few days. In the west he has claimed that
the free and unlimited coinage of silver is
with him the leading issue, while in the
east he has frequently declined to say that
he would pay government obligations in sill
yer or that he would advocate at his extra
ordinary session of Congress the adoption
of a free silver bill, while in the west he
has intimated that such was his purpose.
In the west. however, the people have not
forgotten that Mr.. Bryan has declared i'm
perialism (Which Is an impossibility in any
the labor centers Of the central states Mr..
Bryans remedy for smashing the trusts"
that of placing all trust made good upon
the free list. has almost ruined him with
wage earners. They realize that this is
but another method of obtaining free trade
which would wreck all of our Industrial.
commercial and farming interests. This is
made absolutely certain when Mr.. Bryan
has repeatedly in the central states defined
trusts being an aggregation of capital
in any form for manufacturing and other
purposes. Thus he would declare all
manufacturing corporations to be trusts
and would place all manufactured articles
and the raw material from which they were
produced on the free list.
My personal opinion Is that the electoral
vote of President Mckinley will be larger
than four years ago, and that his re-
election will be by an electoral vote as much
larger than four years ago as the states
enumerated above which were carried in
1895 will aggregate with their electoral
votes, minus the probability of the execu-
ton of the design to count Kentucky for
Bryan.