The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-18
SIX DAYS OF ORAToRY {!
Chairman Young Will Close the Cam
paign With Blaze of Glory.
AFlNE PLAN TO BRING OUT THE VOTE
Every District Would Do Well to Adopt the
Plan Arranged in the Fourth District.
II Would Give Fitting End
to the Campaign.
to the Campaign

ocratic Executive committee of the
Fourth Congressional district, has de-
vised happy method of closing the Pres
idential campaign with Grand Rally
Week, embracing the last three days of
October and the first three days of No
vember He has written to the chairman
of the committee in each county of the
district requesting their cooperation in
making the Rally Week fitting close OF
the campaign. His idea is to cover every
county in the district that week with
local and outside speakers, and to have
speaking in every township in each coun-
ty during that week. 1t is proposed to
rely chiefly upon the local party leaders,
speakers and workers, utilizing outside
speakers when deemed necessary or they
can be secured. In every county it was
! developed in the August election much
of the most effective speaking was done
by. county candidates and others who do
not &c out of their own counties Some
or these speakers, who had never before
been on the stump, made excellent
speeches. They cannot be induced to go
out OF their counties but they will prove
valuable speakers in their own counties
To utilize them is to make votes for Bry-
an and Stevenson and Pou
Mr.. Young says that there is no room
to doubt that the Fourth district will
give about 5000 Democratic majority, and
that while there has not been a great
deal of speaking so far, still there has
been enough to show that there is little
or no detection. Mr.. Pou, Mr. Beckwith
and Mr.. Atwater have spoken in all the
counties of the district and report that
ho 10 ri &c da+a ~
elect Bryan and Pou as to elect Aycock
and carry the amendment. These rallies
in the last days of the campaign are de-
vised fer the purpose of stimulating every
Democrat to work to secure a full vote
as well as to strengthen them in the
faith and show them that the work be-
gun in August may prove of little avail
if the Republicans carry all the branches
of the National government.
This idea of Mr.. Young's is an excellent
one and it would prove of great value
in giving Bryan and the Congressional
candidates big majority if it should be
adopted in every county in every district
of the State, and conducted in addition
to the regular Congressional canvass.
All together for a Grand Rally Week!
'Our Home Populist organ, telling
how the Populists will vote in November
says
I'VE don't believe there are many Pop
ulists in the State who will support Nc
Kinley. yet we do not deny that there
are few now and then, who, like thou
sands of Democrats, are either densely
ignorant or act upon their passions and
prejudices Some are mad with the Dem
ocrats and will vote the Republican ticket
for spite. Others are looking for Fed
eral patronage and will vote for McKin-
ley for revenue only, while others are
so ignorant they have never known what
Populsm is-they are as ignorant of the
science of government as a mules father
or red shirt Democrat. The true Pop
ulists will support the only candidates
who represent Populism-Barker and
Donnelly."
l have Just returned from trip in the
West, and l am happy to say that the
Democratic situation there is exceedingly
satisfactory. I regard Indiana as
sure for Bryan, and Illinois and
Ohio more likely to repudiate
Mckinley than at any time since the
campaign began. The people of Ohio are
in revolt against the Mckinley admins
tration and Mark Hanna. / was assured
while in the Buckeye State that it's cleo
toral vote would be cast for the Demo
cratic candidates. l learned, too, that
there is very little doubt about West
Virginia. The chances for increased rep
resentation in Congress from all these
States are good.-James D. Richardson,
Chairman Democratic Congressional Cam
paign Committee, to the Journal.
F. A. Richardson, writing from Indian
on01tc RI ho bolt C,Iu
There are no Gold Democrats in In
diana this time. Palmer and Buckner
received only a little more than 1000
votes, although the number of Gold Dem
ocrats was variously estimated at from
twenty to forty thousand. 1t is quite
probable the smaller number is much
nearer the fact. At any rate, although
the city has all the time been the head
quarters of the Sound Money League. the
Gold Democratic supporters of the league
have vanished out of existence"
Mr.. F. A. Richardson, the brilliant vet
eran correspondent of the Baltimore Sun,
writes to that paper that the Democrats
will carry Indiana. Among other indica-
lions that point to Bryan he says:
at is not hearsay, but evidence of the
most positive character, that a split ex-
lists among the German Republicans in
this State. When they are acting by the
dozens as officers of Democratic meet
ings and when they are sending letters
to the papers that they will not vote for
Mckinley, it is useless to deny disaffec-
ton among them. There are fifty odd
thousand German voters, the large major
ity OF whom are Republicans. The dis
satisfaction of even per cent of them
could not help but involve serious conse
quences.
Returning to Chicago from a speaking
tour in Nebraska, Wisconsin, Indiana and
other States Bourke Cochran said that
he had found great dissatisfaction among
the Republican Germans on Imperialism.
The New York Morning Telegraph saws: