The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-09-13

! interest IN q NATIONAL election II denotes
lethargy that is more deep-seated in the
rank and file of the party in power thar
that of the opposition party. or course
this is another favorable sign for the Dem
! ocrats.
Hanna to Make n stump Speech
At last Mr.. Hanna, who unquestionably is
the most effective Republican spellbnder
of the period, has consented to make a
( stump speech. The clamor for Hanna to
take the stump is not confined to any par
| ticular section. but is heard in all parts OF
the country. Out in Kansas there is go
ing up a constant cry for MIN, but he
stubbornly refuses to respond. National
Z Committeeman Mulvane. of that State, ex-
plains that the chief cause OF the demand
I for the mighty Hanna in Kansas is that
/ the farmers out there. or at least many OF
/ them, are convinced that Hanna has hoofs
/ and horns and eXhales fire and birthstone
when he snorts. Mr.. Hanna has faithful
/ ly promised the Hon. Charles b. Lands, OF
( the Ninth district of Indiana. TO make a
/ speech at Delphi Mr.. Lands home town,
next Saturday. The Indiana Congressman
| is being hard pressed by his Democratic
| opponent, Captain Allen. who. though
around on the other side of the globe
! fighting Filipinos. is almost certain to
! be elected The Rough Rider, the most
! bloodthirsty and incorrigibe warrior of the
| age. denounced all Democrats as towards
! in his famous s., Paul speech, and it is
] supposed that EIr. Hanna at Delphi viii
/ be compelled to give the Rough Rider a
| little whack By acknowledging that Cap
! tain Allen is proving that there is at least
| one Democrat who is not a coward. 1t
1 is said that Mr.. Hanna's speech will not be
! long one. It is the quality and not the
4 quantity of the Hanna oratory that counts.
/ As an illustration of this. his famous
speech at Ashtabula. at a critical time in
| the Ohio campaign last year. is cited. Mr..
Hanna employs hundreds of men i'll that
town, and they had become poisoned
with the doctrines CT the Hon. Golden
Rule" Jones. DR.. Hanna cured them with
one dose CT his oratorical medicine and
saved the G. o. p. in Ohio. The meat or
his speech was that his auditors were fools
and knew not what they were doing when
they left the Republican party. While it
is not thought that he will feel at liberty
TO talk this way to Mr.. Lands constit-
uents. still it is safe to predict that he
will employ arguments that are about as
forcible as those he applied with such good
effect to his Ashtabula hired hands.
wellington In the NoFthSycst.-Next
week Senator Wellington of Maryland will
start on tour of the Northwest in the
interest Of the Kansas City ticket and
platform. lie will make a dozen or more
speeches in MichigGI, Wisconsin. and Min
nesota. That his work viii be of vast
value to Mr.. Bryan is not doubted by his
former Republican associates. In point of
fact it is generally conceded that Senator
Wellington's influence and eloduence viii
prove of more immediate service to Mr.
BRYAN outside of Maryland than in that
state. for the reason that Maryland would
have swung back into the Democratic col
unln this year even If the Republican lead
er Of the State had not bolted Mr.. McKin-
ley. il is understood that in the North
west Senator Wellington will address him
self particularly to the subjects Of impe-
rialism and of the secret alliance between
the Mckinley administration and the
Salisbury Government. His we'll known
and outspokcn sympathy for the struggling
Beers in their fight for liberty can be
turned to good account for the Democratic
ticket among the Germans and other for
eigu elements in Michigan. Wisconsin, and
Minnesota. Ii is believed that It will be
especially effective in the Fifth Congress
sional District of Michigan in which there
reside more Dutch than in any other To-
cality in the country. The Hon. William
Alden Smith is having hard time in his
race for reelection because Of the disgust
of his numerous Dutch cg.a;i yl!ants with
the Administration crue uie toward
lhe' Beers. Senator Welll being him
self of German descent. VIII know how to
appeal directly to the German American
Republicans of the Northwest on the sub
'ects of imperialism and militarism He
will follow closely the trail of the Rough
Rider through this region, and il is said
that he will take particular pains to thor
oughly aCquant the Northwesterners with
this unique character, who started in poi
tiles as bowling refoTmer and Is winding
up his career as a plant tool of Plat.
---
Tried to xiii Rhen.-The Hon. John
s. Rhea made narrow escape from assas-
sination a few days ago at the hands of
some Of the townsInen of W s. TAYLOR.
the hero of the Philadelphia Convention
and a fugitive from justice in Kentucky.
charged in grand jury indictment with
completely in the murder of Governor
Goebel MIR. Rhea had made a speech at
Morgantown, the former home of Taylor,
and lie roundIy denounced the assassina-
ton OF Gocbel. Morgantown is in Rhea's
district He WAS warned by Democratic
friends before he left the place that plot
had been formed to Kill him from ambush
on the road but as he had to meet an ap.
pointmeut at another point in his district
be felt emboldened to take the risk. When
he was a few miles out of Morgantown
the assassins assailed him from ambush
with rocks. powders and other dangerous
missiles, infiicting serious scalp wounds
upon him and his driver. who happened to
be Republican well known in the COM
munity. If he had not been accompanied
by this Republican it is believed he would |
have been killed. Mr.. Rhea does not ac-
cuse Taylor OF being party to the cow |
ardly assault. because when that individ |
ual was last heard of he was on the stump |
in Indiana for Mckinley and Roosevelt. |