The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-07
POLITICAL GOSSIP.


| says something in each one.
sF+s
1t is both apathy and aphony with Cleve-
land and Harrison. +
=
The Republican party appeals to the
| pockets of the classes. The Democratic
masses. .tg
The Beatrice (NebJ Express criticises
the fact that Governor POINTER is out
campaigning. forgetting that he is paid
to attend to his duties at Lincoln" In the
| same issue Of the Express is a compli-
mentary report Of speech made by George
| D. Meiklejohn, ct Grand Island who has
| evidently forgotten that he is paid by the
people to remain at Washington and at
| tend to business.
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, who came
North a day or two ago to aid the Demo-
Gratis in their campaign in Maryland and
Delaware. is reported to have expressed
confidence that, after the election. the
Democrats could sing MARYLAND, Ny Mary
| land" as Justify as they did In days Of
yore. He thought that Senator Yelling
tons withdrawal from the Republican
party because of MeKinley's imperialistic
| policy would be strong factor in carry
| ing Maryland for the Democrats. Senator
Bacon was also Of the opinion that odds
| favored the Democrats in Delaware. as the
Republicans in that State are fighting each
| other like the famous cats of Kilkenny,
| Gas Addicks, as usual, being the bone Of
contention.
Representative Bartlett, of the Sixth
district of Georgia, writes from Indian
apolis, where he went to attend the
convention of Democratic Clubs, to
friends at Macon that in his opinion
Democratic enthusiasm is at a higher
pitch than he has ever known it to be
before.
zone of the most curious features of
the average Republican newspaper in
New York." remarks an editorial writer
in the Albany Argus sis the utter
absence of real support for Platt's other
self, Odell. A careful examination Of
our Republican exchanges would hardly
indicate that odell is running
Commenting upon this the Buffalo
Evening Times" says:
Once upon a political time that dis
tinguished co-worker with Senator Piatt
in the felo of practical politics. ex-
Senator Quay of Pennsylvania, wrote to
then candidate for public Office in that
State brief note of advice, which read:
Dear Beaver-Don't talk and 1t would
indeed seem as If Senator Platt's per-
sonal candidate for Governor of New
York had received like injunction from
his chief
The worst Democrat in North Carolinl
may be Il political saint when compared
with the best Republican in Philadel-
phia. s-rl II
sfs 81
Biographies of Abraham Lincoln and
the Declaration of Independence are in
the index expursatorius CT the Hanna
ties. -
80 a.
The Chicago Chronicle expresses the
following pleasant opinion of the reign
ing monarch of buncoed islanders:
The one thing most clearly disclosed
as to Mr.. McKinley's mind is his pro-
found Hamiltonian distrust of the ability
OF any people TO govern themselves whom
he takes it into his head to subjugate.''
So
The Worcester Telegram" speaking
for its party. says:-
I'VE Republicans are dead game sports
There is no other political party in this
section that has got man in 1T who
dare put up $4,000 for just nomination
To Congress. Democrats have no idea as
10 what thing is worth i'll cash"
An editorial written in the Atlanta
Constitution" in commenting on Minister
Conger's prediction that President Nc
Kinley will be re elected" observes:
Under all the circumstances, consid-
ering especially the opportunity Mr.. Con-
ger has had this summer OF keeping IL:
touch with the Presidential campaign. this |
prediction is most valuable!
Still it is worth just about as much
as the predictions of other Republican
oficeholders who are talking themselves |
red in the face in their endeavor to at |
tract attention to themselves"
The original negro voter will cast bal |
lot for Bryan and Stevenson. The name of |
this man is Thomas Peterson. He carries |
a badge presented to him by the city OF |
Perth Amtoy, n. j., attesting the fact that
he is the original negro voter. When the |
fifteenth amendment was adopted the State
Department heralded the fact in a proc
same day a city election happening in
Perth Amboy, Peterson cast his ballot.
Shortly afterward Princeton colored man
laid claim to being the first colored voter,
and the people of Perth Amboy appointed
a committee TO decide the matter II was
discovered that the Princeton man had
voted on April 13. 1870, some days after
Peterson had voted. The committee then
went further and found that nowhere else
in the United States was an election held
on the day the proclamation was issued,
and accordingly declared Peterson the first |
colored voter. Later public meeting was
held, at which Peterson was presented a
gold medal, bearing on one side a profile
Of Abraham Lincoln and on the other this
inscription:
Presented by citizens of Perth Amboy,
n. j., to Thomas Peterson, the first col
ored voter in the United States under the
amendment, at an election held in
that city. March 81, lS70.'
Peterson, up to the present campaign,
has always been a stanch Republican and
an active party worker.