Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-08-15
THE GREAT SILENT VOTE
DELEGATE FLYNN SAYS 1T WILL
GIVE CLOSE STATES TO MCKINLEY.
This is n Patriotic Year - The West
Admires Mckinley, the Soldier
and Patriot.

Everybody In newspaper and official life
in Washington knows Delegate D. T. Flynn
of Oklahoma. who has just been renomi-
mated for the fourth consecutive time as
delegate from the hustling territory of
Oklahoma to Congress.
Mr.. Flynn is a young man, keen and
alert, an ardent republican and firm be-
lever in the prosperous future of his con-
sttuency. He hopes to secure the passage
of the bill which will make Oklahoma a
state, and when this is accomplished, his
friends say he will be the first United
States senator therefrom.
A friend in this city has received the fol-
lowing interesting letter from him:
Kissed the Democracy Goodbye.
you want to know what the political
complexion out west is. 1t will probably
surprise you, but the atmosphere and the
co,or of the sky are just about the same as
they are in the east. The west never has seen
such prosperity. The crops are abundant,
the people are not only wearing smiles,
but good clothes, and no one that you can
find honestly believes that Bryan will be
elected. You can bet every dollar you have
got that Mckinley will carry Kansas just
as certain as he will carry any state in the
Union Local pride will probably give
Nebraska to Bryan by a scratch. South
Dakota, Wyoming, Oregon and Washington
have all kissed the Kansas City platform
and its nominee goodbye. Mckinley and
the distance flag will be dropped before the
democratic nominees realize that it has
begun.
The West Admires Mckinley.
1.-THE people of the west are for expan-
sion. prominent republican friend Of
mine stated to me the other day that he
presumed We would shortly want to home
stead China. Nobody seriously fears the
cry of Imperialism. Mckinley today is the
strongest man that has occupied a seat in
the White House since the days of Lincoln.
The people have absolute confidence in him
Those who did not have when he was first
elected are like the man from Missouri
they have been shown and are satisfied
with the goods
Heaven and earth will be turned to whip
people in line for Bryan, but it is hard to
convince man who was swapping horses
for hogs under the last democratic admin
istratiOn, and getting nothing to boot-now
that horses are worth from $50 to 800
that If he votes against the present admin
iStration and goes back to the old rut he
will be benefited.
A Thousand OklahOmans for China.
LAS far as Oklahoma is concerned we
furnished soldiers to the war with Spain,
we have soldiers in Manila and we have 1000
men "Ho walt " volunteer 10 go 10 Snl1ld.
This is patriotic. year. Mckinley was
not only a soldier, but he is a statesman
and diplomat, and the west will be the
greatest surprise to the doubling Thomases
when the votes are counted in November.
States that are even now regarded as sure
for Bryan are made up of the class of peo-
pie who are patriotic, who no longer take
any stock in 16 to /, and who frankly con-
cede that whether Mckinley caused it or
not. the fact remains that We have had the
best times since the boom days in the early
eighties.
The Silent Voter VIII Elect.
Mckinley will get more votes than any
body dreams Of from men who do not pro-
fess to be republicans. They won't state
so in public. but they know when the coun-
try has had a clean administration, and
there is a sort of feeling existing that the
proper thing to do is to uphold the Presi-
dents hands.
There is another thing very noticeable
throughout the country, and that Is that
Mckinley Is never aSSailed. Hanna was
abused so outrageously that the people have
taken his side. because he has demonstrated
not only in the Senate, but elsewhere, that
he is a business man. and this country
does not want near much politics as it
does business in its administration"