Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-10-30
PREDICTION SCARE
New York Republicans Alarmed at
Activity of Democrats.
THE SCOTT INCIDENT MAGNIfIED
Millions Of Copies Of Alleged Re-
mark Being Distributed.
MR.. SCOTS STATEN EN- T
FHE SCOTT INCIDENT MAGNIFIED
MR.. SCOTS ENT
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
NEW YORK, October %. 1900.
During presidential campaigns in the best
organized of committees panics or spas
modic series of alarms sometimes make
merry with both sides. This has been the
histQSy of all presidential elections where
| results have been as pronounced as in the
days of the Grant-Greeley and the Mckin-
ley-Bryan campaigns. No matter how big
the majority in the electoral college or the
popular vote those in charge of the actual
work of the campaign have gone through
these periods of alarm and of storm and
stress. In the present campaign the Nc
Kinley managers went through period of
this character few weeks ago, when 1t
was feared that general apathy" ruled
the rank and file of the republican party
this year. The wonderful registration, in
creased beyond even the expectations of the
republican managers, shows how ground
less were the claims Of the democrats that
the republicans were not taking interest In
the election of their presidential candidate
this year.
Just at present there is no doubt that
the republican committees are undergoing
another prediction fright The silent vote
instead of general apathy seems to nave
caused considerable of this alarm, and both
sides wondering which way the indie
pendents of the country are turning. Straws
which snow winch way the WlnO Is DlOWlHS
and prove that the republican managers
can be worried are little incidents like the
recent alleged statement at the Roosevelt
dinner of Senator Scott, and the failure OF
the republican parade in Chicago to meet
the expectation of the republican leaders
of that city. So far the Scott incident
Is concerned the consensus OF opinion Is
that a mountain has been made out of a
molehill. Admitting, for the sake of the
argument, that the West Virginia senator
did use the language attributed to him by
the only newspaper man in attendance upon
the Roosevelt banquet, it is asserted that 1t
must be acknowledged that the principal
break was made not by the West Elr-
ginio republican leader himself, but by re-
publican managers like Odell, the chair
man of the New York state committee;
| Joseph Manley and State Committeeman
| Gibbs, in attempting to suppress the story.
| Had they made no efforts to stop the pub
| LEGATION of the alleged statements of Sen
| ator Scott that night and laughingly
| turned the matter off the next day with
| the statement that the reporter misunder-
| stood the senator nine-tenths or the e1ect
| of this so-called statement of Scott would
| have been lost. 1t was the frightened at
| titude of the republican managers, and the
| stories probably untrue. that all sorts oil
| money had been offered to all sorts ana
conditions of newspaper men that night II
they would only suppress the story ana
| stop the publication Of the alleged state
| ments of Senator Scott that attracted at
| tention and aroused the energies OF the
democrats.