The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-10-12
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in
General About Wash
ington.
w ASHINGTON,
Oct. s, 1900.
(Communicated).


the administration in the cam
paign. He and his party man
ayers are desperate, and every
scheme that will get out votes is
likely to be in full swing these
last weeks of the campaign.
Voters in the States which the
Republican managers consider
doubtful, who are employed in
the government i'll Washington,
have ali Deen given to understand
very plainly that they mus go
home and vote or take the conse-
quences. What States the Re-
publican managers consider close
or doubtful may be judged from
the fact that this notice has been
given voters from New York,
New Jersey, Connecticut, West
Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky,
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Mich.
igan. That they have no expec-
tatiOn Of carrying Kansas or Ne
braska or any inter mountain
States of the far West, may be
judged from their having left the
voters from those States free to
use their own discretion about
going home to vote.
Mr.. Mckinley is counted upon
by the party bosses to do some
thing official to try to raise hur-
rah between this and election.
Just what this will be has not
leaked out, although the eXpec.
tation has. 1t will be well for
the Democrats to he on the look
out for any sort of move on the
part Of the administration that
may be calculated to catch and
enthuSe those who do not look
below the surface of things and
be prepared to counterfeit the eff
feet Of any such move. AS
statesman, history may not give
Mr.. Mckinley a very high rank,
but as a slick politician, up to all
the tricks of the trade and hav-
ing the ability to originate some
of his own, MIR. Mckinley is a
top liner, and will bear close
watching.
Republicans are now privately
admitting that Bryan and Steven
son will carry Illinois, although
they are now publicly claiming
that they will get a majority in
the Test Of the State to wipe out
the Bryan majority they concede
Chicago will give. To concede
Chicago is to concede the State,
as the returns in '92, when the
State was carried by Cleveland,
and in '9G, when it was carried
by Mckinley show that as goes
Chicago, so goes the State.
The Chinese trouble is now put
forward as an excuse for the fail
ure of the administration to do
something towards compelling
the Snltan of Turkey to pay the
long standing American Mission
airy claims. 1t will not be sur.
prising if a big bluff is made just
before the election of using force
to compel the Sultan to settle up.
Hints have been dropped of such
an intention on the part of Mr..
Mckinley for the purpose of in
.ecting little spread eagleism
into the closing days of the cam
paign, to try to head off the STAN
pede towards Bryan in a number
of States.
Representative Livingstone, of
Georgia, who has been campaign
ing in New Jersey, where he is
well known and popular, said of
his observations i'll that State:
Ono one has ever accused me of
being a rainbow chaser. Usually
| am charged by my friends with
being too conservative in matters
like this. After years of exper-
fence | think that | am prepared
to speak with some feeling of con-
tidence regarding the drift of
public sentiment. | have cam
paigned in New Jersey before
this year, and | know something
about that State. Heretofore, | |
have felt that we stood no show |
i'll New Jersey, and in previous
campaigns | have frankly told |
the party managers that we were
going to lose that State. Results |
then showed that my Judgment |
was correct, aud | contidentially
believe that the result next |
month will show that my iudg !
ment was right when | declare, as |
| do now, that Bryan will get the !
ten electoral votes of New Jer-
sey. The State is naturally Dem
ocratic anyhow, which gives a
big advantage to start with.
-Four years ago the people there
were stampeded away from us by
the Republican cutlery against
free silver. That question is not
an issue in New Jersey at pres
emit. Indeed, you seldom hear it
mentioned. The Jerseyites are
and talking about moth