Middletown transcript., 1900-10-20
WASHINGTON LETTER

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pleased with the political news he is
getting, which indicates his own trium-
phant reelection and the election of the
Republican majority of the House. This
news has been growing more and more
convincing since the registration in a
number of states has been under way.
Instead of the light registration which
was feared on account of over-confdence
on the part of the Republicans, there has
so far been a registration which makes it
look as though the popular vote would
exceed that cast four years ago, which
was unusually heavy, and that makes Re-
publican victory as near certain as any
thing not yet actually accomplished can
possibly be. Shrewd political observers
are now predicting an absolute collapse
of the Bryan campaign before election
day and a Republican tidal wave.
Whether it will go that far is, of course,
question, but there are certainly signs
in plenty to Justify those predictions.
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Third Assistant Postmaster Madden
takes more than an official interest in
the series of memorial postage stamps
that will be issued in connection with
the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo,
being citizen of New York and there
fore personally interested in anything
that will help along the Buffalo show.
He has been comforting with the head of
the Bureau of Engraving and Printing
and one of the results is the announce
ment that the Buffalo stamps will be
printed in two colors, which will be
something entirely new, and would not
have been possible before the increase in
the facilities of the Bureau, made under
the present administration The law
prescribes the distinctive color of stamps
of each denomination, but the Buffalo |
stamps will be given handsome border |
i'll contrasting color.
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Mrs. Hobart and Garret A. Hobart, Jr.,
are guests of the President and Mrs Nc
Kinley at the White House.
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The desperation of the Bryanites is
evidenced by the fact that both Mr..
Bryan and Mr. Stevenson are attributing
things to Abraham Lincoln that he never
said. Secretary Hay, who was Lincoln'4
private secretary and who assisted by
John Nicelay wrote the most complete
life of Lincoln ever published, after years
of study, having access to all the writings
of the martyr-President, declares the
Lincoln quotation used by Mr.. Stevenson
III recent speech-a prediction that
of corporate wealth would
destroy the Republic-to be a forgery,
and said of it: "The passage does not ap-
pear in any of the standard collections OF
Llncoln's writings. Its style and manner
are entirely different from Lincoln. It
is generally reported in the West that it
is the invention of a spirtualistic medium,
made several years after Mr.. Lincoln
died" If it were only some obscure
member of party that made use of such
iorgerles, it might be excused on the
ground Of ignorance, but no such excuse
will do for the candidates for President
and Vice President of political party.
When such men resort to such methods,
t is usually with wilful intent to de-
'eive their hearers, and no man who
'rles to deceive the people is worthy of
being elected to the high offices to which
hese men aspire.
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Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew, who has
1een on the stump in the West and in
lis own State, and has had an excellent
opportunity to feel the public pulse, says
he tide has turned strongly against
3ryan, and that the silent vote and the
'ote OF the big business man, the wage
arner, the salaried man and the farmer
md the small business man is going to be
normous, and will practically all go to
Mckinley and Roosevelt Senator Chand-
er, who isn't SO busy conducting his own
lght for reelection, that he neglects to
on the condition of national
'ohtics, thinks that the election of McKin-
ey and Roosevelt is already assured, al J.,
hough he thinks an effort will be made
While Bryan is in the East, to create
'ryan Hurrah for the purpose of enablingi
ONE OF those who have bet big money "
hedge. He thinks that Mr.. Bryan's d
rguments are worn threadbare and that a
e has talked himself out, and cites his
ecent ignoring or distorting of Republic y
an arguments as proof that he is begin n
ing to realize the weakness of his posi- n n
ion. Il
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Hon. John G. Carlisle, ex-Representa- a
We, ex-Speaker and ex-senator, told a r
Vashington friend that he had not
oubt OF the reelection of President Nc r
inley. n