The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1900-10-24
FROM THE NATIONS CAPITAL.
From Oar O,cn Correspondent.

| democratic leaders to-day, "porty
managers, when speaking for quota
! tions claim every Sta:o which they
think they have even the smallest
chance of carrying. This is. pretty
generally understood, and, afteI ali, is
only part of the game. Speaking
anonymously, however, can give you
my real ideas as to the election. I
think Bryan will win. In my opinion,
he will carry everything he did in 1896
except Washington, Idaho and Wyo-
ming and may carry the Inst two. But
without these he will have 164 votes
for starter. Then he will also GER
tainly carry Indiana, Delaware, Mary
land and West Virginia, which will
bring him up to 1906. Then tho chances
are that he will get New York, which
! will make him 292 votes and eject him
with eight votes to spare. With New
York, he might lose Maryland, Ne
braska, Delaware or West Virginia,
and yet win. This estimate comedies
Kentucky. Ohio, Illinois and New Jer-
sey to the Republicans, although they
are all good fighting ground. My own
opinion is that New jersey will GER
tainly go Democratic and Kentucky
Republican, while won't venture a
prophecy on Illinois and Ohio. These
are tho indications as I see them, but
you must always remember that while
straws indicate the way the wind is
blowing, they can take no account Of
such deep-seated movements as land
slides, and it wouldn't be at all sur
prising if one of these last should be
breeding right now"
Senator Hoar is not the only Repub-
lican who has shifted his position radi-
cally since pressure has been brought
to bear upon him. A few months ago,
as is we'll known, he said, addressing
the Republican party: international
law speaks to US with its awful man
date. 1t pronOunces your proposed
action sheer usurpation and robbery.
You have no better title, according to
the law of nations, to reduce the peo-
pie Of the Philippines to subjection
than you have to subjugate Mexico,
Haiti, Belgium, or Switzerland" And
OF the Presidents statement that the
United States is bound to give the Fill
pinos better government than they had
before, said Mr.. Hoar: Gin chat little
phrase, as III q seed, is contained the
germ of all despotism and all tyranny.
Government is not gift. Free gov
eminent is a birthright. There can be
no good government but lf-goyern-
ment." Alongside of this should be
framed the following extracts from an
interview with Senator Depew, printed
in May, 1893, after the capture of
Manila, and never called in question by
him: eff we should keep the Philip
pine Islands, we would reverse the
traditions of the government from it's
foundation. Let us see what that
would mean. In the first place, it
wonld mean the establishment &C
military government ever possibly ten
millions OF people, six thousand miles
away from us; and it would mean the
increase of our navy to the proportion
of the navies of Europe. 1t would
mean the increase Of our army to one
hundred and fifty thousand,-more
likely to two hundred thousand men.
It would mean the increase of our
annual expenditures to double what
they are now.n Yet Depew and Hoar
have both taken the etump for Nc
Kinley.
ALI the Republican papers are MAX
ing q good deal of the fact that the
betting odds on Mckinley are 8 and 4
to 1. There. is nothing surrrising in
this however. Democrats generally
are poor men and cannot afford to risk
their hard earned wages, while the
trusts and Wall street operators, all of
them Republicans, have plenty Of easy
side information shows that the Demo
Gratis have barely enough money to pay
the barest campaign expenses. They
have nothing to pay their spellbinders
Tor salnries and little enough for ex-
penses.. Ex-Governor Stone, the re-
sponsible manager of the Eastern cam
nalgn, Is authority for the statement
him or his associates, nor are any Of
the hundreda now upon the stump in
New. ork, New Jersey, Maryland and
west Virginia drawing cent. 1t is
explained that these speakers are oil
volunteers, who are giving their time
U al services Tree to the Bryan cam
rfign simply because they are ear
nestly aroused to the dangers which
threaten the Republic. They have
come into the East from all parts of the
country, and they report to headquar-
ters in New York for assignment iust
as if thoy lad been hired to work on
the stump.
The postoffice receipts in ID out of
the 90 largest cities in the country,
show o decided falling off for last Sep.
temter, aB compared with September
oI 1880, Indicating that the squirt Of
year ago, on which the Republicans
based 50 much of the alleged pros-
perity was only spurt. AS Che postal
receipts of these cities increased with
ieaps and bounds during the two pre-
ced1ng years; the Republicans pointed
bniness conditions, and (iisconrsed
nussntiy on how rapidly business was
increasing as indicated by their phe-
nomenal growth. What Will thew cav
now. in TiaE of fhis larna dacrea nea