The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1900-10-25

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kinds of desperate measures TO turn
the tide that is running so strongly TO
wards William Jennings Bryan and
the Democratic party. The latest at
tempt-and one of the most deSpicable
to stem the tide is direct misuse of
| the mails. The officials of the Demo
| cratic National Committee have re-
| ceived evidence that Republican, post
| masters and postal employees are not
| only tampering with letters sent from
Democratic headquarters and delaying
the delivery of campaign literature. but
returned almost as soon as delivered
to the pOstoffice address of the address
ecs.
Otto Doederlein. in charge OF the
German bureau of the national commit
tee says hundreds of letters have been
'Unclaimed," Refused" and Not
Found" All letters sent out from
Democratic National headquarters are
identified as coming from Democratic
headquarters by the following printed
directions on. the envelopes: Return
in five days TO rooms 2l-26, 306 Wabash
avenue. Chicago. ILL.,
Although the postal department
boasts of its ability to trace addresses
from the most meager descriptions,
there is, it is said, a disposition on the
part of pOstmasters in all parts of the
country, particularly in the doubtful
states, to take advantage of every tech
nical error in the superscriptiOn.
So notorious has become the conduct
OF Republican postmasters in the treat
ment of Democratic mail matter that
Democratic bureau chiefs have ad-
vised doing away with return directions
on envelopes used by the national COM
mittee. 1t is generally believed at
Democratic headquarters that hun
dreds Of thousands of Democratic docu-
ments have suffered at the hands of Re
publican postmasters.
William Lloyd Garrison. Ex-Governor
George s. Boutwell, and Colonel Thom-
as Wentworth Higginson, all of Bos-
ton, and well known TO the negroes of
the United States, have issued an ad-
dress to the colored people, advising
them to renounce the Republican party
as its national policy of Imperialism is
dangerous to the future of the colored
race. The address has been given out
by the National Democratic Commit
tee.
II. II. Hanna, chairman of the execu-
tive committee of the Indianapolis
Monetary convention, is in distress. He
has been looking over the political situ-
alton and sees that the Republican
party is in danger. His chief concern,
however, is the permanence and pro-
motion Ct the gold standard. and for
success in that direction he declares,
as an honest non-partisan," that the
Congressional outlook is unfavorable.
OF late he has been sending out doleful
letters urgently appealing for contri-
buttons to save the standard and the
party. In one of them he says:
There is very great danger of the
Bryanites securing control of the next
Congress. There is every reason to ex-
pect they will gain three Representa-
tives in North Carolina and serious risk
of gaining one in Kentucky, two in In
diana, one in Missouri and one in Tex
as. There is possibility of loss in many |
other districts. But few districts are
absolutely safe"
In another one Of these privately ad- |
dressed letters, II. II. Hanna still more !
dOlefully writes: I'VE have made ap- |
peals to the general public for funds, |
but SO far there has been very little re- !,
sponse." The contracted expenses are !
already large, he says, and each dele /
gate to the monetary convention is ask
ed to secure subscriptions of SO. Dis
raeli once exposed the political iniqui-
ties of an opponent by quoting from !,
letter which he described as a plum !
dering and laundering" one The de-
schption aptly characterizes II. II. !
Hanna's epistolatory appeals. He is :
that there is disheartening
apathy in the ranks Of Republicans. /
Indeed, from the fact that there hae
been Every little response" to his an
peals, there must be something like
positive disaffectiOn if not downright
revolt among those he would victimize.
1t is only a favored few that have
profited by the pious pretenses, vacilla-
ton and hypocrisy of the President,
and the summing up of his character
and acts Is not such as to inspire en-
thusiaSm.
Besides, it is patent that the plum
dering and laundering" II. II. Hanna
makes the gold standard and his hon
estly non-partisan" organization the ex-
cuse for partisanship which is none the
less bitter because it is veiled.
Two great meetings We're held i'm this
city last week, and as Indications of
the trend of the best public thought
and of the revolt from the policy and
of what Mr. Olney well
as McKinleyism, their
significance can hardly be Overesti-
mated. One of the big mass meetings
was addressed by Senator Wellington
Of Maryland, who was chiefly instru-
mental in making that State Republi-
,an, and who has publicly charged the
President with having lied to him on
he Philippine question. The other was
held under the auspices of the Iroquois
Club, one of the leading Democratic or
of the country, from a So
.ial and financial standpoint, and
which refused to support Bryan in 1896.
rhe principal speakers at this gather
ng were Sigmund Zeisler, Judge
Thomas a. Moran and S. S. Gregory.
All Of them are prominent in public
ife, and as gold Democrats helped the
Republican party to victory four years
lgo. They have not changed their mon
,tary convictions, but loving the repe3- |