Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-10-22
WASHINGTON LETTER.


swing all over the country, and from
almost every state comes the same
story-repnblican activity and deter
mination to win by a larger majority
in the electoral college than in 1896,
and to elect a majority of the house.
With the coming of republican ac-
tivity the doubt about congress
there has never been any doubt about
the election Of Mckinley and Roose-
velt-disappeared like frost in the
morning sunshine. AS in 1896, the
business element of the country is
with the republicans, and no candi-
date solidly supported by that ele-
ment has ever been defeated. 1t was
because this element refused to recog-
nize the danger that there was a
doubt about congress, but it Is now
thoroughly aroused and working
harder every day, and assured victory
is in the air. The republican majority
in the present house is 13 and several
republicans from the South are GER
tain to be succeeded by democrats,
owing to peculiar conditions and laws,
but for every seat lost in the South,
the republicans will gain two else
where, and their majority in the next
house will be larger than in the pres
emit house.
Mr.. John w. Langley of KY,
appointment clerk of the census
bureau, is i'll demand as a speaker at
political meetings in Washington and
nearby places. In one of his recent
speeches, Mr.. Langley said: ''Ken-
lucky was the first state to win vic
tory squarely on the sound money
issue. With the aid of democrats,
men loyal and true, but men who put
principle above party, Kentucky was
swung into line for President McKin
ley. 1t was this issue that carried the
state in 1885, and it is this issue, still
paramount in spite of the bugaboos
and straw men, the followers
of Bryan are showing to the front,
that will carry the state for Mckinley
again this time. There is biblical
Injunction against false prophets. A
few extracts from Bryan's speeches
during the last campaign will conclu
sively prove him a false prophet.
This fact will lose him votes in Ken
lucky, and the electoral vote OF the
state will be held by safe majority
for Mckinley and prosperity"
Hon. Henry a. Castle, who predicts
that Mr.. Bryan will not get single
electoral vote from the Mississippi
river to the Pacific coast, north of
Missouri, thus condensed the political
issues: "There is one paramount issue
and only one. 1t is sound money, and
it is futile for the democratic party to
try to belittle or becloud it. 1t is
prosperity, and all that that means,
ard law and order, against untri9d,
unproven snd failacious belief. The
silver question was settled il u Ears
ago, but Bryan Was obliged TO force it
forward again or lose the p"ouIistic
vote and he would parafn punt it i'm
mediately if he were elected"
Mr.. II. H. Mckee, journal clerk of
the house, whose long experience has
made his political judg ment good,
and who has Just returned from
campaigning trip in Ibdiana, said: . I
have just offered 10 make Il wager
that Mckinley would run one million
ahead of the state tickets in the pop
ular vote of the country. but / could
get no taker. My judgment is that
Mckinley is great deal stronger as
a national candidate than many of the
there may be some doubt as to the
success of the republican candidates
for governor of Indiana and Illinois,
but do not think there is the slightest
chance of Bryan capturing the electo
raj votes OF either state. [ shall be
very much surprised if Mckinley is
defeated. | was surprised in 1892, I
admit, at the defeat of Harrison, but
in that year the laboring ell ment was
all against us and we did not know it
This year careful inquiry has been
made in every state and we will get
the votes of the working men, except
the socialistic anarchistic element,
which is always democratic.''
The betting odds have advanced
from two and one half to one to three
to one on Mckinley, both in Washing
ton and New York, but all the Bryan
seems to have been exhausted
when Boss Croker made his bets for
effect, several weeks ago. If the
news from all over the country con
tinues to increase in favor of the