Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1900-03-15


be pleased to hear that he is steadily i'm
proving, and will be home next month.
The editor is in receipt of letter from
the U. S. surveyor general, at Olympia,
informing him that the survey Of Is has
been rejected and new contract would
be let at once.
K. F. Wesley, Il logger, tells OF buck
ing a log in Polson's camp recently lao
feet in length, 3 feet through at the tip
and feet at the butt. The timber will
be received here in few days.
Manager Hitchings, of the Hoquiam
Ship Yard, successfully launched another
fine vessel Tuesday evening at 5:15.
This was the Rainier, the largest steam
schooner ever built on the Coast, being
slightly larger than the Robert Dollar
recently launched.
The Northwest Lumber Co. has been
cutting some fine sticks OF timber recent
ly, among others there are a few measnr-
ing i6x20-l03ft. long, 16x26-100ft. long,
7x12-9Sft. long, Sxl2-1O0it. long. The
larger ones were used for the keel OF the
new ship and smaller ones for mast sticks
The big building OF the Panel & Fold
ing Box Co. is completed. Creech Bros,
the contractors, finished last Friday. 1t
makes an imposing looking plant and
will now be rapidly filled with machin.
cry. The bonus raised by the citizens Of
Hoquiam to be paid when building was
completed will be turned over to MIR.
Sutthof at once.
Bryan's Strength as a Candidate.
In judging of the political strength OF
Mr.. Bryan as presidential candidate in
the elections of 1896, the proper compare
son is not with the high-water mark Of
the democratic party in 1892, but with
the hopeless condition into which the
party was plunged by the state elections
Of 1893, "a, and '95. In those elections
the democracy not only lost every North
ern state, but they were also defeated in
the Southern states of Kentucky, Mary
land, West Virginia, North Carolina,
Tennessee and Delaware. The state OF
New York gave republican majorities
averaging over 100000 in 1893, '94 and
'95. Ohio went republican in all three
years by an average majority of over 100,.
cut we've carried bv the republicans in
about the same proportion in those
years.
Mr.. Bryan in 1896, standing upon the
Chicago platform, lost no state that was
democratic in 1898, 1894, or 1895, but
gained fol the democracy the states OF
Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Mon
tana, Idaho, Nevada, Colorado, North
Carolina, Tennessee, Washington, and
Wyoming. He came within few hum
bred votes OF carrying Kentucky and
California, the election in both states he.
ing SO close that one elector in each was
counted for Mr.. Bryan.
He reduced the republican majority IN
Indiana from 1000 in 1894 to $4,000 in
1896, and in Ohio from $4,000 in 1895 to
Al, 900 in 1896. 1t may lie said that Kan
sas has since been carried by the repub.
licans, but Kansas went republican by
10000 in 1894 and 80, 900 in 1895. and yet
Mr.. Bryan carried it by $4,000 in 1885,
In the other states gained by Mr.. Bryan,
he is stronger on the bimetallic issue
than in 1896, as thousands Of silver re-
publicans in those states were then kept
in line for the republican ticket by the
assurances OF Senator Woicott, OF Colo
RADIO, and Senator Carter, Of Montana,
that Mr.. Mckinley was better silver
man and could do more for silver than
Mr.. Bryan could.
At the last national convention OF the
democracy, nearly one.third OF the dele
gates came away either to sulk through
the campaign, or to actively aid in the
election of Mr.. Mckinley. At the coming
convention OF the party Mr.. Bryan will
receive a unanimous and enthusiastic
nomination, and the most hearty support
till the day Of election. l believe he will
prove one OF the strongest candidates
ever chosen by the democracy. f.
Cook Jr., in Springfield Republican.
Advertised Letters.
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