The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-03-18
SUCCESS SEEMS CERTAIN
Bryan Will be the Next President.
Says Mr. Kluttz.
MESSRS. THOM S AND KITCHENS VIEWS
With Porto Rican Tariff Bill, Hay-Pauncefote
Treaty, Financial Bill and Friendship For
Trusts, he Administration Has
Dug IS Own Crave.
Dug is Own Crave.
Especial to News and Observer.)

Washington, D. c., March lin the
opinion of the Democrats in the House
the outlook for party success this fall
could not be brighter. The most conser-
vative admit that the Republican are ter
ribly worked up, and that on the leading
issues they are hopelessly divided. The
members of the North Carolina delegation
do not hesitate to say that the wind is in
Bryans sails and that he will surely be
nominated and elected next November.
Representative Kitchin says Democratic
prospects could not be better. Every
thing favors u.s. he said, "and we'll sweep
the country as we did in 1892
In response to your correspondent, Rep
resentative Kluttz said:
REPRESENTATIVE KLUTTZ'S VIEWS.
Il think the prospects are bright for
Democratic victory in the next Presiden
tiaI and Congressional elections. The
extraordinary course of the Republicans
on the Porto Rican tariff
question; the woeful blunder OF
the Hay auncefote treaty; the mai
odoresness of the Gage and City National
Bank incident; the cringing to England
shown in the Macrum correspondence af
fair: the general Anglo-mania of the
State Department; the troublous condi
tions prevailing in the Philippines, and
the vacillation and INDIGESTION of the adj
ministration in dealing with them; the
overwhelming evidences of the supreme
power of the trusts over the administra-
ton; the financial bill which not only
strikes down silver, but creates a huge
National Banking trust, and gives the
Secretary of the Treasury absolute and
uncontrolled power to issue bonds; the
policy, hitherto undreamed of, of perpet-
uating for all time a great national debt
the tremendous cost of the war; these
and many other things have so disguised
the American people that the next House
of Representatives will almost certainly
be Democratic, and unless some unexpect-
ed providences intervene to save the Re-
publicans the next President will be a
Democrat, and his name will be Bryan"
MR.. THOMAS SEES SUCCESS.
81 am prepared readily and cheeafuily to
give my views upon the prospects Of the
success of the Democratic party in the
national election of 1900" said Represen-
tative c. r. Thomas.
THE Democrats in Congress have been
charged by the Hon. Joseph c.. Sibley Of
Pennsylvania, with being pessimists and
not being able to see and realize the al
legged prosperity claimed by the Repub-
lican party to be the result of Republi-
can policies.
Democrats are quick to rejoice at any
evidences of prosperity, but they realize
that under the Republican policies Of
the gold standard and high protective
tariff. fostering and protecting trusts.
and the new policy of Imperialism and
militarism requiring a large standing
army and greater navy no permanent
prosperity can come to the great masses
of the people Of this country.
THE prosperity of the trusts is not the
prosperity of the whole people.
''As to Democratic success nationally in
1900 l am one of those who dares to be
an optimist. l seldom write interviews
but I have no hesitation in expressing my
views on this subject.
I'VE will win and William J. Bryan will
be inaugurated as President on March 4,
1901, unless all political signs fail.
There are substantial reasons for this
statement.
First. A change of about 30 900 votes
in about six States in 1896 would have
given Mr.. Bryan a majority of the cleo
toral vote. He is stronger today than in
1896. No ground has been lost. Second.
We will have in 1900 the same union and
fusion of Democrats, Populists and Silver
Republicans in the Western States as in
1896.
Il have taken the pains to ascertain
the sentiment of these elements in Con-
gress and am assured this statement is
correct.
Third. Since the Fifty-sixth Congress
convened the two most important meas
ures, except the general appropriation
bills, debated and passed are the Puerto