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an Alarm Call From Chandler.
Senator Chandler of New Hampshire.
while an intense partisan. apparently does
not allow his partisanship TO prevent him
from seeing and realizing thae the rational
tide is running strongly against the party
organization of the trusts and monopo!ies
to which he is harnessed, although ire
quently showing q disposition to break MS
bit and kick ever the traces. He is too
able a man and too shrewd practical pol
itician not to feel that the battle chances
are against the ticket uncomfortable CIR
cumstances compel him 10 support, and he
is not slow to warn his confederates OF the
National Committee OF what they are en-
eountering. In an interview published yes
terday in the New York Tribune" Senator
Chandler gives the points of the message
he had come down from the hills of New
Hampshire to deliver to the Republican
Ct mpaign managers. Among other things
he says:
..In New England Ii is all one way. The sound
money Democrats arc going to vote Tor Achlh-
ley or stay away from the polls IN such num-
bers that tie Republican mSiorities Sit be over
whe.uing. In New Hampshire. which used TO
be close State, the majority will be over 2J,OJO
ard possibly 1000.
..yet he situation elsewhere seems 10 me 10
resemble in some respects, that Of lo10, when
| came here from New Hampshire, at tie re-
quest Of Zachariah Chandler Chairman, who told
me me Democratic plan OF the campaign was
concentration in Indiana and New York. Ihtre
was 70 apparent reason in tie political issues,
a. cper!y discussed, why in the centennial year
81 the Republic chang OF national power rom
Tie Republican to the Democratic party shc1i1
take place and the patriotic Republican panty
Jsu- out and the unIattiotic Democracy put IN.
But such he told was TIE Democratic pan
and hope, ard he asked to go and visit IN
dians ana Ohio, which then had October elec-
tions Sure cnouyh. sith hardly cioud in the
sky and WIKI almost apPs1.i -n,ions Of dtifai,
We lost IEdiena barely saved Ohio with an Ohio
canGiGats running Tor President, and lost New
York
IN ls76 the loss Of Indiana ard New York was
offse; by faithful Southern Republican States.
How Is it nowg They are al! sgains, Us out
West Virginia and Maryland and possibly Ken
trcky: AID these We could not save Il We lost
IndiaHa sud New York. -
The conspicuous mistake which Mr..
Chandler makes in saying that the So
called sound money Democrats of New
England are going to vote for Mckinley
or stay away from the polls" need not
heie be discussed. The ringing letter of
Mr.. olney declaring his opposition to i'm
perialism, trustism, and anti-constitu-
tionalism, and promising his support to
the Democratic ticket. is sufficient refu-
tation Of the Senator's statement. He
knows that most New England Gold DEM
ocrats Will take advice from and follow
the example of Cleveland's last Secretary
Of State, as they did in 1886.
Mr.. Chambers other remarks are more
interesting. When he likens the present
situation to that which obtained in 1876
when, as be says. the Republicans lost
Indiana, barely saved Ohio. with an Ohio
candidate running for President. and lost
New York. he offers a very distinct view
OF the handwriting On the wall to his po>
Itical associates. He even adds TO their
panic by reminding them that this year
there are no Southern electoral votes to
be stolen. as there were in the Tilden-
Hayes contest, a matter upon which he is
entitled TO speak with authority. But
now he explains that there viii he no
offset of that kind to the loss OF Indiana
and New York. At present all the South
ern States are against the trust organi-
zatIon but West Virginia and Maryland
and possibly Kentucky; and these we
could not save if we lost Indiana and New
York.
Even in his fright-perhaps because of
it-Mr. Chandler apparently does not rec
ognize the truth that Delaware, Maryland
West Virginia, and Kentucky are certain
ly and irretrievabIy Democratic; that
l. har Iauo In
diana. and that the broad chances today
are that Illinois will be added to the
Bryan column. As for Ohio. with an
Ohio candidate running for President,
the same Influences that are working in
Indiana and Illinois give the Democracy
more than a fighting chance for Mr. Ne
Kinley's own State, and he knows it.
whether the New Hampshire Senator does
or not.
1t has been very we'll said that tn
is not struggle between two popular
political organizations, but one between
the trusts and Inonopolies and their po-
litieaI agents and tools in Office against
the people of the United States Ham
ma, Mckinley, Rockefeller, Hayemeyer,
Platt, Chandler, and the rest Of the com
binaticn begin to understand tie fact.
and they viii continue 10 do so increas-
ingly to the end of the canvass. When
liberty and the Constitution are at stake
Republican apathy is natural; but the
people, threatened with the loss Of thsir
cherished free institutions, and with in
dustrial slavery, viii be found alert
enough in November. The conditions
may be like those of 1876, but the crime
OF 1876. the stealing OF the Presidency by |
the Republicans. will not be tolerated in |
1000.