The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-18
The New York Revelation.

From a variety of sources. beth public
and private. We learn that the reception
of Mr.. BRIAN in New York on Tuesday
has created panic in the Republican
National Committee, and that Marcus A.
Hanna has been urged to return East and
suggest schemes calculated to overcome
the popular sentiment which evidently is
for the Democratic candidate at the pres
EFT time.
A week ago Hanna was confident that
a lavish distribution of funds up STATE"
had made New York safe for Trust Nc
Kinley." on the basis Of a twenty-five or
thirty thousand majority for Bryan in the
metropolitan city. Now the Republican
managers are in blue terror over the
probability that Mr.. Croker may make
good his declaration that he will land the
hundred thousand majority. Fake esti-
mates. polls. and bets have been put out
OF the fight by the events of Tuesday AMI
Tuesday night. If the enthusiasm then
shown for Mr.. Bryan is generally demon
strated in the smaller towns and the
country as SO far it has been, the pre-
sumption will be that the State is lost to
the trust Republicans.
What Hanna will do to meet the danger
is easy to guess. He has only one arg1-
ment in his repertoire. and that is
Money. He will demand fresh subscrip-
lions from the oil, sugar, tobacco, rum,
STEEL leather, and rubber combinations,
and all others lin restraint of trade"
and use them in the customary manner
TO stem the tide. His men will continue
10 claim everything in sight" as every
where they have been ordered to; but
claims will not settle the election. The
New York Indications today are that the
people will do the settling and that the
Empire State will appear in the Demo-
cratic column where it belongs, en- the
sixth of November.
Under the claim everything policy,
Hanna and his associates are claiming
Maryland, which is, or ought to be, as
safely Democratic as Texas. II it is
stolen this year. Maryland Democrats will
be solely TO blame They know exactly
how the Republicans are colonizing ne
groes from the District of Columbia and
to what points they are being or will be
taken. Citizens of Baltimore who respect
the suffrage are on notice that the vicious
element in their city Is counted on BY
the trust managers to swell the McKin-
ley vote for cash considerations. If such
s. thing be allowed it will be shame to
the Democratic organization in Baltimore.
No one else Will be to blame.
The same thing may be said of West
Virginia, where Republican preparations
to perpetrate frauds upon the ballot are
widespread, and hardly denied
II the Democrats of that State allow such
plans to mature and succeed, they will
may be different. There every piece of
the election machinery is SO completely
In the hands of the trusts and their po-
litical agents that an honest vote is per-
haps as much out OF the question as it
was IN 1886, when the Republicans ere
ated fraudulent majority by registering
enough fictitious names to make Ohio's
popular vote represent seventy thousand
more voters than were in the State at
the time of the election.
With an honest vote and a fair count
there is not the fraction of a doubt that
MIR. Bryan's election would be assured.
But the enemy has gathered in cor
ruption fund OF twenty-five or thirty mil
lion dollars to prevent an honest vote
and fair count. and has enlisted nearly
all of the great employers of labor in a
to coerce the labor vote. That
also is to be taken into account. Never
il the farmers and workingmen of
the country show that they are not bribe- |
takers, or to be intimidated into acting
against their interests and convictions, |
the victory will be theirs. II they are |
the chance to free the United |
States from the grinding and robbins rule |
Of the trusts may never recur.