New-York tribune., 1900-10-28
NOTES OF THE CAMPAIGN

VAUDEVILLE AS A CAMPAIGN ARc,,,-.
The voters of the xIIth Congress Distr,ct
souri,. are revelling In vaudeville entertsinr1s
OF all expense. The Democratic canat5a, :. nee
proprietor Of big vaudeville theatre in 6. 'ae
Every night now, 1t is reported. he takss -.
stand near the door OF his playhouse ana as
man seeks admission he has ONLY 70 80 wen
he is a voter in one OF the wards OF the 5,.as as
and the doorkeepers come forward and 49,
him within. All others pay. Vaudeville n ls s
clared to be a winning card with manv yot..-s u-
this Missouri constituency.
A WARNING To KENTUCKY.-Tbera
in mind L IS that If they counp o t5 should bear
can candidate for Governor that viii be : PIeoi,
will be National affair. Suppose the rs-gIt Isoss
the Presidential election should turn on the vo q
fraudulently given certificates Of election IL Tboe oe
counted An attempt to have Bryan 'ss Sa.ysses votes
elected by reason Of the votes Of those electors
bring about controversy as serious as that ~
lSIo; In that instance the Republicans were in the
a majority in both branches 81 Congress. AccorJ
viii not be decided BY the vote Of RentGekye S ksee'on
suming that to be the case, the counting out o.
rascality. committed from sheer love Of fraud
decide the contest IL is most desirable that t5ro
should be no question as 70 the legality OF thai
Democrats to consider It is that senatorei.S SteiS
friends DO anv chestin in Kenr,,cv y 1s, Lbs II MS
under that Goebel law which elected him. he nay
have to wait outside the bar of the Senate for
time. He is responsible for much Of the recent
fraud and violence which have disgraCed Kentucky
it Will not be done BY the other fellow" me
& Min lose aotlns oy taxing lIS tne about
TTibune. Hf nHl''''S'0" OF sue" "'1"-'-'s 0a''aso
FIGHT FOR CONGRESS CLOSING-The Dem
ocratic Congressional Committee at Washington
has ceased sending out what is euphemistcally
styled literature" and now confines itself 70 an
swering letters and similar duty. The Republican
subcommittee there is still active along all the
customary lines of campaign work. The Iatter's
headquarters will continue open until election
night. it is said Most Of the documentary work.
however has been done by the main committee IN
Chicago.
NEBRASKA'S STAKE IN THE ELECTION.-A
Nebraska the greatest boom which u has ever had.
There would be no more falling of in population.
home town. in the last ten years The Bryaaiza-
ton which has hit those two places would be abol-
discernibe. and the outlook would be bright From
boom. The Republicans have high hopes OF sue
cess in that State, Nebraska has been cursed with
even Bryan's warmest Nebraska supporters must
see by this time that this is having a disastrous
Commonwealth is among the probabiites--CThe
St. Louis GlObe-DemOCrat-
WEST VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS LOSE HEART
1t is known that prominent Democrats in West
Virginia, Notwithstanding their little squirt over
Mr.. Bryan's tour through the State, have really
lost heart. and some OF them in private cOnversa-
ton frankly admit that they expect 10 gain moth
ing there except perhaps, United States Senator.
The State is so gerrymandered that Mckinley
might carry 1t by 10000 and the Legislature might
be carried by the Democrats
ADVANCE IN CAMPAIGN NETHODS.-A graft
flying feature of the present campaign is the very
general disuSe of personalities in the political dis
cussiOns. Whatever abuse there has been IS di-
ieCted to the issues. rather than the nominees
his is a wide departure from previous Presidential
struggles. 1t Is quite common TO compare the past
with the present. the disadvantage OF the
latter, and yet in OF the earlier National con-
tests the most ilustriOus statesmen, men whose
wisdom is reverently quoted to-day. were abused
without measure. 1t was regarded as q legitimate
ethOd of conducting campaign Recent con-
in this country have been conducted on similar
lines, and Il may be that the public disgust for
such methods exhibited by giving support 70 the
candidates OutTageOuSly abused has driven
them out of use, least for the mOmeL-- II pOA-
ticans have been made TO understand that personal
deuunciatfOn the poorest of all political devices.
the public will be immensely the gamer. IN every
campaign that which interests the public Is the ad-
ministratiOn OF public affairs, and not the private
affairs of the candidate.-(The Baltimore American