The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-10-26
FROM THE CAPITAL.
Our Correspondent Talks in
General About Wash
ington.
(Communicated)
w ASHINGTON.
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preparing to give Mr.. Bryan a
rouSlng reception when he passes
through on his way to Baltimore
tomorrow, and at least one thou
sand of them will accompany
him Oh a special train to Balti-
more and take part in the meet
ingS he will address in that city.
If enthusiasm and confidence will
win, the Democrats will certainly
do so. In no campaign during
the past twenty y-five years have
they been more enthusiastic or
more confident of victory; they
feel that the ImperialiSts are on
the run and that in spite of the
truSt-contributed fund of unlim-
tied amount that is being Law
lShly used against them, the
plain people will rise in their
might and elect Bryan and Ste
venSon. They knew that intimi-
dation of all sorts is being used
to whip the men who work for
wages into line for Mckinley and
Imperialism: but they know also
that these voters have in the Sc
cret ballot weapon which they
can use if they have the cour.
age of their convictions, as they
are believed to have, to de-
feat their intimidatOrS.
MIR. Mckinley is needed in
Ohio to help the Republican
bosses to hold that State in line,
and he left for Canton today,
and will practically manage the
rest of the Republican campaign
i'll Ohio. He processes conf
dence in his election, but his acts
Indicate that he has grave
doubts. News from Mr.. Bryan's
trip through New York have
been very discouraging to him
and he is afraid that he may lose
the State. He talked this over
with Mr.. Roosevelt, who has now
gone back to New York, but he
has no confidence in Teddy'S
ability to help him any in that
State, because he knows that
Teddy is not i'll touch with the
Piatt machine, and that the COW
boy method of campaigning is
not popular in the Empire State.
The eXigencies of the cam.
paign caused break in the rule
recently made by Mr.. Mckinley
against the simultaneous absence
from Washington of the Secre-
tary and Assistant Secretary of
War. Saturday was the last day
of registration in New York, and
Secretary Root was told by Mr..
Mckinley to go and register as
his vote might be needed. AS.
sistant Secretary Meiklejohn is
on the stump in Nebraska. Con-
Sequently General Miles was act
ing Secretary of War for few
days.
This is the way the big Bryan
meeting in New York City i'm.
pressed New York Republican
who attended it, and who is now
III Washington: "Bryan's visit
to New York was timely and if
the Republican managers in that
State do not wake up and coun
teract the effects of that meeting
there will be something doing
next month. | was at the Madi-
son Square Garden. | was also
at the Chicago Convention
which Bryan stampeded in 1886.
In crowd Of people the ap
pearance of Bryan is like dy-
Mantle. There is no describing
the wonderful effect that the per
sOnality of this man has upon the
people. Republicans can say
what they please, he draws
the crowds. Those who have
been within the sound of his
voice are won over to him in spite
of their former opinions. | am "a
Republican, but | want to say
that |, like thousands of others
who heard him in Madison Square
Garden, left doing some very ser
ious thinking.n The gentleman
who did this plain talking is Mr..
Charles Faret.
Although it is now acknowledg.
ed that the alleged imperial
Chinese decree ordering the deg
radiation and punishment of
Prince Tuan and other high Chi.
nese officials for aiding the Boxers
in their attack upon the for
elgners was fake document,
MIR. Mckinley and Secretary
Hay continue to hOb-n mob with
the Chinese Minister, and their
understrappers to assist that the
administration is perfectly salts
fed of the good faith of the Chi.
nese government. If that be
really true, the administration
Is almighty easy to satisfy. 1t is
well known that the same salts
faction is not expressed py any
of the other governments except
Russia, which has long been un-
derstood to control the Empress
Dowager and LII Hung Chang,
and by France, which is merely
playing the role .of sine toon to
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