The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-10
NOTES OF THE CAMPAIGN

| day, Mr.. Bryan made it very plain that
his only fear of defeat now was due to
J The knowledge which has come to him
| that the Hanna machine has devised
scheme of corruption even more thorough
and practicable than that of 1895 In this
| speech Mr., Bryan declared that the Re-
/ publican managers will buy every vote
| that can be bought. They will coerce every
! vote that can be coerced. They will in
| timidate every laboring man that can be
| inundated They will bride every cleo
| ton judge that can be bribed. They will
corrupt every count that can be corrupt
ed" On the same day in New York Hon.
John r. Altgeld, of Illinois, made this
bold charge in newspaper Interview:
| We have discovered a plot engineered by
Mark Hanna and other Republican cam
paign managers to buy up the election Off
GERS in the doubtful States-particularly
in illinois. Indiana. Ohio, and Michigan l
| have been told that the Republican plan
for carrying New York is to pay voters to
stay at home. In the West the method is
a different one. The Mckinley managers
are seeking TO bride election officers out
| there to falsify the returns. You will re-
call that in 1896 there were returned from
| the state of Ohio over $4,000 more votes
than there were males of twenty-one years
and over in the State. That's how Bryan
was robbed of Ohio four years ago. But
| he will not he robbed this year. The Dem
ocratic National and State Committees are
on the watch and they will see to it that
there is an honest ballot and fair count
there and elsewhere. regardless of the
huge corruption fund collected by Mark
| Hanna and his agents." Ex-Governor Alt
geld has made the first statement of plan
which it is said the Democratic managers
nave been maturing for several weeks and
which is now ready to be put into opera.
ton. Under their supervision the polls
and the count in all the doubtful States
are to be watched more closely this year
than ever before in the history of the
country. 1t is a fact that the census re-
turns from Ohio do not show by tens of
thousands the population which the enor-
nous vote counted in that State four years
ago indicated. With this as a safe basis
to work upon the Democratic managers
can watch Ohio more carefully and intel
ilgentiy next month than they were able
to do in 1896. Then. too, in the last cleo.
ton the Republicans in Ohio and other
states OF the Middle West having control
CT the election machinery put so-calIed
Gold Democrats to represent the Bryan
ticket at the polls. where the law required
that none but real Democrats should be
employed. They cannot repeat this trick
1919 No' pS1aoSe tueTe is no TOlu Demo-
cratic party or ticket in the field. The
Democrats also are placed in a better po-
sition in Indiana by reason Of the fact
| mat since the last election the monstrous
| election law OF that State has been very
materially modified. Under the law which
prevailed four years ago the ballots were
| destroyed by the election officers as soon
as the count was completed and before the
oihcers left the booth. The law as modi-
H,Il IT,
served intact for certain period. 1t is
not believed that any rascally judges and
clerks OF election in the Hoosier State can
lie induced this, year to run the risk of a
pehitentiary term by making false returns
or stuffing the ballot box 1t is considered
not unlikely that the election may be riot
GUS IN many parts of the country because
CT the determination of the Democratic
! managers not to allow their candidates
again to be counted out though it may be
mat when the opposition learns of this
determination 1t will be unable to employ
men to do The dirty work which Mr.. Bryan
warned the country against the other day
b"rker In n Drenmer.-Apparentl
about the only fun the Hon. Wharton
Barker is ge.~ng out of this campairn
comes through the delightful dreams he
mas. sleeping and waking. of the huge vote
ne Is TO take away from Mr.. Bryan. At
omaha, few days ago, Barker said that
ne as the Mid-Road Populist candidate
ior PRESIDENT. would get at least a half
million votes. and that he would get fully
million II Georgia and Texas do their
duty Populism reached its high tide in
1872. ever since which year it has been
receding. as shown by the reduction in the
number of Populists in both branches of
Congress. as well as in State elections The
Hon. James b. Weaver received abnut :.
million votes in 1882 as the full-fedgsd
fopuiist candidate for President but II
was believed at that time and is still he
iieved. that the Cleveland managers that
year deliberately conspired with weaye-
TO roll up that vote. 1t was what beat
General Harrison for reelection, and as a
reward Tor the assistance rendered to Mr..
Cleveland by the Populists the late Wal
ter Gresham was taken off of the Federal
bench and put at the head of the State
DEPARTMENT. position for which he was
not suited temperamentaliy or intellectual
ly. -Four years ago the Populists cast only
2i5.cG0 votes for Bryan and Watson
though they made great deal more noise
III that campaign than Barker and Don
nelly have made in this campaign SO far
Barker also predicts that Debs. the So
oiaiist nominee. will poll $50. coo votes.
though he doesn't attempt to tell where
| 'ht! " III cOIHe iTOIn ne Socialist canij-
date four years ago received only 36 OOO
votes out Ola total poll of nearly fourteen
million. Wooliey. according to the home
ful Barker. will get as Ilany votes "a
Debs. when the statistics show that the
Prohibitionists have never been able to
reach the 15O.Ceo mark in national cam
paign. The experts believe that if Barker
and Donnelly get 100000 votes they will
do mighty we'll in that this lust about
represents what is left of the Populist
party.
Fin=icr for til" s"nnt..-Henry NJ
Flasler. Standard Oil magnate. railroad
barren. and multimilionaire. has suddenly
removed his legal residence to Florida
, where most of his railroad interests orc
r located. and where he has been a power
in politics for many years. 1t is s,spected
that Mr.. Flagler's latest move means that
he has personal political aspirations. and
2 tfat he will contest for seat in the Sem
, ate when the term of the Hon. Stephen
, Russell Mallory expires. in 1903 Whether
Mr. Flagler is a Democrat or Republican
Is not known here Though curiously
enough. Fleridaps don't seem TO think his
present party utilization is of consequence
Some of them say that if Flasier wants
to come to the Senate he will do so re-
CARELESS of what his past political prn-
ciplcS may have been. 1t is pointed cut
that voters are few in Florida and tina.
, Mr. Fiagler is generally regarded by Flo
] n aps cIt.I, hftNa