Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1900-10-12

StuItifyins Speeches-The Outlook Cheering
in South Dakota-McKinIey Encounters
Some New Causes for TribuIation.
| From our Regular Correspondent.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 5, 1900.
The Doodle stage of the campaign
has been reached, and the head has
been knocked out of the Republican
barrel. Hanna's recent visit to the
eastern headquarters of the big trusts
filled the barrel to OVERLOOKING. In
every doubtful State and Congression-
al district every vote that can be had
for money is to be bought. These are
not mere assertions. They are hard
facts, Of which the Democrats have
been warned by Chairman Richard
son, OF the Democratic Congressional
Campaign Committee, and by Mr..
Richard Croker of New York, both of
whom know OF the enormous amount
OF money secured by Hanna, and
judge by the way he spent millions in
1896 how he intends TO spend it. 1t
is not easy to prevent some buying
and selling OF votes among those who
are unprincipled enough to engage in
such traffic, but vigilance on the
part OF Democrats may greatly lessen
the number bought and sold, as every
State provides heavy penalty for the
crime.
There was q noticeable change in
the attitude of the Republican mana
gers just as soon as they got the tip
that Hanna had all the money he
wanted. Instead OF talking doubtful
ly Of the result of the elections, both
Presidential and Congressional, they
began to blow, making the most ridic-
ulous claims as to the number of cleo
toral votes that Mckinley will get and
the number of Republican Congress-
men that will be elected.
Representative Rhea, of Virginia,
called at the Post Office Department
This week and filed vigorous COM
plant against the Republican post
masters in his district, for failure to
deliver important documents sent him
from Washington. He also asked
that an inspector be sent to invcsti.
gate the complaint. He received the
same old, stereotyped promise that
the matter would be looked into, and,
judging from tho result of similar
promises made to the same sort OF
complaints by Democrats, that will be
the last of it, so far as the Republican
postOffice officials are concerned.
The Republican managers are hav-
ing trouble with Benjamin Harrison.
They want him to take the stump, but
Ben says he has throat trouble and
can't do it, although no one has heard
that his throat trouble prevented him
speaking in court for any client who
is rich enough to pay his big fees. If
he won't speal5 they want him to
write and sign a Mckinley plea for
publication, but he may discover that
he has pen paralysis, or something
else, that will prevent his writing, il
they don't put up a big retainer for
him. Ben doesn't like Mckinley or
McKinleyism, and il he says any thing
for either it will be on the usual basis
that lawyers briefs are written.
Judge George d. Lacy, of South Da :
koia, who is in Washington looking
after some business before the United
States Supreme Court, thinks that h is
State is absolutely safe for Bryan md
Stevenson, notwithstanding Boss
Hanna's personal efforts to capture it,
and thus states the reasons for his be-
lief: "The voters in South Oak ota
are mostly farmers, and farmers, you
know, generally look at public ques-
tons with a clearer vision than men
who dwell in cities. They have time
for reflection as they go about their
work in the fields. They are not
blinded by the glamor OF close contact
with wealth, nor are their sensibilities
dulled by familiarity with the suffer.
ings of their fellow men. The inhab-
itants of cities decide questions upon
the basis of expediency, while the far.
mer weighs them with g judicious
mind and gets at the bottom of things.
Therefore the farmer is most keenly
alive to the danger that turks in great
combinations OF wealth that make
toward monopoly, and it is to the
farming communities that Bryan
must look for the votes nece ssary TO
his election"
Mr.. Mckinley did not come to
Washington this time in particular
ly good humor, although he found the
Chinese business, of which he has
been afraid from the start, apparently
coming his way to the extent of get
ting into the hands of the diplomats,
thus making sure that nothing can
happen in connection Herewith that
will have any effect upon the election.
He knows Ohio politics pretty we'll,
and the campaign isn't progressing
there in manner that is satisfactory
to him. He has learned what the
Democratic managers have known for
some time-that the trust issue alone
is making thousands of votes for Col.
Bryan among men who have hereto
fore voted with the Republican party,
and he recognizes that the State is in