The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-28
The Last Week of the Campaign.


Presidential campaign. For all popular
purposes It will end on Saturday night al
though it may be that colonization and
preparations for fraud upon the ballot may
be continued in the trust interest up to
the opening of the polls on Tuesday, No
vember 6.
=" AS the situation stands today, there is
great announcement to the belief that the
trust corruption fund of thirty million dol
lars, efforts to buy up election officers, es-
pecially in West Virginia and the Ohio
border counties of Indiana, the wholesale
colonization of fraudulent voters in West
Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and north
ern New York, and all the other devices
which experience and criminal ingenuity
have suggested to trust campaign man
ayers. have been unavailing to turn back
the tidal wave which manifestly has been
setting toward Mr.. Bryan for the past
month.
Reviewing his amazing campaign tour
through the Central West and the East, it
= no exaggeration to state that he has
removed any previously existing doubt
concerning the electoral votes Of Delaware,
Maryland West Virginia, and Kentucky,
and landed them safely in the Democratic
column. We may add that there is no ap-
parent ground for doubt that Mr.. Bryan
has won New Jersey by a good majority,
and perhaps a great one. In 1896 the Re-
publicans carried the State by eighty
seven thousand majority for Mr. Mckinley.
In the gubernatorial election of 1898 this
had dwindled to fifty-fve hundred. 1t will
only require a change Of less than three
thousand votes to give New Jersey to the
Tribune OF the People. Measured by the
intense enthusiasm which has been shown
for the Democratic candidate from end to
end Of the Commonwealth, the former Re-
publican majority has been wiped out q
dozen times over.
Finally, we may say that the wonderful
display of Bryan sentiment in New York
last night. particularly when contrasted to
the chill and perfunctory character Of
Roosevelt's reception the night before, and
marking the elimination OF a triumphal
progress through the State, should remove
any uneasiness in regard to the outcome
IN New York. II polls, wild enthusiasm.
and other political phenomena count for
anything, they promise that Mr.. McKin-
ley will come down to the Bronx with an
fnconsiderable, IL any, majority, and that
Mr.. Bryan will go up to it with such an
overwhelming vote as to ruin all chance
Of changing the verdict In his favor by
fraud up State"
II we could be assured of an honest bal
lot and fair count in all States, the cleo
ton OF Mr.. Bryan would be a foregone
conclusion. There is not the smallest
question that he will receive the votes Of
a large majority Of the American people.
The single danger is in the thirty million
dollar corruption fund. The simple duty
Of honest citizens everywhere is to or
ganize and see to it that the election is
not stolen. Democrats In West Virginia
and Maryland should prepare Immediately
to prevent the polling Of thousands of
negroes they know to have been imported
from the District of Columbia and North
Carolina to rob them Of their free voice
and choice at the polls. The same duty is
mandatory upon all friends Of honest cleo
lions on the Ohio Indiana line and on the
Canadian frontier Of New York. 1t will
not do to take things for granted, al
though there are evidences of a landslide
which will bury colonists, repeaters, cor
rupted election officers, and bribed voters
in a common destruction. Every care
should be taken to detect and punish their
nefarious work before 1t can be per-
formed. II the friends of liberty and the
Constitution will attend to that matter
they need not fear for the returns. The
country looks to be upon the eve Of
great and glorious revolution which will
make its Government once more a Gov
eminent of the people, for the people. and
by the people.