The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-10-09
.oIlIp CLHRk'S LETTER
q 0.P. Marked For a Ire
mendous Trouncing.
rAPKCAN'T E THE DOODLE
p~o-iae1t Republicans Desert
ing Mckinley.
TEDDY AR0USES NO ENTHUSIASM,

s..rraI Republican Congressmen In
fs..a In Danger OF Defeat-signs
,rttrotc That Hanna Is to be Made
..e ~scapcgont of M~cT1inley's De-
..t-TeGaccratic Outlook In Indi-
eua-ZacA CAa2dler's Scheme Re-
,t.ca-A Republican Editors Con-
rrss:o--Uryan's Reply to Hnnnn,s
C.aGIe1re.
special Washington Letter.1
surely the G.. 0. P. is headed for the
deuce and marked for the most as
founding trOuncing any party ever re-
-..reI at the hands Of a long suffering
and outraged people. Mark can't get
his usual amount CT Doodle! Teddy
can't grouse any enthusiasm. And the
chairman OF the Iowa Republican state
committee sends out Il Macedonian cry
r5 the postmasters and other federal
pqrsuckers declaring that several Re
nublfcan congressman in Iowa are in
Great dancer of defeat! There has
f..a no such mournful set as the Re-
-uhlcluS are since the children Of Is
mrl hung their harps on the willows
md sat down by the waters of Babylon
and wept. Amazing Republican losses
ia Vermont. Surprising Republican
losses in Maine. Desertions Of promi-
rfat Republicans everywhere is the
Sesentng message which Mark is COM
ra,ed to send to his disheartened fol-
uvecs.
Ply the orrow Of a poor old man."
appears to be Marks appeal to the plu-
uerats. Calanities are croWding upon
lin 50 thick hat one might sympa-
..ze with him if McHannaism We're
Its written. IF thy right hand offend
thee. cut it Off"
So il is infinitely better th?t Mark
should go in humiliation to his politi-
Hgaye & q that the republic should
E>h.
Havin. Fun With Hanna.
They are playing cruel pranks with
Nark these days. Some scientist out
ID Indiana, without the fear of Hanna
.e.1re his eyes, but animated by ?
was-.eL. perhaps patriotic, spirit, got
Ibid IF one Of Marks paid Spell5ind-
es. lgpuCtized him and caused him to
deliver 4 rouSing Democratic speech.
Since Mark has unexpectedly blossom
Ell out as an orator he had better steer
CHAR OF that artist, or first thing he
Knows be- viii himself be whOODing it
Up for Bryan. 10 to l and all. How all
this must poster Mark, and yet nobody
appears to be shedding any tears over
Els ualGles. Even Republicans are
beginning to complain Of him and &c
lssg.te.ully use him. My lecture mate
ole of them-HOn. Charles 3. Lands
Of Delphi. Ind, thought it 4 winning
card to induce Mark to crate in bis
town. Guess Charles did that with ar
eye to p~or$uading Mark to give him
some Of the sinewS Of war. Mark in
yatel Delphi, grated, and now comes
Governor Mount, who says that bring
Ing Mark into Hoosierdom was q blum
der which u famous Frenchman on {
Ao~cntous occasion declared to b"
worse than q crime. Governor Mount
declaration is the most unkindest' Gu
Of all and must have caused the iron Il
enter Marks soul. Signs are acoumu
~U1- that Mark is to be made tht
sca9egaat for McKinley's impending
defeat He will share the ~lamentab.'
-t-e If one Jay Uubbell-Garfeld'
Dear iIubbelI"-whO sandba@ged an'
@-li up the government officials al
Who was then thrown away like
sucked orange-disoraced, eXecrateG
aafIe4. When Mckinley is beaten, a
-o viii be, all Of the sins of al the Re
.ts-cans VIII tie loaded OF to Mark
~lH and he VIII be hated more enthr
S'~"ca.lJ and more universally tina
~. other mar in America.
= Jobs Comforter.
Even The GIobe-Democrat, p THO
,-' thin Republican organ grinder, Ia
,.'a-." Il sort Of Jobs comforter TO
agar" and. speaking Of West Virginia
says. "the outlook is not SO hopeful q
@ campaign Republican manager
..' hoped il would be" Again, III
.'--' cmocrat says, The party lie
.'..~ 'H Tie field say that hard Wor
.' necessary for the salvation c
'- a."'-.' Again. The Globe-Democr;
a.t- ColofuIly, The result Of I'll
. from West Virginia will be tt
"""3c 5racing No Of the Ecpubli
~"..htI1u in that state" Whic
..., / la5t it, that senator Stcphe
l-..ils wiz import a few more ca
+.@ 90. the coIored mar and brOth(
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