Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1900-09-05
Political Notes.

know Whist they think of the politi-
cal situation.
Hon. Charles DENLY, of Chicago,
and Ex-Congressmsn English, both
prominent in democratic councils at
one time, who repudiated Bryan in
1896, will support Mckinley again
this year.
Bishop Henry NJ. Turner, OF the
African Methodist Church, a leader
of the colored race, is out for Bryan.
He will take the stump for the dem
ocratic ticket in the Northern States,
populated largely by the negroes.
Despite the fact that Congressman
Charles A. Boutelle, of Maine, is
confined in a lunstic asylum, with
but slight chance for recovery, his
republican constituents have renomi-
mated him for Congress, and there is
every probability that he will be re-
elected by the usual epublican ma
jo-ity of 10000.
The outlook for a democratic VIC
tory in West Virgins is getting
brighter every day. The State ticket
and all the Congressional and legis-
latiye nominees are strong men, anu
its opposition to trust and imperial
ism strengthens the National ticket.
A large number of colored men have
bolted the republican ticket aud de-
clared their intention to support
Bryan.
The Virginia republicans held a
meeting in Richmond last week and
determined 10 place a candidate for
Congress in the field in every Con-
gressional district, or support indie
pendent candidates where they made
no nominations. They hoped to car
~ four districts-2nd, 4th, 9th and
10th-if Hanna would give them q
grab in the "bar'l." Upon quizzing
"Uncle Mark" they found that he
didn't have any doodle" for the Vir-
GINA fellows this year.
Hon. ". j. Bryan declined to at
tend the meeting of the Grand Army
of the Republic In Chicago last week,
because President Mckinley had sig
nified that he could not be present.
In his telegram Mr.. Bryan says that,
since the President will not be able
to be present, ne believes that pro-
prieties of the occasion demand that
be also decline and thus relieve the
meeting of any appearance of psrti-
sanship.
Senator VIM. NJ. Stewart, of Neva-
da, played a trump card for the dem
ocrats when be announced his pur-
pose of voting for Mckinley, obser-
yes the Leesburg Mirror. Every body
knows that the Senator is too ardent
a silver man to have deserted any
body who he thought could do any
thing for the white metal. When
be leaves Bryan it is the best eviden-
ce in the world that be does not
expect anything to be done, or that
anything can be done for silver even
if Bryan is elected. This puts out of
action one of the republicans main
batteries.
The Alexandria Gazette's Wash
ington correspondent says: Republi-
cans and democrats here today, visi-
tors and residents alike, agree that
never in their recollection was much
apathy and so little interest manifest
ed in Presidential election. At a
corresponding period in all previous
national campaigns, they say, ratif-
cation meetings had been held here
and In many of the larger cities of
the country, but now few people seem
to care whether an election be held or
not; but the impression is that unless
Mr.. Hanna floods New York and
some other large States of the North
with money, Bryan will win, and the
republicans seem to be depressed by
the fear that Mr.. Mckinley is a
dead dnck."
The largest gathering to listen to
political speech that ever assem-
bled in Duluth met last week, when
Charles A. Towne opened the cam
paign in lengthy address, in which
he replied to the recent speech of
Gov. Roosevelt, delived at st. Paul.
He declared Gov. Roesevelt's speech
an alienation of evasion and inaccu-
racles. He spoke of Gov. Roosevelt
as "a citizen and soldier who ridicules
the volunteer; leader in battle who
finds glory in being rescused from an
ambush; hero who boasts of shoot
ing fleeing foe in the back; a can
didate who plays and poses to dele
gates and galleries TO obtain a nomi-
nation that he does not want; a gen.
tleman who charges six and a half
million of his countrymen with law
lessness, dishonesty and cowardice;
statesman, who, mounted on a hob
by, rides roughly at grave questions
in economics and politics, swinging
his partisan lariat, and yelling like
an intellectual Comanche."
Bryan and Stevenson Club.