The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-10-20
Official Journal City of Bay st. Louis.
NOW that every vote which Is mot

know that every vote which is not
openly for them is against them.
Tho largest proposition of this
disaffected vote is among the rail-
road employees. In 1896 these
men were driven and coerced into
voting the Republican ticket; this
year, with rare exceptions, they
are allowed to follow their incli-
nations and they are for Bryan.
The indifference of the railroad
corporations in regard to McKin-
ley's reelection puzzles the man
ayers. That it exists there can be
no doubt whatever. 1t grows out
of the feeling on the part of the
railroad officials, as i gather from
talking with many Of them, that
the ante-election promises of Nc
Kinley's sponsors in 1896 have
not been made good; That legisla-
Ition promised them has not been
enacted. Whatever the cause,
however, the effect is very
real and disturbing TO Chairman
Hanna and his colleagues, and es-
pecially SO in this doubtful State.
The employees, on their part, feel
that they have not been fairly
dealt with in the matter Of wages.
They are not getting mofe money
today, although runs are longer
and trains are heavier. In fact
all over the laboring men are but
little better than four years ago.
II is for this reason that Eugene
Debs, the socialist labor candidate
for president, will poll, it is esti-
mated less than $4,000 votes in
this State. The Republicans be-
lieve that he will do in Indiana
what Golden Rule" Jones did in
Ohio secure his largest accessions
from Democratic ranks. In this
belief, they have encouraged his
candidacy but within the past two
days the incoming reports indicate
that Republican workmen are also
disaffected. This has given the
Republican managers fresh cause
for alarm.
The Importance of discovering
the exact sentiment Of the labor
ing vote lies in the fact that in
1892 the workingman was the rock
upon which the Republican can
didate was wrecked. With the
memory of that year still fresh in
their minds, the Republican mana
gers are naturally anxious. Their
anxiety is not without foun-
dation.
1t is curious fact that the con-
ditions in Indiana are exactly re-
yersed from 1896. In that year
the farmers voted for Bryan and
the cities saved the State for Nc
Kinley, This year the farmers
will vote for Mckinley and Bryan
will get his support from the Oh
ties.
4 Everything depends, so -fhf as
the Republicans arc concerned,
upon getting the rural vote to the
polls. To this end, an auxiliary
organization, consisting of over
1000 men, has been affected,
whose only duty it is to see that
the farmers are at the polls on
election day, even IL they have to
be taken there by force or on
stretchers. The Populists are to
be bought like cattle il they will
be purchased, and Democrats are
to be paid to stay away from the
polls. Money will flow like water.
At the same time, there Is limit
to even what money can do and
maybe it will not be as potent in
this campaign as usual. At any
rate, the Republicans do not view
the outcome with confidence.
One uf their chief spokesmen
told me today that if the election
were to be held tomorrow, they
would lose the State. If the re-
llance which they now place upon
The farmer prove vain, they can
not carry the State.