The Republican., 1900-09-13
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

tion for President is masterly >tate-
ment of what has been accomplished
by the Republican party under his
administration. There is not a weak
or halting sentence in the letter. 1t
meets every issue of the campai gn
and demolishes every argument that
has been put forward by the Bryan
ties in opposition to any policy of the
administration, including that of ex-
pansion, which the Bryanites are
trying so hard to persuade the coun-
try in the face of absolute knowledge
to the contrary, to accept as imperial
ism. If that letter were the only
state paper written by President Nc
Kinley, it would alone give him the
right to a place in the front rank of
Americas greatest statemen. If any
intelligent American has any doubt
of how he should vote, a careful
perusal of that letter will convince
him that there is only one way to
vote to insure a continuance of our
present prosperity, and that is for
Mckinley and Roosevelt.
The President and Mrs. Mckinley
have gone to Somerset, Pa, to attend
the marriage of their niece, Miss
Mabel Mckinley and, unless there is
some unexpected charge in the stu
alton in China, which is now waiting
on the action of the powers, they will
go from Somerset to Canton, for q
short stay before returning 10 Wash
ington. Gen. Chaffee has been
ordered to hold his troops in readi-
ness to leave Pekin at any time.
Hon. G. E. Roberts, Director of the
Mint, who has just returned from a
trip to the middle West said: "West
of the Mississippi river, the drift is
decidedly to the Republicans. Demo-
cratic talk of carrying Minnesota is
entitled to no weight. They will not
come within fifty thousand votes of
it. The Dakotas are both Repub-
,iican and Kansas is considered safe.
have confidence that this drift our
way, which is so apparent in all the
West, will be found to be prevalent
in Nebraska also, although that is a
state in which populism is well seat
ed. 1t is hardly to be expected that
Illinois will give as large a Repub-
Il
ago. There is likelihood that it will
settle back toward the ordinary Re
publican majority, but there is no
reason to doubt that it will be ample
for, practical purposes.
Senator Daniel, of Va, is one of the
few men who doesn't let his partisan
wishes destroy his private judgment.
Publicly he talks as confidently of
Mr.. Bryan's election as any of the
rainbow chasers, but he is quoted as
having said privately in Washing
ton: Il can not see that Bryan has
more than a fighting chance; of
course, we are bound to make the
most of that. The probabilities seem
to me largely favorable to McKinley's
election"
The Democrats are making many
ridiculous claims, none more SO that
their alleged expectation of carrying
Minnesota. Capt. Henry A. Castle,
Auditor for the Post Office Depart
ment, who has been active in every
campaign in that state for the last
thirty-four years, and who was con-
nected with the Republican State
Central Committee, as Chairman or
Secretary for more than ten years,
has recently returned from a visit to
the State. He said of political con-
ditions there: Minnesota is as likely
to go for Bryan this year, as Vermont
e, and not a particle more so. 1t
would be just as reasonable for the
Republicans to claim Texas as for the
the Democrats to claim Minnesota.
There is not the slightest indication
of any land slide or political up
heaval this year in Minnesota, The
Republicans have thorough precinct
organization, and are advised every
day at the central headquarters of all
local movements. The reports up to
last week, when | left there, were
constantly more encouraging. The
seven Republican Congressman from
Minnesota have all been renominated.
and each of them will be elected
without any question. There can be
no trouble about the state ticket or
the Legislature, which will re-elect
Senator Knute Nelson, next winter.
Minnesota has had but one Demo-
cratic governor in forty years, and
that is sufficient. 1t has never cast
single Democratic electoral vote
since the State was admitted to the
Union, and it is not likely to com
mence that career of folly now"
A fraud order has been issued by
the Post Office Department against
J.. ID. Bass and two aI1aOad concarpS