The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1900-08-02
WASHINGTON.
Frow our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, July 80,

Chairman Richardson, of the
Democratic Congressional Cam
paign Committee, returned to the
Washington headquarters this week
from a trip to New York, and is
now engaged upon the speech he
will make as Chairman Of the Com
mittee to notify Col. Bryan of his
nomination, at indianapolis, Aug. s.
Mr.. Richardson reports the cam
paign i'll New York to be entirely
satisfactory to the Democrats, but
says he will not go so far at this
time as to claim more than a fight
ing chance for the electoral votes of
the State. Information sent to Dem
ocratic headquarters from the middle
west is decidedly cheering. Instead
of claiming Illinois and Indiana to
be doubtful states, there is now a
disposition to put them in the
certain Democratic column, and
many believe that the desertion Of
the Republican party by German
voters who cannot stand imperialism
will also give Wisconsin to the
Democrats. Illinois has "a electoral
votes, Indiana IS, and Wisconsin
IL, all of which Mckinley received
in 90. Democrats around head
quarters are not really claiming as
much as the news received would
Justify them in doing, because they
do not wish to create the impression
that they are chasing rainbows.
Everyday the probabilities increase
that the next House will be Demo,
cratic and that Bryan and Steven
son will be elected, if the Democrats
throughout the country keep up
their present aggressive attitude.
The statement previously made in
this paper, that the Senate Com
mittee ordered to investigate receipts
. and expenditures Of money in Cuba
would not begin work in time to
make report before the election,
has been practically confirmed by
Senator sPlatt, OF Conn, Chairman
of the Committee. Directly after
Congress adjourned Mr.. Platt said
he would call the Committee to-
gether as soon as a detailed state
ment of expenditures and receipts,
which the War and Postoffice De-
partments had been asked to prepare
as basis for the Committee S work,
was ready. Now, he says that the
War and Postoffice Departments
are conducting Investigations and
that he will not call the Committee
together until they have finished
and furnished him copies of the
result. This is all twaddle. Mr..
Platt knows that the party bosses
have ordered the Senatorial investi-
cation held up until there will be
no danger of its affecting the cleo
tion and that everybody else knows
it, too.
Although carefully edited by
Postmaster General Smith before it
was made public, the report of
Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral Bristow on the stealings of
Nicely and Rathbone, and their gang
and other crookedness connected
with the Cuban postal service shows
that a disgraceful state Of affairs
existed in Cuba, in which rascally
Republican officials showed the
Cubans that they could undo the
Spanish officials in stealing and
extravagant expenditure of public
money. Still, there are persons who
express surprise because Cubans do
not recognize Americans to be
superior to them.
Representatives Mccall, of Mass. I;
and Littleheld, of Me, both of
whom voted against their party on
the Porto Rican tariff bill, are to be
sent into the middle west to stump
their districts being overwhelmingly
Republican, in order to try to keep
the large number Of Republicans in
that section who thought as they
did about the Porto Rico tariff in
line for Mckinley.
Senator Jones, Chairman of the
democratic National Committee,
stopped in Washington on his way
TO New York to hold a conference
with a number of prominent Demo
Gratis on the conduct of the cam
paign, which is to be at once start
ed and pushed aggressively until
election day. He is full of enthus-
iasm over the outlook, which he