The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-10-22
POLITICAL GOSSIP.

Private as well as newspaper reports
from Boston show a wonderful amount
of enthusiasm among the Democrats In
the Old Bay State. There is, of course.
no belief that the Massachusetts De-
nlocracy can carry the State for Bryan,
but the leaders are decided in their opin-
ions that they will make such a display
Of votes on November that their fellows
throughout the country Will be Convinced
that the party is as aggressive as ever.
On local issues in many S r.cts the
Democrats seem certain 20 make many
gains over recent elections.
One cause of a decided Interest, not TO
pronounce it scare, among the Repub-
Hcan leaders in Ohio, is the disaifectton
OF colored voters. This exhibits itself
very clearly in the city OF Cleveland,
where two of their organizations have
pronounced in favor of Mr.. Bryan. There
are nearly 5000 colored men VINO vote in
that city and the majority of them, as
recent events indicate, are either OPP
posed to the Hanna Mckinley ticket or
are SO Indifferent to the outcome that
they will not avail themselves of th+ir
suffrage rights.
Zone significant indication of the way
the wind is blowing among the colored
voters OF the city the Cleveland Plain
Dealer" says, lis the fact that some of
the colored clergy of the city have de-
ciared themselves in emphatic terms
against the election of Mr.. Mckinley. Not
all of the colored men who have taken
position antagonistic to the Republican
party during this campaign have declared
themselves for Mr.. Bryan, but many of
them have, and the remainder will be a
loss to the ticket which has formerly
counted upon their solid support"
In Pennsylvania, 1t begins to appear
that interest in the national elections is
losing ground so far as the vote of the
keystone State is concerned. The State
is safely assured to Mr.. Mckinley. but
Mr.. Quay is on a spellbinding tour and is
scattering CONSERVATION around among
his opponents with a generous hand
Many of the Republican papers in the
State are beginning to call him the old
man." and that not in an affectionate
sense by any means, as they intimate at
the same time that the ex-senator is bust
Iy at work with his hired men to again
reinstate himself in official position.
Seventy-five thousand dollars will be
paid by the Republican managers for
Teddy r" and Mckinley" pinks for the
New York city Republican parade on No
vember 8. The expense viii fall on each
particular branch of commerce or indus
try represented in the parade. There will
be no difficulty in supplying the flowers
The Western florists have volunteered to
furnish any amount needed by the local
wholesalers, and the New York flower deal
ers say that they could furnish 250, 000 car
nations
A Broadway florist, in commenting on
the great demand for carnations, said:
There will be no trouble in getting all the
carnations needed. l alone could furnish
a.. coo, with the necessary advance notice
The Mckinley and Roosevelt pinks are
not of a species particularly hard to grow.
and they are not therefore, especially ex-
pensive. It would cost a pretty penny if
the Republicans IN line on November 3 all
wore Lawsons, for instance. There are a
dozen in the window there, which were
ordered few minutes ago by patrons OF
ours They cost him 1922"
4 manufacturer of imitation carnations
called on Joseph II. Manley at Republican
national headquarters last week, with a
proposition to supply paper flowers at cut
rates. You can't tell the difference till
you smell EN-" said the man. Mr.. Man
ley told him Republicans wanted the re
ally truly pinks.
Judge william SiIas Jenn ms. OF
Brooksville Fla. is the cousin Ct WI
liam Jennings Bryan. of NebrGs@a. and
his close friend He is also candidate
for Governor of Florida on tie Democrat
lie ticket, which means that tha faJes
n
that office
william. Jennings and vii! an Bryan
were pIaymates in Salem. H. thirty
years ag5. Colonel Bryan is two yeaI $
| older, but in boyhood it 3 related hat
William Jennings was the vi1lo- If every
| SChOolDOy fight he engaged IL, and was
| the largest and most athletic yomugster
! of his age il. the community. Bryan Cnce
| said of him: Il could whip VIII in the
| beginning OF the scramble but he
| wouldn' let go until he had ne whippe
/ in the wind-up."
| Mr. Bryan visits his cousin IN Flor
| ida every winter and every summer OK
| cept this summer, when both nave been
| busily engaged in the campaign. Judge
Jennings visited Colonel Bryan in Lin
| coin.
Henry E. Davis will make a speech on
| the issues of the campaign under the
| auspices of the Sound Money and Good
| Government Club of the District CT Co.
! lumbia at Masonic Temple, cornsr Ninth
and t Streets, at o'clock tonight.
Three hundred Indians of the Oneida
Tribe. residing in Wisconsin, will vote for
President, having recently been declared
citizens. In political sentiment they are
said to be about equally divided.
PoFT,s SON HINDER. ARREST