New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-31
THE PASSING THRONG.

J. Murray Mitchell. ex-Mernber OF Congress from
this city. speaking yesterday at National Commit
tee headquarters OF the Republican
BREANs outlook IN this campaign, said:
BARMECDE Personal matters have hereto
FEAST. fore prevented me from taking as
active part In the campaign as I
should have wished I speaking now however,
and shall continue doing so until the end Of the
campaign Everywhere I find the audiences en-
thusfastic and appreciative and I am convinced
that the voters alive to the danger that threat
ems them should Bryan come into power You
can't fool ali the people this time and Bryan with
ms shoddy and 81 opworn arguments. viii find that
he VIII fan very far short OF foollng majority of
tnem; The average American citizen Is keen and
inteetigent man and it is an exceedingly dificuIt
mater MAJ 70 throw dust in his eyes Mr.. Bryan
Will discover 10 his the morning If No
veEnoer q With the nonsensical jingles that Bryan
will not be pulled away from the real issues Of the
campaign Anti-tmperialism, anJI-niitarisn anti
stanty brings forth In his vocal pyrotechnics will
nor delude the voter. He knows that it is a Bar
theclde 1east Bryan invites him 10, and on NOyeu-
Der ne will decline the invitation with thanks on
with william McKney ss2ater F T2eh bd 6e mas mas
puoished letter in which he points out the non
guments It is mastery expose Of the Grass
b & 6ry an Is resortnE to and should be read
~ every one IN my opinion the electoral vote OF
Ine country will go Overwhelmingly to Mckinley
Republican majority in this State" 'oN up great
There is certain resident Of city not i've
L A-Cf
win. Of Boston, at the Hotel Man
HAD Fun haitian. yesterday. who in addi-
WITH HIS ton to somewhat highly devel-
GLASS EYE oPed sense Of humor Is also the
proud possessor Of a glass eye. It
Is wonderfully natural creation. and did not It's
owner publish the fact OF his proprtetorshlp far
and wide few would there be who would not sup
pose him still TO be the possessor Of both the
optics with which nature originally endowed him
Some time ago the eye-shy was at that par
dcular kind Of dinner popularity termed stag
His neighbor, it must be confessed in a repre-
hensble spirit Of pride. turned to him with What
GO you think OF that for scratch, BlankP at the
same time scalplng himself and revealing a nate
as bald that Of the man whom the late Ia mehfed
Iravers once advised to sugar his head and go to
glanced at the shining surface thus revealed and
IAlnk OF that for an eye was the response he made
ana from the centre Of the other mans plate OF
The owner of the scratch did not give n P4a
simply howled aloud for trapped air.
At another time a poker game was in progress
buck. And how viii this do for BucT vas LOT ,be
!SLlarK that accompanied the eye TO the centre OF
TITS, last individual appearance was brought
about about by golf Its owner had golf aspirations. and
hired high priced professional to perfect him in
was the burden Of the cry that wore out that per
and al aboni tho Inay unable 70 stand it longer
Keep your heye on the ball. sirP Blank deposited
sphere. and with the query Is my eve suf1cientit
on IN me 0a now? started in TO make long drive
Samuel Fessenden. of Stamford. formerly Re-
publican National Committeeman from Connect
cut, when seen at the waldorf
CONNECT Astoria yesterday, said: Con
CUT SOLID necticut will give a large majority
AS A ROCK for Mckinley and Roosevelt this
year. We shall also again return
a solid Republican delegation to Congress, as we
have done since ISIS think there is no doubt