The age-herald., 1900-06-14
MR. CLAYTON IS
 VERY CONFIDENT Feels Confident of Democratic
 Success in November. MKlNLEY IS APPREHENSlVE Congressman From Third District and Alabama Member of National Com mittee Predicts Sweeping Vic
 tory for William J. Bryan.
M'KINLEY IS APPREHENSlVE

Hon. Henry D. Clayton, Representative in Congress from the Third Alabama Dis trict and the Alabama member of the Ma tional Democratic Executive Committee, is at the Morris. He arrived in Alabama from Washington a day or two ago, and came to Birmingham last night to look to arrangements for the railroad transporta- tion of the Alabama delegates to the Ma tional Democratic convention at Kansas City. A one-fare rate seems to be about what may be expected. The National Com mittee will assemble in Kansas City July ?, two days before the assembling of the convention.
 MT. Clayton is not feeling the best as to health; the duties of the closing weeks ot the congressional session having been very burdensome Regarding the immediate prospects of the Democratic party he is most hopeful.
 "I feel very confident of Bryan's cleo tion," MT. Clayton said. "In addition to the many millions of voters who are Dem- oerats principle and by unwavering conviction, almost every discontented man and every man with a personal ism in the country will vote for Bryan. And there Is universal discontent with the present Re publican administration. It is come to be a question of empire against the republic. and I haven't any doubt as to which side of that great issue will be supported by majority of the American people. Wisely and timely, the people have become alarm ed on account of imperialism, militaryism, trustism, Dingleyism, McKinleyism and all that those terms signify.
 The Many Ills.
 From the beginning of the war with Spain to the stealing that is going on in Cuba, and possibly in Porto Rico, there has been wholesale robbery of the tax payers. What the war in the Philippines is costing in money we do not know, eX- cept that it is enormous; what it it costing in American lives the press dispatches tell day by day. the number of our soldiers who have become insane we endeaVored vainly in Congress to ascertain; the slow but deadly ravages of loathsome and dan gerous disease can be only guessed at; what we are to suffer from the bubonc plague brought to our shores through the agency of the war is matter of specu- lation. But the cost, the sacrifices of that war are terrible and far reaching. Almost every young man of ours who returns from the Philippines returns a physical wreck All these monstrous sins of the Republi- can party against the American people make up a terrible sum total of suffering, outrage, wrong and robbery; and l believe that the people will have a reckoning and name the punishment in November President Mckinley Appre hensive
 Many leading Republicans at Washing ton confessed to me that the outlook for their party was gloomy; that they most seriously feared Bryans election. It comes to me as straight as anything can come by word of mouth that MT. Mckinley himself is most seriously apprehensive; and he has been begging his party men in both houses of Congress to go home and get to work insisting that the party was in gravest danger of national defeat. As for Congress, it is generally conceded even by the Republicans, that the Democrats will control the next House of Representatives. Believe me, the condition of our na- tional affairs in the broadest sense is tenn of government are in part at stake These facts are realized by the people, and they have come to the determination to turn the Republcai party out of power Bryan will be elected President in Novem- | Der next!'