The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1900-10-02
ELECTION
SEEMS CERTAIN
All indications Now Point
That Way.
BLIGHT OF THE Trusts
Factories Are Closing Down and Viii
lagos Deserted.
In All Parts Of the County the People Are
Trea:uring Up a WhirIwind of Condem-
naticn For The Mckinley Hanna
administration.

Administration.
Bryan is going TO be elected unless all
signs fail" said Mr.. Josephus Daniels.
member of the Democratic National Com
mittee, who returned yesterday from
Bath, Maine.
4 did not talk politics in Bath. Maine
is as strongly Republican as Mississippi is
Democratic and most OF the people up
there think that the sentiment elsewhere
is not unlike the predominant sentiment
in Maine. But the Maine Democrats, like
the Vermont Democrats immortalizcd by
Henry Grady, are a sturdy type of pa
triots who hold fast to the faith in an
uncongenial cline for Democratic victory.
The Maine Democrat-and there are more
of them than is generally known-iS we'll
versed in the fundamental principles of
Democracy, and he votes for principles in
the face of certain defeat. There's no
better test Of a true disciple than that he
will stand firm in defeat. l often think
that the world has never done Justice to
the Democrats iii States like Maine, Yer
mont and Pennsylvania. who. through a
long and unbroken series of defeats. have
turned a deaf ear to the appeals of those
who continually din in their ears the
query: Why throw your votes away"
and have stood mistaken in the faith de-
livered by Jefferson and enforced by Jack
son. They are the sort of men who Will
keep alive the true faith, and one of
these days New England, long like Epha-
rim, will break away from its idols and
come back to the support of the party
of Jefferson as it supported the founder
of Democracy one hundred years ago.
CONNECTICUT DEMOCRATIC.
There IS no hope of the Democratic
party's carrying any New England State
this year except Connecticut, and there
is a widespread belief that Bryan will
obtain its electoral vote. This faith is
based upon three facts: /. Nearly every
| gold Democrat heard from has returned
to the party, including Ex-Governor Wal
Ter, who stumped the country in 1896 for
Mckinley; 2. The Democrats have noni-
mated a particularly strong State ticket.
while the Republican ticket'is weak and
the party is weakened by factionaI fights;
3. The workingmen realize that in Bry-
an is their only hope. | talked with a
skilled mechanic employed in a large man
ufacturing establishment in Connecticut
who said that when the vote of the work
ingmen was cast people would be sur
prised to see that it would go nearly solid
for Bryan. Il have never seen such a
change he added, land it is greater than
appears en- the surface. 1t is great
enough to swing Connecticut's vote from
Mckinley to Bryan. 1t isn't large, but it
will help put the best friend organized la
Dor has in America in the White House.
FIGHT IN MASSACHUSETTS.
1.-The Democrats nave no hope of car
rying the electoral vote in Massachusetts,
but there is a fight for members of Con
gross. The Democrats claim that they
will r~e-elect their present members and
make a gain of one and possibly two. The
Republicans say they will elect all but one.
Both parties in the contested districts are
conducting a strenuous campaign.
THE NEW YORK SITUATION.
Every Democrat l saw is confident that
Bryan will carry New York and New Jer-
sey. and travellers generally are OF the
opinion that both States are very close
and very doubtful. The same feeling that
threatens to make Connecticut Democratic
would also put New York and New Jersey
in the Democratic column. The prevail
ing opinion is that the divisions in the
Democratic party are at an end, and that
the big portion of the labor vote will vote
for Bryan.
Il met a gentleman of fine ability and
observation whose business has carried
him into every Northern State east OF the
Mississippi during The present year. He
has enjoyed exceptional facilities for
learning the true sentiment of the people
in the States through which he travelled.
Nobody knew his politics and he never
obtruded them. He is one of the rare sort
of men who can go into a community and
in two or three days learn more about
the sentiment of it's people than its old
est inhabitants know. | talked with him
at some length about the situation and
was so much impressed by the weight OF
his opinions that at my request he wrote
down his predictions and his reasons for
believing that there is a ground swell for
Bryan. He wrote them down as follows: