The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-26
A TIDAL WAVE
FOR DEMOCRACY
One is Due About November
the Sixth.
KANSAS IS FOR BRYAN
Maryland, West Virginia and Ken
lucky Also Safe.
cLtyfLANDs SECOND ELECTION RECALLED
Ohio Buries Her Greatest Statesman Who Was
Showed Out of the Senate For Boodler,
and Out Of The Cabinet For
Wren-Pated Nonenity.
Especial Cor. News and observer.)


Washington. Oct. 24.-There are signs
that the Democratic wave is coming. A
good Democrat remarking to me the ten
dency of this campaign for each party to
have wave every now and then, when
events were. or appeared to be favorable
to it, said: 81 hope the last Democratic
wave will reach us just before the election
and last through the election day" This
wave is nearly due and when it comes will
probably hold on until the closing hours
of the 9Th, unless all the signs fail. Today
l find democrats stimulated by the good
news from various quarters. Mr.. Bryan,
who had an enthusiastic reception here
yesterday at breakfast, received the most
tremendous of ovations in West Virginia
the day before. His crowds have been
unusually large, exceeding RooSevelts
both in number and enthusiasm. He seems
to have reused the wage earners as they
have never been stirred in any previous
campaign. Those who read Mr.. Frank A.
Richardson's dispatches from Kansas were
greatly elated at the new aspect of affairs
out there. That State would not, from his
news in the Baltimore Sun-and he is
veteran observer-appear OF be in doubt at
all, but certain to go for Bryan. Rep
resentative Griggs, of Georgia, fresh from
the Delaware campaign, assures me that
the Blue Hens Chickens will vote for
Bryan, and choose a Democratic Represen-
tive in Congress for both terms, and like
wise a legislature which has the choice
of two Senator'S. one seat in the Senate
having been vacant for some time. He
says that the split there among the Re-
publicans, base never been healed. and
that the Democrats are sure to win.
Judge Griggs is also assured of Demo
cratic success in Maryland, West Vir-
ginia and Kentucky. Most Democrats feel
that Indiana is safe. AS for New York the
Democratic hope is altogether based Oh
the workingmen in all the cities and Tam
many hall If the vote of the State in the
towns is largely increased SO as to reduce
the Republican majority above Harlem
bridge to less than Seventy-five thousand
there is a fine chance to carry the thirty
six votes of the Empire State 1t all de-
ponds, not on Croker, who will certainly do
his full duty, but on Hill and the upstate
leaders and people generally. Many Dem
Gratis regard Ohio as an increasing proba-
bility. 1t does not seem to be safe to de-
pend upon it. But the large element of
discontinued Germans and other classes
would seern to make even the President
State doubtful
The people of Ohio will tomorrow bury
the greatest of their statesmen, who was
showed out of the Senate to make room
for a man without political experience,
and then showed out of the Seate Depart
ment to give room for another nonentity.
They may not have as short memories as
the President thinks they have. 1t would
be righteous retribution if those people
should administer a stern rebuke to both
Mckinley and Hanna. The money-bags
Senator who succeeded John Sherman in
the Senate has done nothing public except
buy one national election and talk glib
bering billingsgate in another. The little
man who stepped into Mr.. Shermans
shoes at the State Department helped to
fix on the country the colonial-imperial
system, contrary to it's institutions and
traditions. The dead Sherman with all
his faults, was worthy of his party and his
State. The mannikins who come after him
-faugh!
The veteran Democrats here who know
something about politics, say that the con-
ditions now remind them of the conditions
in 1892. when there was a landslide for
Cleveland. One of them-the distinguish
ed journalist, Col L. @. Washington, said
to me this afternoon: 81 recollect very
we'll that in that presidential year / re-
turned from Europe about the 10Th of Oc
tober. Pretty near everybody around this
city was sure that Harrison would be
elected. l could hardly find anybody to
examine the reasons why he would be de-
feated. looked over the field and made
up my mind in a very few days that Cleve-
land, for whom had no hope. no special
admiration, would get good majority Of
the electoral college. as well as clear
majority of the popular vote did not
expect altogether such as victory as was
won, however. Now the average predic-
ton you hear is that Mckinley will be an
easy victor, and the big papers like the
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