Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-10-31

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Chicago correspondence:
The Republicans are resorting to all
kinds of desperate measures to turn
the tide that Is running SO strongly to-
wards William Jennings Bryan and
the Democratic party. The latest at
tempt-and one of the most despicable
to stem the tide is Il direct misuse Of
the mails. The officials of the Demo-
cratic National Committee have re-
ceived evidence that Republican post
masters and postal employees are not
only tampering with letters sent from
Democratic headquarters and delaying
the delivery of campaign literature, but
that letters and literature are being
returned almost as soon as delivered
to the postoffice address of the address
ees.
Otto Doederlein, in charge of the
German bureau of the national commit
tee says hundreds of letters have been
returned to his department stamped
Unclaimed Refused" and Not
Found" All letters sent out from
Democratic National headquarters are
identified as coming from Democratic
headquarters by the following printed
directions on the envelopes: Return
i'll five days to rooms 21-2G, BOG Wabash
avenue, Chicago, ILL.,
Although the postal department
boasts of Its ability TO trace addresses
from the most meager descriptions,
there is, 1t is said, disposition on the
part of postmasters in all parts Of the
country, particularly in the doubtful
states, to take advantage of every tech
meal error in the superscription.
So notorious has become the conduct
of Republican postmasters in the treat
ment of Democratic mail matter that
Democratic bureau chiefs have adj
NASNu uOih5 away w I'LL uiSCtiOhS
on envelopes used by the national com
mittee. 1t is generally believed at
Democratic headquarters that hun
dreds Of thousands of Democratic docu-
ments have suffered at the hands of Re-
publican postmasters.
William Lloyd Garrison, Ex-Governor
George S. Boutwell, and Colonel Thorn
as Wentworth Higginson, all of Bos-
ton, and well known to the negroes of
the United States, have issued an adj
dress to the colored people, advising
them to renounce the Republican party
as its national policy of imperialism is
dangerous to the future of the colored
race. The address has been given out
by the National Democratic Commit
tee.
ii. III. Hanna, chairman of the execrl-
tive committee of the indianapolis
Monetary convention, is in distress. He
has been looking over the political stu
alton and sees that the Republican
party is in danger. His chief concern,
however, is the permanence and pro
motion of the gold standard, and for
| success in that direction he declares,
as an "honest non-partisan," that the
Congressional outlook Is unfayorable
OF late he has been sending out doleful
letters urgently appealing for contri-
buttons to save the standard and the
party. In one of them he says:
"There is very great danger of the
Bryanites securing control of the next
| Congress. There Is every reason to eX-
pect they will gain three Representa-
| tives in North Carolina and serious risk
of gaining one in kentucky, two in In.
| diana, one in Missouri and one in Tex.
| as. There is possibility of loss in many
other districts. But few districts are
absolutely safe"
III another one of these privately ad
dressed letters, II. III. Hanna still more
dolefully writes: 1--WE have made an
peals to the general public for funds
but SO far there has been very little re
sponse." The contracted expenses are
already large, he says, and each dele
gate to the monetary convention is ask
ed to secure subscriptions of $50 Dis
raeli once exposed the political iniuui
ties of an opponent by quoting from
letter which he described as "plun
dering and laundering" one The de
scription aptly characterizes III. III
Hanna's epistolatory appeals. He i.
learning that there is disheartenin.
apathy in the ranks of Republicans
Indeed, from the fact that there ha.
been very little response" to his an
peals, there must be something like
positive disaffection if not downright
revolt among those he would victimize
1t is only a favored few that hay,
profited by the pious pretenses, vacilla
ton and hypocrisy of the President
and the summing up of his character
and acts is not such as to inspire en-
thusiasm.
Besides, it is patent that the "plun
derlng and laundering II. III. Ham,
makes the gold standard and his '.hon
estly non-partisan' organization the ex
cuse for partisanship which is none the
less bitter because 1t is yelled.
Two great meetings We're held in thjs
city last week, and as indications OF
the trend of the best public though,
and of the revolt from the policy ant
assumptions of what Mr.. Olney vel
characterized as Mckinleyism, theil
significance can hardly be overesti
mated. One of the big mass meetings
was addressed by Senator Wellington
Of Maryland, who was chiefly instru
mental in making that State Republi
can, and who has publicly charged the
President with having lied TO him OF
the Philippine question. The other was
held under the auspices of the Iroquois
Club, one of the leading Democratic or
CARNATIONS of the country, from a so
cial and financial standpoint, ant
which refused to support Bryan in 1896
The principal speakers at this gather
ing were Sigmund Zeisler, Judge