The evening times., 1900-10-16
POLITICAL GOSSIP.

/ cess or failure in the State campaign,
| the Democrats of Missouri are taking into
account the attitude of Governor Stephens
| during the ST. Louis street car strike
| troubles last summer. On this subject
| the Kansas City Star remarks: For
! all of these obstacles and drawbacks the
| Democrats have TO thank Lon V. Stevens
| and his administration, and if Joseph
| FloTy is elected Governor of Missouri it
will be directly through the successful
efforts Of his predecessor to heap re-
proach and odium upon the Democratic
| organization in the State
| One of the clever epigrams of the cam
paign was that 10 which Mr.. Bryan gave
utterance at Portsmouth one day last
week. He was greeted by some one in
the audience as the farmer President"
This brought forth the answer: Il do not
| wish to be elected under false pretences.
| L am not farmer am an agriculturlst.
You know the difference between them
| A farmer is a man who makes his money
on the farm and spends it in town, while
an agriculturist is man who makes his
money in town and spends it on the
| farm"
| The following prosperity news note
| comes over the wires from Utica. n. Y:
THE Franklin furnace and Clinton iron
ore mines which have been operated for
the last eighteen months by NJ. A. Hanna
! & Co, of Cleveland Will soon shut down
and go out CT blast About 400 employees
viii be affected. No explanation is made
as to why the fires will be drawn"
The first even wager of any size on the
| result of the Presidential election to be
recorded has just been made in Brooklyn
1t is for s., 500 and former Sheriff William
| ]. Butling is credited with taking the
| Mckinley end. while Louis c. Behman,
the theatrical manager, risks his judg-
| ment and cash on Bryan.
Requests from clergymen in a dozen
different States for permission to stump
Ohio for Bryan have been received at the
Democratic headquarters within the past
two or three days. Altogether twenty-one
| ministers have rendered their services,
sixteen of the number having previously
voted the Republican ticket.
Five have been assigned to speak for
Bryan in Ohio They are: Rev. A. d.
Maynard, Warren Centre. Pa; Rev. J. D.
Howell, Fort Recovery; Rev. Alya Crab
| tree, Rio Grande; Rev. a. E. Hatch, the
| famous blind singer and preacher of Iowa.
and Rev S. S. Bartlett. of PainesVille,
| Ohio.
David Starr Jordan President CT Stan
ford University, says: There are four
enemies that have stood in the path Of
man. These are aristocracy. militarism.
slavery and Imperialism There are va
rious other enemies. but those are the
| They all spring out of the idea that man
| belongs not to himself, but that he be-
! longs, body and soul, to somebody CT
| something else which owns him. These
four enemies, in a dangerous garb, con-
| front the United States today.
Schiller says that the tyrants reach
hands to each other that they reach to
each other the hands. They stand to-
| gether now These four stand together
! now Wherever there is one, the other
is Aristocracy, slavery. miitar.sm, and
| Imperialism. They reach each others
hands,
'I can select twenty election districts
and figure from the registration in them
last Friday and Saturday that the county
would give Bryan 30O, 600 plurality" said
MT. Croker in New York yesterday THAT
would be just as trustworthy as the claims
made by the Republicans that the regis
tration here and up the State favored
them
LAS a matter of fact" he continued, no
safe calculation can be made from regis
tTation returns. You can assume what you
like but until the votes are counted on
election day no man can give a correct
estimate of what is TO happen.
Il wish you would deny that I have Civ
en- $4,000 to the national campaign fund.
Nor has Tammany as an organization done
so. We have very little money. All we
have has been raised by small subscrip-
tions We are having hard work to get
together enough to run the campaign
a morning newspaper says the dinner
10 Colonel Bryan is 10 cost $50 a plate
That also is untrue. AS l understand il
this dinner is to be So a plate affair."
Representative Bartlett has returned to
his home at Macon, Ga, from indianapolis.
where he went as the representative of
the Young Mems Democratic Club of Bibb
County. He says he is convinced that the
Democrats wiz Overwhelmingly defeat the
Republicans in the coming elections
decision has been rendered by Jus
tice Hooker. at Medina, N Y, in
an action brought to determine the Ie-
SeiitS oI Ihe election in Shell
by, and other towns which have
adopted ballot machines and have reduc-
ed the number of districts for that pur-
pose. The town board of Shelby in June
last bought Nvo ballotfng machines for
use at the election in that town. irevi-
Gus to this action there were four dis
tricts in the town. The town board passed
resolutions reducing the number of dis
tricts to two. An application was made
TO Justice Hooker for a peremptory writ
of mandamus to compel the board
to provide polling places for four election
districts with the proper number of in
spectors and clerks Justice Hooker's de-
cision allows the writ. He holds that the
action of the board in reducing the num-
Der of districts from four to two cannot
take effect until after the next town meet
ing. The town board of Shelby will be
called together at once and it is probable |
that two extra ballot machines will be
leased for the election this fall and IN
til after the next town meeting.
Whether John HUM, the Republican |
nominee for Governor of Delaware" says |
the Wilmington Every Evening lis of |
Quaker or German ancestry, one thing is |
certain: He is Union Republican |
The Union Republican party is a.bso- |
lutely controlled by ]. Edward Ad- |
dicks. Is it not reasonable to infer |
therafore that Mr. addirks would controI |