The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1900-09-21
Washington Letter.
From our regular Correspondent


From our regular Correspondent
Washington D. C., Sept. 8, 1900
President Nc K1nley ys Isfaaro accept
ance OF the republican nomination 10
| President is a mastery statement @
what has been accomplished by th
republican party under his admlnis
tration. There is not weak or halt
ing sentence in the letter. 1t meets
every issue of the campaign and dem
olishes every argument that has beer
put forward by the Bryanites in oppo
sition togany policy of the admins
tration, including thatof expansion
which the Bryanites are trying so hard
to pursuade che country in the face o.
absolute knowledge to the. contrary te
accept as imp ,rialism If that letter
we're the only state paper written by
President Mckinley, it would alone
give him the right to "a place in the
front rank of Americas greatest states
men. If any intelligent American
has any doubt of how he should vote
a careful perusal of that >letter will
convince him that there is only one
way to vote to insure a continuance
of our present prosperity, an that is
for Mckinley and Roosevelt.
Hon. G. E. Roberts, Director OF the
Mint, who has just returned from a
trip TO the Middle West said: West OF
the Mississippi river, the DRIFT is deci-
dedly to the republicans. Democratic
talk of carrying Minnesota is entitled
to no weight. They will not come
within fifty thousand votes of it. The
Dakotas are both republican and Kan.
sas is considered safe. L have conf.
dence that this drift our way, which is
soapparent in all the West, will be
found to be prevalent in Nebraska
also, although that is state in which
populism is well seated 1t is hardly
to be expected that Illinois will give
as large republican majority as il
did four years ago.
There is a likelihood that it will set
tie back toward the ordinary republi-
can majority, but there is no reason
to doabt that it will be ample for prac-
tlcal purposes.
Senator Daniel, of Va, is one of the
few men who doesn't let his partisan
wishes destroy his private judgment
Publicly he talks as confidently of Mr..
Bryan's election as any of the rain
bow chasers, but he is quoted as hav-
ing said privately in Washington: ~
can not see that Bryan has more than
fighting chance, but of course, we
are bound to make the most of that
The probabilities seem to me largely
favorable to McKinley's election"
The democrats are making many
ridiculous claims, none more so that
their alleged exception Of carrying
Minnesota. Capt. Henry A. Castle
Auditor for the Post Office Depart.
ment, who has been active in every
campaign in that state for the last
thirty-four years, and who was con-
nected with the republican state Cen
trail Committee, as Chairman or Secre-
tary for more than ten years, has re-
Gently from visit to the state. He
said of political conditions there
"Minnesota is as likely to go for Bryan
this year as Vermont is, and not q
particle more so. It would be just az
responsible for us to claim Mississippi
as it is for the democrats to claim
MINI. There is not the slightest in
dication of any land slide or political
upheavaI this year In Minnesota. The
republicans have thorough precinct
organization, and are advised every
day at the central headquarters OF all
local movements. The reports up tc
last week, when / left there, we're con-
stantly more encouraging. The sevel
republican Congressmen from Mime
sofa have all been renominated, and
each Of them will be elected without
any question. There can be nc
trouble about the state ticket or the
Legislature, which will re-elect Senator
Knute Nelson, next winter. Mime
sofa has had but one democratic COVER.
nor in forty years, and that is suffici
ent. 1t has never cast single demo
/ cratic electoral vote since the STATE
was admitted to the Union, and IT i
not likely to commence that foil'
now"
A fraud order has been issued by ths
Post Office Department against L. D
Bass, and two alleged concerns conduc
ted b him in Washington The Ameri
can Teachers agency and the Ameri
can Civil Service College, one used Il
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