The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-06
POLITICAL GOSSIP.


rying Maryland to 10 to 9, and this wit
little Republican money in sight. rMary
land" said Mr.. Winters. lis sure for Bry
an. but up to today the Republicans hav
been giving odds on the State going 70
Mckinley. The tide has changed" said he
land the Republican gamblers see 1t, 70
they were last night insisting on eve
money and hedging at every opportunity.
The friends Of ex-senator Quay asser
that he is absolutely sure OF a recollection
to the Senate. Mr.. wanamaker kept u,
to the last moment his opposition to tn,
proposition. but the Quay Penrose faction
profess to have little fear that he car
upset the workings Of their corrupt ma.
chine.
The Chicago Journal" one of the mos,
aggressive Republican papers In the West
has managed to make a break withou,
even blushing. In an editorial paragraph
the following appeared: Senator Hanna's
work Is suggestive Of the popular song
MY Money Never Gives Out" Later the
Journal attempted to straighten mat
tiers out with the claim that it meant
energy" when it referred to money-but
the damage has been DONE
Willis ]. Abbott. of the Democratic Ma
tional Press Bureau, has discovered that
Mr.. Hanna has been helping the Socialist
party in Chicago with the idea of injuring
the Democrats. ut is a singular thing
and a suggestive one" says Mr.. Abbott.
that the wagons used by the socialists
In their State Street meetings last night
were those which during the day are used
by the Republicans for their co-called
prosperity wagons This Is only one in
stance out Of many which go to show
that the cost Of the social Democratic
campaign is being betrayed from the very
full treasury over which Mark Hanna has
exclusive control"
The opinion generally expressed among
stock market people yesterday regarding
the outcome of todays voting was much
like that Of Cardinal Gibbons, though in
some cases the language used was not so
edifying and polite as was his Cine of
the biggest of the brokers' while stating
the usual stock gamblers view that the
election will go for Mckinley. added in
his market letter the assertion of his be-
lief that the country will be prosperous
and the prices of securities advanced this
winter no matter who is elected. This
view represents somewhat Of q change
from the calamity howls that were the
usrai rrarket gnssip of week or two ago
1t is to be supposed shat these brokers
ana SPECTATORS now consider the SiscIfon
decided one way or the other
and see no reason for further Mckinley
booming.
There has been a big change in the
political status of Kansas in the pas.
week, and the change has guaranteed Mr..
Bryan's success there in the voting to-
morrow" said Ross Davis. Of Abilene,
Kan. at Democratic headquarters last
night Il left the Golden Belt in the
middle of the State on Sunday and ths
Bryan sentiment had grown to such pro-
portions as cannot he stopped by III, Re-
publican ballots cast tomorrow. Ten days
ago Kansas was anybody's State. Bryan
carried it by 2.0G0 in 1896. but since then
the State Government went into the con-
troll of the Republicans. Ten days ago
the wisest man on earth could not have
told how the State would go this fall
Since then the Republicans have been
throwing barrels OF their slush fund into
the State. and for a time it looked as il
they might carry it. Jayhawkers. how
ever. are~no more to be brfbed Wholesale
than are Hoosiers, and the Hanna men
have found that they cannot buy up ths
voters they would need to carry thu
State. But another factor that will hurt
The G. o. P. immensely is the Senatorial
light of J. r. Burton and Lucien Baker,
which is splitting up the Republican or
yanization in the State. Burton. who
comes from my town. is making des-
perate fight against Baker. and it is re-
ported that he, as well as Baker, is trad
ing the national ticket at every hand
where he can get legislative support.
The outcome of all these deveiopm n IS
that Bryan will carry Kansas again by
nearly as large majority as he did in
1885,
There was a boom in the stock market
due largely to the buying OF
tocks for Bryan bettors who wished to
insure against any possible loss, and TO
,uying also for Mckinley men who pre-
erred this way of wagering their money
o putting it up at odds on the election.
The market advanced point and two
Joints in all the active securities. so that
ratio bettors sold out before the close and
'cinched'' their winnings. II Mr.. Bryan
wins the election they will have their bets
It heavy odds to the good, and if Mr.. Nc
iinley is successful they will have made
It least as much If not more than their
ost bets in the market.
Halliday & Horner. law partners at
ill JnJ lot
n rival tickets. A popularity about the
air is that each has only one eye.
The New England papers are runni
he following story regarding Tom Rec
ttitude during the campaign:
When asked the other day il he
lot going to take the stump in defence
he Administration before the campa
doses. the Hon. Tom Reed merely
lied: I'm not criminal lawyer.
"At the very beginning of the ca
paign,'' said Col. Zen Rice of Taco
Wash, at the Arlington Hotel last ri:
ex-senator John L. Wilson, of my St
eceived a commission to carry it for
trusts regardless of expense. Mr.. '
son is practically Mark Hannas Dish
ng agent in the Pacific Northwest
lie commenced to do things on la
'cale. First of all he bought the Sea
with money furn;i -,
W Hanna. and he converted that i'm
ant journal into the most blatant CT
,ion Of the trusts to be found in
Northwest today. Since then Mr.. W
las been resorting to every trick III
o politicians. He has overreached
elf, however. His one overflow,
mbition now is to get back into the
tie. and in order TO bring that abo,
las been playing every party ia
gainst every other faction SO as t