Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-17
HAVE NO WALK-OVER
West Virginia Republicans Must
Make Vigorous Fight.
DEMOCRATS RETURN TO THEIR PARTY
Seem to Think That Money Issue
Has Been Eliminated.
VIEWS OF CORRESPONDENTS


| Republican advices from West Virginia
are to the effect that the political situation
in that state indicates the necessity of
| more vigorous action on the part Of re-
publicans than has characterized the cam
|, paign thus far. Reports have been received
| which show great activity among the dem
| ocrats, with resulting benefit to the demo-
| cratic outlook.
| The party lieutenants in the field do not
concede that a democratic victory is immi
nent. On the contrary, they think that the
| state will go republican and return repub-
| lican representatives in Congress, but 1t is
made plain that this result can be accom-
| plished only by hard work on the part of
| every republican and the turning out of
the full republican vote in every district.
Republicans Somewhat Disappointed.
The republican managers in West Vir-
| ginia are somewhat surprised and disap-
| pointed over the attitude of the gold demo-
Gratis OF prominence. 1t is found that some
men who WELD considerable influence in
democratic politics and whom the republic
cans think ought to aid them are algning
| themselves with the Bryan party.
| 1t is argued that these democrats who
| are deeply interested in the industrial de-
| velopment Of the state, have received SUBJ
| stantial benefits from repub lean legislation.
The coal. iron and lumber interests, which
/ 1anguished under the regime for which
| William l.. Wilson was the sponsor in West
| Virginia, have been thriving under repub-
hcan LEGISLATION Sound money and pro
| tective tariff. it is claimed, have been the
! salvation of West Virginia, and these dem,
| ocrats of prominence have prospered along
with the rest of the community.
1t Is source of surprise, therefore, to
| the republicans that the gold democrats
/ should retreat from the position which they
assumed in order to help bring about this
| favorable condition of affairs and should
| train with the opposition.
1t Is said that the democratic campaign
! fund In West Virginia has been padded this
! year, and that at the present time the DEM
! ocrats are a great dea' better off for the
| snews of war than their opponents. 1t is
| not pleasant to the republican leaders to
| think that the money which flowed into
| democratic Golfers result of republican
| policies of government is now diverted to
the hands Of the enemy for political use.
VIII Grace Up Republicans.
! The result of the reports from West Vir-
ginia will be an immediate bracing up of
| the republican campaign in that state Lit
erature and speakers will be supplied, and
the voters throughout the state will be
| awakened TO sense of the danger which
seems to confront the party.
| One republican leader in West Virginia.
| after reciting at length the sources of
|
| sentatives in the districts, added in a letter:
| However. | have not given up the fight
| by any means. On the contrary, / expect
/ to carry the district, but it will only be
! after an effort on the part of every republic
| can There is good thing. we have in
! our favor net only the general situation of
| the republican admin :stra ton, but the fact
| that feeling it more than ever
| before.
| Our country mainly depends the coal
| business. During the democratic admins
| tratfon the people were discouraged as TO
/ the future of the business, and made long
time contracts for the sale of coke and coal
| at ru:nousy low prices. These contracts
did not expire until April, 1899. The result
was, prosperity had coIne everywhere else,
| raising prices for our people generally.
while their wages had not been raised and
| could not be raised.
I'VE were driven to explain away their
high prices and low wages. Now, however
| the old contracts have expired in the last
| year and a half and wages have been raised
in every coal mne in this district. There
are more coal diggers in these counties than
there were in 1886 and with us the labor
sentiment this year is republican.
What Many Democrats Say.
'Laboring people and the best business
people have no use for Bryan, but it is
not to be ignored with us at least, that
there a whole lot of democrats who
say that the acticn of the republican Con-
gTess has eliminated the money question
from politics; that the republican Senate
will protec. the country from reactionary
legislation. and that they can afford to
| vote for Bryan. In this town it is certain
that there are hundred influential demo-
Gratis. men wh2Se judgment carries the
votes of others. who Will vote for Bryan
IN November. but Who would not do 50 if
they understood that a stump to Bryan
would also result in changing the politi-
cal complexion Of the United States Senate.
1T is imperative that the state should
be awakened upon the point of voting for
the continued control of the Senate by the
forces of sound money. There are many
people who hit the republican party, even
while they fly to it for protection. Politi-
cal gratitude to the party which gives
them prosperity is sentiment of which
they seem incapable
II deem it very important to shake West
Virginia out Of the feeling that we have
made the nation and it's business
cure that even Bryan cannot disturb it.
Vigorous Campaign Necessary.
Another West Virginan correspondent
writes to the republican congressional COM
mittee from another district:
This district can never be carried for
the republicans in a walk. / see that we
VIII have to make a very vigorous cam
paign. If the proper work is done how
ever: if the republicans wake up and real
lze the necessity for prompt action, 1
confident can VIM
Letters to the congressional committee
from all the congressional districts in West
Virginia all breathe the same spirit; that
no walk-over is in sight for the republic
cans
Ten-Yenr-O.d Boy Killed.
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
HERNDON, Va, September II, 1900.
A colored boy. named Walter Dorsey,
about ten years old, was shot and killed