Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1900-10-22
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been growing more and more convin
cling since the registration in mum
Der of states has been under way.
Instead of the light registration which
was feared on account of over conf
dence on the part of the republicans,
there has so far been a registration
which makes it look as though the
popular vote would exceed that, cast
four years ago, which was unusually
heavy, and that makes republican vic
tory as near certain as anything not
yet actually accomplished can posi-
bly, be. Shrewd political observers
are now predicting an absolute col
lapse of the Bryan campaign before
election day and a republican tidal
wave. Whether it will go that far is,
of course a question, but there are
certainly signs in plenty to justify
those predictions.
Third Assistant Postmaster Madden
takes more than an official interest in
the series of memorial postage stamps
that will be issued in connection with
Pan American Exposition at Buffalo,
being citizen of New York and there
fore personally interested in anything
that will help along the Buffalo show.
He has been comforting with the mead
of the bureau of engraving and print
ing and one of the results is the an
nouncement that the Buffalo stamps
will be printed in two colors, which
will be something entirely new, and
would not have been possible before
the increase in the facilities of the
bureau made under the present adj
ministration. The law prescribes the
distinctive color of stamps of each
denomination, but the Buffalo. stamps
will be given a handsome border in a
contrasting color.
Mrs. Hobart and Garrett A. Hobart,
Jr. are guests of President and Mrs.
Mckinley at the White House,.
The desperation of the Bryanites is
evidenced by the fact that both Mr..
Bryan and Mr.. Stevenson are attribu
ting things to Abraham Lincoln that
he never said. Secretary Hay who
was Lincoln's private secretary and
who assisted by John Nicolay wrote
the most complete life of Lincoln ever
published, alter years of study, having
access to all the writings of the mar
tyr president, declares the Lincoln
a recent speech-a prediction that
combination of corporate wealth
would destroy the republic--to be
forgery, and sand of it:"The passage
does not appear in any of the stand
ard collections of Lincoln's writings.
Its style and manner are entirely diff
ferent from Lincoln. 1t is generally
in the West that it is the
invention of a spiritualistic medium,
made several years after Mr.. Lincoln
died." If it were only some obscure
member of a party that made use Of
such forgeries, it might be excused on
the ground of ignorance, but no such
excuse will do for the candidates for
president and vice president of a po-
litical party. When men resort to
such methods, it is usually with will
fnl intent to deceive their hearers,
and no man who tries to deceive the
people is worthy Of being elected to
the high offices to which these men
aspire, ~. H.. ~. 81
Senator Chauncey NJ. Depew, who
has been on the stump in the West
and in his own state land has had anex-
cellent opportunity to feel the public
pulse says the tide has turned strong
ly against Bryan, and that the silent
vote and the vote of the big business
man, the wage Garner, the salaried
man, and the farmer and the small
business man is going to be enormous,
and will practically all go to Mckinley
and Roosevelt. Ft
Senator Chandler, who isn't SO busy
conducting his own fight for re-elec-
ton, that he neglects to keep posted
on the condition of national politics,
thinks that the election of Mckinley
and Roosevelt is already assured,
although he thinks an effort will be
made while Bryan is in the East, to
create a Bryan Hurrah for the pur-
pose of enabling some of those who
have bet big money to hedge. He
thinks that Mr.. Bryan's arguments
are worn threadbare and that he has
talked himself out, and cites his re
cent ignoring or distorting of repub-
lican arguments as proof that he is
to realize the weakness of
his position.
Hon. John, G. Carlisle, ex-repres
entative, ex- speaker and ex- senator,
told a Washinufnn friend thot ha bod