The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-07
CHAMP QARE'S LETTER
G. O.P. Marked For a Ire
mendous Trouncing.
MARK CAN'T GET THE DOODLE
Prominent Republicans Desert
/ ing Mckinley.
ARoUsEs NO ENTHUSIASM.

Several Republican Congressman In
Iowa In Danger of Defeat-Signs
Indicate That Hanna Is to BE Made
the scapegoat of NTcKin1ey's De-
Tent-Democrntic Outlook In Indi-
ana-Zach Chnnd1er's scheme Re-
vived--A Republican Editors Con-
fession-Bryan's Reply to Hanna's
Challenge.
Especial Washington letter.
Surely the G. o. p. is headed for the
deuce and marked for the most as
founding trouncing any party ever re-
ceived at the hands of a long suffering
and outraged people. Mark can't get
his usual amount of boodleI Teddy
can't arouse any enthusiasm! And the
chairman of the Iowa Republican state
committee sends out a Macedonian cry
to the postmasters and other federal
papsuckers declaring that several Re-
publican congressman in Iowa are in
great dancer of defeat! There has
been no such mournful set as the Re-
publicans are since the children of Is
rael hung their harps on the willows
and sat down by the waters Of Babylon
and wept. Amazing Republican losses
in Vermont! Surprising Republican
losses in Maine! Desertions of promi-
nent Republicans everywhere is the
sickening message which Mark is COM
PEELED to send to his disheartened fol-
lowers.
"Pity the sorrows of poor old man."
appears to be Marks appeal to the plu-
tocrats Calamities are crowding upon
him so thick that one might sympa-
thize with him if McHannaism were
not the bane of our free government.
1T is written. "If thy right hand offend
thee, cut it off,"
So it is infinitely better that Mark
should go in humiliation to his politi-
cal grave than that the republic should
perish.
Having Fun With Hanna.
they are playing cruel FRANKS with
N8rk these days. Some scientist out
Indiana, without the fear of Hanna
Jefore his eyes. but animated by a
Naggish, perhaps patriotic. spirit, got
hold Of one of Marks paid spellbind-
ers, hypnotized him and caused him to
deliver a rousing Democratic speech!
Since Mark has unexpectedly blossom
edrout as an orator he had better steer
clear of that artist, or first thing he
knows he will himself be whooping it
up for Bryan, 16 to 1 and all. How all
this must poster Mark. and yet nobody
appears to be shedding any tears over
his troubles. Even Republicans are
beginning to complain of him and to
desptefully use him. My lecture mate
--one of them-Hon. Charles b. Lands
of Delphi. Ind, thought it a winning
card to induce Mark to crate in his
town. Guess Charles did that with an
eye to persuading Mark to give him
some of the sinews of war; Mark in
vaded Delphi, grated, and now comes
Governor Mount, who says that bring
ing Mark into Hoosierdom was blum
der which a famous Frenchman on q
momentous occasion declared to be
worse than crime. Governor Mounts
declaration is the most unkindest' cut
of all and must have caused the iron to
enter Marks soul. Signs are accumu-
lating that Mark is to be made the
scapegoat for McKinley's impending
defeat He will share the lamentable
fate of one Jay Hubbell-Garfield's
"Dear HubbelP'-who sandbagged and
held up the government officials and
who was then thrown away like a
sucked orange-disgraced, execrated,
loathed. When Mckinley is beaten, as
he will be, all Of the sins of all the Re-
publicans will be loaded on to Marks
back, and he will be hated more enthu-
sastically and more universally than
any other man in America.
A Jobs Comforter.
Even The Globe-Democrat, q thick
and thin Republican organ grinder, has
Mark and, speaking of West Virginia,
saws, 1.-THE outlook is not so hopeful as
the campaign Republican managers
had hoped it would be-" Again, The
Globe-Democrat says, 1.-THE party lieu
tenants in the field say that hard work
will be necessary for the salvation Of
the state" Again, The Globe-Democrat
continues dolefully, 1.-THE result Of the
reports from West Virginia will be the
immediate bracing I'D of the Republic
IN camuqign in that state" Which
means. take it, that Senator Stephen
Il. EllZins viii import few more car
loads of the colored man and brother
into the state and colonize them for
fraudulent election purposes. Again,
TIE Globe-Democrat remarks, "Litera-
ture and speakers will be supplied, and
the voters throughout the state will be
awakened to a sense of the danger
which seems to confront the party"
No. doubt The Globe-Democrat has
made correct diagnosis of the disease
affecting the G. O. p. in West Virginia,
but it has prescribed the wrong reme-
dy. What those sleepy or recalcitrant
West Virginia Republicans need to re-
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