The Republican., 1900-11-01
OUR WASHINGTON LETTER.

PRESIDENT Mckinney Will be elected
norof whether a Republican major
ity of the House will be elected, but
of how large Mckinley and Roose-
yelts majority in the electoral col
lege will be, and of how large the Re-
publican majority in the House will
be. Those who know the political
situation the most thoroughly will be
the least surprised to see election day
produce a regular Republican land
slide. Things look more like it every
day.
Representative Loudenslager of
New Jersey, who is in charge of the
Republican Congressional Campaign
Committee Headquarters in Washing
ton, said of the outlook: 81 am conf
dent that the Republicans will organ
ize the next House and will gain at
least 10 on their majority in the pres
ent House. My view in regard to the
general political situation is that the
Democrats have given up all hope of
carrying this election, and that
Bryan's trip through the east is indicss
ative of that. do not say this be-
cause of information received from
the Republicans alone, but from Dem
ocratic sources as well. The charac-
ter of speeches being made by Mr..
Bryan indicates this. He does not
appeal to the intelligence of the
American people in any of his utter
ances. The Democrats are now mere
ly making bold bluff and endeavor
ing to hold themselves together as
far as possible. Mr.. Bryan's replies
to the questions propounded to him
are not of the frank and manly char
acter that would command the re-
spect and confidence of the business
men of the country or of the intelli-
gent working man who hopes that
his labor may not only benefit him for
the present, but that by it he may
take care of the rainy days of the fu-
ture. Mr.. Bryan has shown clearly
and conclusiyely that he desires to
evade the real issues of the campaign
and is unwilling to meet them. The
Republican position is not theoret
ical one. 1t is founded on the facts
that are found in the record of the
Republican party made during the
last four years. The party presents
that record for the inspection of the
intelligent American people and is
confident that it will stand the most
searching inquiry and investigation,
and will meet the approval of those
who have the interests of the country
and themselves at heart. You can
take all of New England, New York,
Pennsylvania, New Jersy, Delaware,
Maryland and West Virginia and put
them in the Republican column. They
will undoubtedly cast their electoral
vote for Mckinley. In my judgment,
the Southern States will show sur
prising loss of votes for the Democrat
ic cause; not, however, so great as to
change any of their electoral votes,
but it will be a forcible notice to the
Democratic party that very large
number of the intelligent business
men of the South are now deeply in
terested in the progress and advance
ment of this great nation, and de-
mand that the administration of its
affairs shall be conducted upon sound
business and financial principles"
Secretary Long left Washington
Saturday for Colorado, where his
daughters are now living. He will
stop enroute to make several speeches,
but the whole trip will be made ON
the fly as he expects to return to
Massachusetts in time to cast his vote.
Hon. Henry E. Davis, a prominent
Democratic member of the Washing
ton Bar, who is actively supporting
Mckinley and Roosevelt, gave the
following condensed history of the
curbing of trusts by Republican leg
islation: SIN 1890, the Sherman Anti
Trust Law was fathered and passed
by Republican Congress, signed by
a Republican president and executed
by Republican Attorney General.
Then there was complaints made to
the Attorney General that the sugar
trust existed in violation of the new
law. In 1899, bill was filed in the
name of the United States against
the sugar trust in Pennsylvania. The
Supreme Court in deciding the case
said, in effect: This gigantic affair is
a grinding monopoly, but the Federal
government cannot reach it, because
that power is reserved to the state. y
A few years later in case against the
trans Missouri Traffic Association,
the Supreme Court decided that the
sugar trust decision was not applica-
BILE to a combination of commercial
agencies doing business among the
states; that the pending case inter
fered with state lines, and that trust
was broken. Later came the case of
the joint Traffic Association, compos-
ed of twenty-one lines, including the
Pennsylvania, New York Central and
such railways. The Attorney Gener-
al dragged them before the Supreme
Court, after circuit court said the
Sherman law would not reach the
combination, and the Supreme Court
ended the trust
Southern Chivalry'' doesn't show
up to any more advantage in the suit
for breach of promise of marriage just
entered in Washington, against Sen
ator Sullivan of Mississippi, by Miss
Lection, of the same state, than it did
in the notorious Pollard-Brecken-
ridge case few years ago. Miss Lee
ton alleges that she lived with Sena-
tor Sullivan as his wife in Washing
ton and elsewhere-for a time she
says they lived in Alexandria, Va, as
Mr.. aud Mrs. Sutton-but was sent to
school and often introduced as his
niece. Senator Sullivan, like Breck-
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