The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1900-10-27
Washington, ID. c., News.
rom our Regular Correspondent.

w ashlngton, Oct. 22, 1900.
Washington Democrats are pre-
pairing to give Mr.. Bryan a rousine
reception when he passes through
Washington Oh his way to Balti
more tomorrow, and at least one
thousand of them will accompany
him on a special train to Baltimore
and take part in the meetings he
will address in that city. If en-,
.thusiasm and confidence will win,
the Democrats will certainly dc
so. In no campaign during the past
twenty-five years have they been
more enthusiastic or more confident
Of victory F.; they feel that the i'm,
perialists are on the run and that
in spite of the trust-contributed
fund of unlimited amount that is
being lavishly used against them,
the plain people will rise in their
might and elect Bryan and Steven
son. They know that intimidation
of all sorts is being used to whip the
men who work for wages into line
for Mckinley and Imperialism ; but
they know also that these voters
have in the secret ballot weapon
which they can use if they have
the courage of their convictions, as
they are believed to have, to de-
feat their intimidators.
Mr.. Mckinley is needed in Ohio
to help the Republican bosses hold
that State in line, and he left for
Canton to-day and will practically
manage the rest of the Republican
campaign in Ohio. He processes
confidence in his election, but his
acts indicate that he has grave
doubts. News from Mr.. Bryan's
trip through New York has been
discouraging to him and he has no
confidence in Teddy's ability to
help him any in that State, because
he knows that Teddy is not in
touch with the Platt machine, and
that the cowboy method of cam
paigning isn't popular in the En-
pire State.
The exigencies of the campaign
caused a break in the rules recently
made by Mr.. Mckinley against the
simultaneous absence from Wash
ington of the Secretary and Assis-
tant Secretary of War. Saturday
was the last day of registration in
New York, and, Secretary Root was
told By Mckinley to go and regis
ter as his vote might be needed.
Assistant Secretary Meikleiohn is
on the stump in Nebraska. Conse-
quently Gen. Miles was acting Sec
retary of War a few days.
This is the way the big Bryan
meeting i'll New York City i'm
pressed q New York Republican
who attended it, and who is now in
Washington "Bryan's visit to New
York was timely, and if the Repub-
lican managers in that State do not
wake up and counteract the effects
of that meeting there will be some
thing doing next month. I wasat Ma
olson Square Garden. | was also at
the Chicago Convention which
Bryan stampeded in 1896. In a
crowd of people the appearance OF
Bryan is like dynamite. There is
no describing the wonderful effect
that the personality of this
man has upon people. Repnbli-
cans can say what they please, he
wears. Those who have been with
in sound of his voice are won over
to him in spite of former opinions,
/ am republican, but [ want to
say that |, like many thousands Of
Others who lleard him, left Madison
Square doing some serious think
ing.n The gentleman who did this
plain talking is Mr.. Charles Faret
Although it is now acknowledged
that the alIedged imperial Chinese
decree ordering the degradation
and punishment of PrineeTuan and
other high Chinese officials for aid
ing the Boxers in their attack on
foreigners was faxed document,
Mr.. Mckinley and Secretary Hay
continued to hob-nob with the Chi
nese minister and their understrap-
pers to assert that the administra.
ton is perfectly satisfied of the
good faith Of the Chinese govern.
ment. If that be really true, the
administration is almighty easy te
satisfy. 1t is well known that the
same satisfaction is not expressed
by any other governments, except
Russia, which has long been un
tlerstood to control the Empress
Dowager and Ii Hung Chang
and by France, which is merely
playing the roll of "me tooo to
Russia. Americans will wake NJ
some fine morning and discover
that Mr.. Mckinley is also Russia's
ane too.n The administration was
greatly surprised by the official an
nouncement that Germany and
England had formed an alliance fol
the purpose of acting together il
the settlement of the Chinese diff
culties. 4he first intirnation that
this government had of such al
alliance was the publication Of its
terms in the newspapers, which was
quite q slight to tie amateur impe
rialist from the two big profession
ais.