The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-10-30
POLITICAL GOSSIP.

gress in the Seventh New York district.
That includes Staten Island, where there
are not a few splendid residences. The
portly and also somewhat aged German,
Nicholas Muller, OF New Brighton. who
was in Congress twenty years ago. and
after long interregnum came back two
years ago that ne might have something
to take his mind from several domestic
sorrows. is again running for the Demo-
Gratis. while the Republicans have nomi-
mated Gen. James L. O'Beirne. OF New
York City
At the last session Mr.. Muller intro
duced one or two bills In the House 10
make IL an offeuse 10 maintain factories,
producing black smoke and deadly fumes
that might be waited into another State
This was aimed at the New Jersey manu-
factories. which have come to be a men
ace to Staten Island residents, disfiguring
their fine houses and choking the people
with nauseOus gases. Now Mr.. Muller
and his friends say that some OF the big
corporations which own these factories
In New Jersey are combining TO defeat
him for reelection. Whether or not that
be so. Mr.. Muller had 500 majority two
years ago, and the district is regarded as
a Democratic stronghold.
Up in a Wisconsin town of the name Of
Bristol a big Republican club from
Kenosha, numbering 200 marchers had a
high and somewhat expensive frolie the
other night When the marchers reach
ed Bristol they found the hall. in when
a Republican meeting was TO be held,
crowded TO the doors. As the marchers
could not get within. some 100 of the
younger members started out TO take the
town, and to a considerable extent they
succeeded Cider mills were looted. fire
bells rung, and one store stripped of all
its contents. The Republican club i'm
mediately promised to make good for all
losses. and efforts are on foot TO prevent
the arrest and conviction of the perpetra-
Tors.
Judge Bartlett Trip, of South Dakota.
who was Minister to Austria under Presi-
dent Cleveland. bat who Is now regarded
as substantially Republican, has been
campaigning in behalf of Mckinley and
Roosevelt ir Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana.
He is quoted as saying that after go
lng through nearly every section of Hi
nois he does not regard 1t as possible that
the vote could be for Bryan, except where
laboreTs are in the majority. Judge Bart
lett says a vast amount of ''perniciOus
literature was spread among these work
ingmen. but that the effect of this has
been righted. and he thinks the vote Of
the majority of Illinois laborers will be
for Mckinley. He will spend the re-
mainder o. the campaign speaking In
South Dakota.
Nebraska Republicans are crying ''col-
onization," just as Democrats are doing
in West Virginia. There are some wealthy
farmers residing along the borders of
the State. and the charge is that they
are concerned in a colonization scheme
that would bring voters from Missouri
and Colorado. Corn husking began early
in October, and is said to have been COM
pleted more than a week ago. Many
laborers were imported from adjoining
States for this work. and although the
work is done, the iaborers, nearly all of
whom are Bryan men. are retained. in
many cases six or seven more than the
actual needs OF the farmers at this time.
The purpose is claimed TO be to vote these
men for Bryan at the election next Tues
day.
The parties in Nebraska are having a
Lively wrangle as TO which ticket shall
be given first place on the official bal
lot. The State law says that the party
which cast most votes at the preceding
election shall have first place. Accord
ingly, the fusionists declare that the first
place belongs to them, but the Republic
cans assert that the fusiOnists are not
a party but several parties, and that the
Republicans cast more votes last year
than any other party. Defiant letters
have been sent to county clerks who are
making up the official ballot, and Sam
Hill of a time has followed.
Senator Thurston, of Nebraska, has been
campaigning in Montana for the assist
ance of Senator Carter The Nebraskan
has had great ovations everywhere In that
State, and is credited with making Re-
publican votes. One of his latest meetings
was at Butte. where the demonstration
was On a magnificent order.
The heat Of campaigning In Iowa has
narrowed down to two Congressional dis
tricts, the Second and the Sixth. State
ments by the Republicans seem to indi-
cate that they are beaten for sure in the
Second district. There the Democrats are
openly trading, promising their votes for
Mckinley In return for votes for Volmer,
Democratic candidate for Congress. The
Republican State committee has made a
frantic appeal to the Republicans and
Gold Democrats In the district to vote
straight and not scratch their tickets.
Late last week an appeal to the Repub-
lican State committee for help was made
from the Sixth district. where Representa-
tive Lacey is the candidate for reelection.
Maj. Lacey says he is certain Of 1000 ma
jority In the district, and he has pulled
out of so many close fights in that dis
trict that there is a disposition to believe
him. The activity last week of Demo-
Gratis in Manhaska and Wapello counties,
centers Of population, caused Republicans
much alarm. The result Is said to de-
pend largely upon the mining vote. Many
negroes have recently been imported into
the mines and are, of course, expected to
vote the Republican ticket. There is a
Social Democratic candidate for Congress
In the district, and there Is a possibility
that he will draw many votes from among
the miners. which would be distinctly 20
Maj. Lacey's advantage.
Some North Dakota voters are trying
10 make prohibition the paramount issue
III the oAdlc tdupdIEil5 anu 10 a large tA-
tent they have succeeded. The State con-
ventiOn was captured by what is known
as the Missouri slope crowd, and the can
didates nominated were nearly all, in.
Guiding the candidate for attorney gen.
eral, hostile 10 the enforcement OF pro-
hibitiOn laws. There the opponents OF
prohibition were content to rest, even al
lowing a plank in the platform commend
ing the prohibition law, which was enact
ed after prohibition was incorporated in
the State constitution.
Since the State convention, however, a
great stir has been made by the Pr0hi-
bitionisIs so that the Republican State
committee has announced that they will
use all their influence and all the ma
chinery OF the party 10 prevent the pas
sage OF resolution by the legislature 70
resubmit the question Of a prohibition
amendment to the constitution 10 the
people. Some three years ago a bill that