The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-08-30
ALL FOR THE NEBRAOKAN
Idle Delaware Workmen Hoping
for Bryan's Election.
Many Mills and Factories Closed
and 81 Great ArIny of Unemployed
Prosperity-A Trust Shuts Down
"a TinpIate Plant in Maryland.

turned from a bushes trip through Della
ware in speaking with a Times man to-
day, said:
The chances for Democratic success in
Delaware were never brighter than they
are today I do not see how We can pos
sibiy lose. If we keep up the work we are
doing now No man can give the Repub-
lican slogan. Full dinner pals and pros
perity. in Delaware this yeal-
Nearly every factory in Newcastle and
Wilmington is at a standstill. The twelve
great Morocco leather factories which
normally employ about $500 men have
been closed down by direction of the
Leather Trust.
The Diamond State Iron Foundries and
the iron and steel rolling mills are closed
on account Of strikes. The Jackson Sash
Factory and the weavers are idle, and,
in fact, I may truly say that Delaware
never before had so many unemployed
worKingmen.
The Young Mems Democratic Club and
the Democratic League of Delaware both
have headquarters in Wilmington. Large
Bryan and Stevenson banners are strung
across the street and the rooms are al
ways aIed with converted Republicans and
Democrats German-Americans FROM the
counties are very much in evidence
Il mingled a good deal with the unem-
ployed and the strikers in order to judge
how they will vote. Everyone is for Bryan.
They lock upon the Democratic candidate
for President as the only man, and the
representative Of the only party, who viii
do any good for the laboring classes. The
great cry that comes up from this class
is against the trusts.
Henry Stocked, the millionaire brew
er who is one OF the most generous and
best liked citizens of Wilmington, will
support Bryan and Stevenson, and viii do
everything within his power to further the
interests Of the Democratic ticket. This
means a great deal. The fact that the
Democratic party stands for the reduction
OF war taxes is especially pleasing to Mr..
Stocked.
Anton Hauber. another German -Ameri-
can leader in Wilmington, also told me
that all the Germans would stand by the
old Republic and would support tie
Democratic ticket. He toL me that the
| German n-Americans are particularly
| wroughe up over the unjust and Amer
can manner in which the Administration
has conducted its dealings with the POI to
| Ricans and the Filipinos-"
Mr. Schade says that there is to be
| a mCnSter outdoor mass meeting il Will
mington under the auspices of the Demo
| cratic League OF Delaware IN about two
weeks, and that then vigorous campaiga
work wiz be begun in every voting PEE
ciEct n The State.
Democratic politicians believe that he
publican prosperity rant IS making no votes
anlang the people il is intended TO delude
WSal :tr. Schade says OF the industrial
situation N Delaware is said to De- very
generally true throughout the country.
Naws was received rom Cumberland to-
day that the works OF the Cumberland
Steel and Tinplate Company. absorbed by
the Cructble Steel Company of America.
has closed permanently. One hundred and
fifty 1len are thrown out of employment
1t is announced that the mill viii be board
ed up, and that later the machinery may
be torn out and sent to Walton, near Pitts
burg
Labor leaders in Washington learned to-
dsv through the usual channels that the
Keyser Door and Box Factory, at Keyser.
w Va, employing 150 men was sold at
trustees sale yesterday for one-fifth Of
the original cost of the plant.
The striking pneumatic tool clippers OF
the Newport News Shipbuilding Company,
who struck for higher wages some time
ago have failed to secure the advance ask
ed for, and have returned TO work at the
old scale. One OF the complaints OF these
men was that their living expenses had
been increased through the operation OF
trusts,
The Democratic managers in collecting
data concerning the formation of new
trusts announce that negotiations are in
progress for an extensive consolidation of
the country's zinc sTnelters. and hnancIers
connected with the Standard Oil Company
are said to be behind the movement II. H
| Rogers is mentioned as the leading spirit
in the enterprise.
The companies named as likely to be in
cIuded in the new combination are the New
Jersey Zinc Company, which is capitalized
at $40 900, ,006; the Cherokee Lanyon Smelt-
er Company, whose plant is at lola, KAN
the Lanyon Smelter Company, of Pitts
burg, Kan, and Two Independent plants.
The new eompany's capitalization is va
riousIy figured at from $50, 600, GOO to s60,-
coo. 600 The promoters, il is said, aim to
form a company which shall take over the
various zine plants. as the American Smelt-
ing and Refining Company took over plants
for smelling lead. silver, and gold
The principal topics discussed by the
hotel politicians of Washington today were
the utterances attributed in the morning
dispatches TO ex-President Cleveland,
William c. Whitney, and Senator Stewart
of Nevada. Democrats did not consider
seriously the observations reported to have
been n&de by the gentlemen named.
Mr.. Cleveland's opinion, it was generally
said. would neither influence his next door
neighbor nor anybody else, certainly it
would have no effect on any Democrat
Democrats in Washington, as rule,
agree with Mr- Whitney in his observa-
ton: 4 am out of politics entirely. l
have been out four years. 1 know nothing
about il, Ballyhoo Bey's victory was just
what expected
The Democratic Campaign Textbook. a
review of which was published in The
Times of Tuesday, is the work of George c.
Gorhani. formerly Secretary of the Senate
and a lifelong Republican. For many years
in his capacity as Secretary of the Senate
he identified himself with the stalwart
wing OF the Republican party and served
as lieutenant for Roscoe Conkling and Mr..
Platt. Mr.. GoTham has always been ex-
treme in his political likes and dislikes.
He opposed Blaine bitterly, and after
Chester A. Arthur declined to remove Col
leetor Robinson, of New York, at the be-
hest Of Conkling, he was most active in
the defeat of the New Yorker for renomi-
nation to the Presidency When Grover
Cleveland was first elected President Cor
ham remarked in the hearing of many men
now living that he and his friends had at
one stroke revenged themselves on both
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