The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-09-06

There is no cessation in the work OF
sending out campaign literature from the
headquarters of the Democratic Congress-
ionaI Committee, but in the absence OF
Representative Richardson, the chairman
of the committee. only routine matters are
being attended TO. The subordinate OIL
GERS OF the committee are not authorized
to issue statements which have not been
revised by the chairman nor to discuss
politics for publication. But around the
Offices of the committee, on the parlor hoor
OF the Metropolitan Hotel end in the main
lobby. many actual politicians and many
hotel politicians congTegate, and talk over
the national issues
Among these the result of the election
in Vermont was discussed with eonSidera-
BILE satisfaction, the loss of more than %
per cent of the Republican vote or 1895 anu
the Democratic gain OF more than Is per
cent, being taken as strong symptoms OF
the trend of popular sentiment. II was
said that if the loss and gain as SHOWN IN
the returns from the Green Mountain state
should be extended to New York. and all
the other doubtful States, It would place
them in the Democratic column.
The reDly of the anthracite coal opera
tors TO the United Mine Workers of
America, which in effect is: We have
nothing to arbitrate; your intelligence Is
not as ours, and therefore you do not
understand the situation; you are Wen
maid but YOU do not know it, is taken as
meaning many thousand votes for Bryan
and Stevenson, not alone in the anthra-
cite but in the bituminous coal mining
regions as we'll Then if there IS d
strike which is considered probable, II
is said that workingmen affiliated with
the miners either in fact or IN sentl-
ment viii feel enough of the hardshlps oil
the Industrial system to question the Re
publican dogma, Everything is right;
everybody is prosperous; there IS no such
thing as hunger"
The attitude of Governor Lind, of
Minnesota, is said to light up Democratic
prospects In the northwest. l. is an
nounC ed that in all the campaigns in Min
nesota in which LIND has been factor
he has shown his personal following TO
be immense, and it is said OF him that he
always has been thousands of votes
stronger than the ticket on when he has
run.
The Republican managers make the
claim that the State viii be FIR Mckinley
and Roosevelt by ., coo or 81, coo majority
There are nearly 29, geo Sv7s iish-American
voters in the State ard Governor Lind's
influence with these IS Considered potent.
He is doing all that is within Els power TO
swing this vote TO Bryan. There are %. 600
German-AmeTican voters in the State,
nearly all Of whom hare been Republicans,
but Imperialism a,td the taxation required
to sustain a military policy have caused
detection there. Governor Lind though
Swede by birth is married to a German,
and speaks the language with ease. He is
making his influence felt upon the German
vote also.
The manner in which all the lost and
strayed Democrats are getting back into
the fold is significant, said a politician
to a Times reporter today. "Of course
some of them are influenced by motives
that are pure, impersonal, and patriotic.
But some of the are not. Some of them
understand the direction of the political
wind and they are simply getting in out
OF the wet. But I believe, though, that
most OF them have returned to the DEM
ocratic party because they feel that it is
the duty of Americans who believe in
American ideals and in the perpetuity OF
American institutions to vote for Bryan.
In the matter of the Gage-SchurZ con-
troversy the general opinion OF those who
are Independent is that the honors rest
with Mr.. Schurz, as the Secretary of the
Treasury evades the main contention of
Mr. Schurz that If there is any loophole
in the single gold standard law it was
left there by the Republican party