The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1900-08-09
Washir gton Letter.
tFrom our own Correspondent,

tFrom our own Correspondent.l
The gold Democrats have made
their exit from the stage as a politi-
cal party. A few of them will follow
Mr.. Haldeman back into the Demo-
cratic party, but the great bulk will
undoubtedly support Mckinley. The
party was organized to oppose Bryan
ism. a third ticket was likely to
aid in defeating this four years ago
and it wasnominated. A third ticket
would do the reverse now and it is
not nominated. That is all. The
course taken at Indianapolis will in
fluence some votes directly and more
indirectly. It counts for votes in the
doubtful states, and it counts moro
for moral influence in all the states.
The Palmer ticket in 1896 polled
1873, 1913 votes, but it shows singular
lack of knowledge of human nature,
and an extreme want of practical ex-
perience in politics, to imagine that
these votes are the measure of the in
fuence of tho gold Democrats. They
stood then and they stand now for
the great body of voters, Democratic
Or Independent with Democratic
leanings who placed sound curren-
cv and all that goes with sound
currency above party affiliations.
Many gold. Democrats voted directly
for Mr.. Mckinley. Many will vote
now for President Mckinley. But
all, whatever their votes, were clear
in their conviction that Organism
was a peril so serious that it justified
men in breaking the party ties for
lifetime and broken they we're.
General Bristow's report has been
submitted to Postmaster-General
Smith and the worst of the Cuban
scandal is now known. 1t was
promptly referred to the Secretary of
War, who has promptly referred it
to Governor-General Wood of Cuba,
and he is understood to have wired ut
once to Havana to have Rathbone put
under arrest. It is intimated at tho
Post Office Department that the fail
ure to arrest him heretofore was due
| to a desire to await the statement of
of the results of Mr.. Bristow's inves-
tigation, aud also to wish to give
him every opportunity to explain
items which the report says are un-
accounted for. Mr.. Bristow's report
places Neely's actual defalcation at
about $4,000 and Rathbone's at
about $4,000, and also holds the lat
ter responsible for unauthorized ex-
expenditures amounting to some
$4,000 more.
Senator Jones. Chairman of the
Democratic National Committee has
given out a roseate interview claim
ing the earth and the fulness thereof
for Mr.. BRYAN, aud especially laying
violent hands on the German-Ameri-
cans of the country, alleging that
they have bolted in large numbers
from the Republican party. If Sena-
tor Jones really believes this stuff, he
bellies his supposed intelligence, as
the facts are directly against him.
Reports to the Republicans here from
the most reliable sources in New
York, Illinois aud Wisconsin,, where
the detection of the German vote
from the Republicans will be, if at all,
show that the manu- fa ctured campaign
slogan of "imperialisln and military
ism" is having little or no effect with
those people. The attempts OF the
Democratic managers to hide the
free coinage Of silver at 16 to issue
behind this alleged "paramoubt plank
of imperialism has not been success
ful. All reports show that the thrifty
German who has saved his money
cannot BE- argued out of the danger
threatened him by this Bryan doc
trine of cheap money aud repudia-
ton. Men who have travelled through
Wisconsin aud Illinois in settlements
largely composed of citizens of Ger
man extraction, uniformly report
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