The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-16

tion and while there have been few
insignificant ward meetings there has
been no general party gathering in Gin
cinnati-nothing offered to bring the peo
pie out in mass
"The Democrats of Cincinnati and
Hamilton county are at work this time.
They have received no aid from the Ma
tional committee, but they have collect
ed a very respectable campaign fund right
at home. Among the contributors to this
are several of the wealthy men of the
party who voted for Mckinley in 1896
and sent what money they had to snare
to Mr.. Hanna.
zone of these gentlemen is the head
of a large manufacturing establishment. In
1896 he organized a Mckinley business
mems association among his own en-
ployes and carried them to the polls with
him to vote for Mckinley He has now
informed his men of his intention to vote
for Bryan, and said to them they can
vote for whom they please.
-Four years ago the national banks
of Cincinnati, like all the national banks
elsewhere, dumped handsome sum into
the lap of Mr.. Hanna without rer1on-
STRANGE or objection from any quarter.
Democratic stockholders and directors
recently served notice this could not be
done again.
six big railroads have central head
quarte4s in this city. In 1896 they mar
shaled their employees in one solid mass,
from the highest to the lowest grade
and voted them for Mckinley Not a
syllable, not a whisper has gone to these
employees, and they are beginning to think
their consciences as men and their liberty
as citizens are not again to be interfered
with Perhaps, as has been suggested, the
railroads are waiting to issue their edict
until within a few days of the election.
Or it may be they have reached the con-
clusion it is not wise to be forever un-
dertaking to herd their men and deliver
them over like cattle to the Republican
party.
THE endless-chain prayer for the defeat
of Mckinley, started by the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union, ascends
daily from the homes of Ohio Republi-
can women are thick among the suppli-
cants, and when Republican wives are
praying daily for a particular thing it is
not unlikely to have more or less effect
upon Republican husbands. 1t is claimed
the result of this endless chain invocation
will be the diversion of some thousands
of Republican votes to the Prohibition
ticket.
Eugene Debs has been around among
the people of Ohio 1t is freely said and
believed by many that Debs' candidacy
was originally stimulated by Mr. Hanna
with the design of drawing off Popullst
votes, which otherwise Bryan would get.
There is not much question it will have
some effect that way. But l was told
Debs is making inroads "a the Republican
ranks in Cincinnati and Cleveland which
have caused alarm. and inquiries are
anxiously made as to how it can be
checked.
THE Democrats are also counting upon
receiving a material lift through the
Jones vote. The Republicans scout the
idea.
Colonel Markbreit, editor of the Cincin-
natl Volksblatt, assured me there is
nothing whatever in Democratic expecta-
tions of a division in the German Repub-
liGans On the other hand, prominent
German Democrats bring forward facts
and arguments to show the existence of
considerable disaffection.
"a very prominent Republican official,
whose name / would like very much to
mention but. of course, cannot. has just
said to me IN the presence of three or
to how Ohio would go.
eve may have 100000" he said 1--WE
may have 10000; we may have nothing. "