The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-04
Circulation Statement.
Republican Confidence.


Marley. of Maine, and also of the Re
publican National Committee, has prac-
tically disappeared, and the American
public is now in a condition to accept the
possibility that the trusts cannot buy up
voters enough to re-elect William Nc
Kinley President of the United States
Mr.. Manley halls from State which for
the generation past has been steadily en-
gagged in destroying that American insti-
tuition. the lobster When people get ac-
customed to the elimination of one instf-
tuition. they easily fall into the idea of
making a clean sweep CO the whole deck
We do not mean to say that Manley IS
an enemy of his country. He may not be
that; but his record is not perfect one.
In its coffin of whiteness there is, here
and there a dash of heliotrope!
Mr.. Marley has been investigating and
polling. We may be sure that it has been
a comprehensive. as it must have been a
costly. experiment. Mr.. Manley emerges
from every campaign poorer than when
he went into tiff you L. him tell the
story. But the principle is the same. He
firmly believes that Kentucky will so
Republican. We presume that he has
equal confidence in Maine and Vermont.
Why he should have dreams about the
Blue Grass State, we cannot understand.
Indeed, it is rather delicate matter TO
discuss the trust situation in that Com
rnonwealth The peerless leader" CT the
party in the State is a fugitive from jus
tice. under protection Of the equally
peerless Republican Governor Of Ind ana,
who fears that, should he obey the Fed
eral Constitution, and surrender his ward
to the authorities of the State demand
ing him. the latter might be hanged.
But that is small matter, compared
with the Republican poll and census which
has bsen pushed all over the country at
Government expense. How satisfactory the
results may have been We DO not know.
Marley does. to a certain extent; but
Hanna does absolutely. We may gather
some ideas as to the impression made upon
the Republican National Committee, by the
fact that Marcus A. Hanna has made
hurry call upon the trusts for mora mil
lions than he expected would be necessary.
We deeply sympathize with the Repuo-
liean National Committee in the dilemma
in which it finds itself. Doubtful States
are extremely difficult things to handle
West Virginia. indeed. may be redeemed
by voting eighteen or twenty thousand
District of Columbia negroes. carefully dis
tributed. Mr.. Manley has cause to feel
confidence that this will be done. He
knows, or ought to, that a gentleman OF
carp and Holsters are household words
throughout the Union. is doing what he
can TO produce a fraudulent registration
and vote in West Virginia. And that gen
tleman will some day land in a pleasant
and safe penitentiary, because one so de-
serving is always sure to reach his goal
There is another reason for ldr. Man
ley's confidence. and that is that Unless
the honest American people who live along
the border between Ohio and Indiana
awake to the conditions that confront
them, their Republican friends n both
States will vote on both sides of the line.
as they did in 1896. giving Mr.. Mckinley
a larger majority than he could have
gathered in an honest election, because
thousands more votes were returned in
Ohio than could be predieated upon the
voting population Of the State.
Mr.. Manley's confidence is the confidence
of Marcus A. Hanna-the confidence in
corruption. 1t is confidence in tic meth
DDS which we're applied in 1896, and which
were efiicacious in bribing, coercing, or
bullying farmers and workingmen into
voting for the agents Of trusts and mo-
nopolies. Whether or not the same ar
guments" will work with the great mass
of the common people this year remains
to be seen.