The age-herald., 1900-11-03
Last Days of the Campaign.

1iNNtloh ID SOlHSs i6 ndIuDHI liil dI U influenced by the pressure of the larger crowd is by no means inconsderable. The current demonstrations are intended to show which way the crowd is going. And below the demonstrations is the quiet work going on in every election district where the quiet man of influence is buzzing the individual voter and perhaps bribing some of them in one way or another Today is the very last day of even great demonstrations. for Monday is given over 10 preparations for voting. The voter in contested States will be "seen" on Monday. On Tuesday a great hush will take place, for the jury of the nation is quietly casting its votes and judgment will be announced before midnight. It is momentous event. and scarcely ever was there more in it for veal or woe than there will be next Tues day.
 No one knows what the result of the eec- ton will be. Fifteen million votes will be cast and a change of half a million votes would change the policy of the government. The silent secret vote far exceeds that number, and no man knows how that vote will be cast. There are many under-cur- rents in such an enormous electorate. There are diverse currents, and only the ballot box can test and measure them all.
 Gen Fitzhugh Lee has been assigned to military department which is centered at Omaha. When MT. Bryan is inaugurated it would seem to be his duty to escort the President-elect to Washington, and to serve as marshal of the joyous occasion. General Lee is himself a good Democrat.
 The elevation of the Marquis of Lansdowne war secretary, to the foreign office is about as well received in London as a similar ele- vation of Mark Hanna in this country would be.
 Seven young Kansas women have given seven Republican sweethearts notice that they must either vote for Bryan or remain on the waiting list.
 Sir Thomas Lipton did not squeeze the shorts on the pork market severely. All he wanted was the cost of the new Shamrock and he got 1t.
 Alvord did not have much time for &C., quiring much culture in Boston before he was pressingly invited to go to New York
 The Philadelphia Times and Grover Cleveland have apologized and explained, and the mad world wags on as before.
 Andrew Carnegie was so busy in trying to shove off on an unsuspecting public his income that he forgot to register.
 Alabama marches right along with the procession, quietly but firmly. She will cross the two-milllon line next time.
 The Eighty Million Club has decided to let MT. Merram's count stand for the pres ent, disappointing as it is.
 The voting will occur on Tuesday and the shouting on Wednesday, and then all hands will attend to business.
 Porto Rico, so MT. Mckinley says, is an honorary sister only. She can have plenty of voice, but. no vote
 President Eliot of Harvard will vote for Mckinley, and then take a vacation to re- cuperate in.
 Nevada is the only instance of failure in a State. It was prematurely born in war times
 The American college girl is fast becom- ing devoted to hazing in downright earn est.
 Sir Thomas Lipton closed out the pork corner strictly on time, and in good style The general reader who knows not pol itics is in disgusted frame of mind
 Don Dickinsons flop is one of the warmed over sort He began Topping in 1S95. 
 Aivord intlmates it was the stock market rather than horse races that did it. 
 Dom Paul vii! be Paris sensation just as the exposition passes out of sight.
 The pancake hat is enough to make an automobile stop and consider.
 
 Some of the favors showered on Roose- welt were odorous.
 CHICAGO UNIVER.IrY AGAIN From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
 Again. what is the matter with Chicago University?
 Professor Laughlin of the political econ omy department has hitherto conducted himself with dignity and seemed to have