Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-09-07
Mr.. BRYAN IN CHICAGO
EFFORT TO MAKE HIS RECEPTION
CRITERION OF LABOR VOTE.
Not q Like ely yPrOpOsitiOn-BOthP Parties
Get Comfort Out of YER
m0nt's Election.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star
CHICAGO, H., September Z, 1900.
Democrats are endeavoring to make
Bryan's reception on Labor day here appear
as criterion of the labor vote the country
over. 1t is hardly likely proposition, how
ever For in Milwaukee, on the same day,
the democratic nominee for governor of
Wisconsin, Mr.. Bohmrich, endeavored to
speak in the Bryan vein He was jeered
and hooted until he was compelled to de-
s!st. Here many of the workers are for the
democratic leader. and the fact has added
greatly to the cares of the republican man.
ayers. Cook county ought to go republican
In presidential campaign. There are grave
doubts of it, however, this year. 1t depends
pretty much on the labor vote. Outside of
Cook county the state Is considered safe
beyond peradventure. The republican GU
bernatorial nominee Judge Yates, expects
100000 majority outside of Chicago.
Both Sides Satisfied With Vermont.
Vermont seems to have given a great
deal of comfort to both political hesdquar-
ters. The unexpectedly large republican
majority is, of course, subject Of congrat-
ulation among the national committeeman
OF the republican party. But their pleasure
Is not exactly unalloyed, not unmixed.
Vice Chairman Payne didn't want large
majority. Il hope 1t will not give more
than twelve or fifteen thousand he said
on the day before the election. Then some
of the republicans will wake up to the fact
that things are not all our way. 1t will
rouse the business world out of its apathy.
1t will strengthen the organization wherever
the result may become known"
The democrats cheerful about Ver-
mont, because the democratic vote showed
considerable growth-twenty per cent
Chairman johnson of the democratic ma
tional executive committee said. There
were a few ifs" in his comments on the
situation. If the increase in Vermont
is twenty per centum," he said, land if
the New England states should show the
same Increase, then it is fair to presume
that the increase will be general through
out the country If there should be a
general increase of twenty per cent, then
every state now considered doubtful will
be safely landed on the democratic side and
make the triumphant election of Bryan and
Stevenson absolutely certain"
The republicans are not lying awake
nights thinking about that twenty per cent
increase. but it Is one of the things which
makes them want more money. Money Is a
mighty handy commodity in the conduct of
campaign. Speakers tours cost money.
Clerks cost money. 1t costs money to
print republican pamphlets. 1t costs money
to ship them. 1t costs money to keep up
shipping bureau in which dozens of men
and women are employed. IT costs money
to run headquarters. Everything costs
money. And It usually costs the committee
just little more than 1t would the pri-
vate citizen Folks are never ashamed to
shake down" a committee just trif1e.
Tours Of the Speakers.
Many OF the speakers tours have been
routed, but some Of the heavy weights of
the party have not yet applied for their
regular assignments. Senator Spooner,
Gov. Roosevelt, Senator Beveridge, Senator
fUn of hpr Of hier
caliber have been booked but the arrange
ments for such men as Foraker and
Quarles and Burrows and Postmaster Cen
eral Smith ct al. are yet incomplete. One
of the matters that worries the committee
in connection with the speakers bureau is
the practically universal demand for Sem
ator Hanna If all the demands for SEN
atOr Hanna were to be complied with his
time would be fully occupied from now un-
til the day of election. The national COM
mitteeman from Kansas Mr.. Mulvane,
made a piteous plea for Hanna. I'D rather
have Hanna in the state than anybody
else he said 81 don't care If he never
makes speech. just want the people to
see him. You may think I'm joking, but
it's an absolute fact some of the farmers
out way think he's got horns They
frighten their children into bed by threat
ening to turn them over to Hanna If they
don't behave
Senator Hanna has made the positive
announcement that he will make no
speeches; that it is entirely out of the ques-
ton. But that has not stopped the demand
for him. 1t is dollars to doughnuts that
before the campaign closes Senator Hanna
will be practically forced on the stump
The committee is unanimously of the opin-
ion that he could do most effective work
particularly in the west.
Veterans Loyal to Mckinley,
The veterans of the Grand Army of the
Republic have returned to their homes,
and about the only regret they took with
them was that they were unable to shake
hands with their old comrade Major Nc
Kinley. If the Labor day demonstrations
proved the popularity of Bryan among the
workers of the garden city, the G. A. r.
demonstration showed the undying loyalty
publican party. They fiocked to republican
national headquarters just to give assur-
ances Of their cordial support. They came
unbidden to deny stories of disaffection;
they came to parade the loyalty of the men
from Nebraska; they cheered McKinley's
picture; they cheered McKinley's name;
they cheered anything and everything that
seemed to carry hint of Mckinley. At
democratic national headquarters the SUBJ
ject was treated with apparent indiffer-
ence. Its no USE one Of the gentlemen
said ''it's a tail to the republican kite
We might as well let them have their own
way"
Among the prominent District of Column
bia men who paid their respects to Secre-
tary Perry s. Heath at national republican
headquarters this week was District Attor-
ney Anderson, who was en- route to Mexico
and Judge Scott Of the Police Court, who
carried away choice assortment Of badges
and literature for the of his friends.
DEMOCRATS WANT HARMONY