The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-10-29
THE FALL CAMPAIGN.


in particular are absorbing public in
terest The prospects of the Republi-
cans in each State look bright. In Ohio
Senator Hanna has completely regained
his health and seems to gain in force
and enthusiasm as the contest pro-
crosses, while Tom johnson and
Clarke have worn themselves out. In
Maryland the Republican factions
have buried their differences, at least
for the present. and are united in
their attempts to rescue the State
from the German control. This is
due largely to the influence of the
President who has shown much inter-
est in the State campaign.
Senator Hanna's recent attack on
Bryan has caused good deal of
amusement among Republicans Bryan,
he said, "has told you that a panic is
impending. He ought to know be-
cause he helped to bring on one panic.
Bryan's visits to Ohio induced me to
make visit to Nebraska in 1900. [
spoke three times in Lincoln, Bryan's
own town, and Bryan that year did
not carry his own precinct, his own
ward, his own town, his own county,
his own State. Mr.. Bryan has said
would not dare to come to GAINESVILLE,
because forsooth a soap factory had
failed. Perhaps if it had not failed,
and some of william Jennings Bryan's
followers had used some of that soap,
it might have done them good. -
One of the amusing incidents of the
Maryland campaign is the effort to
teach the illiterate voters, large
percentage of whom are white, how
to mark the ballot, as the new election
laws forbid any assistance in the vot-
ing booth, except in the case of physi-
cal disability. There will be seven
names on the ballot and those who
cannot read will have great difficulty
in marking the right one. The negroes
are well organized and the Republi-
cans gather them together in nightly
meetings to teach them to recognize
the word Republican - The great
est difficulty in the past was to teach
them to distinguish between the Re-
publican and Prohibition names, as
to an illiterate ''R" and "P'' look
very much alike. The white illiterate
Democrats are ashamed to receive
this public instruction. and many of
their votes will thus be lost to the
party.
In Greater New York the munici.
pal canvass grows in interest and in
tensity. A notable incident of it's
varying phases is the temperance of
Bourke Cochran, prostituting his tongue
of silver to singing the praises of
Tammany, whom but recently he was
denouncing with all his marvellous
powers for invective, ridicule, irony
and sarcasm. Has Tammany changed?
Or has Cochran found rich pick
ings" in the tigers lair? Respecting
this brilliant but cratic and appar-
emily INSCRIPTIONS soldier of fortune
the Eagle of Brooklyn says:
"Time was when the statements of
Bourke Cochran upon the platform
commanded considerable degree of
interest, if not of respect That time
was, however, a good many years ago,
before Mr.. Cochran had exploited
himself so thoroughly in all the camps
where the pickings were thought to
be good and before the litigation in
connection with the railroad cases in
which the mysterious Powers figured
so disastrously. The desperation of
Tammany in the present campaign
could hardly be shown more striking
ly than by it's appeal to the discredit-
ed Cochran to come to its rescue.
That Cochran went to the aid of such
cause is no longer matter for sur
prise"
Cochran appeals to the jewellers in
tenements, on the score of assessment
and taxation, to revolt against the
fusion administration because the
jewellers have been "downtroddeu. "
The real facts show that these tenants
had become used TO being downtrod.
den" under Tammany and expected OPP
preston as a matter of course while
under the new system introduced by
the present administration very
large number of tenement properties
in the borough of Manhattan have
been relieved of unjust taxation in a
very large sum. The trouble is that
great many who hear Cochran may
not, till too late, find out how the
audacious mouthpiece of Tammany is
lying. But Oocknn's impudence
reached its climax when in recent
speech he denounced the present mu-
nicipal administration las the worst
since the days of Tweed
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