The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-28
WHISTLE To KEEP
STIFF UPPER LIP
Ice Bolt Hits Republican
"lnnards"
ITS NAME Is INDIANA
There Are Others Which Have a
Shivery Feel, as Acknowledged
by Republicans Themselves.
A Picture of Ho0sier
State Methods.
BY CICERO w. HARRIS.

washington, oct Zi.-DlSllnclly
confident are most of the Democrats
| meet on the streets and around the
hotels The absolute confidence Of
our leaders in New York has infused
like spirit into the Democratic pub
lie, but once i'm n while one hears of
feeble hope we will VIM from some
man who has been fed for eight years
ON blasted hopes. Mr.. Charles n.
Vance was i'm New York city a day
or two since and found the leading
Democrats sanguine, both of carrying
the State and the country Mr..
Vance thinks that we ought to have
q fine chance now for winning. He
says that if the Congressional COM
mittee had been furnished with
good amount of money it could have
secured the House beyond question.
II may be gained anyhow. The fact
that both sides are so sure of having
cinched this election, both House and
President. makes some persons timid
i'm expressing judgment az to the re-
suit. / found one Republican, long
time an officeholder and extremely
frank in the expression of sentiments
and judgments. who said today: 81
believe there is Il strong undercurrent
which vii! elect Parker. I know the
can't be beaten"
n Significant Fact.
one of the most significant point
ers is the Republican alarm over In
diana. They are afraid they may lose
il. although Boosting all the while
that they will carry it by from IS, 900
10 10000 ma jority. Againi in Mr.
Grosvenor's extravagant predictions"
published here today in the Post. he
claims Colorado in such a peculiar
way for Roosevelt as virtually to con-
cede that the Democrats have the best
chance for it. There are other signs.
Democratic workers are confident they
VIII make large gains in the south
em CT Republican part of New Jer-
sey. If they do with the certain
gains in Hudson county and other
counties i'm the north. the State Will
vote for Parker and Davis. The ex-
pectation here is that this weeks
work will alter the betting in New
York materially and will place Park
er out of danger unless something un-
foreseen and unforeseeab!e happens
i'm New York The betting is general,
not based, however, on definite in
formation that the Democratic work.
ers i'm the other doubtful States have
been and will still further be supplied
with the Sinews of war, far as dis
cuSsion are concerned. Here the Re-
publicans enjoy some advantages.
More of the big wealth is on their side
than on the Democratic. But DEM
ocrats are more likely to use money in
election legitimately and this ought
to make It's expenditures by them
more effective. As for such States as
Indiana the corruption is proverbial
Later in this letter 1 purpose going
somewhat into particulars.
AS To stories as to the large syndl-
cate and trust companies. who have
not contributed to the Republican
fund. giving by the hundreds 81
thousands to the Democratic cam
paign fund, think the public should
receive such averments with grains
of allowance. They are not probable
on their face. There is no proof al
legged. no one is exactly sponsor for
them. They are made out or the
whole cloth with the view of driving
certain votes from Parker and Davis
The authors of these stories merely
give them as rumors freely circulated
The North Carolina public Is
that from this time will be cir
culated for the purpose of deprivine
the Democrats OF their support in the
country districts, since the people III
the rural part, are supposed by the
Republican managers 10 be peculi3rIS
susceptible to antipathies of this sori
and would, it is thought. desert any
party sustained by trusts and COM
hines.
Buying Up Venal Voters.
A great deal has been said of the
sale of votes in Indiana. candid
Republican from that State makes
this confession: 1.-THE compatibility OF
a large class of voters is not to be de-
MED. / know the men and what Is
more their methods. The men are
not all shiftless fellows VINO own
small fifteen or twenty acre farms
and seldom have any money TO spend
although there are many OF that class
i'm the country districts. Many OF
them belong to the W-il-.o 0 soft OF
farmers These men, the latter,
mean, hold their votes at more than
two dollars a head. Some of them
demand $40, SOS. even 500 others
ut rake-off. This is the official class
of venal voters. They are assessors
boards and are precinct Officers They
wait for a big divvy, and often get
what they demand. We will call one Of
these fellows. for instance, Sim, and
another Burberry. Sim has resu
larry voted Burberry for ten years 1T
$500. At last Burberry concludes as
the price of flour has gone up that
he needs more for his vote, and he
eXacts $40, but is willing to COM
promise on $500. He sees Sim TO
''fiX it, But Sim has other ideas He
dickers, offering only $1.00 difference,
i'm view of the fact that it is presi-
Dental year Burberry refuses at
first: goes TO another purveyor of
election funds, Tom. Tom offers him
500 to go for Toms party's candi-
date. Burberry then goes back to
Sim and says. L can get $500; if YOU
will give me $3.50 it is a deal This
worries Sim. but he pays the money.
or agrees to pay it on evidences that
the vote is cast. This is only one in
stance. Now in this case | know
that Sim had had this mans vote and
knew that the fellow could not be
depended ON at all. but would sell
out TO the next bidder that offered, de-