Evening Star Newspaper, October 27, 1896, Page 11

THE EVENING STAR, TUE FIGHT FOR SENATOR Mr. Crisp’s Death Has Complicated Things in Georgia. THE TWO PROMINENT CANDIDATES Result of the National Election May Have an Influence. OTHERS IN THE FIELD Correspondence of The Evening Star. ATLANTA, Ga., October 26, 1896. The death of Judge C. F. Crisp has com- plicated the political situation in Georgia wonderfully. In two weeks the election comes off for a Senator to succeed Gen. John B. Gordon. The legislature meets on Wednesday of this week. Half the mem- bers are here today, and scores of poli- ticlans have come in from all parts of the state. The senatorial race overshadows everything else. But really state politics jas been shaping up for this situation for three months. As stated in The Star last week, the fight for the presidency of the state senate between Robert Berner and Harry Dunwoody was pitched on this very line. Atkinson was for Berner, the idea being that Judge Crisp could not live out his term if lected, and Atkinson was train- ing Berner for his own successor as gov- ernor. The deata of Judge Crisp before the general assembly had elected him _precip!- tated the complications a little before they were really looked for. Candidates for Senator. Gov. Atkinsor will be a candidate for the Senate. That much can be set down as a certainty. And Capt. E. P. Howell of the Constitution can almost be counted on to be in it. As yet he has not intimated to any one, so far as can be learned, that he Would make the race, but there is so much talk about him and for him that he can be safely entered in the list. As to others, all is vague. Col. James W. Robertson, one of the Bryan electors for the state-at- large, Is a possibility, but he is one of Capt. Howell's closest political friends, and if he becomes a candidate it will mean no harm to Capt. Howell. The latter is looked upon by the silver men as the head and front of the free coinage movement in Georgia. He has been the fountain head, and he stands nearer Bryan and Chairman Jones than any other democrat in the state, unless it be his son Clark. There really seems to be a desire among the rank and file for Howell in preference to any others, but the gov- ernor has a coterie of friends wio are great on manipulating. However, there is in- ternal trouble among the members of the ting. Steve Clay, the party chairman, and Atkinson are far from being friends. Clay wanted to succeed Atkinson, and thought that the governor owed him support, but the governor showed plainly his preference for Berner. Judge Gober, one of the brain- jest men in the combination, is a Howell man before he is for Clay or Atkinson, if it comes to a show down. Hamp McWhorter, another of the old guard, is fighting the governor’s man Ber- ner with all his might. Fleming duBignon is here sawing wood. He was a strong Atkinson man two years ago and the Con- stitution fought him last summer for the United States Senate when he led the gold cause agairst Crisp. Where duBignon Would light is problematical, but there are some straws which Indicate that he would not be very strong for the governor for the Senate. In the first place, Atkinson re- fused to appoint his candidate, Wright, to the city court judgeship in Savannah last year. Again, the governor is opposing Dunwoody, and duBignon is for him. And the governor is mixing up in some of the Tuces for solicitor and judge, and, of course, all the men who are feeling the iron hand will oppose him for the Senate. Ex-Senator Pat Walsh could not muster enough strength to be dangerous, though he made an excellent”Senator. The Situation Mixed. On the other hand, the governor has the Support of Joe Terrell, the attorney gen- eral, and a formidable array of men in minor offices all over the state. The Macon Telegraph has been booming ex-Secretary Hoke Smith for the Senate, but he has no show in this legislature, and between How- ell and Atkinson he would be for Atkinson. What attitude State Treasurer Hardem: will take is a guess. He is setting his pegs for the governorship himself, and he does not want to antagonize either Atkinson or Howell. Steve Clay has been talked of as @ candidate for the Senate, but his race will not be formidable. He would draw some strength from the governor, however. if the gold men were to make an earnest effort Fiemirg duBignon would be their logical candidate. They could not, in de- cency, support any one else because of his recent campaign for them. So the situa- tion is greatly mixed. If the fight narrows down to Howeli and Atkinson, the con- test wiil be as interesting as the campaign of six years ago, when the alliance made the fight on Gen. Gordon, and he won by joining the alliance and promising to get their subtreasury plan established by the government. By the way, it is said that he will be in the race, too. He was in the west lectur- ing last week. The general's forte is mak- ing a speech before a convention or as- sembly apd stampeding it. That is the only chance he would have before this leg- islature, which is strong for silver. How- ever, the national election occurs about three days before the assembly begins to ballot for United States Senator, and the result of that election may have some bearing on the senatorship. ——— BOTH CLAIM THE STATE. West Virginia Claimed for McKinley by 17,000 Plarality. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. WHEELING, W. Va., October 24, 1896. Nat Ward Fitzgerald, W. C. Miller and I. H. Offner, candidates, respectively, for governor, auditor and treasurer on the pepulist ticket, have written letters of res- ignation to Z. M. Cockran, chairman of the populist committee, who is acting in the place of S. H. Plersoll, recently re- moved by one faction of the committee. The resignations are the resuft of the re- cent prolonged efforts at fusion by the democratic managers. The names have been certified in most of the counties and will go on the ballots notwithstanding. Friends of C. C. Watts claim that the res- ignations will add 4,000 votes to his strength, but leading populists deny that he will be matertally helped. The last week of the campaign opens with the democratic managers claiming the state by 8,000 plurality and the republicans by 17,000. The latter give figures for their claims, verified by repeated polls by an erganization never before equaled in the State, and have the 14,000 majority of two years ago to reassure them. The democrats are counting on the populists to pull them through, but republicans and gold demo- crais alike assert that the latter will more than counteract the populist vote. Betting men are offering odds on McKinley carry- ing the state. The Cabell county ballot commissioners have decided the controversy between Wal- ter Pendleton, fusion candidate for Con- gress, and Walter Hays, middle-of-the- read populist, in favor of the latter in al- lowing his name to go on the official bal- lot under the head of people's party ticket. The supreme court has ordered a writ of peremptory mandamus to be issued against the ballot commissioners of Roane, Jack- son and Cabell counties, commanding them to put the name of Walter Pendleton, the fvsion candidate, on the ticket of the peo- ple’s party instead of that of Walter Hays. Dr. T. M. Stone of Pine Grove, Wetzel county, populist candidate for Congress in the first district, hos withdrawn In the interest of Col. W. W. Arnett, the demo- cratic nominee, and will take the stump for him. Perry Belmont of New York was principal speaker at a great democratic sound money rally at Wheeling on the 23d, and other addresses were made by Henry M. Alfred Caldwell, B. Sommer- ville and Randolph Stalnaker, prominent 1 sound money democrats. -C man Jas. Capehart of Point Pleasant assaulted with a horse whip Geo. Poffenbarger, editor of the State Gazet‘e of that town, on the 22d instant, for pub- Nshing political matter defamatory to Capehart. Poffenbarger pulled a revolver, but did not shoot. OUT IN THE CAMPAIGN: PHILADELPHIA'S CAMPAIGN James Rankin Young Making the Fight for Congress. A Bitter Fight Going on in the City of Brotherly Love Over Local Good Government. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. PHILADELPHIA October 26, 1596. In the city of brotherly love in most everything but politics, where the republi- cans had a plurality last year of upward of 70,000 votes, a most interesting fight is go- ing on which is almost at times putting in the shade the presidential issue. The fight here is over the sheriff, the candidates be- ing Samuel H. Ashbridge and Alexander Crow. jr., both of whom are republicans of the first rank. Besides 1 sheriff, there will be elected in the city five Congressmen and members of both branches of the legisla- ture. The five Congressmen are expected to be republicans by the observing ones; but who will be the sheriff*and how some of the local legislative fights will terminate are matters of great doubt. Philadelpma has for its local administration machinery @ republican force which is so well organ- ized by divisions, and the office holders and police force have become so thoroughly 1a accord, either by accident or for a purpose, that the administration leaders, led by David Martin, the late national committee- man for Pennsylvania, can do about any- thing they desire. A large number of the residents of Phila- delphia who do not believe in the goodness of the local administration machinery set out this fall to choose a business man for sheriff, and the opposition centered upon Alexander Crow, jr., a wealthy manufac- turer, a sound money man and high pro- tectionist. He has in times gone by been high in the courcils of the party, but of late years his advice has not been sought. At the same time the anti-administration people wanted to get clear of Congress- man John E. Reyburn of the fourth dis- trict, and put up to contest for the place James Rankin Young, whom almost every reader of The Evening Star knows as a brilliant journalist and correspondent in Washington, and for many years the ex- ecutive clerk of the Senate. When the night of the primaries came about Young knocked Reyburn out by securing the most of the delegates, but the “combine,” as the administration people are called, secured a large majority of delegates to the sheriff's convention. The combine had not selected any man, or, at least, had not made his name public, for the reason, the Crowites claim, that {f his personnel had been known Crow would have secured a ma- jority of the delegates. At midnight, after the primaries had ended, the leaders got together and set- tled upon James L. Miles, president of the select branch of the city council. On the following day the conventions took place, and Miles was named with a hurrah, al- though the Crow men claimed that their delegates had been turned out of the hall and regularly elected Crow delegates not admitted to the convention. On the same day these candidates were named for Con- gress: First district, Gen. Henry H. Bing- ham: second district, Robert Adams, jr.; fourth district, James Rankin Young: fifth district, Alfred C. Harmer. All were re- nominees, excepting Young. The third dis- trict failed to renominate Frederick Halter- man that day, but adjourned without ac- tion, not expecting to come together again. It was charged that a deal had been entered into by the combine to ieave Hal- terman at home and send ex-Congressman William McAleer as a sound money demo- crat in the old district so long represented by the late Samuel J. Randall. Foliowing these conventions an immense town meeting was held in the Academy of Music, and the people there named unani- mously Alexander Crow, jr., for sheriff. Later the democrats held their conven- tion and named Police Magistrate Eisen- brown for sheriff, and a set of Congress- men, one of whom was McAleer. He had on the same day made public a letter say- ing he was for sourd money, but it did not prevent him from getting a unanimous nomiration at the hands of the Bryan democrats. Mr. Elsenbrown refused to accept the nomination for sheriff and in a letter said it was the duty of the hour to support Mr. Crow, and the city committee put him on their ticket. Then it became so hot for Mr. Miles that he got out, and the admin- istration convention reassembled, when Coroner Samuel H. Ashbridge, who held office continuously for many years, was put on for the fight, and he will stay until election is over. In the meantime the business men made such a hewl for the renomination of Hal- terman that the leaders rectified their mistake, recalled the third district. con- vention and renominated Halterman. Short- ly after tiils the sincere silver men repudi- ated McAleer and nominated Samuel 8. Hudson, another Washington correspond- ent. Hudscn thinks he will win, but no- body else believes he will. His coming into the fight will give the doubtful third district to Halterman. Both stdes claim a Victory on sheriff, but it really looks like Crow, who is on a ticket with a set of McKinley and Hobart electors. —S GORMAN TO WORKINGMEN. The Maryland Se: jor Believes in Dissembling. Senator Gorman addressed a Bryan and Sewall labor mass meeting last night in a tent at Pratt and Pulaski streets, Balti- more. The tent was crowded with demo- crats, and outside another gathering was addressed by Cyrus E. Phelps of Washing- ton; William J. Ogden, the democratic can- didate for Congress in the fourth district, and Edward S. Kines. The other speakers inside the tent were Major McDowell Car- rington of Washington, Morrill N. Packard and 8. 8S. Field. Senator Gorman said in part: “The republican party had the highest tariff and the single gold standard in per- fect working order in 1890, and in that year there were 9,424 strikes and 351,000 work- men thrown out of employment during the existence of those strikes. That’s the way high tariff and the gold standard affects labor. Men never strike unless they are pressed to it. With fair compensation they will never strike. (A voice: “That's right.”) “I have seen it stated that the Baltimore and Ohio engineers get good pay, but they get it because they were organized in 1877, when the company wanted to cut their wages. “This is the first time in my life that I have known the corporations to take so much interest in the welfare of their men. They pay men $3 a day to go to McKinley's home and give them nothing to eat while there; and I'll guarantee, if McKinley is elected, they'll get much less than that But I don’t believe that they would unduly harass a man. I have a higher opinion of them than to believe that they would op- press their men with the purpose of robbing them—directly. “A workingman came to me the other day and said: ‘I have been compelled to sign a paper saying that I will vote for McKinley. aad manhood is degraded, because I had to think of my wife and children, but I have signed it with the reservation of the free man to vote as I please.’ (Applause.) “In my judgment, the man who has been forced to sign such a paper as I have men- tioned ought to dissemble a little to the tyrant who has attempted to coerce him, and on November 8 go to the polls and cast @ ballot which will ennoble him and save his wife and children. “Prosperity will not return at once. It will be a matter of time, but the victory of the democratic party will enable the son of the thrifty man to build up a small fortune and become a usgful citizen of the greatest republic in the world. This fight is for liberty and the prosperity of a great people, ae ft will be wen by courage and man- FOOD FOR THE TIRED BRAIN, Horsford’s Acid Phosphate. It_ furnishes terial for brain nerves. (tho phoephstes) and imparts "wenewet (eA ee ER i EE Eee es eT co ene Te ee eS a AN EXCITABLE STATE. Indiana Wotkingmen and Farmers ‘ Expected to Oppose Bryan. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., October 26, 1896. In politics Indiana has always been an excitable state, but this year the excite- ment fs more intense and more general than ever before. Business 1s practically sus- pended. Politics is the sole topic of conver- sation. In other campaigns It mattered not how strong the surface indications might be, there was still a feeling of doubt and unrest in the minds of the people unt the ballots were finally counted. There is no such feeling now among the republicans. It may be that Indiana will cast her elec- toral vote for Bryan, but if so it will be ccntrary to every indication, and no one will be more surprised at {t than the Bryan" leaders themselves. Indiana is a state of sudden and startling changes. I remember that in 1884 up to within ten days of tho election it was a foregone conclusion that Mr. Blaine would carry the state. Mr. Hendricks, who was a candidate for Vice President, once told me that had the election that year taken place any time before the last week In October it would have gone for the republicans, but the last two weeks witnessed a marvelous change, and Mr. Cleveland came in an easy winner. Again in 1888 all the indications were that Har- rison would have a large plurality, and had the election come off two weeks earlier than it did his plurality would have been 10,000 or more. During the last two weeks the tide turned and he finally only squeezed through. ‘The leaders have so rapidly abandoned Mr. Bryan during the last week that there are now only a few mere to go over. It is true that the rank and file do not alwa: follow the leaders, and it is also true that the rank and file sometimes desert their party when the leaders remain steadfast. This was notably the case two years ago. It was then the voters who left democracy for republicanism, or for populism. The leaders stuck Ly the old perty. But all the evidences this year go to show that the rank and file were even in advance of their leaders in declaring against free silver. To- day the most active, persistent and earnest opposition to Bryanism in the state comes from the workingmen. So great has been the change during the past week that the republicans are now claiming that they will again be able to make a complete sweep of the congres- sional districts, and also control both houses of the legislature. lying in the southern part of the state are in a precarious condition for the repub- licans, and some of them may slip away from them. They are sure of nine, and may possibly secure one or two more. The democrats are beginning to feel that Governor Matthews was actuated solely by his desire to go to the Senate in forcing the party into fusion with the populists. It will be remembered that the populist state ticket is still in the fleld, and that the fusion was only on electors and on legislative tickets. The democrats have been expecting to pull through by the populist vote, and they charge that had Governor Matthews not interfered and in- duced the democratic committee to consent to fusion so soon the populists would have yielded and taken off their state ticket. This feéling against Matthews has grown very rapidly, and promises to interfere in the legislative calculations. The republi- cans have nineteen of the hold-over sen: tors against six for the democrats. Twenty- five are to be elected, and of these th republicans claim they will elect sixteen, giving them thirty-five to fifteen. Of the one hundred representative dis- tricts the republicans claim forty-four are sure for them, eighteen doubtful, and that they will carry a majority of the* doubtful districts. The democrats will have to have at least twelve majority in the house to give them control on joint ballot, and it looks now as if they would fall short a Httle. As a Senator is to be elected, both parties are anxious to win in the legislative fight, and are now paying a great deal of attention to it. The democrats still claim that the farm- ing community is largely with them, but all the indications are that they will meet with sore disappointment in that direction. The experience of former campaigns has been that the same trend of thought has always been found in both the cities and the country. There have always been fewer changes in the country than in the cities, but the changes have always been yniform. No one now puts the sound money democratic vote of the state at less than 40,000, and every one admits that McKinley will get from 75 to 90 per cent of it. That would mean a dead loss to Bryan of 40,000, and a gain to McKinley of not less than 30,000, making a difference of 70,000. To offset that and the republican plurality of 44,000 of two years ago, the democrats have 25,000 populists, and what free silver re- publicans they can get, and in their most sanguine figures they have never claimed more than 30,000 free silver republicans. Even 15,000 plurality in Indiana may be | looked upon as something phenomenal, for it has not given any such a plurality at a presidential election since 1872, when the democrats deserted Mr. Greeley, but unless every indication, both on the surface and under the surface, is false, the plurality of Mr. McKinley over the combined populist and democrat vote of this year will greatly exceed those figures. Resolutions Adopted Denouncing the Insult to Secretary Carlisle. Odd Fellows’ Hall, Covington, Ky., was crowded last night by men without distinc- tion of party, who assembled to express indignation at the insult offered Secretary Carlisle in the same hall last Thursday night. The chairman was Harvey Meyers, one of the electors on the Bryan ticket in Ken- tucky. In taking the chair, Mr. Meyers said: “Some think that Secretary Carlisle should not have attempted to return to Covington to speak, knowing, as he did, the feeling against him, but God forbid that the day shall ever come in this coun- try when any man will not be free to ad- dress the public on any subject. The bill of rights of Kentucky guarantees freedom of speech. In this country, where popular will governs, a blow at free discussion of questions submitted to the popular will for decision is a fatal blow at the very founda- tion of popular government. No such thing must be tolerated.” (Cheers.) C. B, Simrall presented a series of resolu- tions. In doing so he said that owing to promises from the mayor and police that the offenders shall be ferreted out and prosecuted, the resolutions omitted a con- demnation of officials, as was at first in- tended, yet four days had elapsed since the outrage and not a single arrest had been made. Mayor Rhinock arose and said that John Fagin, charged with throwing a cigar at Mr. Carlisle, was before court yesterday, and.the case was pending. He said he had appealed to the council to offer a reward for the capture of the men who threw the eggs. The mayor said the police would make arrests if they could find the perpe- trators. George H. Thobe, who polled a big vote for Congress as Mr. Carlisle's competitor ten years ago, arose and said: “The mayor seems to be after the egg throwers. He does not recognize the rowdyism of the gang of disturbers in the hail, or of the great crowd that followed Mr. Carlisle with insults on the streets, with ten police- men marching beside him.” J. D. Hearne of Covington said if the police did not know some of that crowd of disturbers, they were not fit for the busi- ness. Ex-Lieut. Governor J. W. Bryan made a speech denouncing the outrage as hostile to popular government. Theodore m2 offered a substitute which inclu ri ty nunciation of interruptions to Candidate W, J. Bryan at Yale and elsewhere. They were unanimously voted down, The regular resolutions were adopted, condemning the outrage to pi a farliate in unmegsured terms, disc’ ig the respon- sibility of Covington for that conduct, and calling upon the city government to detect and punish the perpetrators, Breach of Promise Suit, The suit for $10,000 damages for breach of promise by Miss Van Hecke against ae: Lothaire opened at Brussels yester-| The districts | NEEDS BUT A SPARK Ai Fear of a Riot in Ohicago Between Gola and S Silver Mén}' Intense Fecling as Election Day, ‘Draws Near—Dr. Thomam’ Declara- tion for Silver Wins Votes. Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. CHICAGO, October 26, 1898. The silver leaders expect great results from Bryan's tour, but, according to news recelved at the republican headquarters, it has had very little effect. Wherever Bry- an has been he has been greeted with great crowds, but whether they will vote for him is quite another matter. The re- publicans insist that the crowds have been attracted merely through curiosity, and, in- deed, it cannot be seen how his tour ean influence many votes, for his speeches are very short, and seldom contain argumenis on the silver question. He i» being used chiefly as a magnet to attract crowds to spots, and after he departs, or while the audience is waiting for him, some other speaker delivers an elaborate argument on the currency question. Brygn arrives here tomorrow, and there will be a great demonstration in his honor. While in the city he wiil make eighteen speeches, ten minutes each in lenzth, to as many different audienc Meanwhile the democrats are employlag many other speakers. Frederick U. Adams of the democratic headquarters says that the silver men now have over orators, making nightly speeches in Chicago, and that the number Is being increx Last Saturday night, when the the sound money raiiroad men was {: ress, the democrats had 300 speakers on the strests, who stecd on the corners and addressed the crowds which gathered to see the parade. ar of Violence. Bitter feeling is being engendered tween the two factions. The Bi porters followed the sound mone 2 Saturday, 5,000 or 6,000 strong, shouting for Bryan, ard) in fact, making a good deal Je more noise than the legitimate sar: itself: There were a dozen small fights » tween the partisans of the two candidates. These, however, passed unnoticed by the newspapers, who are trying their best to prevent any serlous trouble between the parties. At the same time at least one or two McKinley meetings are interrupted by Bryan men nearly every night. It is the policy of both parties to prevent any trou- ble, and it was on that agcount that they each agreed not to parade next Saturday. Had there been a parade the leaders could not have prevented a clash, which might have resulted in a riot. The bitterness between the two factions Is intense, and a torch is all that is needed t6 kindle it into a great conflagration. Every! indication on the surface stiil points te the carrying of Illinois by McKinley. It, is, believed that the only question is thatief majority. Altgeld'’s Danger. It is the belief of therragublicans that there is a growing probubility of the de- feat of Altgeld by Tanner. The Morrison letter is sald to have had a great effect In the southern part of, the state. W. 8. Forman, the gold democratlg candidate for governor, has been making a hard fignt against ‘Altgeld and has stumped nearly every county in the statt. The speech of Carl Schurz at Peo:la, In whith he attacked Altgeld, is believe to have done the gov- ernor's car.vass some injury,, It is now said that Altgeld will not reeeiye more than 5,000 or 30,000 more votes than Bryan and ed he is Hkely to fail of ele tion. | $ It is said that the democrats attempted a canvass of the city in answer to that made by the republicans. They canvassed eight werds, but found the McKinley strength so overwhelming that they promptly discontinued !t. Dr. Thomas for Silver. The corgressional fight in the fifth dis- trict has been simplified by the withdrawal of Charles 0. Sherman, the populist candi- date, in favor of E. T. Noonan, the demo- cratic nominee. The democrats believe that they will thus be able to win the dls- trict. Another contest which has been settled is that between the two factions of the populist party over’ the county ticket. Twelve of the seventeen candidate nomi- nated by the middle-of-the-road faction withdrew their names. The democrats have been encouraged by the acce H. S. Thomas to their r. Thomas Is one of the most popular preachers in the city, and his vocacy of silver is expected’ to influence many votes. Another convert to silver is William M. Hoyt, the big wholesale grocer. BRYAN HAS BUT ONE STATE. In the Other Eleven fn the Middle West McNinicy Lends. The foliowing is the result of the posial card poll in the twelye middle western States, carrled on by the Chicago Ree- ord, up to last nigh * Kentucky . Minnesota South Dal Michigan riska Illinois, e: engo ‘and Cicero. Chieago and Cicero. ‘Totals Grand total vote, 233, ——__+e+ TO READ BRY. N’S SPEECH. Chairman Jones Commends a Mis- sourian’s Suggestion. A plan has been promulgated to have Candidate Bryan’s Chicago convention speech read in every county seat in the United States before the election. Harry Turner of Mexico, Mo., made the sugges- tlon to Chairman Jones of the democratic national committee, and. hag received this letter from the chairman, stated Chicago: “Your letter is recefved'#and carefully read. I would be gratifted béyond measure {f you would take active hold of the matter indicated and give as wige q circulation as you possibly can. I beligve the reading of Mr. Bryan’s Chicago speech in every court house in the United States will do wonder- ful good. I thank you yery much for the interest you manifest int the ’éampaign.”” Mr. Turner, therefore, suggests that the chairman of the central committee of each state “issue a manifedto réquiring some leading democrat in each’ county seat throughout the country to gbt up @ “Bryan love feast’ this week and,have a man with a good voice read that great speech.” +o. CHARGED WITH LARCENY. ——-. Secretary Cornell of ;¢he:Silyr Party im New York. Henry W. Cornell, a lawyer and a son of ex-Governor A. B. Cornell, has been ar- rested at Dobb's Ferry, N. Y., charged with grand larceny. Cornell denies the allegation. He says he was appointed, on August 25 last, secretary of the New York state branch of the national silver party, and called a convention of silver clubs of she tate to be held in Buffalo. He says rew drafts for $425 to pay the @x- penges. ese drafts were cashed by ‘John H. Olary of Buffalo, and the proceeds were paid out for expenses, Clay found th tts worthless le the compla! t against Cornell. 01 says ‘he easily clear himself of the cl ig under $1,000 bonds to‘ at Buffalo on November ¢. for trial Our Wednesday and Saturday issue each week until election, will give the report by states ef ‘she famous woman's vote for President, SDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1896-TWELVE PAGES. A CAREFUL SURVEY The Situation in North Carolina From Both Points of View, THE HEAVY REGISTRATION THIS YEAR Probability of a Fair Count of the Negro Vote. WHAT MAY HAPPEN Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. GREENSBORO, N. C., October 26, 1896, There is no section of the old north state where more interest fs taken in national Politics than in this beautiful city of west- ern North Carolina, and several of its lead- ing public men have been taking a very active part in the present campaign, visit- ing by invitation of the several committees, respectively, many of the cities and towns, where they addressed large public meet- ings. Col. James E. Boyd, republican national committeeman for North Carolina, whose home is in Greensboro’, last night was sked by a reporter of The Star to give his views on the outlook for publication. A Republican Review. In reply, Col. Boyd said: “From the best light which I have been able to obtain, I estimate that the aggre- gate vote of the state this year will be W to 300,000. Our population is 1,60v,- 00), and counting one voter to five of pop- lation gives us (44) votes. It is safe to cent of the vote will be arily, but in the coming elec- tion I believe it will exceed that in this state, and that we will poll In the neign- borhood of 205,14W) votes. I believe that the vote for McKinley will be between 150,00) and 160,008, composed of 145,000. republt cans, 6,000 to 8,000 sound money protection democrats, affu at least 4,000 populists, who prefer M y to Bryan, I estimate the high-water mark for Bryan at 146,00, com- posed of 120,000 democrats and 20, ulists. Palmer will probably poll and Leverir "to 3,000, demo- rats ‘and finally agreed on a joint composed of fi erats, five [1 1 Watson popuii. yan and Sewall silver party man. national democratic party has put 1 KX), populists electoral have ticket, Bryan and Sewall demo- net, and has zn In the state, ‘ess are as follow district, Harry Skinner, populist, rsed by the repubilcans, and J. H. Ju- democrat. Sk: he elected: jecond district, George E can, and F. A. Woodard, democrat. This is the colored district, and in it the repub- lcans have a majority of some 8,000, and White's election is assured. “Third district, J. E. Fowler, populist, in- dorsed by the republicans,” and Frank Thompson, democrat. The chances are de- diy favorable to Fowler. “ourth district, W. F. Stroud, populist, indorsed by the ‘republicans, and E. W. Pou, democrat. It is generally conceded that Stroud will win. Other Dintricts, “Fifth district, Thomas Settle, republican W. W. Kitchen, democrat, and A. J. Dalby, populist. This {3 the district in which I Settle was chosen in 1894 by 2,71 rt his democratic competitor, and 700 over both the democrat and populist can- didates together. The silver issue will t&e some populist votes to the democratic column this year, but in my opinion this Increase for ‘the democrats will be more White, repub- than overcome by the democrats who wiil vote for Settle. “This is a manufacturing district, and the mill owners, who are generally demo- crats, are, in the main, for our ticket this year. J regard Settle’s clection as pretiy Well assured. “He is making a strong, determined fight, and ts presenting the republican cause with marked ability. “Sixth district—E. H. Martin, populist, in- dorsed by the republicans, and J. A. Lock- hart, democrat.” Martin seems to have the best of the situation, “Seventh distric indorsed by the berton, democrat. derson, democrat, , by something r 4,000 majority. He wil probably fall below this this year, for the reason that some republicans may decline to vote for him on account of his popullsm and free silver doctrine, but his election by a large majority appears to be certain, “Kighth district—2. 7 indorsed by the populists, Doughton, democrat. fight for the distric . until 18M, been heavily democratic, but Linney car- ried it in 1891 over Horton Bower, demo- crat, by some 3,000 majority. He was sup- ported then by both republicans and popu- lists. My opinion is that he will lose soi populist votes this year, but he will still be elected by a safe majority. Ninth district—Richmond Pearson,repub- lican, and J. S. Adams, democrat. This is a straight fight, and Pearson will be elect- ed. Shuford, populist, ans, and S. J. Pem- defeated Hen- republican, and H. A. has a hard ight for Governor. “We have four candidates for governor tn North Carolina, viz.: Daniel 1. Russell, re- publican; Cyrus B. Watson, democrat; Wil- liam A. Guthrie, populist, and Jeremiah W. Holt, prohibitionist. “If the candidates above named remain in the field and are voted for, I am conti- dent of Russeil’s election, though the re- publican electoral ticket will, in my opin- jon, receive from 8,000 to 10,000 more votes than our state tic I estimate Russell's yote at 143,000; 125,000; Guthrie, 30,000, and “Holt, I estimate that Bryan will receive in this state 15,000 more votes than Watson, the democratic candi- date for governor. These I draw from Populists who will vote for Bryan, but not for the democratic candidate for governor, and I think that the democratic state ticket will get 5,000 of the sound money demo- crats who will not vote for Bryan. This sives Bryan 120,000 democrats and 20,000 Populists, for, as I stated before, Bryan will not poll the populist vote by several thousand, and Watson for governor will poll 5,000 more democrats than Bryan. As before shown, I estimate the vote for Guthrie, populist candidate for governor, at 30,000. This is rated rather above than below his strength. This leaves 10,000 pop- ulists who will vote for governor that in my estimate are not counted for Bryan. These I class with the number before stated who will vote for McKinley, viz., 4,000, and I think there are as many more who will refuse to vote for the joint elec- toral ticket principally because of Sewall, against whom they are very bitter. - The Legislatare. “The legislature to be elected will choose a United States Serator to succeed Senator Pritchard, who is filling out the residue of Senator Vance’s term, which expires March 4, 1897. From present indications neither party will have a majority on joint ballot, but out of the fifty senators and 120 members of the house, I estimate that the democrats will have sixty and the re- maining 110 will be nearly equally divided between the republicans and populists. The large number of populists in the legislature is due to the fact that in over half the counties in the state the republicans and Populists have fused on legislative and county tickets. This, of course, as you can readily see places the matter of Sena- tor in some doubt. The republicans and Populists combined in the legislature of 1895, and elected Marion Butler, populist, for the long term and J. C. Pritchard, re- publican, for the unexpfred term of Vance. It was then seemingly understood that we would have populist support for a re- Publican to succeed Pritchard. Whether such understanding will be adhered to remains to be seen. Consequently as mat- ters stand now, although it is certain that the republicans and populists will have the legislature, no man can foretell what breed of politics will get the Senator. Pritchard was indorsed by our state con- vention and the republicans so far as I am advised favor his re-election.” A Democratic View. Some weeks ago, while in Greensboro’, a Star reporter called upon Col. John N. Staples and requested of him his views on the politfcal outlook in North Carolina at that time. He was somewhat guarded in his statement, and the reporter considered his opinion the more valuable on that accoint. Wednesday, October 28, THE CENTURY NOVEMBER NUMBER ALL NEW FEATURES “Campaigning with Grant” BY GEN. HORACE PORTER T instalment of a remarkable series of papers by the man who was closest to "General Grant Pen-pictures of Grant as a man and as a soldier, and of campaign life and scenes. of anecdote and humor; richly illustrated. First Chapters of a Great Novel of the American Revolution «HUGH WYNNE, FREE QUAKER Sometime Brevet Liewt-Colonel on the Staff of his Excellency George Washington” BY DR. S. 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A series of engravings that ard populists would fuse He unqualifiedly asserted, however, the democrats on the electoral ticket, but he did not speak so confidently as to “co-operation” on the state and congressional tickets. It turns out that Col. Staples was right as to the electoral ticket, ard that his doubts as to the fusion on the state and con- greasional tickets were well founded.” Last night in reply to questions from the reporter Col. Staples said: This is a year of political surprises, the land is full of political astrologers and the political firrament 1s full of new con- stellations and wandering stars. There is no political astronomer on the face of the earth who can ‘read the answer in the stars’ as to the outcome of the present contest. © man in this the result on the state can tell wha state and congres- sional tickets will be—the only thing at all certain is the election of the Bryan electoral ticket—of this there Is no rea- sonable dcubt. but as to what the result of the state ticket will be it is simply a matter of speculation based upon a specu- lative basis. There is no precedent in the State that can ald the judgment in a tri- angular fight, such as we now have. Whether Guthrie will poll the full popu. list strength no man can tell, That Wat- son will poll the full democratic strength is reasonzbly certain. Russell will get the full negro vote, but what defection, if any, will occur among the white republicans is also a matter of conjecture. That there have been many fraudulent registrations goes without saying. No state in the Union has an election law so easily adjusted to fraudulent registration as ours. In many instances it will be almost impos- sible to ent fraudulent voting. The time to try challenges is the Saturday be- fore the election, and the trials may be so conducted as to reduce the cases heard to a miniznum, and where not heard the cha:- »d_ party will probably be allowed to When your name is once on the poll list nothing can get it off except the judg- ment of the board which passes upon chai- nges. You can readily see that the party egistering the most voters, whether legal- ly entitled to vete or not, has a great ad- vantage. “The unprecedentedly large registration of the negro vote in this state indicates either a large increase of population, a sur- prising apathy heretofore on the part of the colored voter, or an amazing number of young men who have attained their ma- jority since the last election. The Registratio: “I, is doubtless on account of this largely increzsed registration that a considerable number of well-informed republicans claim the election of the state ticket, and even the elcetion of the McKinley electors, but 1 am slow to believe that such will be the result. My opinion is that Watson, the democratic nominee, will receive a plural- ity of the votes and be clected. About the congressional districts and the legislature it is hard to tell, In some of the districts and many of the counties there is fusion be- tween the democrats and populists, and the republicars and populists, and in others there are three tickets—democratic, repub- lican ard populist. “The democrats lose more heavily where there is a populist candidate than the re- publicans, because the larger number of populists, or members of the people's party, were formerly democrats. You can readily see from this state of things how utterly pretentious and bom- bastic ‘must be the claims of the republican leaders in the state. “They may win if wind will take them in- to port, but the storm is a little too heavy for fair sea sailing craft. The democrats in this state are in earnest in this election, and intend to win if hard work and honest ballots can accomplish it.” tee et Settlers Who Ca i Pay. United States Indian Inspector Province McCormick has been ordered to the Ponca agency in Oklahoma to confer with the Otoes and Missouris in regard to extend- ing time for settlers who bought their jJands in Kansas and Nebraska. Secre- tary Smith extended the time to November 3 and the gettlers are not able now to pay up. The Indians demand their money and the department is acting as intermediary to settle the matter. asia eens The members of the firm of Price & Co., New York, wholesale clothiers, were ar- rested Saturday on warrants charging them with the fraudulent disposition of $54,000 worth of stock, and $10,000 in cash. The little key that opens the small pad- bock is the real thing that opens the ee door. The door that will withstand the at- tack of a crowbar opens readily with the rae ofa #4 ooieeone ith pert as ig and stro’ ‘ig things are not always the most useful or the most ive. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are little, so smell that forty of them will go into a vial no larger round than lead pencil and two inches ig. ey are tiny, sugar-coated granul but they do their work more effectively thant nauseous doses a hundred times their bulk. ‘They are for the cure of constipation. They cure the hundred and one symptom of con- stipation. They cure headaches, bilious- ness, sour stomach, foul breath, heart-bu: palpitation of the heart and pimples, they assist in the cure of almost every dis- ease with eas saareyna is afflicted. No one can well unless the regular, health: action of the digestive organs is restored. The “Pellets” will do this. One little “Pellet” is a gentle laxative and twoa mild cathartic. Without causing any pain, gri ing or any other funpleasantness, they wil restore the natural action of the bowels, and when this is done their use may be discon- tinued. They are not ment to supersede Nature, but to help her, and that is all she needs." There are drugzists who for the sake of a slightly greater profit, will endeavor to sell you somet sg ee which they say is a ey are trying to make ‘just as & profit at the expense of your health. For the physiology of women, in health and dis- ease, read Dr. Pierce's great work, the “Common nse Medical Adviser." 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