Show THE EAST IS LOST give it up in 1111 despair THEUS OFFICE CLOSED blead calia rt ers nt at washington abandoned senator C gives ivas ilis his views washington sept 29 9 special the Popo cratic national committee ha week form formally aliv abandoned the fai fight for bryan in the east and middle states by abolishing the washington branch of ita headquarters arters other reasons ate are ave given but bat everybody in washington knowl know tho the real remon reason to be that chairman janes has been convinced th that r t bevan has no show to carry a single state in the east and that the cost cf maintaining the WaD washington hington branch of his was just so sa much money thrown away it was originally intended that the work done at the washington dranch of headquarters should b be f 3 almost entirely ot a literary nature and dark clark howell HoT fell of the atlanta tion wes was placed in charge of the bus reau wb which ch was to teach eastern voters the beauties beau tits coffree of free silver and the chicago platform with representative richardson of tenn as his bia chief as si blatant stant mr howell has baa found things so warm in georgia that he has been able to give very verv little time to the bureau and richardson came camenir nir aar having a fight with butler bailer the chairman of c the populist committie and was transferred to chicago this left the bureau in chabza chal of a young man whose sole eoe political experience peri ence consists of haying baying succeeded in getting hinse elf a aint nt as one of cf the six delegates from the district of columbia colombia to the chicago convention and now the tha bureau Is busted just as aa th the C c combination will vill be on 0 U the 3rd ard of 0 november this leaves the populist liet headquarters in ft a r arther peculiar posit Ln n senator butler bailer is here but thecie will bo be nobody depre ic presenting the he c national committee in ia washington for li him 1 lin to to confer with as 13 senator Seri ator of democratic congressional committee which of 0 course ret retails ta ins its washington headquarters hes no connection with the national committee and notrice to do with the tha management of anything but the congress ional campaign senator elkins of W va enjoys the ie of being one of the shrewdest and most careful political in the country per fer that reason reabon his bia opinions were ear gerly sought while he waa in WaE washington hington today he ha said of west virgiaia Virgi Vir givia pia 1 I have no fears ot of the state its electoral vote will be cast for mckinley by bv at least to majority I 1 am no not indulging I 1 in n braggs docia and my mv estimate esti ma t a is conservative the fact is that the silver cause is losing dorco daily apart from its espousal eavou sal by the democratic party free frea silver alone carry over three states in ic this union the tee western people are not nearly eo crazy ov ivr r this silver delua delusion ioa as eastern people imagine all the fools do not n ot reside west ot the allegheny mountains and that fact will be vey vety apparent when the votes vote is counted coant count sd td 11 of the general result elkina bagdi i the kit ct na votes of ohio budana and ana illinois owa wisconsin and michigan a ae e surely McKin levla in minnesota kans jasd Ka sd aa K california and I 1 m n y add kentucky there is also a ch nee nce of winni win nine or but the battle is is w won 0 without them McKin mckinley lev will h have e a majority of at least 60 50 in the electoral woral callese senator akins will in addition to stamping his own state make mae some speeches knoblo indiana anil and illinois |