The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-14
A TALK WITH THURSTON
MINNESOTA AND IOWA ARE SAFE
FOR M'KINLEY AND HOBART.
Sound-MoEey Democrats Have Much
Strength West of the Mississippi
The Presidents Telegram.

Senator and Mrs. Thurston spent a fairly
quiet day yesterday, attending divine serv-
ice in the morning and receiving in the aft
ernoon a number of people who came to
pay their respects in their apartments at
the Denison House. The last distinguished
couple that occupied these same rooms
were General and Mrs Palmer, at the time
of the Generals nomination for the presi-
dency. Senator Thurston is very young
man for the prominence he has acquired
in both law and politics. and 1T does not
require much of a stretch of the imagi-
nation to believe that the presidential light
ming is still playing about Room 80. Denison
House. In the evening Senator and Mrs.
Thurston dined with Hor. c. w. Fairbanks
and family
When he received a Journal reporter yes
terday afternoon Senator Thurston had just
finished reading an account of the Louis
Vile notification meeting, and was asked
what effect he thought the strong indorse-
ment of the movement given by President
Cleveland would have upon the country.
president Cleveland's telegram" said he,
taken in conjunction with those of Car
Isle and Lamont and the letter of Harmon,
cannot but have very great effect upon the
Democrats of the country"
do you think the Indianapolis ticket will
Mississippi" was asked.
Yes, / think it will. In our State the
Democrats in harmony with it have
strong organization of some standing. You
know that in our State they have two DEM
ocratic organizations, both of which have
been declared regular by the courts. The
straight-out organization is standing by this
ticket
Senator Thurston has been in the cam
paign since July 81 speaking about four
times a week and canvassing Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas, Vermont Maine,
Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland. He
was asked to the situation in Minnesota
and Iowa. Il have not the least doubt of
either of those States'' he replied. The
only time that either of them was in dan
ger was Immediately after the conventions,
and yet I doubt if either of them would
have gone Democratic if the election had
have been held the next day without any
thing further being done. But since then
and the process will continue until cleo
tion-the Republican lines have been closed
up and strengthened until there is, in my
mind no doubt of the result
DO you think Bryan will accomplish any
thing by his appeals to the prejudices of
organized labor in the larger cities?'
In the East not a bit. In some points
in the West, of which Chicago is the most
important, there is an element all know
about an element that has been in evidence
before, under trying circumstances, with
which he may be able to make some head
way. But with the substantial intelligent
workers, it has been demonstrated freely
that he is accomplishing nothing. Test
votes have been taken by the employees of
many large factories in the Western cities,
under conditions that thoroughly protected
the men in the secrecy of the ballot, and
they have almost invariably shown McKin-
ley to be the overwhelming choice"