The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-24
AS SEEN IN NEBRASKA.

Hartford Democrat Finds Bryan Los ing His Own State-McKinley Words of Four Years Ago Come Home to Farmers
 Hartford, Aug. 2S.-Jeffrey o. Phelps.
 Jr., secretary and treasurer of the Iowa Mortgage company and a lifelong
 democrat, has just returned from a
 months trip through Iowa and Nebras- ka. MT. Phelps was an alternate at the convention in Chicago and shared
 the surprise and indignation of honest democrats at the wild talk and action of that memorable occasion. Since the convention he has been keenly watch ful of the trend of public sentiment, particularly in the west, to learn the trend of affairs. His conclusions will be read with great interest in the east, where 1t Is difficult at times to secure an accurate and unbiased judgment of conditions in distant communities. | Speaking Of his western trip MT. | Phelps said to a reporter of 'The Post, I think it is extremely doubtful if Bry-
 an can carry his own state. He is not
 
 speech that captured the convention
 did not create much interest in Nebras- ka. The people are not to be blamed | for being iubilant that man from | their state was nominated for presi- dent But sentiment is changing all
 the time. Mr Mckinley was out in Me- l braska four years ago. He was talking high tariff then and the farmers did not
 like it very well. He told them that l low tariff would cause depression in the east and that would make low prices in the west; that there would be low
 prices for crops and land would have
 no market. They didn't believe him | then, but it has all come out as he pre- dicted, and those farmers look upon | Mckinley as no less than a prophet. | Nothing will prevent their voting for him. There arc great many Germans 1 in Nebraska, too, and they are all gold
 men and their papers are gold papers. You will find that people are not talk | ing much this season, but they are thinking all the time. The Bryan men are doing all the talking, and what they say is in defense of their theories.
 They are on the defensive
 7! Iowa is sure for Mckinley. You may not have seen the account of the mass
 meeting of democrats at Davenport to
 repudiate the Chicago platform. The call for that meeting was signed by two 1 hundred and fifty sound men and is
 equivalent to a call signed by five hun- | dred democrats of a city the size of
 Hartford. Der Demokrat, published at l Davenport, is the most influential Ger
 man paper in Iowa and Nebraska, and
 it not only opposes Bryan, but insists | that opposition shall be made effective by solid support of Mckinley.
 | Nebraska is not so sure for Mckinley
 as Iowa, but unless there Is d change of sentiment it's vote will be cast for him
 Four weeks ago it would have been for
 Bryan, but he has lost ground steadily ever since his nomination. Nebraska
 does not osye Bryan anything, nor was | it treated particularly we'll in the con- venticn. Its gold delegates were | thrown out, you remember. They rep
 resented a very strong body of men in
 the state. and the indignation over
 their treatment has grown instead ot decreasing. The trend of sentiment in Nebraska will carry that state to Me-
 Kinley if there is no change of condi-
 tions. Whether there will be or not nc
 man can say. but there is no present : indication of one.