The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-11-03
THE POPOCRATIC GLOOM
BITTERNESS At HEADQUARTERs
AGAINST GOLD DEMOCRATS.
Chairman Martin Reduces His Claim
on Bryan's Plurality I'm Indiana
The silver Republican Vote.

spirit OF gloom reigned about Popo-
cratic State headquarters yesterday. While
still giving out public declarations that
they will carry the State the managers adj
NIT privately that they have no definite
notion of how the election will go. but de-
clare thst If they fail 1t will be due to the
notorious work of the gold Democrats, aid
ed by Republican money. They are par
ticularly bitter against the sound-money
Democrats of this city. Fort Wayne, Peru,
LaPorte, Columbus and New Albany. In
a moment of excited conversation with a
reporter yesterday afternoon one OF the
managers. who has probably had more to
do than any other one man with the Bryan
campaign in this State, said:
These men-HoIt, Reach, Sheerin By
mum, Wilson, Jewett and their ilk-will
hereafter be found either in the bowels or
the Republican party or just where they
are now. stabbing the party that made
them rich and prominent. On their
souls! IL any one of these men ever turns
UP as a delegate to a Democratic State
convention Hereafter there will De & resolu-
ton introduced expelling him from the hall
because he is not Democrat. And it will
be passed without the trouble of referring
d
holds credentials from Marion county or
from the kingdom of heaven. he will have
TO get out" The speaker then remarked
that he was talking in a purely social way
and must not have his name used in this
connection.
The general feeling of gloom about head
quarters and the reports that came yes
terday from over the State caused a pretty
heavy reduction in the Popocratic claims on
Indiana. Instead of the $4,000 or 10000
claimed by Chairman Martin the night be-
fore he was only claiming 1900 yesterday.
and Governor Matthews had also brought
his estimate down to this figure. AS has
been stated before, they have had no basis
for figures but glittering generality and a
few polls that they knew were out Of joint.
Their sole hope of success lies in the be-
lief that 20 per cent. of the labor vote of
the State will go for Bryan, despite the
fact that 10 per cent. of 1t has declared
silent vote for Bryan among Republican
farmers. On this latter subject Chairman
Martin said yesterday: "One of the ele-
ments in this campaign that you have not
counted upon is the farmers, who have
always been polled as Republicans. who
have not participated much in politics. and
who are supposed to be good Republicans
this year, who will vote for Bryan"
This hope is built upon sand. 1t has been
the universal experience this year that
Republican farmers who were for silver
had no conjunction about talking right
out in meeting. The campaign had lot been
going three weeks unIil the Republicans
had complete lists Of such men from ev-
cry county in the State and In the course
of the campaign they have succeeded in
getting all the free-silver lists that were
in the hands Of the i'opocr;!ts. 1t is safe
to say that the silver Republican vote will
not amount to 5000. all told, anu 1T was all
discounted in the estimates printed in yes
terday's Journal.