Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-09-21
REPUBLICANS
 BOLT IN IOWA. ] GOO of Them Will Vote For Free Silver. FATE SURE FOR BRYAN.
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ATE CURE FOR BRYAN
Affection Shown by Republican
 Canvass Of the State.
rDnry CHANGE OF SENTIMENT.

:. and Northern Railway = Farmers
 ssvs. Are Opened to the Dangers of the
 snsle Gold standard-Republican State Tom mittee Admits the Situation.
 The New York World. q strong gold .s berent. has sent it's correspondent, 7s mes CreelInan, to the doubtful states E ser the purpose of ascertaining the po- t;cal trend. Mir Creelman is expected m give the facts as he finds them, but .n8 course he is not expected to neglect .nything that can give encouragement "A the gold cause This is what he finds in the state of Iowa, however:
 It may startle people in the east to know that as Iowa stands today the # yote is about a tie.
 The extraordinary strength of tho sil- yor sentiment here has been suddenly re, ealed to the Republican state com nittee by the preliminary canvass of fhe counties.
 Something like two-thirds of the dis fricts have been heard from, and they show q Republican bolt of more than S0,000.
 The Democratic defection is i'll the neighborhood of 10000. With the g2. 900 and odd Populist votes joined to 4he Democratic strength Bryan would havo q majority.
 The Republicans do not attempt to conceal the facts. They frankly admit hat the state is dangerously close. And 4he most remarkable thing about it is that Mir Hanna has been looking for q Republican majority of 50. 900 or 75, 900 sin Iowa.
 Mir. Treynor, the secretary of the Re- publiean state committee, told me that the reports from all parts of the state already in his hands indicated that there swere at least 30, GOO Republicans classed as doubtful, but actually leaning toward free silver
 Mir. Gummins, the Republican na- < tional committeeman of Iowa, confirmed E this statement an hour later.
 They admitted that on the surface of the reports the silver and gold vote was about tie, but claimed that there was much reason to believe that large part of the disaffected Republicans could be won back to the party by earnest work The reports of the Republican com mittee tally almost exactly with those of the Democratic state committee. Mr. Currie the Democratic state chairman, said that MT. Treynor's fig nres agreed in q general way with those reported to Democratic headquarters. When 1 made the trip through Iowa few weeks ago, it seemed to me that s most of the Republican free silver talk was fIoth, for many of the farmers who talked against the gold standard also expressed their admiration for McKin- ley. l found Democratic newspapers and Democratic politicians denouncing free silver. All has been changed ill this brief space of time.
 The trouble seems to be that, while the Republicans have been appealing to workingmen i'll the towns and cities to stand for sound money on the ground mat It meant high wages and low prices of commodities, they have been arlYing into the free silver camp the farmers who want to hire labor at low rates and sell products at high rates.
 Tor Instance. President Ives of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern railway had the following circular handed to every employee of the road with his wages:
 To the Employees Of the B.. c. R. and N. Rail- way:
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 is not this money good enough for youP Why .Ioulu any man, and especially a railroad S",s -ss' want money which will purchase but anla .oe as much as this9 The amount paid to you In iegO was Sl.6 ,Il939
 .A A sne doctrines of the silver party are true, s s.s pfoGuets of the farm are to bring higher plips' Do you wish to vote to increase the [. r. ise ol .he sack of four or the meat you buyt .uAs doctrine is true all articles brought t.ena foreign countries will be doubled in soe' such as coffee, tea and sugar. Do you Hlsh to pay moreY
 Ho rates Of freight and for passengers on ss' sie RAILWAYS arc fixed by law and cannot be H a'seo The railway company must pay you .. a s'ie money 1t receives, and cannot pay you aas' ehan now, for the reason that it will re- fact ,he. no more than now. notwithstanding the "Ys ss suAt it will be only half as good
 mr. Bryan is our next president. the non- On silver basis W VI -Ao'oS o, ms ;. railway company has to pay the interest a '.s ponds in gold. ssll 000, and if it has to ta eas premium to get it. and thereby the in s,a,s avss account is increased, there will be no sn.' et ~ meet 1t except by reducing expenses, n,,.s. niie the pay may not be reduced, the per or men employed must be reduced. vo,, ', sou "ish to take the chance of it being 'sa "ho will be out of place? Yours truly,
 c. J. IVES.
 lnlnk of the effect of such a docu- meh' on the minds of farmers, who are compelled to sell their oats at s cents, eo,n at sO cents and wheat at 46 cents
 lens or thousands of these circulars %ere Immediately distributed through .. Me farming districts by the Democratic n. ssa9e committee, and former Governor ss.. sso,es has been pointing out to the aaniers of Iowa, who are holding last sse tssl crop Ill their bins and barns in sa ae nope of higher prices, that free sil- ne. ". VIII double the price of farm prod ..,,. ane result of this appeal in the agri- rt fxA sL-