The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-15
IOWA FOR
'KlNLEY.
Dispatches From Des MOines
That Indicate
That the HaWkeye State viii
Go Republican
IN COMING ELECTION
Silver Party Expects to Win
Several Congressman.
Other Dispatches Claim the
State For Bryan, Also.

Chicago, Oct. 15--The Record pub
fishes d special from Des Moines. Ia,
that says.
With the election less than three
weeks away. Iowa appears to have set
tied down to the belief that the state viii
deliver its thirteen electoral votes for
Mckinley. That the silver fusionists
believe the battle to be already lost is
proven by their present largest claim
the election Of congressman in the
Sixth. Eighth and Ninth districts and
possibly in the Eleventh. If the silver
men are able to elect only four con-
gressmen in this state in districts which
tne Republicans insist are not Demo-
cratic. and lose all the other seven dis
trlcts, it is a physical impossibility for
Bryan.
Managers Of the silver campaign be-
HeVe that they are going TO carry three
OF the eleven districts. and possibly a
I9o IN They have so declared One
OF the managers has within a week /
maze Specluc declarations To that ef-
feet He has not even claimed that the I
silver forces VIII be able to elect their +
congressional candidates in any one OF +
the other seven districts. They have +
q hope that they viii be able to elect +
Fred White in the Sixth district and F
defeat Congressman J. f. Lacey; elect +
w H. RObb in the Eighth and defeat 4
Congressman w. T.. Hepburn; elect Ill #
~ Genung in the Ninth ana defeat Con-
gresham A. Il. Hagar. and while not +
claiming it as assured. they have some +
nope that they can elect A Nan Waga-
nen in the Eleventh and defeat Con-
gresham George Perkins.
The Sixth and Eighth districts are
the hOtbeds Of silver in Iowa outside of /
the Republican party. Des BIoines has
the distinction of being the location of T
the majority OF the Republicans who
are 1or silver. The silver manag gers
bank on this fact exclusively in claim +
ms these two districts In the Ninth F
they bank on the proximity Of Nebras-
~, the heIp o1 the PopuHsts and what
LlHy aI1ecI 70 believe is a fight Of "a per-
sonai nature in the Republican ranks.
IA the Eleventh district the silver men
base their hope-which is not very
strone-on the agricultural c0mmunf-
les- Inc district has thirteen counties
with no city in it. The districts of The
state are all more or less agricultural
OF course. but the Eleventh is especially
settled by farmers
Republicans. on the other hand. claim
the four districts hoped for by the sill
Yer people. which claim is based on a
poll recently completed showing RaDub- F
llcan gains over the Drake vote of last
fau In the Sixth there has been per
Aecl organization The fact that the
district is recognized as the silver
stronghold is due to the fact that q ma
1ority of the silver leaders in that dis
trict have posed in a triple capacity
as silver men, Democrats and as Pop
ulists.
Iowa is naturally Republican. This
year there is added to the chances un-
ler ordinary circumstances the support
7f majority of the gold Democrats
w hen j. j. Richardson. ex-Democrat tic
rational committeeman was here last
week he refused to talk politics He de-
elared, however. that he believed the
gold Democrats to be too modest in
claiming only 10000 votes Gold Dem
9crats and Republicans have laughed
heartily at the views of General j. r
weaver recently published. in which he
said that the gold Democratic vote in
Iowa is inconsequential and that it viii
not be 1O.00Q or 100 a county The ne
tuon accompanying the nomination pa
1ers filed with the secretary of state had
lourth off that number and 1t was Cir
eulated for a week only in a very few
owns of the state. The gold Demo-
ratio vote. it is said. viii be 30 per cent
u the total vote pOllel by the party
asst year and the best politicians figure
lp0n it on that basis
The Republican state central com .
nittae has given out a statement to the
fleet that it claims the state hv 20 000
rlVately- Republican politicians n11t
he majority at SO 600 Z
Not a single one of the silver mana
sers VIII state seriously and for pubIi-
alton a claim that Iowa VIII go for
5Iyan by any definite figure
IOWA FOR BRYAN 4
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