The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-10-30
GLIMPSE, AT. THE
POLITICAL FIELD
Leaders Work with Renewed Energy on
the Home Stretch.
NO PRECEDENT FOR PREDICTIONS
st. John, the Wall Street Martvr, Is
Jubilant..JOseph Maniey Figures
Upon 3O7 Electoral Votes for Nc.
kinley...MissOuri POpuiists Are
Helping the Republican Cause.
Big Election Wagers Reported.

New York, Oct. 29-As the close of
the political campaign approaches the
harder the Republican and Democratic
managers are working. Unprecedented
efforts will be made to bring every vote
tn the polls. Mr. st. John arrived early
at the Democratic headquarters today.
He was in jubilant spirits and said that
as election day approached his conh-
dence in Bryan's triumph increased.
This present movement is unique
one. and there is no precedent on which
to base predictions. From the very
ment and that the people were behind
it," said Mr.. St. John in emphatic
tones.
MIR. st. John at this juncture became
reminiscent and started in to tell an
interesting story.
Why" said he, the night before
Mr.. Bryan made his speech before the
convention he was In my room in a
Chicago hotel. A United States senator
was also present. We were discussing
matters and Mr.. Bryan said he could
not see how any of the men mentioned
could be nominated. l told him then
that Providence would take care of
as and that the nomination would
come like lightning from a clear sky"
Mr.. st. John paused IA moment and
then said sOlemnly: And Providence
did take care of us, and the nomination
did come like lightning from a clear
sky, for Bryan was as good as nominat-
ed the next night"
Mr.. st. John is of the opinion that
Bryan will carry New York state and
that he will be swept into the presi-
dental chair by landslide of popular
opinion.
There was a good many callers to-day
at Republican headquarters. Commit
teeman Joseph II. Manley, of Maine,
gave out the following statement this
morning:
after careful revision of all reports
received at the headquarters from ev
cry State, feel perfectly confident that
McKinly and Hobart will carry q
States and receive 307 electoral votes.
There are five States with AZ electoral
votes yet in doubt, and the chances
are strongly in favor of Mckinley
carrying three with forty votes and
Bryan two with seven votes"
MISSOURI FOR MCKINLEY.
Chicago, Oct. 29.-Missouri continued
tn be the State most talked about and
reported on at Republican headquarters
to-day. The campaign managers. from
Chairman Hanna down, are now set
tied in their conviction that there is an
even chance in that State for the Re-
publican presidential ticket. They
were cheered by the report from New
York that even money was now being
wagered on Missouri going for McKin-
ley. Charles H. Smith, of st. Louis,
who is now Committeeman Kerin's con-
fdential adviser arrived at headquar-
tiers. He places the gold strength at
$4,000, eighty per cent. of which he says
will go to Mckinley, according to the
open expressions of those Democrats
Twenty-Five thousand of their votes,
in the opinion of Mr.. Smith. will be
sufficient to give the State to the Re-
publicans. The Populists of the State
are said to be helping the Republicans
by a row on account of the recent with
drawal of Jones, their candidate for
governor. The small army Of stump
speakers are being called in so that
they can reach their homes in time to
vote, especially in the close States.
Scores of spellbinders We're at head
quarters to-day, reporting the outlook
in different sections of the country. The
men from Nebraska, who had spoken
in Lincoln. said the businessmen there
as we'll as in other parts Of the State,
had grievance against Mr.. Bryan be-
cause he had not stayed at home and
talked to the people as Major Mckinley
has done. so that all business interests
We're benefited by travelling crowds,
could have made money. This feeling
is said to have lost Mr.. Bryan many
votes, especially in his home city.
On behalf of Chairman Hanna, Ser
geant -at-ar Haskell wrote letter
to Chief of Police Badenoch, thanking
him for the prompt and effective man
ner in which you handled the disgrace
full egg throwing affair during the
Bryan parade of October 81" and ad-
ding: "The Republican national COM
mittee does not desire. nor has 1t at
any time through the campaign, taken
any unfair or unmanly means of secur-
ing votes for the Hon. William Nc
Kinley for the office of president Of the
United States"
A telegram was received from J. f..
North, of Omaha. internal revenue col
lector stating that member of sill
YER smelling company in that city had
$40. 600 to bet even on the election Of
Mr.. Bryan. G. c. Wall, a stock broker
of this city, wired to Mr.. North. ac-
cepting the wager and he offered to bet
$4,000 to $1,000 that Mckinley will be
elected.
IN THE POPULIST CAMP.
Chairman Washburn, of the " Western
Populist headquarters, was i'm confer
ence most of today with Senator But
Ter. chairman of the national commit
tee Mr.. Washburn said that there
was nothing done by them except to go
over the general situation before leav-
ing their ticket in the hands of the
voters and to attend to any details
that had been overlooked. The two
chairmen said they had done all that
could be done and the obstacles In the
way Of complete fusion would have ia
remain.
The campaign work of the Peoples
party national committee is practically
done and Mr.. Washburn declared the
probabilities were all in the directions
of Bryan's election. He knew of six
combination of electoral votes in states
that were not safely for Bryan or Nc
Kinley, which would work out the sal.
walton of the silver candidate, to the
one combination of the Republicans al
lowing them Illinois as the decisive
state. He confidently declared that
Mr.. Bryan could not be beaten. with
the gold Democratic vote Offset by the
silver Republican vote. as admitted by
the opposition, and the addition Of the
two million Populist votes.
REPORTS FROM STATE COMMIT.
TEES.
Reports by letter from the chairman
of the Republican State committees t.
the National Committee have been
coming in to the headquarters here fol
the past week. The extracts. in sub.
stance, from reports received up to to.
night are as follows:
indiana f'el confident Mckinley
will rot sc; les than 5000 majority
Grd 1t may be 81, 900.
Iowa--Sure to carry the State by not
less than 5000 majority.