Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-10-03
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ILLINOIS SAFE FOR BRYAN.
What a Close Canvass of the State Dis.
closes.

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closes.
A ransack of Illinois politically
brings cheer to the free silver Democ'
racy. Both sides have of late laid
violent claims on Illinois. Hanna and
his coterie said it was to be for Nc
Kinley Jones, Altgeld and the Dem
ocrat leaders at Springfield and Chica'
20 were equally vehement in giving
the state to Bryan and free silver.
They declared the battle won for
Bryan.
The Hannacrats, in an ecstacy OF
eager voracity, announced, and do
still, that Mckinley would carry Illi-
nois by 100000 majority. The wish
was father to this bluff, for such it was.
A bit of research disclosed this claim
of 100000 for Mckinley to be feather
headed nonsense.
In Marion county, where the Re-
publicans solemnly assert McKin-
ley certainty of 100 majority, a house
to house poll, made with hair line
patience, gives it to Bryan by over
500. The same might be said of all
the country counties. The Republi-
cans lay hands on them, but don't
know whereof they speak and don't
dare make practical investigation for
fear the discoveries might blast and
wither them.
Altgeld, on his part, working with
his lieutenants, Buck Hinrichsen and
Fithian, has made, one following the
other, two thorough canvasses, school
district by school district, of every foot
of Illinois ground lying between Cairo
and the Cook county line. They made
two because the first cast such an un-
looked for glow on their prospect that
they couldn't believe it true. So they
made the second. They declare-Alt-
gelt and aids-that their search was
so thorough that not even pin point
of political change escaped them.
They slammed every front gate, pulled
every doorbell save in Chicago and its
county. AS a result, they asset that
both Altgeld and Bryan will come tc
the Cook county line with clean ma
iority of 10000.
They tell, too, that poll has been
made of Chicago and Cook county
and that the free silver Bryan-Altgeld
forces will win there by $4,000. They
claim the state without tremor by
IS, 900 for Altgeld and Bryan.
Conservative ones with whom l con
versed cut the rural majority which
they claimed down to 10000. That
figure, it would seem, everybody agrees
Altgeld and Bryan will have.
But, taking the best and most con
servative testimony of both sides, Bry
an today stands TO get the state by 90,
900. 1t remains to be seen whether
the McKinleyites can bribe or brow
beat this down. All honest future
changes of political faith in the state
will be from gold to free silver daily
This is particularly true of the south
ern half of the state, where Bryan met
such enthusiastic thousands as he
crossed it Monday.
In Chicago Bryan is the open anc
admitted candidate of all Of the trades
unions. His speech Labor day made
profound impression. BY the way
the labor men say that the attendance
at the park where Bryan spoke tha
day was over 100000.
The labor unions make no doubt
of Brvan's success in Illinois.
TO sum up, from all l could see anc
learn, Bryan and free silver will carry
Illinois, and do it handsomely. The
Populsts will do their part, and tht
free silver Republicans would seem tt
outnumber the gold Democrats abou
10 to l. Bryan should win by gooc
majority. All he has TO fear, for it i:
the only loophole of Republican es
cape, is the Mckinley syndicate:
money in Chicago. If they can buy
or bribe victory, they will do so.
All of the Chicago papers are fol