New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-11-03
AWAITING THE VERDICT.
PUBLIC INTEREST AT HIGH PITCH IN
= CHICAGO.
ARRANGEMENTS 70 DISTRIBUTE THE NEWS
MORE COMPLETE THAN EvER-cHAIR-
MAN .JoNEss BLuNDER-MoRE-
TON FREwENs ACTIVITY.

fRY TELEGRAPH TO THE ThTBUNE1
Chicago. Nov. 2-On the eve Of the election.
Nth the work Of the campaign complete Chica-
goshas settler down in expectation OF to-mor-
rows results with confidence which would be
serene were 1t not for the great issues at stake.
II would not be true to say there is an absence
Of nervousness. The alarming possibilities IN
VOWED in Bryans success are ever present. ana
,6r until the votes have been counted ana de-
rlarcd Will the business world breathe rreeiy.
The business men Of Chicago are to-day in the
position Of the man who Is about to Undergo
surgical operation. the success of which is 'prac-
ucally assured but in which the slightest slip OF
the surgeons knife means death. He has conf
dey1te in the surgeon. he knows there is no rea-
son for alarm. and yet he approaches the ordeal
with q Nervousness that cannot ,epiireH oeEfon-
c@aaed business men are ready to wager almost
any amount ON McKinleys success but they Will
all feel a great load lifted from their minds when
It is definitely settled; 81 -.
s CHAIRMAN JoNEs'S BLrNDER.
Chairman Jones has made great tactical
blunder in the last days Of the campaign He
has issued final bulletin in mich he claims the
election OF his candidate with margin OF only
thirty electoral votes The loss Of any three OF
ten States ne claims. Which are also positively
claimed by.tbe Republican managers. VIII mean
defeat for his man. His gravest blunder is In
placing IN the doubtful column Illinois with It's
twfnty,fnur votes Illinois from the beginning
of the fight has been held by both parties to be
the pivotal State To admit now that 1t Is douot-
full il practically to concede it to the opposltioE'
and the Democrats who have been banking on
the ;astuteness o. Chairman Jones are amazed
at what he has done. 1t Is an ABANDONMENT Oh
the fight before the knockout blow has been
dealt. Jones has been soundy berated for it by
Altgeld, who long ago abandoned hope OF Bry-
ans success but who has been keeping up a
feiJ1t of = courage. in the desperate chance
that. he. might himself run so far aheao
of the ticket as to snatch success from the
gef,erAl wreck Altgeld issued bulletin this al
ternoon in which he says Illinois Will go Demo
cratic by 10000. but too late now to correct the
bIundef TOO late for new prediction
POPULAR INTEREST IN THE RESULT.
The interest in the result throughout the city
Is intense 1t far surpasses anything that has
marked previous campaigns. II reaches into
every circle of society. Men who nave peeh
Indifferent and listless all their lives are reused
now for the first time to sense OF their re-
sponsibility as citizens. Never before mas tne
result Of an election been awaited Win such
feverish interest. The preparations Tor as
tributtng returns tomorrow night are without
precedent for completeness Hitherto the news
papers have been distributing centres ana tne
newspaper bulletins have had monopoly OF the
crowds This year the telegraph companies
have arranged to serve 300 other places WIN
special wires THE Chicago Tribune mas en-
gaRed the great Coliseum where the Demo-
sratic Convention held. The Auditorium
will be served with Western Union puhetinS
from the platform. and thousands VIII De ar,
commodated indoors in this way. bulletins VIII
be posted at all tho headquarters. at the inca,
tres, in the saloons. in restaurants, halls ana
churches But most significant OF All, ana II
han L
per in which this interest has penetrated the
social fabric is the fact that wires will be run
into no less than 200 private houses. Cn ,ss
has invented a new fad Many OF the SWEETEST
houses in the city will entertain loop parues
tomorrow night. the feature Of which VIII DC
the reception Of election returns Inc aeman no
to exhaust the facility OF the telegraph co"-
panies.
MORETON FREWEN'S ANTICS.
II would be ply to allow this campaign to
pass into history without concentrating the
achievements of one who has been valued ally
of the Democratic managers Moreton Fre"en
the English bimetallist. who claims an interest
in things American. because he married an
American girl, has been a conspicuous hgure
here for weeks. He has associated exclusively
with Chairman Jones and his assistants; mas
dined with them at the Auditorium; has fire.
quented their headquarters; has issued letters .s
and interviews IN behalf Of free silver, and mas
burdencd the cables with predictions of Bryan's
success which have doubtless been rated al
their frue value by the London public, to which
thew were addressed. and which, by this time,
must be more familiar with Frewen's calibre
than those who have watched his antics mere
Perhans the most extraordinary thing this Eng
lish gentleman has done was to interrupt
meeting In the Auditorium. which Theodore
Roosevelt was addressing. He rose in the mld-
Ale of the audience after one Of Mr.. Roosevelts
statements and began to put questions TO the
speaker. Mr. Roosevelt came back at him with
ON the impropriety Of an Englishman presuming
TO interrupt an American political meeting, the
extent of which can better BE- gauged by trying
IN ina zine an American gentleman putting con-
,roversial questions to an English speaker In
similar circumstances. But Frewen Is minor
incident Of the campaign.