Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-12
The Middle Wesi.

To the Editor of the Register.
illinois. Indiana, Ohio, will be the
great battle ground srom now until the
end OF the campaign"
This appears in heavy headlines in the
P.ttsburg Dispatch, and apears also in
the body of a dispatch from Republican
headquarters.
Why this anxiety about Ohio?
But few weeks ago Incorporate Re-
public3ns were claiming it all the way
from 100000 to 10000
The simple truth is that they are
trembling beneath he por,cnlious shad-
o-vs of the migh.y avalanche that Will
engulf them in November,
They are lost!
We have carefully kept track Of the
most reliable estimates and polls. The
estimates from the Golden East are
amusing and piteous. As each new es-
innate appears in a gold bug organ
they count in another solid Democratic
fixture in order TO bolster up a show
for The aut0maton of The Front Porch.
We tremble lest in their frenzy they
absorb TIE entire South!
The middle west will elect, they say
and il is granted. Then they proceed to
count the middle west for Mckinley.
The middle west will cast its unbroken
vote for Bryan! Just stick railroad
spike in this for reference.
Elr. Bryan is the nominee OF not only
the Democratic party, but OF another
party also. and then another, and higher
yet and above party, he is the candidate
CT the people.
But as party nominee alone he has
safe majorities in Indiana ana l'.In.,,5.
counting the Democratic and Popuilst
vote
But there is detection in the ranks
tie Republicans tell us. We grant that
There is detection along party INES
everywhere in East and West. The ae-
lection in the East will augment the
gold vote. in the West it will augment
the silver vote.
No rational man will dispute this.
Hence we concede the entire East TO
Hanna. even giving him those STATES
that arc normally Democratic.
Brt the middle west viii go for silver.
With tie normal vote or Illinois for
BRYAN. and detection inclined 10 Sill
yer. and the superb management OF GOV
Altgeld, it IS impossible for Hanna 10
affect 1t. No Democrat should feel I'M
certain O? the vote of Illinois with John
p. Altzeld at the helm. Hanna has
moved out to Chicago, making the con-
test one OF a mediocre with Doodle
against a giant with brain.
Indiana's normal vote also belongs to
Che allies of silver. and is so certain
that if any Democrat should ever dream
that it is doubtful. he should be arrest
ed for disorderiy conduct.
Iowa Will wheel bravely into line for
van. Mr. Mcmillan, the chairman
of the State Republican Committee,
blames this state Of affairs largely on
Horace Boies: he says that the farmer
believes everything that Boies tells him,
and that they arc saturated with the
free silver sentiment Democrats IN
thinking OF Iowa. should remember that
Boies lives there -,
In Iowa also lives a giant named Al
lison. who was regarded by the Repub-
licans as good Presidential timber.
Can our Republican friends explain
why his strange silence, why his strange
absence from the campaign in Iowa.
The contest is ended; the intervening
DAYS between now and election simply
add TO Bryan's majority. Then comes
the llndslide-and with it keep your eye
on Ohio.
So get ready everybody, Republicans,
Prohibitions Democrats, Populists,
everybody take off your hats and salute
william J. Bryan, President of the
United States.