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but he is and has been for weeks regularly em-
ployed rs a " spellbinder" by tho sound money
campaign committee. There are other fakirs
like him scattered all though tho Western
towns.
The wearing OF badges. the making of sound
money speeches by the street fakirs, the result
OF railroad train polls, the gossip OF the smok-
Ing car, tho barber shop, and hotel loobies, the
anti-Bryan gag" in the theatres, the over
whelmng preponderance Of Mckinley litho-
graphs In the shop windows, the chat OF the
street urchins, and the countless other incidents
OF daily llfo may possibly not be valuable in
themselves. Certainly, however, they must be
straws, no matter how light showing the
direction of tho wind. and unless signs
fail, as farmers say. they do indicate
that the Boy Orator of the Platte will learn
on the Sd OF November that no and his un-Am-
erican political doctrines have been rejected
by an overpowcring vote OF the American pco-
Pile. II the result shall be otherwise 1t will
provo that the Bryan managers are fond of
claiming that the farmer and the laboring man
have determined this year to conceal their views
and their intentions, and make them known
only on election day when the votes are counted
There is no evidence OF this intention on the
part OF the voter beyond the statements OF the
sanguine Bryanites. and until they arc proved
to be right 1t is safe to charge them with playing
q plain but clumsy game of bluff"
1t 10 of course barely possible that all of the
farmers who live too remote from political ana
business centres to be brought into contact with
those in charge OF the political organizations
have been able to conceal their determip alton
TO vote solidly for Bryan. but this is not at all
probable. The nti-Bryan managers in every
Western State. matter how broad It's do
main. claim to have fairly accurate poll by
hipa ly pei iuhh hhor-
hoods. ana they are onfident they cannot be so
badly fooled as the Bryanitcs without, any or
ganlZation worthy of the name or any facts or
figures to back up their assertions. say they are.
Truth is known to be stranger than fiction, and
it may therefore also be possible, rs ckaimod by
the Bryanites. that all of the railroad employees
in the great centres who have for wesks been
wearing sound money buttons and me rchng In
sound money pArades are merely "disse semblinR ="
for fear of being coerced p" by the uionopolies
and corporations who employ them, but per-
soma. conversation with those same employ ees
leads to another conclusion.
Nine out of every ten railroad men of the
West wear sound-moncy badges and they are.
n rule. willing and quite able to osll you why
they will not vote for Bryan. The ability Of
these men Tn discuss the financial question IL re-
mark able. and this qualification is not confined
to the higher grades OF employees.
At Minneapolis the other day man working
on a switch engine. coupler. was sitting
begrirned and rough-lookinG on the cow
catcher" waiting to haul n train into the sta
tion, when PASSENGER said:
We'll. my friend. suppose all you fellows
are for Bryan"
well. we are not" was the prompt reply.
"We won't have any of that cheap-dollar talk
out here:' and then rs n group OF men gathered
about rs they always do in this country when
the subject of politics is mentioned, the laborer
proceeded to give his objections to the cheap
dollar in a manner clear and forceful that
every passenger shook his dirty hand the
train moved out
The general manager of the greatest railroad
system in the Northwest has been for six woeHs
running down thi, "dissem bling" and coer-
cion" story by means OF sort of detective sJs
tenn. He finds that while here and there n m
is purposely misleading tho politicians, most of
the employees. including a large majority OF the
intelligent ones. will vote against BryaD ism.
This official found some of his men weilrinR
Mckinley buttons which. when reversed, dis
played picture of Bryan. These. however. are
the sneaks and towards. the official says. and
while he admits that many of the section hands
and ordinary laborers will vote tho Pspulist
ticket. the majority OF tho men will Of their own
FREQ will support Mckinley and Hobart or
Palmer and Buckner.
The situation in all of the Western States Is
much more encouraging for the sound-money
cause than there was reason to hope at tho
opening Of the campaign. and it seems to be
certain that il the sound money organizations
political. commercial, and social. have not been
absolutely misled by inability to reach the
farmers in the Interior of the States Bryan
Altgeld. Debs. and the whole crowd OF conspIr-
ators against the honor and credit of the nation
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