Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-12
BIG CLAIMS IN WISCONSIN
ND,
Republicans Arc Confident Of Carrying
The Il, State.
Committeeman Payne Predicts Over
q HundredsThousand Major.
fty fer Mckinley.
Special Correspondents III TIE Evening Star.

Special Correspondents Ut TIE Evening Star
MILWAUKEE. October 8, 1896.
On some of the maps illustrating the po-
litical situation ,Wfsco nsin Is included in
the so-called storm CENTER" but If this
state is at the present time the center of
political storm, that storm is an anti-popo-
cratic whirlwind that will astonish the sill
verites who have been claiming Wisconsin
for Bryan and for free coinage. Wiscon-
sins large foreign population is invariably
on the side Of sound money, and the votes
Of these conservative people may be count
ed on to preserve ahe state from the dan
gerous silver heresy. The state has never
been taken from the republican column ex-
cept by local issues. "A granger revolution
in 1873 placed the democrats in power for
two years, with majority Of 1875, and
coalition of the German Lutherans and the
Catholics in 1890, in opposition to an OBJ
noxious school law, gave the democrats
another trick at the wheel. lasting four
years. The plurality against the republi-
cans was 2S,32O. In the presidential cleo
ton Of 1892 the feeling Of hostility among
the church people against the republicans
remained to sufficient extent to give the
state to Cleveland, and also to extend the
lease Of power for the democratic state OFF,
GERS another term In 1894 Wisconsin re-
turned to the republican fold by giving
VIM. H. Upham. the republican candidate
for governor, over $1,000 plurality. The
democrats and populists, who have fused
as In other states, declare that they will
carry Wisconsin by large plurality next
month. but they have absolutely nothing
whereon to base their calculations The
republicans are also claiming the state by
big figures" Their predictions range all
the way from $1,000 to liz, 600 the latter es-
innate being that of Henry c. Payne, who
| Is generally admitted to be one of the
shrewdest political managers in this sec
| ton of the country. A well-posted repubi-
can who has grown gray in practical poll
| tics" declares that with the utmost con-
servattsm he cannot figure the democrats
| as winners In any more than three Of the
seventy counties Of the state. He predicts
the election Of the Mckinley electors and
| the entire republican state ticket by tre-
| mendous majorities. and the election of ten
| republican congressman. the entire delega-
| ton. The only district concerning which
| there Is any uneasiness Is the fourth, en-
bracing practically all Of Milwaukee. where
a fusion of the democrats and populists Is
| aided by reflex Of the street railway
| trouble Of last spring, and by dissatisfac-
| ton in the republican ranks in regard to
| the county ticket This combination will
| bother the republicans to some extent, but
| nevertheless the indications are favorab bic
| to the reelection of Representative Theo-
bald Often. the republican nominee. The
| lack OF harmony i'm the republican ranks ir
| Milwaukee is an outgrowth of A. p A
| control In local politics, which has become
| d1stasteful to many voters.