Arizona republican., 1896-10-13
THE POLITICAL ASPECT. How Matters Look in the
 East. Observation of Judge c. F. AinsWorth.
New York, Ohio, Michigan and illi- nois will Cast Handsome Ma
 jorities for Mckinley.

''What do I think of the political sit uation in the east?" echoed Judge Aims worth yesterday in answer to a query 1tWell, in regards to that I can say that the question is very much one sided and there is no doubt whatever but that Mckinley will be elected"
 Judge Ainsworth has just returned from trip through Illinois, Michigan and New York and had many oppor- tunities of judging as to the relative standing of the two presidential candi- dates.
 1.-The states that have been through are all for Mckinley and you can't get bets; especially in New York. was given a tip as soon as l arrived there that there were no takers of bets. Everybody is willing to bet on McKin- icy, but there are no takers.
 T noticed one thing peculiar" said MT Ainsworth. "On one street alone in New York city I counted sixty flags stretched across the street bearing Me- Kinley and Hobart mottoes, and the only Bryan flag l encountered in the city was the one alt the headquarters of the Bryan club. I began to look into the matter then and found out that New York was almost solid for Mo- Kinley. Even Tammany refuses to support Bryan and all the leading Democrats, many of whom have voted the Democratic ticket straight all their lives, have gone over to McKin- ley forces.
 Tn Illinois they are making a thor ough house to house canvass and even the Democrats in Chicago concede the state to Mckinley at about 1SO 900 ma Jor1ty, but the Republicans place it at about 100000. I met Edwin Burr smith, chairman of the Hard Money league Of Chicago, and he placed the majority of Mckinley at those figures, He said that khey were not losing as many Republicans as they were. gain ing Democrats. Mr. Smith showed me a letter he received from Grover Cleve- land in which the latter endorsed the sound money policy.
 While there I called at the office of the Crane company, manufacturers ot elevators. This company employs LOGO men and they fixed up a system that the men could poll votes and nc one knew who they were voting for Out Of 1909 votes cast only sixty were tor Bryan. Of the office force ot eighty not one was for Bryan.
 A poll is made of every train goine through Ohio and of the forty-four volt. CTS on the train I was on forty were for Mckinley. The chairman of the Republican central committee of Ohio told me tha the state was all right for McKinle, and that there was little show fo1 Bryan"
 INIT. Ainsworth said that in converse t1on with one of the proprietors of tht Chicago steel works the latter said tha II Bryan was *elected he would shu down the works and 2,O0O men woult De 'unroWn out of work He said ther would be no use in operating the work at dead loss, as it anticipated in th, event Of Bryan's election.
 MT. A1nsWorth had a conversatio, with one of firm that deals in mort gages and the gentleman said Elha from correspondence received by tn nrm from those who were burdene, With mortgages or other business ob hgatlons that ninety per cent of them representing the debtor class. were fo Mckinley.
 Ilne farmers in the east. said M, AlnsWorth, claim they fail to see wher Iree silver will help them. They ac knowledge it would open up a. fey silver mines in the event hut do no