The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-12
BRYAN HAS 70 STATES
Hanna Will Have to Garry All
the Others for Mckinley.
AND He CAN'T DO THAT
Even Minnesota Loss Would
Defeat His Candidate.
MARYLAND is FOR BRYAN
And Even in Illinois, indiana, Michigan
and Ohio and Other States the
Result Is Also Still
in Doubt.

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in the shade and no shade, is q concise
statement of the weather here. But
notwithstanding these tropical condi-
tions politics in its march presses on.
It's good way to begin the week with
a round up. And men do well who,
disearding prejudices and laying bias
aside. take a quiet wise look ahead,
writes Alfred Henry Lewis to the New
York Journal.
Since | came to town I've talked with
many folk. -Four out of every five eX-
pect the Democracy to win, The de-
partments of the government are the
best wind gauges of politics. The
people who draw salaries there como
from the four corners of the United
States. 1T is the business as we'll as
the dream of their lives to be on the
winning side. lit is thus they retain
themselves in office. These clerks of
the government-and their name lis
legion-get letters from their folk and
region.
Each day there come to Washington
10000 letters to department clerks
Just now these 10000 missives are
quietly trying ito tell the interested
clerks how the cat of politics is jump
ing in their sundry districts and
States. And the almost universal in
formation thus conveyed is that Bryan
is to be elected and a landslide for sill
yer and the Democracy is to be Novem-
ber's outcome. 1t is these letters,
which, in the aggregate of their little
ways, hold a mirror up to the face of
nature to reflect the complete politics
of the nation.
ALREADY CERTAIN FOR BRYAN.
That reflection being a Democratic
victory in the fall, the denizens of
Washington, most OF them in depart
ments, speak OF it among themselves.
The word is passed around, all finally
get the complete daily returns as SEN
timent is on the rise or wane, and that
IS why four-fifths of the Washington
men you now encounter presaee
Bryan with confidence and speak of
Democratic victory as a thing already
accomplished.
Coming events, especially if they be
of politics, cast their decided shadows
before IN the capital departments
There folk are the tree toads of poll
tics. They change their color with the
varying hues of changing administra-
tons. Also do they chirrup nightly
before a storm. just now the political
tree toads have been singing Justify of
Democratic victory in November, and
their golden green is giving way to the
ashen white Of silver. BY these signs
one may know of McKinley's defeat,
and that a teeth-gnashing day is to
dawn for Hanna and his syndicate.
If this prophecy be not true, then
let some earnest one take the map and
point out the detail of Republican sue
cess. Go west of the Missouri.
Can Mckinley carry CALIFORNIA;
State, by the way, which produces
more gold than silver? There exists
no chance of ii. For years the Repub-
icans of California have declared for
free coinage at 10 to / as their only
hope to win the State.
NO HOPE BEYOND THE MISSOURI.
Is There a Mckinley hope in Oregon?
Look at the last election.
Does Hanna build on Washington or
Idaho? Ii he does it's but dream
with Dubois leading the silver bolt
and Squire just burning his coat.
The Dakotas are no better Petit
grew, Senator as keenly sensitive to
a public breeze as any, so finely strung
as TO be very aeolian harp of politics,
to sing consistent with every breath
side at st. Louis and bolted with Du-
bots, Go where you will in the region
west of the Missouri there's NOT one
green and growing blade of Mckinley
hope. The Dakotas. Nebraska, Kansas,
all gone. Every State west of them
gene. Democracy, free silver and Bry
an everywhere between the Rio
Grande and the Canadian line, when
How is the South of the Mason and
Dixon line? Not a Mckinley State. II
there is, put your hand on it. Every
whisper from Kentucky shows a free
silver feeling flowing knee deep.
MARYLAND Is FOR BRYAN.
: Is it Maryland? The channels of the
old Democracy are bank full and still
rising with the food of silver senti-
cnent that is rushing in The State
viii be swept off it's feet by the tides
Of rising November Democracy. The
other day German, whose business it
is to know, said privately that Mary
land would give Bryan 10000 majority.
You can take Germans word for Mary
land. He has been over that trail too
often not to know the whereabouts
Of all the wood and water The man
who says German does not know Mary
land simply publishes the fact that his
intelligence has been mislaid. Mary
land is for Bryan, and will be for
Bryan on the November cleanup.
As you look over the map there is
not single Southern Mckinley State.
Should he win he must win east of the
Missouri and north of the Ohio and the
Mason and Dixon line. What States
make up this territory, and what cleo
toral votes does he need to bring sue
cess? The total number of electoral
votes in the country is AT. The man
who wins the next White House must
get at least 224. Now where are they
in the region into which Mckinley has
been driven? A table of the States in
yolved with the vote and electoral
voice Of each shows like this:
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New Hampshire .................
vermont ......,.. '..z.H.s 4
Massachusetts .............,.. 10
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