The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-10-27
GEORGE IN BUFFALO
What the Observer Notes in the West
ern New York lity.
REPUBLICANS FOR BRYAN
Mckinley Paraders Kicking Ee-
cause Their Marching suits
Won't Last All Winter-Han-
mas Coercion Tactics.

Special Campaign Correspondence of the
Standard.
Buffalo. N. Y. Oct. 22.-Here. where
the most western OF the great New
York cities rests on Lake Erie, what
seems most difficult to understand IL,
how IL Is so confidently assumed on
both sides that Mckinley will carry
the Empire state. Certainly the great
wave OF political revolution that Is
rolling I'm from the West has not
stopped with the boundary line OF New
York. II may be that II loses force as
II continues further East but continue
II surely does, and from all l am able
to learn there Is In Western New York
at least no perceptible lessening of
force. II ] had stepped across from
Ohio into New York In Ignorance OF
the boundary line / would not have
known OF its existence from anything
hear when I ask for facts as to poit-
ical feeling.
hear OF tendencies OF the same
kind as l heard Of further West: OF
the same bitter feeling among the
ealth-producing class; Of the same at
tempts among corporations and large
employers to affect the votes OF their
dependents; OF the same quiet deter
mination to resist among what Is some-
times called "the bucket brigade" OF
the same gratified acquiescence among
the rank and file OF the democracy
with the platform and candidates OF
| the Chicago convention; OF the same
break down In the political power of
the nonsense OF protection, and OF the
same great factor OF sweeping political
change In the turning of republicans In
the farming districts TO the new de-
| mocracy. as have made me conclude
| that a great political revolution Is on
| US, and that In all human probability
Bryan and Sewall will get the electoral
votes of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michi-
gan and Wisconsin, as well as OF the
states further west and further south.
and that Bryan. II death does not in
| tervene. will take his place In the
| presidential chair.
| And all these factors seem to show
| themselves, as well as / am able to
make out, In Western New York. as In
the states further west. The only DIFF
ference in degree / am able TO discover
is that the proportion OF prohibition
lists that Will this year vote for Bryan
Is not SO large-the highest estimate
that I got from a well,lnformed pro-
| hlbitionist being one-half. whereas In
| Ohio II went to two-thrds; and that
the injunction, In all Its various forms.
OF "Give them the con- boys. but vote
for Bryant" Is not SO openly and ag-
| gresslvely heard.
| But the idea is here. and I hear OF
| the same sort Of detailed statements
from men having opportunities to
know, that go to show that while the
railroad managers are all for McKin-
ley and are endeavoring In every way
TO influence or tacitly coerce their
working railroad men, the latter are
a.. - <kt naA va
wearing Mckinley badges and joining
sound money clubs and taking part in
Mckinley professions and protection
and prosperity marches. That Of the
800 men Of the Erie Railroad company
| who figured IN the recent Mckinley pa
rades and who thought themselves
obliged. by invitations which they
deemed equivalent to commands. to
sign a roll stating their previous poll
tics and present intentions. at least.
700. I am assured. will really vote for
Bryan.
| And the best report get from those
| who have means for knowing as 20 the
intention OF organized labor, Is couched
In such terms as They are unanimous
for Bryant" "Nine-tenths OF them will
quietly. vote for Bryan" or There has
never been such unanimtty among
working men before as there Is now for
Bryan" The republicans gave out
some 5000 suits for the parade with
which Burke Cochran was greeted.
but there seems to be quiet dssatis-
faction that they were not OF more last
ing quality. ! hear also something like
approval Of the Holly company at
Lockport for having given out good,
stout rubber boots that "would last
man all winter In the suits with
which II has provided its sound money
marching club. with hopes that they
would soon add good. lasting over
coats: as also complaints that the "In-
durated Fiber company" OF the same
place had only given monkey shine"
uniforms that would not last. And
the general sentiment ! hear Is: do
as you must, and take all you can get,
provided only that when you get in
the polling booth you vote as your con-
science dictates"
Certain II Is that the strong ten
dency among workingmen is for Bry-
an. Even the Poles. who are here In
large numbers, are. am told affected
by N, and IL Is showig itself among
other laborers OF foreign birth.
As for the detection In the demo
| cratic ranks " seems to be confined "a
the better class democrats, who
amount TO something as a matter OF
show on platforms and In the news
papers, but comparatively little In
votes. II IL strong on the west side,
which here, as In many other cites
from London down. seems t. be the
aristocratlc quarter. but little or moth
ing on the east side. where the great
body of voters live.
AS for the rural districts and small
towns in Erie. Chautauqua, Niagara
Orleans, Genessee, Cattaraugus. ALE
gany. and as far east. at least, as
Syracuse. IL what I hear OF the feeling
OF the farmers. would indicate nothing
less than a political landslide. / hear
OF farming stretches formerly strongly
republican in Niagara and Orleans
counties where every one will this yeai
vote for Bryan; OF places like Holland
In Erie, where there are 40 republican
boilers TO one democratic bolter whom
they expect TO get back; of places Hike
Victor. In Ontario county. where, oui
OF total vote OF 2ls. 2i2 have de.
clared for Bryan.
mention these only as Indications
Of the stories we hear from those whc
pretend 10 know OF the feeling OF the
farmers. the net and safe conclusion
from which Is that remarnblek pol q.
cal change among them Is going on
and from all I can hear this tendency
is Increasing
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