The Arizona sentinel., 1896-10-24
WASHINGTON LETTER.
From Our Regular Correspondent )
Washington, Oct. 18th, 18G

Indiana and Ohio. This is no
 ante election buncombe. but is a
 calm, serious statement of facts,
 based upon full reports from every
 Congressional district in the states
 named which are now in the hands
 of chairman Babcock, of the Repub-
 lican Congressional Committee.
 Just compare this statement with
 the claims put forward for Bryan,
 the most modest of which include
 Indiana and Illinois, and you will
 get a fair Idea of how hopeless the popocratic campaign really Is. The
 latest of these claims was made by
 Chairman Butler, of the populist
 National Committee, and presents
 a total of 232 electoral votes. Now
 deduct the electoral votes of Indiana
 Butler very considerably comedies
 that Illinois, Michigan, Iowa and
 Ohio are in doubt and Bryan is
 defeated man, even though he
 should carry all the other states
 claimed by Butler, among which
 are The two Dakotas. Washington, Wyoming, Kentucky, Kansas,
 Nebraska, Oregon, California, Mary
 land and West Virginia, eleven
 states, of which more than half will
 to a dead certainty be carried for
 Mckinley. 132 will come much nearer to the number of electoral votes Bryan will get, than 232.
 The Republican Congressional Campaign is in just as good cor dition as that of Mckinley and | Hobart. There are enough Repub- licans whose election to the House is now absolutely certain-ascertain- ed by actual personal contact with the voters--to insure Republican majority of more than 30 in the next House, and there are about 50 more districts in which Repub- lican have an even chance to win. Taking the whole situation. 1t is a conservative estimate te place the Republican majority in the next House in the near neighbOrhood of 50. That isn't as big as it is in the present House, but it is big enough to do business with.
 Representative Hepburn, of Iowa, has been in Washington for the purpose of conferring with the Re- publican Congressional Committee. He says Iowa will give Mckinley not less than 3O,OG0 majority, and will send sold Republican Con- gressionai delegation. Mir. Hep burn says Bryan's appearance in Iowa has not helped his cause any, and has probably injured it some by his making assertions without backing them up with proof. Ac- cording to Mir. Hepburn, the Iowa people fare taking nothing for granted in this campaign; they are mailing everything"
 Representative Coffin, of Mary land, who has been actively cam paigning in that state, says nothing can prevent it's electoral vote from being cast for Mckinley and Hobart. In his own language: "Maryland is as sure to go for Mckinley this fall as Pennsylvania is"
 Republicans as rule have not been considering that the party have more than a fighting chance to carry Missouri, but recent news from that state indicates that 1t will be carried for Mckinley. For instance, a poll has been made in one of the Congressional districts which was regarded as reliably Democratic, as it has been repre- sented in the House by a Democrat : for years. The poll shows that g per cent of the entire vote of the district have declared thelr inten- tion to vote the Republican ticket in November. With the same ratio of gain throughout the state, the will have an immense majority.
 Mir. w. B. Thomson. Treasure of the Republican Congressional Committee, has just returned from He says he hasn't the slightest doubt that Mckinley will carry that state and that the Con- gressional districts are all right, { the gold DemcW55 alone having strength enough m several of them n cr,;,,c. bo bolanoo Of ,Noyuar f.,