The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1896-10-17
BRYAN GAINS IN OHIO
MANY STANCH REPUBLICANS WORK
ING FOR SILVER.

Henry George Finds Democratic Prospects
Very Bright In Mark uanna's Home.
Labor VIII Vote soiidly Against Gold
and Plutocracy.
With such dilieent inquiries rs l
could make ! have not yet been able to
And any evidence of the movement away
from Bryan of which the high ap-
pointee of President Cleveland whom |
met on my arrival here tol1 me he had
observed in journeyiuR q rough the
state. 1t is certainly not among the
workingmen Of Cleveland, organized or
anorganized. According to the hest in
formation | can get, the proportion of
w~orkingmen who propose to vote for
Bryan is even creator here than in Chi
sago and is generally expressed ly such
phrases as mckinley is not i'll il, ;
while polls privately taken h. delegates
among their fellows in the Elastgrols'
national convention that met last week
and in that of the carpenters now in
session show that uiuc-tcuths of the
representatives from all parts Of the
Union are for Bryan.
"'o 80" : ihi' A'iiiNNi"'H W C4Io
nave not yet become aVcIy mighty folk,
IN numbers at least, Is shown by the
TACT that III order to get the 6,OOO sig
natures required to put their electors on
the official ticket they are obtaining the
aid of Republicans, and that Republic
ans themselves, though they now talk
very confidently Gl the campaign ia
ONO, nave not yer discovered any rap
IDLY growing ~repuGnance to silver, is
pest evidenced by such srrHches rs that
OF yin Beech, the Hepuhilcan candl-
date Tor congress IL the twentieth dis
mlct, who deYotes himself almost en-
mrely to the outright advocacy of free
SILVER.
E1-Judge j.. j. Blanoln o. Cleveland,
lawyer oil hlSh standing and large
Practlce' was nominated ~ the Demo
Gratis Tor Judge Of the supreme court,
Inc office he dld not want, as to take it
would much reduce has income, yet as
q stanch Democrat ana an earnest free
silVer man ne was Wiling to accept
ehe NOMINATION Il, rs he first thought
might be the case, 1t NoUId involve no
oahger or election; but, becoming con-
vlhced that II he remained on the ticket
ne would he elected, he last month de-
silned n another nomination has been
MADE IN ms place.
L asked Judge Biandin, whom have
known for years to have the character
"1d reputation OF IN extremely careful
and conservative man, whether he was
rlll OF opinion that 1t was necessary for
A1m TO decline the nomination III order
70 avoid the office on Whethef there was
"a any part OF the state q counter move
nent beginning,
Ills reply was that he could see the
natter IN no Other light than that
wh1ch induced hlm TO decline; that there
might nave been some little sagging
when the news Of the Maine election
was received, hut that, if had been the
ease 1t had been only temporary and
mat throughout northern Ohio the
movement OF the farmers to free silver
was now gong on faster than ever,
while the OBJECTIONS from the Demo-
Fatlc vote were SO small as hardly to
Dc worth taking INTO account,
ONO, SAID the Judge, "is Il close
Hate normally. AT the last election the
Aepuollcahs carried 1T ny $4,000. state
1floe WILL lhlnN' do something to
strengthen Mckinney, and, allowing 49,
would have ON a normal basis 90, 600