The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-10-16
HE IS IN IOWA NOW
Henry George Is Locking Over the
Situation There.
WHAT HE THINKS OF 1T
He Finds That the Silver Clubs
Are ard at Work and That
the outlook ls EXCEL
lent for Eryan.
WHAT HE THINKS OF 1T

Special Campaign Correspondence OF the
Standard.
Des Moines. Oct. l2.-Des Moines. the
capital Of Iowa, is the headquarters Of
the new democracy OF this state. The
organization is not of one joint COM
mittee, but of three separate commit
tees-that Of the democrats. that Of
the silver republicans, and that OF the
populists, which have their quarters
In adjoining rooms. working together
as one committee and showing prac-
tical and effective fusion. And from
the manner in which they work to-
gether and the reports they have from
all parts of the state, II seems to me
that II there is any real expectation on
the part Of republicans that Iowa will
give her electoral vote for Mckinley, 1t
must be based on an indisposition to
recognize or an inability to understand
the forces that are gathering against
him.
The organization OF silver clubs Is
progressing all through Iowa, and there
are at least a thousand in existence,
| Of which there are seventy-three COM
posed exclusively Of republicans, one
of which in Council Bluffs has Ave
hundred members, while an examina-
| ton of the duplicates Of the club lists,
| of which some 500 have already been
sent In, would indicate that 20 per cent
| Of their membership have been up to
| this time republicans. And while the
press of Des Moines, as In all other
large cities is against Bryan, there are
$50 Of the county papers in the state
that are supporting him, forty Of them
being republican.
I met here General Weaver. whose
years of campaigning without hope OF
success, give his Judgment much
weight with me. His estimate. and 1t
is supported by the members Of the
various committees. is that Bryan will
carry this state by at least 10000 and
considering that though Iowa has al
ways given a republican plurality In
| presidential contests fusion OF the
opposing elements now working har-
moniously would In 1892 have given q
majority against the republican candi-
date, and the great break In the repub-
Il ICdIl Trims VI WhiIu Oit t'ety
where, this seems to be q moderate
estimate. OF the gold democrats the
largest estimate both Of those who will
| vote for Mckinley and those who will
vote for Palmer Is 5000.
| The chairman of the democratic state
central committee has sent out a cir
cular to each Of the twenty-five hun
dred township and precinct commit
tees, exhorting them to energy, though
not asking for reports. Five hundred
Of them have returned reports as to
the condition Of the democrats Five
Of these report losses, eight say that
the democrats In their precincts will
hold their own, and 4S2 report great
gains.
But more convincing to me than esti-
mates or reports, is the spirit OF new
democracy to which democrats. silver
republicans. populists and single tax
ers alike testify. There Is something
of the same attempt at coercion that
shows itself further East. But 1t Is
being met In the same way and will.
am assured, increase the vote that
Bryan will get. And II Is not merely
the rank and file Of the heretofore re-
publican masses that are going over to
Bryan In large numbers. but men of
prominence and Importance. such as
Colonel Fox, who was president Of the
Tippecanoe club. the big republican or
| ganization, and others who have held
high places in the republican ranks.
Long lists Of these were given me of
representative men in all parts of this
state including in some instances
bankers and men of large wealth.
One Of these representative republi-
cans whom had opportunity to meet.
was Judge Cole. for 12 years chief jus
tice OF the supreme court of the state
and now dean of the legal faculty In
the Drake university. He has been a
stalwart republican in all things from
ls60 to the present time, but is now
making speeches for Bryan. He tells
me that personal letters which he re-
ceives from old party friends in all
sections of the state leave no doubt
that the republican party is breaking
up by a similar popular outburst as
that which put II in power. and leaves
him no doubt that Bryan will carry
the state by a majority that will as
tonish those who have deemed II posi-
BILE that Mckinley could be elected.
The majority Of the faculty and stu
dents OF Drake university are said to
be Bryan men and the new democracy
is getting the support Of a majority OF
the ministers. One OF the most infiu-
entail of them, Rev. Frank W. Evans
the Methodist presiding elder. is max
ing the fight for congress In this dis
trict against the present incumbent
Hull. and has so vainly tried to get
Hull into a discussion that 1t has be-
come a subject for local fun and car
feature.
But the man who most impressed
me. and of whom l heard most as a
tower Of strength to the new democ-
racy in these parts Is the Rev. Father
Nugent of the Catholic Church of tbs
Visitation. He is a man Of great ply
slcal and mental strength. an Ameri.
can by birth. whom from the farm
entered the ministry. and from the
long conversation had with him. !
can well understand rae power and clo.
quenoe with which he is credited as a
speaker
Father NugeuI has never beforC