The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-30
PENNSYLVANIA THE
BANNER STATE
A Plurality Of 40O,0O0...SOme Judges
Predict q Majority Of 100000.
THE OPINIONS OF SOME EXPERTS
Charles Emory Smith, William Har.
rity and William SingerIy Express
Belief in Republican Victory Of
Great Magnitude-.New York Will
BE Eclipsed.

Philadelphia, Sept. 29.-Bryanism will
be buried so deep in PENNSYLVANIA next
November that not even Gabriel's
trumpet Will unearth 1t on the reslIrrec-
lion morn. Careful and conservative
estimates now put Major McKinley's
majority at 100000. Some ardent and
enthusiastic Republicans (who would
make good circulation boomers on a
New YORK neWspaper) are not even sat
isfed with this, and hope to snow under
the Boy Orator by u half million bal
lots. In short. Pennsylvanians are
quite anxious that the old keystone
state should be the banner state in the
Mckinley columns on election night
The time was when hundred thousand
was considered a good round majority.
Ex-Speaker Galusha A. Grow received
over 10000 majority when he ran for
congressman at-large, and every one
was so amazed at the result that some
wit expressed the popular feeling by
saying that Galusha grew.
There was not the ghost of a show
for the Popocrats at the beginning Of
the campaign, but since the Palmer
Buckner ticket has cut In its appear
ance Mr.. Bryan's boom has been melt
ing away like snow under a summer
sun. AS in New York. so in Pennsyl-
vanta, every leader OF consequence in
the Democratic party Is arrayed against
Mr.. Bryan. Even ex-Chairman Will
lam r. Harrity, who Is nothing II not
hopeful, and who can in ordinary times
extract consolation from a cucumber,
Is now as mute as Tara's harp, and has
nothing to say.
SINCERELY SAYS OVER 100000.
Editor William Singerly of the Phila-
delphia Record was very cOmmunica-
tive. Mr.. Singerly is always well post
ed on the political situation, and ever
since he was defeated for governor he
has not been given to bombastic fig
ures. And this is what Mr.. Singerly
says:
81 think that Major McKinley's ma
jority in this state will be from 100000
to 100000. / have never seen a. cam
paign in which the Democratic party
was SO thoroughly demoralized and dis
gruntled ais they are now. They have
not the ghost of show in winning, and
it Is because they realize this state of
affairs that they are practically doing
nothing to keep them atloat in the COM
ing deluge."
William U. Hensel, of Lancaster.
who was for many years chairman of
the Democratic State committee, and
at one time Attorney General of PENN
sylvania, is another eminent leader of
the party who has turned his back on
Bryan. Mn Hensel said Bryan has no
show in Pennsylvania" / shall not
vote for him, and there are thousands
Of sound money Democrats in the
State who viii do likewise"
So much from the lips of old-time
leaders among the Democrats.
When you turn to the Republicans
you find that the Democrats have only
told you half the story. For the Re
publicans, not content with carrying
money, are laying their wires to cap
ture every congressman within the
borders of the old keystone common
wealth. They argue that the sure way
to kill the silver craze completely Is to
not only send a sound money man to
one end Of Pennsylvania avenue in
Washington. but also to fill the caoi-
tol at the other end with friends of
the gold standard. For in this way,
they maintain, the silver snake Is both
scotched and skinned alive.
WILL BE THE BANNER STATE.
Charles Emory Smith. editor Of the
Philadelphia Press, and former min
lister to Russia, is one of the best in
formed men in the state on the politi-
cal outlook. Two months ahead
of the St. Louis convention,
Mr.. Smith predicted Major Nc
Kinley's nomination. And this Is
what the great editor has to say just
now:
pennsylvania will give Major Nc
Kinley 100000 majority. We shall
eclipse New York, and be the banner
state of the Mckinley column. Nor Is
this all. 1t looks very much as If we
will have almost the entire congress
sional delegation. We are very hope
full of carrying the old Democratic
strongholds-the Northampton District
and the Berks-Lehigh district"