Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1896-10-08
BRYAN GAINS in OHIO
MANY sTANcH REPU5Llc ANs WORK.
ING FOR SILVER.

Labor WIN Vote solidly Against Cold
and Plutocracy.
With such diligent inquiries ~
could make have not yet been able to|
find any evidence Of the movement away
from Bryan Of which the high ap.I
nointee Of President Cleveland whom
met ON my arrival here told me he hadl
observed in journeying through the|
state It is certainly not among the
workinRmea of Cleveland, organized orr
unorpanized. According to the best in
formation I can get, the proportion or
workingmsn who propose to vote for
BRYAN is even greater here than in Chs
oago and is generally expressed By SUCH
phrases as Mckinley is not in it, !"
while polls privately taken By delegates
among their fellows in the plasterers'
national convention that met last week
and in that of the carpenters now in
session show that nine-tenths OF thef
representatives from all parts OF the
Union are for Bryan.
That the Palmer Democrats OF Ohio
have not yet become very mighty f0lk.
in numbers ut least, is shown BY thet
fact that in order to get the 5000 sig-I
natures required to put their electors onl
the official ticket they are obtaining the
aid of Republicans, and that Republic
ans themselves, though they now talk
very confidently of the campaign in
Ohio, have not yet discovered any rap
idly growing repugnance to silver, is
best evidenced by such speeches as that
of Cliff Beech. the Republican candi-
date for congress in the Twentieth dis
trict, who devotes himself almost en-
tirely to the outright advocacy of free!
silver. +
Ex-Judge 2. j. Blandin of Cleveland,
a lawyer of high standing and large
practice, was nominated by the Demo-,
Gratis for judge Of the supreme court.
The office he did not want, as to take it
would much reduce. his Income, yet al
q stanch Democrat and an earnest free
silver man he was willing to accept.
the nomination if, as he first thought
might be the case, it would involve no
danger of election; but, becoming con-
WINGED that if he remained on the ticket
he would be elected, he last month de-
clined and another nomination has been
made in his place.
asked Judge Blandin, whom have
known for years to have the character
and reputation Of an extremely careful
and conservative man, whether he was
still Of opinion that it was necessary for
him to decline the nomination in order
to avoid the Office or whether there was
in any part of the state counter move
1nent beginning.
His reply was that he could see the
matter in no other light than that!
which induced him to decline; that there.
might have been some little sagging
when the news Of the Maine election
was received, hut that. if had been the
case, it had been only temporary and
that throughout northern Ohio the
movement OF the farmers to FREQ silver
was now going OH faster than ever,
while the defections from the Demo-
cratic vote were SO small as hardly to
be worth taking into account.
/ "Ohio,'' said the judge, is close
state normally. At the last election the
Republicans carried it by $4,000. State
pride will, think, do something to
strengthen Mckinley, and. allowing 15,-
900 votes for that, the Republicans
would have on normal basis 50, 900
this year 'a.'
! "But in the last election the Popu-
lists polled, in round numbers, 10000
votes. These, counting nothing for
changes from our party to the other,
would give Bryan Ohio by 10, 900 ma
jority. But, while I am confident that
the Ohio Democrats who will vote for
Mckinley are very, very few, I hear
everywhere through the country of the
stanohest kind of Republicans who are
working and will vote for Bryan, and,
while know that no effort will be
spared to give Governor Mckinley the
vote of his own state, I cannot see how
that result can be accomplished. I"
4 This is the general impression that
yet from careful and we'll informed
| Democrats. That the Populists will this
year vote for Bryan to man there is
no doubt, while am told that the Pro-
hibiticnists through the state are very
Largely fer him, and of the turning of
old Republicans to free silver l hear
specifically Gil every hand-Henry
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