The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-11-01

I so that, for instance, while the wealthy
| Germans may vote for Mckinley or for
Palmer, the working Germans will vote
for Bryan. or in some few instances for
the socialist candidate
SOCIALISTS SEE HANNAS SHADOW
These socialists are. however, yielding to
tina general tide tendency hastened BY
| then, that Mark Hanna may have some
0--t in the injunctionS made TO them TO
stand unyielding for straight socialism.
In the organizations of building labor
ers, bod carriers, etc, for New York and
Staten Island there are u divisions, COM
posed of German, Irish and English
speaking laborerS, with a total member
ship of 10000. These divisions have all
done this year what they have never
done before-taken political action indors-
ing Bryan. Their walking delegate knows
of only one member, colored man, who
is for Mckinley. So of the coach-drivers,
who claim membership of 1000. 1 am
told there is only one "a socialist who
wiz vote for Machette) who is not for
Bryan.
So of the plumbers and gas-fitters, who
number $500, many of them Republicans
who have never before voted the Demo-
cratic ticket. An inquiry made by one
of their number disclosed only three
votes for Mckinley. And the same tide
is running, from all l can hear, among
the carpenters and bricklayers, shoe and
clothing trades, brewers, car conductors
and motormen, bakers, and, in short
among all the trades, too numerous to
mention. who have any union or any kind
of organization.
Now, among Democratic politicians
from Minneapolis to New York 1 have
met many who, while more or less clearly
conscious that organized labor was for
Bryan. seem to be in doubt about labor
erS outside of trades unions. happen
to have known for long time, and well,
a man who has been for some weeks.
for other than political purposes. NOV
ing among the unorganiZed laborerS of
the wharves and docks. He tells me the
sentiment there is unanimously for Bry-
an; and this, / am told also by those who
ought to know. is almost in as great a
degree true of the policemen, letter car
r:ers and street sweepers Of New York
City.
THE SITUATION IN BROOKLYN.
AS for the shipmen, bookkeepers, clerks
and small retail dealers, L infer from
what 1 hear that at least as large pro-
portion Of them are for Bryan as voted
for me in 1856, in spite OF the laVlsn
predictions of the total destruction of
society that would follow my election:
and from what 1 hear specifically. l also
infer that this is true as to lawyers ana
insurance men, of teachers and OF clerks
in banking establishments
Now. what 1 am credibly told as to the
disposition of the workingmen of New
true of Brooklyn. and, as far as l can
learn. of the industrial parts OF Long
Island and Staten Island and Of New
Jersey towns and cities.
Two weeks ago 1 called on friend
whom l think the best political arlthme-
tician known to me in Brooklyn. He told
me he had, up to a week before, regarded
II as certain that Mckinley would carry
Brooklyn; but that a change had set in
and if the election were 10 take place
then he thought the contest would be so
close that he could not venture to say
what would be the result, but that VI the
tendency continued Kings county would
certainly go for Bryan
1 saw him again Yesterday He said
the tendency toward Bryan had not only
continued, but was rapidly increasing:
that his estimate of Kings county was
that it would certainly give Bryan 10000
majority; that he was inclined from
what he was now hearing to think it
might go 20,000 and that the new impulse
was showing itself down to the furthest
point of the island.