The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-23


| committee, who are engaged i'll issuing
statements intended to encourage the fol-
| lowers of Mr.. Bryan in the belief that he
| can be elected, gave out to- day the follow
| ing as representing the views of Senator
German:
''Senator Arthur p German regards
the political outlook rs presaging the sure
| election of Mr.. Bryan. He has no doubt
as to Maryland casting her electoral vote
for Mr. Bryan, and believes that, to the
States certainly admitted by all parties
to be sure for Bryan, will be added enough
of the so-called doubtful States to secure
his election. The sentiment for Bryan
and free silver is so strong that he does
not think it possible for the result to be
changed by the use of money"
The committee appears to have no
knowledge of which doubtful States Mr..
German believes Mr.. Bryan will carry,
and in the absence of any specific infor-
nation they are content with his general
statement.
The members of the Republican Con-
gressional committee are in great glee
over the fact that Vice Chairman Apsley
as early as September, made an estimate
&c the probable electoral vote Mr.. McKin-
ley will receive, which agrees in every
particular with the estimate recently
made by Chairman Hanna, of the Repub-
lican national committee. Mr.. Apsley,
not only claimed 302 electoral votes for
the Republican candidate, but he claimed
also the same States that are included in
Mr.. Hanna's estimate Mr.. Apsley says
that he based his conclusions upon infor-
nation received from all classes of men
i'll the : tates he visited, and upon care
full personal survey CT the situation in
each State. He has been encouraged by
the endorsement of his figures by the chair
man of the national committee, and an
nounces that he will issue another state
ment next week showing how he figured
the result of the election ut that time.
Mr.. Apsley was peculiarly successful
two years ago in his predictions of the
Republican strength in the present House
of Representatives, and feels little in
clined to dispute with General Grosvenor,
of Ohio, the right to claim consideration
rs the most reliable forecaster of the cam
paign. He includes in the list of States
that he thinks will lie carried by McKin-
ley, Maryland, West Virginia, Delaware.
Ohio, kentucky, Iowa, Indiana, Illinois,
Michigan, North and South Dakota, Min.
nesota, Wisconsin, Washington, Nebras-
ka, Kansas, Oregon and Wyoming. MI
Apsley figures that Mr.. Mckinley will
| not only carry all the Eastern and Middle
Western States, the three so.called doubt
full States of the South, Maryland, West
Virginia and kentucky, but will also get
several of the extreme Western States
which have enerally been conceded to
Bryan by less confident Republicans. His
observations in the West and Middle
West have led to the conclusion that the
election will be II ''landslide' in favor of
sound money, and that Mr.. Bryan will be
I'LL, i. = III
people now suppose.
The Democratic and Republican leaders
here differ as much in their opinions of
the probable effect upon the election of
the recent rise in the price OF wheat as
they do concerning the respective strength
OF the two parties in the doubtful States.
Chairman BabcOck, of the Republican
committee, declares that it refutcs Mr..
Bryan chief argument among the farm
ers of the West and will have the effect
of causing many of them to vote the Re-
publican ticket who would otherwise have
voted for free silver. Chairman Faulk-
ner, on the other hand, says the advance
in prices will have no effect, because the
farmers understand the causes. Chair
man Butler, of the Populist committee.
thinks the increase will help Mr.. BRYAN.
lie believes that the price of grain gen
orally has been advanced by those con
trolling the market for political effect,
and that the farmers understand it and
it will not be permanent.
The silver leaders are attempting to-day
to deny the statements printed this morn
ing concerning Mr.. Bryan's silver
speeches while he was II member of the
House. The speeches referred to in these
dispatches were published in the Congress
sional Record, and their authenticity can
not be successfully disputed.
IL is charged, however, that Mr..
Bryan's utterances regarding the fall in
prices were unjustly treated, because Mt
the time Mr.. Bryan was discussing the
tarlil and endcavoring to show that tariff
legislation had nothing to do with rcduc-