The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-20
ILLINOIS
BY 10000.
Figures That VIII Make Repub-
Leans Hearts Glad.
Gold Standard Committee Sizes
Up McKinley's Plurality.
NOT LESS THAN $4,000
For Mckinley In Chicago So
They Say.
Result Of a House to- House
Canvass.

Canvass.
New York, Oct. 20.-The World prints
the following special from Chicago:
The Sound Money Citizens commit
tee has completed its house to house
canvass the city Of Chicago. The poll
shows a plurality of $1,000 in the city
for Mckinley. 1t indicates that more
than 10000 Democrats in Chicago alone
viii vote against Bryan on the sound
money issue.The Republican state COM
mlttee cOnVass OF the state BY school
districts indicates a plurality for Nc
kinley of $4,000 outside of Chicago. If
the Citizens committee canvass and the
school district canvass are correct, the
state viii go Republican by 10000 plu-
The Republican national committee is
now SO sure" of Illinois that it decided
to divert some of its most important
speakers from Illinois to states west OF
the mississippi, which are not necessary
to the election of Mckinley. Strenuous
efforts are now to be made in Nebraska,
Kansas, North and South Dakota, Wy
oming and California for effect upon
cougr essnen and state legislators which
Viii choose United states senators
Speaker Reed, Representative BouteIle.
DolIVer and possibly Nelson Dlngley,
Will carry the war over the Rocky
Mountains.
This means the Republican national
committee EgLSl4EAS 44Ll4DlH ADSO44LEAy
sure. Two months ago the first school
district canvass Of the state was made.
Normally about 53 voters in every 100
in Illinois, outside Chicago, are Repub-
licans, and At in every 100 are Demo-
Gratis The first canvass showed that
only about 40 Republican voters in
every 53 could be counted for the Re
publican ticket, while about ~ IN every
Il of the rural Democrats were solid for
free silver This indicated that about
Us per cent of the voters We're actually
ip doubt, with the odds in favor Of free
silver
The Republican national committee
created and had in full operation. wit hin
two weeks OF this discovery, a wonder
ful literary bureau-Leadets, speeches.
arguments and figures were mailed
personally addressed, to this Us per
cent of doubtful voters at intervals of
two or three days Every doubtful VO-
ter was thus reached again and again.
The bureau mailed u 00o 900 pages of
printed matter a week-After six weeks
another school district canvass was
made, and it indicated, roughly speak
Ing. that about eight out of every is
men VINO had been in doubt had come
over to sound money.
The Democratic national headquar-
ters revealed some evidences of dem0r-
alzation The giving out of printed
statements and reports was stopped.
The reason given was that the matter
furnished hitherto was published in
garbled form by the western papers
and then denounced as untrue.
one was cheerful and enthusiastic The
organization there is the perfection of a
great business machine. Marc Hanna
sat enthroned in mahogany before his
desz-a strong, alert. cynical man, with
blunt features. sneering eyes, and dOu-
Bile chin When he is busy as he was
today he gives you the left hand to
shake and on the third finger blazes a
Mn Hanna is a close mouthed man
You meet his agents everywhere and
you hear stories of the millions of dol
lars which he has spent he presldes
over a. political machine SO extensive
and so closely adjusted in all its parts
that it can be compared to nothing but
military organization
Every doubtful voter, not only in IL
nnOis but in the country, is at this mo-
ment registered and under the surveil-
lance of this corps Every manufacture
in touch with Mr.. Hanna to discover
the true state Of affairs This is espec-
tally the case in Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio.
So determined is Mr. Hanna to pene-
trate into the secret state of the labor
vote that he has induced employers TO
resort to the most extraordinary secret
means of investigation. One manufac-
turer in Illinois has actually employed
detectives and placed them among the
wOrkingmen to ferret out the truth.
The Republicans have been informed
that in many districts the labor vote
has been organized in secret societies, 4
and there are thousands of men who
profess to be for one candidate who
really intend to vote for another Mr.,
Hanna wants to know what the
strength of Bryan is-In Indiana shrewd
political agents have been sent into the
Country districts as peddlers quietly to
probe the politics of doubtful farmers.
The building in which Mare Hanna
presfdes is a hive of Republican indus
trv 1t has turned out already 81 600 600
political documents and printed more
than 10000, 600 pages, and a force Of 80
men is employed to ship campaign lit
erature to all parts of the country.
such a thing has never been known in
American politics before These dOcu-
ments are printed in German, Polish
ish French, italian, Yiddish and Eng
lish.
on the ground floor Of the building is
the commercial travellers bureau. on
the second floor are the quarters Of the
executive committee, dominated by
Hanna, Payne, Dawes and Durbin
Next to the speakers bureau which
has something like 400 orators on the
list while in upper parts Of the build
ing are the literary bureau. the editor
iaI departm ent-Where supplements for
$50 dailies and 1000 weekies are pre-
pared-the various foreign bureaus. the
Wheelmen's bureau and the colored
mems bureau. In the Auditorium Ans
mex is the women's bureau. directed by
Mrs !. Ellen Foster, and in AIcCoyss /
hotel is the labor bureau In another
department is the bureau of press clip
pings. The shipping department is in
another part of the city.
The vast enginery lis under the abso-
lutte control of Mr. Hanna. 1t responds
to his slightest touch 1t reaches every /
county Of every state in the Union. Be
hind it are the IS magnidcently organ