The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-12
THE THIRTY-DAY POLL
SHOWS REPUBLICANS GETTING THE
BEST OF THE DOUBTFUL VOTE.
Their Organization I'm Fine Shape
State Committee Confident of
Electing All the congressman.


clear up little and the State committees
OF the two organizations are able to under
stand 1t a little better than they did a
week ago. The thirty days poll is coming
In and is eliminating about so per cent of
the large doubtful vote shown by the sixty
days poll On this heavy vote the Repub-
licans a.e getting the best of it in the pro-
cess Of classifying. The Republican man
ayers feel more confident than ever that
the Popocracy will not know what hit it
after the battle is ended. On the other
hand, the Bryan managers have perked up
courage somewhat since the passage of
their candidate through the State. They
take it for granted that the heavy crowds
he drew will vote for him and believe, in
their own language, that the silver craze
is spreading
While the Republicans are working all
through the State detailed information
carefully gathered by their compact organ
ization. the Bryan people are working to
large extent in the dark. Their organiza-
ton, like their following, is a whooping
noisy r3of. They come up to headquarters
declaring that everything is coming their
way, and that they will gain at least five
or ten votes in their own township from
the Republicans, and that in the township
just north, or just south, or just east, or
just west of them they will gain any
where from fifty to 100. The surprising
thing about this is that they able to
give a considerable number of the names
of the men who have come over in the
next township. The Republicans, of course,
have secured, in one way or another all
these names that are thus banded about
and If more than 10 per cent. of the men
alleged to be deserters have gone off, it is
azt fhaiY. oh To find On f1ea
other hand, their canvass and that of the
National Democrats show a steady and
healthy growth of the sound-money Dem
ocratic vote. The State committee of the
National Democrats has made an estimate
upon the Democratic vote that will not
support Bryan in Indiana and Chairman
Pickens declares, in all sincerity, that it
will not fall below 900 and will possibly
reach 10000. While the leaders OF the Ma
tional Democratic movement will not adj
NIT it publicly, their canvass like that of
the Republicans is said to indicate that
fully 80 per cent. of this vote will go to
Mckinley, and, by the way. there is no
more earnest, anxious, fighting Mckinley
man in the whole State of Indiana than
your Mckinley Democrat If anything
were needed to put his anxiety for Nc
KinIeys election at white heat it was
upon the National Democratic party by
Bryan in his Statehouse speech.
The Republican State ticket is in even
a more favorable position than the national
ticket through the failure to withdraw the
Populist State ticket and complete fusion
in this State. 1t is believed that over half
the Populists will vote the Populist ticket
straight, and as this ticket will go on the
ballot sheet it will contain ten of the sill
yer Democratic electors but none of their
State ticket. The consolidation on the Pop
ocratic State ticket had counted off
set to this on the failure of the gold Dem
ocrats to name State ticket. The abuse
heaped upon the gold people by Bryan,
how ever, has knocked this calculation into
a cooked hat. The gold Democrats who
vote for Mckinley are very likely to stamp
the eagle for a straight ticket and let it
go at that.
CONGRESSIONAL OUTLOOK.
The results on the congressional tickets
are easier to calculate than those upon the
national and State tickets, The Republican
committee officers are confident of carrying
all thirteen of the congressional districts.
The last Legislature redistricted the State
and made four Democratic districts, seven
Republican and two doubtful ones. The
Democratic districts are the Second, Third,
Fourth and Twelfth. The First and Sew
enth were the two uncertain districts,
made doubtful by the fact that they con-
tain the two largest cities of the State,
Evansville and Indianapolis, which are US
ually uncertain quantities. This very fact,
however, makes these two districts in this
{ campaign the most certainly Republican in
the State. The Democrats and Populists
have fused in the Fifth. Sixth. Seventh,
Eighth, Ninth Tenth and Eleventh dis
tricts, but ir no one of them have they
real hope for the fusion nominees, except
in the Ninth, and while they have some
hope of carrying this district, it would take
I he four Democratic districts are the only
ones about which there seems 70 be any
doubt. The Second district, under the new
cratic as it Was in 1894, when the Repub-
licaEs carried it by over l. 700. The efforts
at fusion in this district have failed and
Colonel Hardy, the Republican nominee,
feels certain of reelection. The Third dis
trict was made so heavily Democratic that
ii would take an earthquake to turn it
over, and though there has been no fusion
resentative Tracewell, who has been re-
nominated by the Republicans. The Fourth
district was left with a nominal Demo-
cratic plurality of over 1000 and the Dem
ccrats have nominated w. s. Holman
While there is much sound-money Demo-
cratic sentiment in the district there are
also some free-silyer Republicans. If Mr. |
Holman is defeated Ii will DE by the large
born, and the same dissatisfaction that |
told so heavily against him two years ago. |
The Twelfth district is composed of the |
same counties as It was two year ago, |
WHEN the Republicans carried 1T handsome |
w. II anything, the large sound-money |
contingent among the Fort Wayne Demo !
Gratis makes the Republican prospects |
better.