The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1896-10-19
WISCONSIN IS CLOSE
Hanna Is Laying Very Strong Claims
to That State.
OTHER SIDE WORKING HARD
Mckiniey's Backers Have Barrels
OF Money. while Silver ls
Fighting on lts
M erits.
OTHER SIDE WORKING HARI

aDle 10 make any IuTtneT eNdIuludtlOn
of the political prospects in Wisconsin
than could be had by a 24-hour stay
IN Milwaukee. At the democratic state
headquarters they seem really to be-
lieve that Bryan will carry the state.
though. should think with some
doubts, derived from their own search
ty Of money. an appreciation of the
immense funds In the hands of their
opponents, an uncertainty as to how
the workingmen were being affected
by the efforts to influence their votes.
and the peculiarly broken condition Of
politics.
Among the most disinterested people
that l had opportunity to talk to l
found the general impression to be
that as the matter stood at present
Mckinley would carry the state.
though by a large reduction in the
normal republican majority. and that
the tendency was now clearly In favor
of Bryan.
One Of the local newspaper men who
came to see me, and who Is the cor
respondent OF several metropolitan
journals Of the gold persuasion, put
the matter in this way:
IF you ask me who Is going to car
ry Wisconsin l can only say that Ii
win be Mckinley. That is the atrnos-
phere In which I find myself among
the men / must meet. The republicans
have a good organization and no end
of money. and are doing everything
that money can do to win here. The
Iress Is with them and prints every
thing that can help them, while every
thing that could tend the other way
10 ignored or minimized. The railroads
are with them: the banks are with
them; the great corporations are with
them; the large manufacturers and
leading business men are with them,
and the men who used to be leading
democrats are with them. The fusion
lists, on the other hand, have not
means for collecting and setting forth
the news that is in their favor: any
thing like real organization hardly ex-
lists, and everything that we have
been accustomed to consider as power
full in politics Is against them. And
so, for l can point to nothing on the
other side that they would consider
tangible, / write to my papers that
Mckinley Is certain to carry Wiscon-
sin. This suits them completely, for
It is just what they want to hear.
"And yet" he continued. while IL
you ask my opinion as to who will
carry Wisconsin, expecting me to give
tangible evidences In support OF II, /
can only say, as / say in my papers,
that 1t will be Mckinley; my own i'm
preston Is the other way. / get this
impression from what I learn from
people who cannot individually be
cited as influential; from what l find
OF the temper of the workingmen; /;
from the comparatively small attend
ance and frosty feeling at the gold
meetings that have been held here and
the great crowds and real enthusiasm
at the silver meetings, and from what
] hear personally from men who have
been In the agricultural districts"
And this would come near to ex-
pressing the impression / get as to
the political prospects Of Wisconsin.
The same tide OF opinion Is running
through that state that is running
through the other western states. The
main question OF doubt here Is as to
how far 1t will effect the Germans,
who constitute so important an ele-
ment In Wisconsin, and upon whom
the opponents Of Bryan's election have
from the first so strongly counted. AS
to this the best information that
can get is that Bryan is steadily and
speaking people of Wisconsin. and
particularly among the poorer and
younger of them.
AS an indication that bears on this
as well as upon the general attitude
of workingmen. I am told that the ci-
gar makers. who are very largely Ger
mans or of German narentage. and
who hitherto have been very strongly
r4nuhIican because of tbair leaning To.
ward nrotection are ten to one for
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