The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-05-05
HE HAS THEM BAD
MKINLEY HAS HIS OPPONENTS On
THE HOG TRAIN.

Grosvenor Counts Him Up Thirty-Nint
! More.votes Than is Needed TO Nomi
nate Him-Nanley Can't See But Two
| Hundred and Seventy-Five for the
Settled Yet by Good Deal-How thu
| Figures Stand as Made by the Friend,
of Mckinley.
Washington, May General Gros-
venor last night found 495 delegates
elected for Mckinley, with only 456 nee
essary to nominate. Mr.. Joseph Manley
gives Mckinley 275.
Mr.. Grosvenor says: 'Tt will be re-
membered that on one occasion 1 stat
ed that the LIST Of May would show Nc
Kinley with a majority of the delegates
elected. The 1st Of May has come. and
my prediction has been verified.
Last week, while the conventions did
not produce a startling number of dele
gates for any one, there did come into
the campaign some very remarkable,
and to many minds unexpected, results.
The Endorsement of Mckinley by YER
mont marked the location of an active
Mckinley sentiment, which had for a
long time been manifest to intelligent
observers in ali the states of New Eng
land. The outbreak of popular senti-
ment in Illinois, which overwhelmed
the party organization of that wonder
fully organized state and swept away
the plans of the bosses and overturned
the calculations of everybody, indicates
that the tide, which ii was fondly hop
ed by many would be arrested and pos
sibly turned back, is rising higher and
higher, and sweeping across the CONT
nent with irresistible force. The echo
of Vermont was responded to by the
triumphant shout of McKinley's friends
in Arizona. and the reflex wave carried
his flag with irresistible momentum 10
victory in Illinois. Like causes effect
like results in politics, and where an
election is thus carried by the oyer
whelming popular sentiment against
all organized forces in one state, ii is al
ways fair to presume that the same re-
suit will follow in other states.
M'KINLEYS PRESENT STRENGTH.
THE present condition Of the McKin-
ley vote is as follows:
AIdDdma ...1S ONO 40
Arkansas E. =. ..16I Oklahoma .. .. .. 4
Florida =. =. ..... s Oregon - 8
Georgia =. .. % Pennsylvania .....4
Illinois :. =. 20 South Carolina II
Indiana 90. =. .. 30 South Dakota 80. 8
Kansas 20 Texas IL
kentucky III Virginia 20
louisiana :. .. 10 West virginia -. 4
Maryland :. ...12 Wisconsin =. :. pa
Michigan ..1S Utah 49,. l
Minnesota ..1Si tennessee .....A
Mississippi rs North Carolina
Missouri :. .. rs North Dakota -.
Nebraska =. .. 10 Arizona =. >. go.
New Jersey =. ...16 Connecticut =. 80. 6
New Mexico =. =. 4 Vermont =.
New York .. =. :. Indian Territory.
Here is a grand total Of AS votes.
Some parties who do not base their fig
ures upon knowledge see fit to criticise
my figures, and constantly denounce
me as having a brilliant imagination.
etc, without understanding some few
fasts in the case. There are still to be
elected in Ohio and Indiana eight votes,
which l have constantly counted for
Mckinley. I have added three votes in
Illinois, because of a telegram received
last night, stating that Raymond,
Stewart Kneff, of the Chicago delega-
ton, had announced themselves for Nc
Kinley, and all the balance of the diff
erence between my high water mark
figures of today and the conservative
figures of other gentlemen krow out of
the fact that I will not permit myself 10
disparage the election of our friends in
Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas and Flori-
da simply because contests havoc been
filed. Wherever our delegates appear TO
have only a contestant claim, baAed up
Il 81, 1.aI
them, but it would be the height of
folly and impertinence on my part to
say that convention-to illustrate,
Florida-that had three out of four of
the elected delegates, was not to be
counted among the Mckinley votes.
Then, again, the contesting delegations
in Mississippi, without undertaking TO
decide which is regular and which is
not, have declared with substantial
unity, each of them and both of them,
that they are, or practically all, for Nc
Kinley.
$50 it will appear in the end, when we
reach st. Louis. that my table of votes
today. which 1 here present, will be
more than verified by the ultimate re-
suit when the roll of the convention is
called-if il ever is called-upon the
nomination for president of the United
States.
Last week omitted Connecticut be-
cause did not see fit to raise any ques-
ton that would irritate anybody. but I
have received letters and kilograms
from Connecticut this week that make
il imperative to place six, and in my
judgment ought to place eight, of the
Connecticut votes for Mckinley
MORO THAN THE ESTIMATE.
Another thing 1 will state as I go
along. for 1 propose to refer TO my en-
tire record at a later day: Nobody
knows better than the opposition that
there are in the states enumerated by
me cas- Of the Allegheny mountains not
less than twenty votes which / am not
claiming which will be cast for Nc
Kinley on the first ballot. l wan TO call
attention 10 the block OF states which
have given their votes, substantially
solid, to the Ohio candidate: West Vir-
GINA. Ohio. Michigan, Kentucky. Indi-
ana, Illinois, Missouri. Kansas. Ne
braska, South Dakota. North Dakota.
Minnesota. Wisconsin. and living along
south Of this block are Tennessee and
Arkansas. Here we have a solid block
Of states in the great heart OF the con
tinent. representing nearly half Of the
electoral college voting with practical
unanimity for the nomination of Nc
kinley.
1T must be borne in mind by the
critics OF my figures that others bunch
in great doubtful column from fifty 10
seventy votes. I have taken pains % 60
back through the report Of the doubt
full and ascertain actual facts. So il will
be seen that my figures are based upon
principles which l maintain are correct
principles, and are not the result %
tendency 20 exaggerate or imagine any
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