The Portland daily press., 1896-10-27
THE INSIDE FIGURES.
Point C0nclusively to the Election Of
Mckinley.

Eastern Business Men Furnished With
Convincing Proofs Of That Fact-How
the Figures arc Obtained.
New York, October 26.-The Evening
Sun prints the followingssfrom Chicago:
Among the callers at Republican ma
tional headquarters in the last few days
have been a mum ber Of prominent busi-
ness men from New York and other east
ern cities They are not politicians and
have taken no active part In the cam
paign.
Some are merchants, some represented
large manufacturing interests and others
represented railroad and other transpor-
tat!on lines. They appealed to Chair
man Hanna for inside Information as to
how the election is going. They told
him that such vast business and financial
interests hinged on the result that they
were not willing to accept without proofs
the reports that the middlewest is all
right. They have money and vast proper
ty interests at stake, and they wanted
to know the exact truth.
Al OtAoF WotuS tAoy WhIibou W eee 1Ao
hRures and know why the campaign
managers are sure of the election of Mo-
Kinley. Chairman Hanna said today
that he had convinced them that the
claims made at national headquarters
were we'll founded.
II there are other business men in the
east who are still In doubt OF the result
some trustworthy figures on the situa-
tion ought to convince them.
Hn0Ta ha nrAaan fa0 in dafail
some of the facts and figures which have
satisfied the managers of the campaign
that Mckinley Is going to win by an
overw helming majority. These figures
are from what Is known as inside
sources. and they are based on what
the campaign managers call rock bottom
ia cts. That is, they are obtained by
fair and reliable polls. and arc in no case
mere estimates and guesses.
But IL states, with total of 80 elector-
al votes, .are now classed by the Republi-
can members as certain to be carried by
Bryan. The states now conceded to- Bry-
an are: Alabama, II; Arkansas, 8; Colo
RADIO, 4; Georgia. 13; Idaho.3; Louisiana,
8: Mississippi, 9; Montana, 8; Nevada,
8, South Carolina, 9; Texas, Is.
OF the states classed as close and
doubtful, the Republican managers are
hopeful of the three larger ones, namely,
Virginia, North Carolina and California.
The figures on which the Repu blican
managers claim their electoral votes for
MoK inley have been obtained in this
way. The workers in every county have
asoertained 50 far as it was possib to
do so just how every Repu blican is 60
ing to vote. Then. with the aid of the
sound money Democratic workers, they
have polled every Democrat, Populist and
Prohibitionist who would tell how he Is
going to vote. These polls have been
made two and three times.
They have been revised and corrected
and, whenever possible, compared with
the polls made by the sound money
Democratic national committee. The
results obtained show how about 70 per
cent of all the voters are going TO cast
their ballots. The gains of Bryan from
the Republican vote of 1892 and the gains
of Mckinley from the Cleveland vote of
the same year have been recorded and
the percentages worked out.
Then the Republican managers assum-
ing that the percentages cf gain and loss,
which have been accurately ascertained,
will hold good with the 80 per cent Of
unrecorded voters, find that Mckinley
will carry all the states in their list, and
that in most of them his majority will
be so large that it would take she sntire
80 per cent of unrscorded voters to
change the result.