The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-08-01
Mckinley by No Means Certain
to Garry the State.
BRYAN'S CHANCES BRIGHT
Now Looks as if it Will Give
Him IS, 900 Majority.
NOTHING BUT SILVER TALKED OF
The White Metal is Bringing Together
Men Who Could Not Before Talk
Politics Without Quarreling
and Fighting.

WASHINGTON. d. c., July 30.-Judgc
NJ Differ. of Hillsboro, Ohio, who
IS n cold Democrat and quite active in
notifies. talked to-day with a Star re-
no,,+er On the situation in ONO.
IT never saw such a situation IN
,o1itics before" he said. MANY waves
IF sentiment have swept over ONO;
Int 7 have never seen anything like the
nresent. In the country districts the
Silver sentiment is intense. Every man
Won see is loaded with arguments, ana
there is no use trying TO talk win
him.
ssThe silver men have been reading
everything they could get hold OF ON
their side of the question, until they
can out-talk Harvey. They are as glp
as possible with arguments which
regard as false, but which they are
satisfied with, and they will dance ali
over any man who says gold. 1t has
become a sort of religion with them,
and they will not listen to nor tolerate
onposition. You can't make any I'M
nression on them any more than you
can argue a man out of his religious
faith. The thing has spread so that l
regard the result in the State as DOUBT
full and perhaps with the probability
favorable to Bryan.
Sat all events, it is by no means Ger
tain that Mckinley can carry the
State, The normal Republican MAORI
tv IS about $4,000. That is the safe
natural Republican majority. There
are about $4,000 Populist votes and
%. 900 Prohibition votes. Bryan will
probably get $4,000. That is, he viii
oct the silver votes of these two parties.
SIN the cities there will be con-
siderable gold Democratic vote for Nc
Kinley; in the country districts there
will be a large silver Republican vote
for BRYAN. These may pretty nearly
offset each other, though 1T looks as
if BRYAN would get more Republican
votes in the country than he VIII lose
Democrats in the cities.
There is hardly anything but silver
talked throughout the State. Inc men
around the threshing machines at
lunch time, the groups around the
country stores and about the village
hotels Republicans and Democrats
head TO head, are talking about the
money question. Men who never be-
fore could talk together on politics
without pinching each others heads
are hand-in-hand, or are talking the
matter over from different standpoints
in a sympathetic spirit. If any one
saws gold there viii at once be half
dozen men to jump on him. 1t makes
little difference how much fallacy there
is in their arguments, these country
folks think they have mastered the
question, and they can put in 10 words
to one of the man who tries to show
them that they are wrong.
II had a gold bug on my coat: A
farmer came up to me and took hola
of my coat collar, and held the gold
bug button up to view. That's the pug
that got into my wheat he said and
reduced it 50 per cent The rest all
took it up and thought it a good thing.
There was no sort of argument | could
put up to outweigh this rustic wit.
That sort of thing goes for argument.
Tt is silver, silver, silver, all through
the country districts"