The San Francisco call., 1896-09-13
BRYAN WILL LOSE
HIS OWN STATE
Nebraskans Are Patriots
and Will Not Support
Anarchy.
TEST VOTE BY FARMERS
Sporting Men Offering Heavy
Bets on McKinley's
Success.
Is MR.. BRYAN HENPECKED {?
Major McKinley's Reas o1s for S aging
at Home as Stated to
Colonel Stone.
Is MR.. BRYAN HENPECKED .?

Colonel George Stone of the Union
League Club returned last Thursday
morning from trip through Ohio, Il
linois, Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota.
He left here several weeks ago to attend
the National convention of the League of
Republican Clubs at Milwaukee, to which
convention he had been appointed as a
delegate from California.
While East Colonel Stone was elected
one of the executive committee of fifteen
to wait upon Major Mckinley at Canton,
Ohio. Colonel Stone was also a delegate
to the Grand Army of the Republic ell
campment at st. Paul. He found that the
old soldiers almost TO man will support
Mckinley, even those who voted for
Grover Cleveland four years ago. The
majority of those old sol diers also have a
son or two in the family old enough to
vote. The colonel kept his eyes and ears
open while in the East, in order to learn
the true state of popular sentiment. In
Illinois he found that the sentiment was
for ound money and Mckinley.
Sporting men in Chicago are Offering to
bet even money that Illinois will give
80, 900 plurality for Mckinley, and that he
will receive $4,000 more votes that Bryan
in tn at State. Ohio is put down at $4,000
majority for Mckinley. Michigan is
looked upon as doubtful, the nominee for
Governor on tn e Republican ticket being
a very unpopular man, and the party
itself being badly split in that State.
Wisconsin is looked TO for 70. 900 maj or
ity. Minnesota and Iowa, in Colonel
Stones opinion, are absolutely safe. These
| statements are based upon the express
sions of the sentiment of the people with
whom he had conversed in those different
/ States.
Aboard the train on which he left for
home were four extra passenger coaches
| conveying Nebraska farmers to their
homes, after attending the State Fair at
| Omaha. The colonel took poll Of the
! people in those four coaches, with the fol-
lowing result: Mckinley 70, Bryan %,
| not voting 7. He also interviewed the
seven train men and found that they were
for Mckinley. As proof that those four
| coaches represented the sentiment OF
! Nebraskans tue coaches were dropped from
the tram before it got out of Nebraska.
Colonel Stone was very much surprised
at the result of the straw vote and ques-
| toned nearly every one of the seventy
| five Mckinley men as to their reasons for
not supporting Mr.. Bryan. They in
formed him that they did not consider
the silver issue at all, but that they were
too patriotic to indorse the anarehistio
! platform adopted by the National Dem o.
On his visit to Major Mckinley at his
| home in Canton, Ohio, he asked the Major
why he did not take the stump, and the
/ Major replied that he did not think it
would be dign6ed for man who aspired
4 to be president of a great nation to be
/ travelling all over the country begging
/ people to vote for him. 1t would do him
! more good, he thought, to stay at home
and receive the delegations from the peo-
! pie who came voluntarily to visit him
! from all parts of the Union.
The major makes nye or six short
! speeches a day and never repeats himself.
as Bryan does. Colonel Stone was greatly
| pleased with Major Mckinley. He found
man. When the colonel asked the Major
as to what he thought OF the prospects for
! his election the major replied that he
placed his reliance in the good sense of
the American people, He was confident
that they would never go wrong when
thev understood the issues, and that they
had never been and never would be found
irresponsive whenever an appeal was
made to their loyalty to the Republic.
In reply to question by CALL re-
porter as TO the prospects OF New York
State for Republicanism Colonel Stone
replied that sporting men in Chicago were
offering unlimited amounts OF monev even
up on the proposition that Mckinley
would receive 10000 more votes in New
York State than Bryan.
The latest political gossip In the East is
that If Major Mckinley is defeated Mrs.
w. j. Bryan and not William J. Bryan
will be the President. In fact the gossips
say that the spouter from Nebraska is badly
henpecked and that his vile revises all his
speeches before they are delivered.