San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-07
MORE GOOD NEWS.
MR, BBRGsTROM PREDICTS VICTORY
FOR MKINLEY
And Sound Money, and Then Prosperity
Will Return to us Once More-BIyan
Not in it in New York.
From the Daily Express.

iiOh' oS'di h'i SS'iOih iN'hih
ed Monday night from an extend
ed trip to Chicago and New
York Mr.. BergstrOm went
north to look after business, but
sayes he found the people too
much interested in politics to
talk business. He says the man
who doesn't prefer to talk politics
to talking business is the eXcep-
ton, and that when one begins
a conversation with a man it's
ten chances to one that in less
than ten minutes he will shift the
subject to politics, and if the Wis
itOr attempts to bring the con
conversation back to business he
must make a prOfuse apology for
SO doing.
On the whole, however, Mr..
BergstrOm brings cheering news,
He says Texas has felt the de-
preston and sRagnatiOn in bust
ness lines less than any other
state in the Union, and is more
prosperous and her business on a
firmer basis today than most of
her sister states. He also says
that all the people he met while
away are for Mckinley and sound
money, and that all believe that
Bryan and free silver will be de-
feated. Mr." B~ergstrOm's first
stop was in Chicago, where he
stayed several days.
Il went to Chicago to attend
to some business said Mr.. Berg
strOm, in speaking of his trip to
a reporter for the Express yester-
day, but l found everybody talk
ing politics and more interested
in knowing how Texas was going
politically than what my bust
ness proposition was. | met a
great many business men, Dem
Ocrats and Republicans, and all
of them, irrespective of the par
ty affiliations, are for Mckinley.
| met Mr.. Studerbaker, the big
wagon manufactures, who has
large business interests in every
state in the Union. Mr.. Stude-
baker said he had made a careful
review of the situation in all the
states, and was confident that
Mckinley would be elected.
II also met Mark Hanna and
his friend, Mr.. Kennedy, of the
Auditorium hotel. Hanna is a
splendid good fellow, jolly and
%iovial. He's as sharp as a briar,
but withal a whole-souled, ge-
NAL fellow. | found him to be
an entirely different man than l
expected, and not very much like
the cartoons of him in the papers.
"Hanna is much elated with
the outlook and very enthusiast
tic. He is confident of victory,
and even goes so far as to be-
lieve that Texas will redeem her
self by giving her electoral votes
for Mckinley.
Routine business in Chicago
is going on as usual, but every
thing else it at a standstill. Loans
are being called in and no new
enterprises are being started.
"In New York it's all one
everybody is for Mckinley. The
Democratic party there is disOr-
ganized, and is not making any
fight so far as ] could see. 1t
seemed to be conceded that New
York would give 300 00 major
ity for Mckinley, and while l
was there a gentleman in the
Hoffman house offered to bet that
McKinley's majority in that state
would reach 100000, but found
no takers.
Il met only business men on
my trip, but | did not find only
one business man who was for
Bryan. In New York business
is at a standstill. The business
men and capitalists will not con-
slider any kind of business prOpO-
sitiOn for investment now. They
all tell you to come back after
November ). The banks are
making absolutely no loans. The
financiers with whom | talked
told me that there was more
ready money laid by in the banks
than ever before in the history
of the country; but that it will
not move until after the election,
and only then provided McKin-
ley is elected. II Mckinley is
not elected peoule who have mon
ey will wait until they see how
and upon what basis they will
I.fN., 1,34.-.