The River Falls times. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1894-1933, 1896-10-27
NONE FOR M'KJNLEY.
ELEVEN SO-CALLED DOUBTFUL
STATES TELL SAME STORY.
Bryan Has Won More Republican Votes
from Mckinley Than He Has Lost
Democratic Votes to Mckinley and
Palmer Combined.


Chicago, Oct 2S.-(Special.)-T
Chicago Records postal card ballot
continues to give daily evidence that
Bryan will carry the so-called doubt
full states in the central west for presi-
dent.
Some weeks ago The Record sent
out several hundred thousand postal
cards to voters of Chicago and the
states of Kentucky, Minnesota, South
Dakota, North Dakota, Kansas, Wis
consin, Michigan, Nebraska, Indiana,
Iowa and Missouri, and requested Them
to express their choice for president,
stating also for whom they had voted
in 1892, and return the card to The
Record. ="
The returns are not large. But 1877
600 votes have been received from the
eleven states mentioned. Of this num-
Der $4,000 are for Mckinley and $4,000
| for Bryan. The Bryan vote is larger
than McKinley's in Kentucky and Mis-
souri,, but Mckinley leads in the other
nine states. In Chicago the vote
stands: Mckinley $4,000 and Bryan
| $4,000. All this was expected. The
Record is a goldbug newspaper. and
this ballot was begun with the idea
that it would help the republican cause.
Republicans were urged to vote. On
the other hand, the democratic leaders,
distrustful of The Record and its
scheme, urged the friends of Bryan and.
! free silver, through every means by
which they could reach them, not to
vote
Thus, under the circumstances, the
mere number Of votes cast signifies
nothing, especially when the total
| number received is less than per cent
of the total vote of the states named,
and scarcely Is per cent Of the city OF
| Chicago. The totals signify only that
with all their efforts, the republicans
! have been able to round up but $4,000
votes in eleven disputed states and but
! $4,000 in the city of Chicago in favor of
their own scheme; while in spite of
their efforts to prevent it, $4,000 demo-
Gratis have voted in the states and H.
coo in Chicago
But the Records ballot has one,
though only one, significant feature.
Each postal card received at the Rec
ord Office tells not only how the sender
intends to vote at the approaching cleo
ton, but also how he voted four years
ago. Thus the percentage of change
is obtained, and this is where the dem
ocrats come in.
An analysis shows that in every
| state mentioned and in every ward Of
| Chicago, without a single exception
the per cent of republican votes for
Bryan is much larger than the per cent
of democratic for Mckinley. More
| than that, it shows that Bryan is re-
ceiving a larger per cent of republican
votes than he will lose of democratic
votes to Mckinley and Palmer COM
| bined. If this were the result of an
| analysis of the vote of one or two
wards of the city, or of one or two
states, 1t would have no special signifi-
canoe, but 1t Is true of every ward and
of every state. A result thus obtained
must mean what it shows, and that is
that in the so-called doubtful states Of
| the central and west the drift is
strongly in favor of Bryan-sa strong
ly in fact that there can be no doubt
of his election. 1t is easy enough now
| to estimate the majorities. The per-
| centage of gain and loss in each state,
as shown by the Record vote, indicates
| majorities for Bryan as follows: