Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-20

Ter was not nominated in place of Bry-
an, and that John r. Mclean OF Gin
cinnaei and Washington was not NOM
mated for vice president in place of Ar
thur Sewall. Never mind that, how
ever.
The story of the great intrigue and
its failure will, it is promised, all come
out at the proper time. While Altgeld
would have none of Teller at the Chi
cago national convention, and threw
over by his power in the Illinois dele
cation Bland and Uncle "Hod1 Boies,
and showed Bryan to the front, it is
now the demand of Altgeld's heelers
that Bryan must be slaughtered in
this state in the vain effort to save Alt
geld.
All at Republican national headquar-
tiers have been interested to ascertain
the result of Bryan's shooting trip
through Minnesota. He raced through
that state just as he Is racing through
Michigan now in an effort to stampede
the voters In his favor. There are times
when even some of Bryans friends out
this way believe him to be non compos
mentis. His noddle. and his alone. is
responsible for the absurd notion that
he can stampede the voters of Mime
sofa. Michigan Indiana, Iowa. and H.
linois. Bryan's own friends stick their
tongues in their cheeks when talking
about this feature of his crusade. Re-
publican State Chairman Bixby of
Minnesota. came down from ST Paul
today to report on Bryan's trip. HE
got the cold hand in our state" said
Bixby. especially in St Paul and Min
neapolis. He did not bulge a voter"
Bryan will reap the same experience
in Michigan. He is to race through
that state until Saturday. and after
ward he is to do some more stamped
ing" Representative Nelson Dingley,
Jr.. of Maine. before his departure for
Michigan, gave an Interpretation of
what he believed to be one of the I'M
DERIVING forces of this campaign. Mr..
Dingley's reputation for conservative
statements is well understood in Wash
lngton. He is considered by his friends
and associates in the House OF Repre-
sentatives TO be an eminently wise cit
iZen.
II had an experience in my town of
Lewiston during the Maine election"
said Mr. Dingley today, (which has
given me To some extent the measure
Of this campaign. 1t has taught me
that polls taken by county and state
committees are of little or no value in
determining the immensely OF the ma
iority Mckinley is TO get. In my town
Of Lewiston a number Of polls We're ia
ken. | personally went at them.
went over the voters time and again.
and | thought / had got down to the
hone when | got the names Of 400 Dem
)crats who were to vote against Bry-
Inism. of course | was immensely
pleased over the result. When election
lay came around however. | was
Istounded to find that 1000 Democrats
lnd not 400 had voted against Bryan
srn. The GOO had remained silent dur
ing every one of my polls.
THAT is the situation in this nation
.cday Democrats are not telling from
the housetops what they are going to
do. But they are going to do what
lheir brethren did in Lewiston
Speaker Thomas r. Reed is to make
four rousing speeches in Illinois and
Robert T. Lincoln is to invade St. Paul
and Duluth. beginning on oct. Il and
ending Oct. %
Meantime Chairman Jones of the
popocrats is at work on another state
rent In this he tells his friends he
proposes to claim $50 electoral votes for
Bryan