The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-11-01
IOWA SAFE FOR M'KINLEY.
urpIURlLITr EsTIMATED AT NoT
-" LESS THAN $4,000.

,..,nttre- Not n enOnt OF OhoN
urvnn-The Sound.money Democra'r
80. Aiuo.t SoIidly for Mckinley
n-,No,yrs. Ia. Oct. 3l.-wiliNm jennings
,ho Row Orator. has been to-day rushing
-, This t~ypicalIy agricultural state m"k'nE
o., tron,ic appeal to the toiling masses 10
49,, him in his mad race for the Presidency
hs,orroT he will rest, and on Monday VIII
~. nj. long and well-sustRined campaign OF
S.n,aUoeuery by q dash through the accessible
towns OF Nebraska, winding up at night ny a
s.,c.nt upon Omaha. As far as the state OF
-. I. concerned he might as well have saved
nj. o~ratorlcal powder.
n. has done no good to his cause during his
,r.ssnt or his previous rear-end tour, ana the
,,rdIot against him.. his coadjutors, ana MS
,.rtv in the Hawkeye State will be rendered ey
a, adverse vote of not less than 7o'ooo. Inc
H",dId,t.,, first attack upon the voters OF Iowa
-. failure, and to-day's dramatic perform
.nc. will prove to be no moro effective. The
.rn.rs of this State. and the lnburing classes
al, arc too rock-ribbed in their political
.o,r,ctIons 10 be permanently changed by the
hx,.rIcal hnr.ngues OF q Popocrat OF Bryan's
.,,,rs A. for the business men. they are
rrnotically unanimous in opposition TO the Chi
..oo platform and It's nominees, and they are
to-n,uht making public demonstration OF the
s.,,h that is In them by marching In monster
,orpd.money parades In all tho towns OF tho
st.,e In Des Moines tonight, the capital Of
the State and a town with n population OF 50.-
ooo. $4,000 OF whom are voters, not less than
10000 men marched In the business mems
parade.
Only A man blinded by his own %oonceit, as
Rrvan evidently Is, would think of wasting
precious timo In the closing hours OF the cam
pn,cn making demagoRue speeches In Iowa
ThI. Ia one Of the States first claimed by the be-
vi,dered Chairman Jones and the ever sanguine
Campau as doubtful. and to-day claimed by the
popocratlc state Committee Chairman as safe
for the Popvcratio ticket by $4,000 majority.
These claims seem only to demonstrate the
dense ignorance or wilful Misrepresentation OF
all OF these toy politicians. Iowa never gave Its
electoral vote to any but the Republican party.
Twice the Democrats carried 1t at q State cleo
ton. but simply and solely because the Repub-
lIcans had passed a prohibitive liquor law that
cost them the practically solid foreign vote.
The Republicans have repented Of that folly.
and although there is q law on the statute books
to-day prohibiting the manufacture Of spiritu-
Gus or malt liquors in the State, breweries arc in
operation within a stones throw Of the State
House. Tie law Is q dead letter. as in Kansas
and other States. because not upheld by local
opinion. The voters who left the Republican
party are back again and assisting in the work
of stamping out Bryaniam In the State.
In 1894 the Republican plurality In the State
was 70, 800. and its majority over both Demo-
Gratis and Popullsts was 45,3s9.
In 1895 In the vote for Governor the Repub-
lican majority over both Democrats and Popu-
lists was 81, c55 in a very light vote. This year
the Republican plurality will be no less than
5000. The Republican State Central Commit
tee, which, according to the testimony of Chair
man Hanna, 10 about the moat efficient in the
Union. with the possible exception OF Kansas. has
received the results Of the lnal poll In eighty
three out of the ninety-nine counties ofthe State.
Estimating the vote IN the uncompleted 10
counties At the same ratio as tho 80 In which the
work 10 finished. the Republican plurality will
be 70. OOO. To show tho faith that Is in him. tho
Chairman of the State Committee. authorized.
ten days ago. . standing offer OF bets, which has
been published daily in tho local papers. but as
yet no one has appeared to accept them. These
bets are as follows:
One hundred dollars that Mckinley will have
8 1000 majority in Iowa, 500 that Mckinley
will have 80. 900 plurality In Iowa. 500 that
every Republican Congressman In Iowa will be
elected, 500 that Bryan will not carry ten
counties in Iowa.
To-day. as soon as II became known that Popo-
cratic Chairman Carr had notified Chairman
boucbA y SulShko tiAb piye voota NoAty Ao"1
by 80, OOc. the pluralities and ms~ jorities In tho
ibovs bets were doubled. but still they were not
taken. The Popocrats simply lie In saying that
there is Q ghost of o show for Bryan in Iowa
And the public at largo In this State know they
Ere lying and ignore their claims accordingly.
Tho present Chairman of the Republican
State Central Committee. Mr.. Mcmillan, 10 no
novice in political work. This is not the first
campaign he has managed in Iowa by any
means. In former years his polls have boen
wonderfully accurate. and the wildes guess he
ever made was in 1892. when he said Harrison
would carry the State BY 80. 900 and his plural
fly happened to be only $4,000. But there was
. great Democratic tidal wave that year that
carried all msjoritles outside of the est!-
mates. This year II there is any tidal
wave 1t will be n sound-money one. and
the anti-Bryan vote In that case will
be nearer 100, 900 than the 10000 stimated by
Chairman Mcmillan. He says very frankly that
when his first poll of the State was taken In
August 1t showed tho sound-money men to be
10000 votes short of sufficient to carry the
State. Then the campaign Of ed ucation began
and was carried on with the same earnestness.
vigor, and thoroughness as in the other West
ern States. and with the same result OF turning
back the tide OF free silverism and Populism
and lining up the voters of the State enthusi-
caily on the SIDE OF SOUND money inc same
men who took the poll of August have
taken that Of October. They are all
personally known to Chairman Mcmillan as
absolutely reliable men. and no Is willing to
wager his own money that their reports of the
situation are correct A dozen different times
during the campaign, when the Popocratic
managers have denied the truth OF the Repub-
lean C~hairmRn's estimate. he has promptly
challenged them by publishing his figures for a
dozen or moro counties and daring the other
side to disprove their accuracy. This boldness
At once spiked the guns Of the Bryanites. and
shey resorted to their favorite plan of claiming
everything. but declining to publish figures.
The truth 10 that they have mono which they
dare to publish at tho risk of being promptly
met with absolute proof Of their dishonesty.
There are something like 10000 employees of
all sorts in the State of Iowa. and the sound
money campaign managers say that shortly
AFTER Bryan's nomination an informal canvass
showed that at least 90 per cent. OF that vote
was inclined to favor the platform OF the Chi
cARo Convention. To-day there Is evidence on
Mo In the office Of the Republican State Com
mittee to prove tho claim that 90 per cent. of