Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-10-26
BRYAN GAINS IN OHIO
MANY STANCE REPUBLICANS WORK
 ING FOR SILVER.

Very Bright In Mark Hanna's Home.
 Labor VIII Vote solidIy Against Gold
 and PIutocracy.
 With such diligent inquiries as I could make I have not yet been able to find any evidence of the movement away from Bryan of which the high ap- pojntee of President Cleveland whom met on my arrival here told me he had observed in journeying through the state 1t is G ctrtainly not among the workingmen of Cleveland, organized or unorganized. According to the best in- formation I can get, the proportion of workingmen who propose to vote for Bryan is even greater here than i'll Chi eaeo and is generally expressed by such nhrages as Mckinley is not i'll it, , while polls privately taken by delegates among their fellows i'll the plasterers' national convention that met last week and in that of the carpenters now in session show that nine-tenths of the representatives from all parts of the UQlOn are TOT Dry du'
 That the Palmer Democrats of Ohio have not yet become very mighty folk, in numbers at least, is shown by the fact that in order to get the 5000 sig natures required to put their electors on the official ticket they are obtaining the aid of Republicans, and that Republic ans themselves, though they now talk very confidently of the campaign i'll Ohio, have not yet discovered any rap idly growing repugnance to silver, is best evidenced by such speeches as that of Cliff Beech, the Republican candi date for congress in the Twentieth dis trict, who deyotes himself almost en- tirely to the outright advocacy of free silver.
 Ex-Judge E. J. Blandin of Cleveland, a lawyer of high standing and large practice, was nominated by the Demo- crats for judge of the supreme court. The office he did not want, as to take it would much reduce his income, yet as a stanch Democrat and an earnest free silver man he was willing to accept the nomination if as he first thought might be the case, it would involve no danger of election; but, becoming con- vinced that if he remained on the ticket he would be elected, he last month de- clined and another nomination has been made in his place.
 1 asked Judge Blandin, whom l have known for years to have the character and reputation of an extremely careful and conservative man, whether he was still of opinion that 1t was necessary for him to decline the nomination in order to avoid the office or whether there WAS in any part of the state counter move ment beginning.
 His reply was that he could see the matter in no other light than that which induced him to decline; that there might have been some little sagging when the news of the Maine election was received, hut that if had been the case, it had been only temporary and that throughout northern Ohio the movement of the farmers to free silver was now going en faster than ever, while the defeetions from the Demo- cratic vote were so small as hardly to be worth taking into account.
 "Ohio, said the judge, lis close state normally. At the last election the Republicans carried it by 35, GOO. State pride will, I think, do something to strengthen Mckinley, and, allowing 15,- 900 votes for that, the Republicans would have on a normal basis 50 900 this year.
 But in the last election the Popu- lists boiled, in round numbers, 60,000 votes. These. counting nothing for changes from our party to the other, would give Bryan Ohio by 10, 900 ma jority. But, while am confident that the Ohio Democrats who will vote for Mckinley are very, very few hear everywhere through the country of the stanchest kind of Republicans who are working and will vote for Bryan, and, while 1 know that no effort will be spared to give Governor Mckinley the vote Of his own state, I cannot see how that result can be accomplished. J
 This IS the general impression that I @ get from careful and well informed a Democrats That the Populists will this 5 year vote for Bryan to a man there is < no doubt, while l am told that the Pro- hlbitlonists through the state are very N largely for him, and of the turning of S o1d Republicans to free silver I hear specifically on every hand. Henry q George in New York Journal
 Free silver will raise prices and wages oy bringing more money into circulation, spy doing away with fears of money