The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-09-21
BOTH DEAD SURE.
Mark Hanna is Confident of Re-
publican Victory.
Johnson of Kansas Is Sure OF
Democratic Success.
TAFFY FOR LELAND.
Hanna Says He Can Do Almost
Anything.
Teller, Sam Small and TOWne
To Be In Kansas.
TAFFY FOR LELAND.

spend a week or ten days. He was at
the western headquarters three weeks
and he left for the east expressing the
greatest confidence that the western
middle states would join the east in the
election Of Mckinley.
1T is only a question now of how
many states we will GET said Mr..
Hanna to a correspondent. I'VE have
enough in sight sure to cast their lot
on the side Of sound money and in the
break OF the so-called doubtful states
to US we viii take a wide fringe of the
solid south. Sentiment has turned
strongly toward Mckinley during this
month. The people are awaken
ing to the fact that the country is on
the eve of an important election, the
most important since the war"
Where is this growth the most ap-
parent2"
''Oh, in the west of course the middle
west There has been little room to
grow in the eastern states-we had
everything there to begin with. In the
vest we have plowed deeper, the soil
is more fertile, more people in need of
conversion. And we are making great
progress, too. We are in better shape
now, In the midst of September, than
AZ the opening of the campaign we ex-
pected to be in October. Men who,
earlier in the campaign, were in doubt
now see that the Chicago platform is
menace to the credit OF the nation and
they are unwilling to lend themselves
to Reputation"
You are sure Of u1nOis?'
oh, bless you, yes"
And Altgeld? You will defeat him.
too?"
why. I don't see what AltgeId is
pinning his hopes to. The Mckinley
majority Will be so big that it viii
carry the state ticket with it. governor
and all Yes Illinois is safe for Nc
E<inIey. and Michigan Nebraska, too
Mr. Bryan viii not carry his own state
You don't include Kansas"
kansas ought to join the procession
I think it Will from all I hear But We
are leaving that to Mr. Leland. If he
can't carry il, nobody can IN fact,
since we have become acquainted with
MI Leland we have come to think he
can do almost anything. He IS
worker. Untiring, he never sleeps
Where will you get your biggest ma
1Ority2''
wei, New York will run up between
100000 and 200, 600. Pennsylvania will
do better. 1t will be almost unanimous
in Pennsylvania
And Ohio? Will Mckinley do as well
there as he did when ne was elected
ooh. he will carry Ohio by a good
strong majority, but we do not forget
that there is a considerable free silver
sentiment in the state"
When will your crack speakers, such
as Mr.. Harrison, MI Sherman and Mr.
Reed, be sent to Missouri and Kansas Z?
We do not expect many speeches
from Mr. Harrison, although he viii
give US a part of his time We have
assigned Mr.. Sherman to the PACING
coast We expect Mr. Reed to come
west but VIII not bill him out until
he reaches Chicago. There IS some
doubt about his going west of here. But
If he does, Mr.. Leland no doubt VIII Sc
cure him for Nebraska, Kansas ana
Missouri. However. we may not pc
aaSr for
speech out there, and in that event II
win be at Kansas City Colonel ThuEs-
ton will speak at Kansas CITY ana ne
NAV 90 over to Colonel Sam Scott par
becue at Excelsior Springs for one day
Mr. Leland may be able to get MI
Thurston for a week in Kansas also
In the Auditorium annex, where the
Democrats have their national mead
~,1ar+ers- confidence of Democratic use
cess is manifested. 1t may De assumed
b1It il SO nearly resembles the genuine
article that it deceives the casual Nlsl-
NJ Orr Of Atchison was a visitor
there in doubt and distress, Saturday,
but after an hour with J. G. Johnson OF
Kansas and Chairman Jones ne ue-
parted in great slee, sure that Bryan
would win.
Mr.. johnson said to a correspondent
that the men who are in charge OF the
campaign are encouraged oy Lhe .1S 91.lly
on the chess BOARD w hen
we took hold of the campaign, ne Salo,
we mapped out the territory that we
were certain to carry Tnar IerF16oEy
includes enough states to elect Mr.Bry-
an. and as the campaign has progress
ed sentiment in those states has hard
ened I'D and become cryStali1ze0- NoIn-
ane can take them away from US we
will carry the southern states, every
one of them Even West Virginia viii
not get away, and it is all nonsense Tor
them over at the other building TO say
we will lose Florida and LOUISIANA we
will carry Kansas. Nebraska. Michigan
and Minnesota Out there in Kansas
the Watson ticket will not help the Re
votes, but not enough to hurt us If
Iowa were to vote tomorrow 1t would
SO for Bryan"
How about nlinois?"
Nobody can tell about Tllinols-not
now. Today Bryan has 10000 ma
1ority outside of Cook county It IS for
Cook county to decide. We are greatly
encouraged by the local situation here
In the county the united silver organiza-
qfon has 166 clubs and 40 600 members
1t is non partisan and / judge, there
fore that its members are Republicans.
They viii vote for Bryan. i don't hear
much about Indiana but think it is
free silver state. AS to Ohio, McKin-
ley will have to scratch to carry it
get it from good Republican sources,
that a Republican poll Of that state
shows a majority of only u 600 for Nc
kinley over Democrats and Populists-
That ought TO be close enough to scare
our Republican friends. Bryan could
get enough Prohibition votes to wipe
that out Why. I am told by Republi-
cans that Cuyahoga county, in which
Cleveland is situated, will not give Ne
6inley a majority.
We are just now beginning our
speaking campaign and we will have
plenty of speakers. In October Kansas
Will get Senator Teller. CONGRESSMAN
Towne. General A. J. Warner, Senator
Blackburn and Sam Small. Our only
en- barrassment is caused by lack of
money to conduct the campaign We
have enough to live on, but We espec- I