The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1896-10-22

1872. Total, 240,212.
Gov. Bradley, of Kentucky. says that after
careful study of the situation he is convinced
that Mckinley will carry the State by $1,000,
and that the only Representative the Popocrats
will elect will be from the First Congressional
District.
Senator Daniel has at last spoken. 1t is to
defend Cleveands action in sending the troops
to Chicago, and in this the Senator claims he IS
not inconsistent with his support of the Chicago
platform.
Bryan received magnificent ovation in
Michigan, and Oct. 16 broke his own record by
delivering 25 speeches in one day. lie had
immense audiences at Lansing, Jackson, and
elsewhere.
Everything indicates that the Popocrats have
given up all hope of carrying Illinois, and Will
Withdraw most of their workers there for the
purpose Of concentrating on Michigan ana In
diana, where they have more hopes OF success.
The National and State Committees have been
very far apart all the time, and are now
disagreeing more seriously than ever. Alt
geld will make heroic effort to carry the State
for himself. no matter how it may go on the
National ticket. Republicans have put up
100000 to bet. either on carrying the State Tor
Mckinley or against Altgeld, but there have
been only few small BETS and these on the
odds of to A.
The large registration in st. Louis, and the
| number and activity of the Gold Democrats,
have revived Republican hopes of being able to
carry Missouri for the State ticket, if not for
the National.
Some bets have been made on the New York
Stock Exchange Of $1,000 to 81, 900 ON McKn.
ley's election. Also OF $3.50 to $500 that he will
carry New York City, and 81 900 even that
Bryan will not get Ids electoral votes.
S. p. Sheerin. for many years Secretary of the
Indiana Democratic Committee, has come out
in letter denouncing the Chicago platform
| and fusion between theDemocrats and Popu-
lists. He says that he liz still a Democrat, and
will continue to be one.
The New York Court of Appeals has decided
that the Sound Money Democrats have the
right to put National Democratic Party" at
the head of the official ballot.
Senator Marion Butler says that fusion has
been arranged everywhere but in Georgia,
Florida North Carolina, and Tennessee, and it
will be there before election.
Registration closed in New York City satur-
| day night. with 331, $50 voters qualifying. as
against 30s, 693 last year. and 2Sl O07 in 1894.
| The total registration in Brooklyn was 207,-
| 1893, great adv over any preyius year.
| Last year it was 1888 824. In every part Of the
| State the registration was much larger than
| ever before.
| Secretary Morton says that Nebraska will be
very close. Bryan is losing strength. though
| in the State every day, as well as in the coun-
| try. If the campaign could be protracted 60
| days longer he would not carry as many States
| as there are fingers on one hand.
| The total vote in Nebraska this year will be
about 100000. In 1895 it was 49,. 9l6 and in
| 1894 1919, 355. Last year the Republican candi-
| date for Chief Justice received 49, 1876 votes, or
| 1927 per cent. of the whole; the Populist TO-
| 566, 80 per cent. of the whole, and the Adj
| ministraton Democratic 1866 votes. or 10 per
| cent. of the whole; the Democratic 1924, and
| the Prohibition 4, 344 If all these anti-Repub-
| lican elements could have been united it would
have made an aggregate of 103. $50, or nearly
| 81 per cent. of the whole. But fusion has never
really fused in Nebraska. Last year the Popu
| lists and Democrats got together pretty solidly
| on Holcomb, candidate for Governor, but he
| was only elected by the slender plurality
of 1892, while there were $685. votes cast
for an Independent Democratic candidate.
| 1t is not at all likely that any considerable
| portion of the 1886 Democrats who voted in
| 1894 for the Administration candidate for Chief
/! Justice can be brought to vote for Bryan.
| There has been large depopulation of the
| drouth-stricken western portions of the State
| where Popnlism was the strongest, and it is
estimated that the Populsts will lose 1000
votes from this cause. There are Is 900 German
| voters who left the Republicans some years ago,
| but began to drift back, and it is felt certain
that half of them will be in the Mckinley ranks
| this Fall. There is marked return of Repub-
| lcans who went over to the Populists and have
become Disguised with their vagaries and ex-
cesses and the utter incompetence of their
| leaders, New hope has sprung up in the minds
| of the farmers as to the sugar beet as a source
| of wealth, and the Republican party is favor
| able to the development OF this industry while
the Popocrats are distinctly adverse The vet
| every day against the hereses and dangerous
doctrines of the Chicago platform. All these
| make for Republican success in the State
| In Portland, Ore, the betting is said to be
9 and even to / in favor of Mckinley carry
| ing the State. There is some Free Silver sent-
ment in southern Oregon, but everywhere else
the people think more Of Protection to their
wool and fruit than of silver.
1t is claimed that the Republicans of Indiana
made fatal mistake when they re. dstricted
the State in such way to give, upon tho
basis Of the votes of 1892 and 1894, seven Con-
| gressonal Districts to the Republicans four to
| the Democrats and made two very doubtful.
1t is asserted that this will result in giving the
Democrats and Populists combined a majority
of the delegation this year. On the other
hand it is believed that the Gold Democrats
| will assure the election of much more than a
majority Of Sound Money men.
At present there are but two Democrats from
Ohio in Congress, and 10 Republicans. The
Popocrats feel that the best they can hope for
is to increase the Anti-Republican representa-
ton to five, but if Mckinley sweeps the State,
as seems probable, there may be a solid Repub.
lican delegation.
The Republicans largely base their hone of
carrying Indiana upon the great increase of the
Repub lican vote from the influx of working
men into the Gas Belt" Very many of these
were unable to qualify as voters two years ago,
but will this year. The Republican defections
on account of Free Silver have been carefully
polled and found to be exceedingly small,
averaging not much more than one in pre-
cinct. The Popocrats are really very much
disappointed in the gains they expected to
make among the farmers In poll in Ran
dolph County, for example. made in July, there
were $50 Silver Republicans found; 60 days
later the poll showed the snumber to have been
reduced under 100, and the last poll placed
+ them under so. On the other hand, the defec-
lions of the Democrats to Sound Money show q
strong increase. The Republicans say that in
, 1894 the Democratic party which was then
, solid, defeated by plurality of 45, 600. II
. is now split in two and the $4,000 Populists
! several thousand Prohibtionists, and not to
, exceed 5000 Silver Republicans cannot make
, good the loss it has sustained from the going
+ out of the Sound Money element