Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-09-30
SAFE FOR BRYAN
What a Close Canvass of the
 State Discloses.
RURAL DIsTRIOTg FO2 sILVER

tl1e Avowed Choice of the Trades Unions 4 Conservative Estimate Gives the State
 to the Demoerats by 10000 Plurality. R>>rahsaclg af ! Illinois politically 85r4zrgsrheer to tEelfree silver Democra cv. Both sidesimxe of late laid violent flainl- t6 6Illinois.A Hanna and his coterit sairfzft-Yas to be. for Mckinley; Jones,
 klfgefd and Che Democratic leaders at
 Springfield anaH Chicago were equally
 vehement in giving the state to Bryan
 and free silyer.~a.Ineg declared the bat
 tie won for Bryan.
 -~Yhe@-Hann6cr8ts, in 6p ecstasy ot
 eagur voraeitys aniIeunced, and do still,
 ffhat=-sAIcKinley would carrg=1llinois
 by+499ye00 majority. The wish was fa-
 fhef# to this bluff, for suolf ittwas. A
 bit. of .research disclosed thfsscfaim of
 490, 0ee8 for MdgIinley tos osAe=feather
 headed nonsense. s...s.sss
 In Marion GountH where the Repub-
 lfcaus solemnly assert a MeKinley Ger
 fainfY od 100 nfaJ6rity, a house to house
 poll,.,lnade wsithzzhair line patience,
 gives it to BryaIaby over 300. The Same
 might be said of all the country coun-
 ties The Republicans lay hands on
 them, but dqfatA know whefgofSthey
 speak aud dor9t dage make practical in
 vestieation for fear the syfiseoveries nliglab-blast and wither them.
 ..s-A1tga1d, on his part, working with
 -sfjjeutenants, Buck Hinfichsen and
 EitEian, shas made. one following the
 ether, two thorough canYasses5sschool
 district by school district, of every foot
 of Illinois ground lying befweensGal
 and the Cook county line. They made
 two because the first cast such san un-
 leekedwfor glow on their prespRet that they couldn't believe 1t true.zsSo they ma1nBlae second. They declare-Altgeld anglsaids - that their search was so thorough that not even DiHpoint of political chance escaped them. They slammed every front gate, pulIedseYery doorbell save ill Chicago and its coun7 tys~y.Assza result, they assert that both Altgefde .and Bryan will come to the Geek-eednty line with clean majority of ,so50oo.
 Es.TbeEzfell, too, that poll has been made-ofs Chicago and Cook county, and that the free silver Bryan-Altgeld forces wiIlssgials there by 8, GOO. They claim the state without tremor by 5000 for Altgeld and Bryan.
 ... Conservative ones -With- -Mheln-L.eeH- versed cut the rural majority which f they claimed down to i20;000. That fig ure, it would Tseemt everybody agrees Altgeld and Bryan. will 5haRe.u xrsH
 But, taking the, best and most oon- servative testimony of both sides, Bryan today stands to get the state by 0,000. It remains Ito bai seen whether the Me- Kinleyites can bribe or browbeat thiB down, All honest future changes of DO. litical faith in the state will be from gold to free silver. One hears of new converts to freei silver daily. This is particularly true of the southern half of the state, where Bryan met such enthu- siastic thousands as lie crossed it Mon- day. anigf ..3.a99 aa0ie sff = l-lfi e@ In;Ghieago Bryan is theropen and ad- mitted oandidateYof all of the trades unions. His speech Labor day made 8 profound impression, By, the way, the labor men say that the. attendance at the park where. Bryan spoke that day was over TOO, 000 ..i lt'i.t i'l .i'' lioi'4E ] The labor unions make no z, .dur oi
 .-ya,.sar G .a $ ss,1ccess nj saas1aols aoio7G TE,faTe sum upi from all 4ICGould see anC learnT Bryan and free silver, will carry | lfIllinois.I and doTit handsomely. IThf ]. Popnhsts will do their part, and the fret l silver, Republicans would seem, to, out I number the gold Democrats about 10 tt I 1. Bryan should win by . good majority 9 All he has to fear, for it is the only
 loopheles of Republican escape, is tn, i| Mckinley syndieateis money in Ohica ], go. If they can buy or bribe a victory
 they. will do so.7p.i ..y a.;l tsst, .4ga7p f :. All of the Chicago papers are for. Me
 Kinley and violently against Bryan This need breed no alarm. They wer, I as violently against Cleveland in 1899 sE sEWhen he carried Cook county by full, ahl40, ,000 majority and took the state ou Iofithe Republican list for the first tim, , since the days: of Douglas, They wer. as violently against Carter Harrison | when he was, made mayor by, a larg, 4 majority, Bryan need have no fears Q T the Chicago press fl, the past is an, 4 hgaide As the day stands put Ilhnoi ! tin9 the Bryan column. Let it stay til | further orders. 44Alfred Henry Lewis il J New, York .Journal.li0 qoga ai5 Hn 
 4 fF+ae silver would bensft the farmers b \ lraising the price of the silver in ,silTe i.using ooaaitriesg It is that siivefG price d eat in half when tneasnretie in gold. tha he has to meet. It is oriental silver eOun tries c9mpetitiop aud not ,qSerpFpdnetio that causes the low price ef wheat, 4 bushel of wheat in Mexico will buy th iioiiar there as easily as it ever. did pBushel of wheat here win buy only hal Il as much Of our dollar fi3 zo533fih aoi5 kffitf slit l0 7f7f-9-7ft 7-f7 s.19rqg4 h. ,ft.t,,. ..... The Moral Side. ri 9,.rf. E The efforts of the goldbug orators t 1pnt their cause on q high, moral plan s' Win make their situation worse rathe 1 than betfeF. They merely show the Sies f