Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-10-01
Total .
CANNOT HOLD THEM ALI

In other words, should Mckinley
carry every state east of the Missouri
and north of the Ohio and the Mason
aud Dixon line he woul have a major
| ity of six in the electoral college.
The beauty of it all is he can't do it.
And Hanna, with all his money and
all his lack of scruple added to his
coarse force, can't do it for him.
In all of these states the Democrats
fuse with the POpulists and present
an unbroken silver front. The only
bolts in these bailiwicks are silver
bolts from the Republicans, and in
passing one may say of the Populists'
refusalS to fuse with the Democrats,
that the Republicans can gain no aid,
no comfort from them. These fuse
refusalS only occur in states like Ala
bama, where, whatever happens,
RepublicaniSm and McKinleysm
stand no more of a show than a
feather in furnace.
~ ~ But, to go back to this table of the
middle west, the north and the north
east: Mckinley has six to the good,
should carry them all; but there are
several of these persimmonS beyond
the reach of the Hanna syndicate pole.
Be they ever so wisely, corrupt they
SILVER HOLD ON MINNESOTA.
Take Minnesota for eXample-and
without it Mckinley is swept away
and lump rises and lives in the
Hanna throat every time he thinks of
it-take Minnesota with its nine
votes; what man allows Mckinley
Minnesota in his count? The Repub-
licanS are twO-thirds for silver there.
They are leaving the party for the
Democracy by squads, platoons and
companies. It's been nothing but
'bolt Mckinley" in Minnesota ever
since Hanna got his nomination in st.
Louis. Ex-Governor Merriam and
Mike Doran may carry caucuSSeS, and
even dominate state conventions, but
they are helpless at the polls. They
may lead the Minnesota horse with
corporation halter to the water, but
they can't make him drink. Mime
sofa will be for Bryan.
With a hop and skip over Iowa,
where gold is in u corner fighting fer
its life and bidding fair to lose it,
come to the great state of Illinois.
Every Illinois sign is silver one.
Altgeld for governor is to win over
John Tanner; even Republicans admit
that. If the state is to go locally
Democratic, how will it resist an even
stronger national impulse? The state
is half way on its way to Bryan now,
and by November the world will wit
ness silver stampede in that corn
stalk commonwealth.
HoOSIER VOTES NEEDED.
In Indiana and in Michigan the
Mckinley dove, when cast loose by
Hanna, returns with weary pinion to
to the syndicate ark, finding no rest
for the sole of it's foot. They say
about Washington that the millions
Hanna will pour forth on the Hoosers
will make the former financial opera
tions in politics of blocks-of-fve-
Dudley look pale and wan. Its to be
hoped that Hanna will break open his
barrel on the banks of the Wabash.
The HOoSierS need money. And such
is their thrift and such their political
direction that they will take all
Hanna will bring them and then vote
for Bryan, just the same.
The truth is the Mckinley chances
are afire, as this is written, in
Indiana, in Michigan, in Ohio itself;
while from the smudges going up in
parts Of the empire state it would aps
pear as if New York itself was In
direct range of the sparks and liable
to burst into silver burning at any
hour. Even the staid and solemn
state of Pennsylvania is acting
peculiarly, and from what flotsam
comes now ashore from the Keystone
community, one might reasonably
look for Republican woe in that
direction.
That is the situation, and there are
the tables and figures by which Nc
Kinley must make his conquest of the
white house. One will have to stand
on his head before he sees or reads
any Hanna syndicate encouragement
in them.
Bryan will win.