Evening star., 1896-10-29
MICHIGANi is QUEERED
She Will Probably Go for Mckinley and
fa, Sigh.
Repub,ic..s who will Not Vote for
Pfngree lnd Democrats Who
x
WiliTN9t Support Bryan.
Correspondence ,ore7ne Evening Star.


GRAND RARIQS Mich. October 2s 1895
This last week Of the campaign is full of
ginger. In all the political history Of the
with hotter finish. More red fire was
burned In the Blaine campaign of 81 and
In some of the other contests. but for close.
hand-to-hand. dead-earnest fighting, this
campaign beats the record. In the last
grand roundup, as throughout the cam
paign. the republicans have a distinct ad-
vantage. They have organization. disci-
pine. experience and funds. They have 100
speakers working under the direct tion of tho
state central committee. and twice as many
more working under the direction OF
county and congressional committees. In
some OF the counties, where reports show
the silver sentiment Is strong. 70 to 100
speeches will. be delivered in the final effort
to the republican speakers, there are about
twenty sound money democrats on tho
stump, besides the sound money special
train through the state, and the sound
money democrats and the republicans work
In perfect harmony and accord. The sound
money special train started Monday from
Mackinaw. and will visit nearly every
point touched by Bryan. The speakers are
Waller Of Connecticut. Congressman Haine
OF New YORK, Professor Bradley M. Thomp-
son OF the State University, and John j.
Enrisht OF Detroit. The speeches will not
Dc ten-minute rear-platform affairs, but in
each town visited halls have been rented in
which to hold the meetings. and there will
be as much formality about each as though
IL were the only meeting Of the day.
The popocrats have about thirty speakers
OUT, beside the local talent, much of the
latter very cheap and ordinary in quality
Inc state management has received ma
terfal assistance for the last week from the
N no Of
speakers. mostly from Colorado and Mon
lana, and little money, the latter not suf-
nc.ent IN quantity. however. to warrant
spending any of it for gunpowder or fire
works. The speakers are being concen-
trated upon the third and sixth districts.
with some big guns in the fifth, the home
VI the subernatorial candidate and the
headquarters of the silver campaign The
upper peninsula has been practically ahan
uoned as hopeless, and 1t Is the same in
'ne northern part Of the lower peninsula
II inoicatlons mean anything the republi-
cans Will carry the state for the national
ticket by handsome majority. and some
OF tne symptoms point to landslide 1t
- true mat organized labor Is about two
.hllos Tor Bryan. but organized labor. ex-
cePt IN rev trades. Is not strong, and the
great mass of unorganized labor is about
two-thirds for Mckinley or at least is be-
heVed to be 80. The farmers who were
adVocates OF free silver last summer have
been swung into line in many sections and
tne tarfn has helped to do it. The man
ufacturing. business, banking, railroad and
otnef interests are for sound money, and
democratic vote will go for Mckinley. The
republicans estimate the majority they viii
receive at 5000. at least and will not he
surprised II It kicks the roof Off all previous
records. They are not basing their esti-
mates on hppes,l but upon reports sent in
from experienced and skilled workers in all
parts of the state.
While all the railroads are against Bryan
President ma ole
governor. General Manager Charles NJ.
Heald of the Chicago and West Michigan
and Detroit, Lansing and Northern rail-
roads Is the only prominent railroad man
taxing an active hand in the campaign
work. He Is making a tour of his system
to talk to the men at points where they can
De conveniently assembled. He tells them
mat anything like coercion or intimidation
VIII not be tolerated: that the men are en-
tireiy at liberty to vote as they please. and
how they vote will not in any way affect
their relations with the company. But as a
railroad man. talking to railroad men. he
hopes they will see their way clear to vot-
irg to make 1t President Mckinley and
Governor Sligh. He tells them why free
silver would be disastrous to railroads, with
interest charges payable in gold, and why
Mayor Pingree. with his known opposition
to railroads. might, If elected governor.
hamper the roads with unjust burdens He
hopes the men will see the matter in the
same light as he sees 1t, but whether they
do or not will make no difference. The sys-
tenn employees about 5000 men. all voters,
and Mr.. Heald's tour will doubtless have
an effect.
AS election day approaches it becomes
more apparent that Mayor Pingree will be
cut in many quarters. He has sneered at
the state central committee, attacked Sen
ator Mcmillan, fnsulted prominent repub-
licans and has gone of on tangent on
national issues. In addition to this he has
quarreled with Albert Pack. who more than
any other helped to win the nomination for
him. and has had falling out with other
influential friends. The state committee is
not opposing him In any way but it must
be said 1t is not going out of the way to
boom him. He will run at least 10000 be-
hind hts ticket. and may go even further
back. Many republicans will vote direct for
Sigh on the same theory that sound money
democrats will vote for Mckinley and
others will vote for Sprague. He will gain
few silver votes. and many sound money
will vote otherwise on the state ticket