The San Francisco call., 1896-10-09
All East Of the Mississippi Be.
lieved to Be Solid for
Mckinley.
HOPES OF TWO COAST STATES.
Views of the National Committee-A
Question of Honesty and Existence
of the Government.

Ex-United States Senator Charles N.
FELTON, has returned here after five months
in Virginia and Maine and other places,
where be has been with his family. While
in the East he visited Michigan, Illinois
and neigh boring States.
The ex-senator says there has ali along
been the deepest interest in the Presi-
Dental contest. 1t was intense for time,
ylction that Major Mckinley will be
elected. This belief has increased the con-
fidence in the future business situation.
Mr.. FELTON, says he felt that if he could
do any good for the cause of Republican
ism he could probably do most ins Cali
fornia, and therefore if 1t is desired that
he make some speeches. he will do SO for
the good of the cause. Asked about the
condition of the campaign, as he had been
able to gather 1t, he said:
"The consensus of opinion is that there
is no question that Mckinley will carry all
the States east of the Mississippi, and by
a majority that will astonish the people.
/ gathered this from well-informe men
whom ! met, and who were In the best
possible position to gain all the facts. This
is the condition east of the NJ Mississippi.
"Iowa, which is on this side, has been
carefully canvassed by the DIock system,
and no less than three times, and the low
est estimate made is that it will 60 for
McKipley by 10000,
as manifested, is changing daily toward
Mckinley, because the sober second
| thought is, leaving silver out of the ques-
| ton, tn at the stability of this Government
| is at stake. The National Committeeman
in New York and Chicago have, as they
say, no question as to the final result,
SINCE the people are taking cognizance OF
| this.
"There is pervading the committee,
however, some slight doubt as TO the Pa
| cific Coast. 1t is hoped we will carry Cali
| fornia and Oregon, not so much that they
are necessary as to impress upon the peo-
| pie that the masses are in favor of hon.
esty as against the reputation of debts,
| public and private.
.sThey are unable to see how social and
political organizations csn exist except by
| honesty and confidence between man and
man.. Therefore, the people have
awakened in order that there may be no
doubt when the question OF the Govern
ment is at stake.
Gas to Bryan and the crowds which
hear him, he draws large audiences, as
any man will who has been nominated
for the Presidency, for they want to see
what kind of a man he is. The consensus
of opinion is that his speeches are compo.
sitions of assum ption, declaration and
defamation, barren of logic and not based
on any fact.
s'There is deep interest on both sides in
the contest, but it is not as intense as it
was, because the people believe Mckinley
will succeed. The present indications are
that financial distress will not be intensi-
fed, and therefore confidence is being re-
stored !"
Mr.. FELTON, believes that if Mr.. Bryan
should be elected times will be inn
measurably worse, and that those who
work for wages will feel it more than any
body else, and to degree scarcely now to
be realized.
st is q condition so grave" said he,
that it has never been approached IN the
history of the Republic, except when we
fought for our independence with Eng
land, and during the last Civil War;"