The San Francisco call., 1896-09-11
And With It No Candidate for
President Has Ever Been
Successful.
REPUBLICANS GAIN HEADwAY
From Many Sections Come Assurances
That Major Mckinley Will Be
Elected.

CHICAGO, ILL, Sept. 10.-Chairman
Hanna is still directing the "details of or
ganization" at Republican headquarters.
He is kept busy eight hours day talking
to and being talked to by scores OF, politi-
clans and business men. He will devote
most of his time until election day to the
West, where he acknowledges there is
much hard work yet to be done to make
success sure quantity.
Mr.. Hanna said to-day to reporter for
the United Associated Presses that the re-
ports which he had received since he had
arrived last Saturday showed the Republi-
cans were getting most of what he termed
the uncertain element among the electors,
and the party was steadily recovering lost
ground. He declared the best and most
numerous element of organized labor was
friendly to Mckinley, and agitators like
Debs were against the Republican party
because it was composed of men who had
been successful.
Mr.. Hanna took up the subject of Mr..
Bryan's letter of acceptance, and comment
ing on the brief reference to free coinage
said:
''Mr. Bryan admits the failure of his
arguments for free silver and he gives
deal with the rest of the Chicago platform.
He will appeal to the masses to array
themselves against the classes, the poor
against the rich. He intends to appeal to
the passions and prejudices of men. He
sadly mistakes the intelligence of the
American workingman if he thinks they
will support him. No candidate for Presi-
dent Eas ever succeeded with such
policy"
John NJ. Ewing, secretary of the Wiscon-
sin committee, called and asserted his old
allegiance and reports that Wisconsin will
give $4,000 majority for Mckinley, the
Germans being almost solid Tor him.
The resignation of Sterling II. Holt,
chairman of the Indiana Democratic COM
mittee, was regarded at headquarters as
an indication that the gold Democrats of
the State intended to make fight against
the Bryan followers and 1900 tc 10000
votes go to Mckinley.
]. D. Elliott, chairman of the South
Dakota committee, wrote to Chief Hahn
of the speakers bureau: ''We have them
on the run IN this State. We are making
a schoolhouse campaign and the reports
which receive daily show that the silver
voters are enrolling themselves with the
Mckinley clubs. South Dakota will surely
go Republican. have made one hundred
assignments for speakers in the last three
days"
Hon. Roswell G. Horr of New York
wrote from Kansas to Mr.. Hahn that he
had never in his political campaign ex-
perience had such large meetings to ad-
dress When the halls and tents were
filed there was always an overflow meet
ing to address. He said Kansas was
ablaze and the Republicans working har-
moniously.
Mr.. Hahn to-day assigned Hon. Ben
Butterworth of Ohio and F. X Schoon-
maker OF illinois. among other speakers,
to make a tour OF the Pacific Coast States,
speaking in Minnesota, Nebraska and
Wyoming first. This is the first time a
National committee has attempted to sup
ply speakers for the Coast States.
Terence V. PowderIy, the labor leader,
has been engaged by the National Com
mittee to make speaking tour through
the West especially for workingmen, be-
ginning about Septem Der 25.