Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1896-10-10

All indications point 10 the success
of the democratic ticket in Novem-
Der and the election of William Jen-
nings Bryan as the next President of
of the United States. The signs are
too numerous and convincing of
democratic victory, for anyone to
doubt it, who does not wilfully close
his eyes and refuse to see the situa-
ton. Advices from all sections of
our country are to the effect, that
the people, regardless of past polit-
zeal affiliations, are rallying around
the standard of democracy and mean
to bear it to victory. The people
fully realizing the distress and pow
erty that awaits them, if Mckinley
ism should triumph in November,
are truly ''in the saddle" and mean
to avert that disaster Party ties no
longer bind them, money cannot
purchase them and all the coercive
measures attempted by corporations
and trusts cannot intimidate them
from doing their duty. Bryan is
already q winner and his prospects
are Frightening every day. Demo
Gratis not only make that claim, but
gold-bug, anti-Bryan papers like the
New York Herald, Washington Post
and New York World practically &C
cept the statement as correct. The
Herald, for instance, in its table of
election figures, in its edition of Sun
day, puts Kentucky, Maryland, Del
aware, Indiana and Illinois in the
Mckinley column, and with them, is
barely able to figure out a majority
of electoral votes for Mckinley. TAX
ing the figures Of the Herald, no
other proof need be given of the
slender thread upon which the
Herald hangs it's prospect of success
for the Mckinley ticket than the
following extract from the Washing
ton Post:
The loss, therefore, of either Illinois
or Indiana would defeat Mckinley.
The loss of Kentucky and Delaware
would defeat him. The loss of Ken
lucky and Maryland would defeat
him. And it is a significant fact that
in these five States, especially in
Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky,and Mary
land, the republicans are spending
time, effort, and money with species
of desperation that argues anything
but confidence on their part. The
Herald airily assigns all five to Nc
hinley, but does Mr.. Hanna feel sure
about it :? Is he willing to accept the
Herald's canvass and turn his
energies elsewhere? We think not.
The tone of the above from the
Post indicates very clearly, that it
believes, as does everyone at all
posted about the political situation
in those States, that majority of
these doubtful States are for Bryan;
and the World would not indulge in
the speculation, it does, in the follow
ing, if it did not see the handwriting
on the wall:
Fusion has, to a reasonable GER
tainty, added Alabama, Kansas, Ne
braska, North Carolina and Ten
nessee-52 electoral votes-to the 46
electoral votes of Arkansas, Colorado,
Idaho, Mississippi, Montana, South
Carolina, Utah, Washington and
Wyoming, that were already assumed
to be reasonably safe for silver. 1t
has, presumably, given $4,000 pop
ulist votes in Illinois, $4,000 in In
diana, 10000 in Iowa, 10000 in Ken
lucky, 10000 in Missouri, $4,000 in
Virginia and $4,000 in Minnesota to
wards making good the losses from
the detection of sound money demo-
Gratis and towards swelling the ac-
cessions of free silver republicans.
In brief, fusion has made it nee
essary that there shall be enormous
democratic OBJECTIONS from the free
silver ticket if Mckinley is to have
even respectable majority of the
electoral vote. For even if he gets
every State east of the Mississippi
and north of the Ohio and the Pc
tomac, which includes Delaware and
Maryland, and gets West Virginia,
also, he still needs two votes to make
the necessary majority"