Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-14
M,KINLEY WILL LOSE OHIO.

Mckinley is going to lose his own state.
| The farmer and labor vote of the state Is
| practically solid against the Canton man.
| There is every reason to believe that the
| people of Ohio are going to bury Hanna
| and his mortgaged man on the third day
! of November. The secretary of the DEM
| ocratic state executive committee of that
state, Mr.. w. A. Taylor, says that if he
! should discount the reports sent to him
by the county chairmen fully so per cent,
| for possible over confidence, the esti-
mate swould still be a safe basis upon
which to claim Ohio for Bryan by $4,000"
Ordinarily, Ohio is a republican state
| by $4,000 majority and therefore many
are unwilling to believe it possible for
| Bryan to carry the state. But these are
not ordinary times. Last years figures
are no good in this campaign. There has
never been a contest before for the presi-
deney when the issues involved in the
campaign were so clearly defined and so
| we'll understood by the people. There
has never been a contest before for the
| election of a president where all the corr
porations, trusts, combines and money
owners were arrayed on one side in open
combat with the masses for control of the
|
tempting to buy, browbeat, bulldose and
| eoeree the people into turning this gov
| ernment over to them have been able al
| ways in the past to get the advantage
when it came to procuring legislation;
but they have accomplished it in an I'M
derhand, stealthy manner. They have
| gone to Washington and lobbied their pet
measures through congress and succeed
| be.
resentatives who went there to represent
the people, but failed to discharge their
duty In the contest now on 1t is differ
ent. The democratic masses went into
! the democratic primaries last spring de-
| termined that the present campaign
| should be fought on issues and that the
| money power should not write both the
republican and democratic platforms,
name the candidates and leave the con-
test as they have been left in the past,
heads the people lose tails the money
power wins" The result was that when
the same power that went to st. Louis,
| dictated the republican platform and
| forced Mckinley to sign an agreement to
| veto 4 free coinage bill should one ever
reach the white house and find him there,
| marched on Chicago to accomplish the
| same end, they found the people mounted
! and well seated in the saddle. After much
| dickering and a great deal of Boosting,
| they walked up to the fact that in the
presidential race of 1896 there was to be
an unbridled candidate on the track.
There we're to be issues in the campaign.
There was to be a candidate and a plat
form not named and written by Wall
street money magnates. Then came de-
Yelopments that opened the eyes of the
people as they had not been opened be-
fore. When the Whitneys and the Flow
ers and the Belmonts and all that class of
democrats who had in the past posed as
| leaders of the democratic party went
away from Chicago swearing vengeance
against the democratic platform and the
democratic ticket the people, the com
| mon masses of the common people," saw
| and for once fully realized what fools
| they had been in the past They learned
| that the great co democrats who in the
| past had stood out against Tom Platt,
| Mat Quay, Tom Reed, John Sherman and
| other republican lesser lights had done
so simply to keep the two great parties in
| this country safely in the hands of the
money power They came to full real
ization of the fact that the great CD
| leaders of the democracy in the east
| were as good republicans as the great
republican leaders, They saw one after
| another of the heretofore democratic
| leaders join the republicans, and soon
| ii became evident to all the peo
| pie that the contest must be between the
masses who create the wealth and the
| classes who absorb it. Along that line the
campaign has been waged, and will be
| waged until the end. That the people will
| win is as certain as anything in politics
| that has not yet actually TRANSFERRED The
| only question is how large will the ma
| jority be, and that depends on the in
| Guence of money in one shape and an
| other. The people of Ohio, as well as the
| people in every other state, see andTeal-
| ize fully the issues involved in the cam
| paign. The masses in that state who
| create values. regardless of previous par
| ty utilization, are going to vote for Bryan.
| The question of state pride will not figure
in the campaign. A republican farmer in
| Ohio will not vote to enslave himself and
| his children to the money power simply
| because the figure-head set up as a can
didate to represent the trusts, combines
and corporations halls from his state.
If Mr. Bryan wins in this contest he
must win by receiving the farmer and the
labor vote. If he receives that vote in the
| state of Ohio he will carry the state. If
| he cannot get that vote in Ohio why
| should 1t be expected that he can get it
| elsewhere?
Bryan will carry every state west of
Pennsylvania and south of the Mason
| and Dixon line.
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