Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1897-04-09
DID MKINLEY WIN ChIcAGOo

When asked concerning his opinion
OF the result # Tuesdays elections il
Ohio. Michigan ard Illinois. wher.
the cause Of free silver went over
"heiminely to the front, VIM. J
Brj at is thus quoted:
"Ihey Indicate that confidence has
been restored" he said, lauonlnp
They need no explanation from me
n speak for he mselves -
Or. rather. it would be more proper
to say that these figures indica,o that
confidence in a righteous esu4a has
never been lost. But hey go farther
than that-,hey prOffer strong circum-
stantlal proof Of Vet another thing. to
which It might not be in good taste
Tor Bryan TO personally direct public
ATTENTION and that is that there was
something Wrol e in the documentary
evidence furnished OF the election to
the Presidency of William McKinlev
commenting on this the Sacramento
Bee says:
The mere fact that Carter H. Har-
rlson, the Free Silver candidate for
Mayor OF Chicago, has carried that
great metropolis with more votes than
were polled by all the other candi-
dates put together, defeating his near.
est competitor by over 20. 900. il not of
Itself sutficiert to establish the de-
sired point. 1t is not quite enough
even when backed by the additional
1act that the accepted figures show
tina in 1896 Mckinley. the gold bug
candidate carried the city by Sc. Oo1
over "m. j. Bryan, the nominee Of
the SilveTites. But it becomes noten.
tiai, and grows almost as strong as
proofs OF Holy Writ, when the further
TACT IS brought 10 mind that some So
coo more votes were claimed to have
oeen polled at the Presidential cleo. !
ton OF 1896 in Chicago than were cast i!
on Tuesday for Mayor.
We use the words were cla,madr
advisedly. The election figures OF the
seven States which swept Mckinley
into the Presidential chair were won
testimonials to the u~arveIons
growth or those States, if thew were
honest and true. The Bee has not
to doubt their truth and TO
mpeach their honesty, and has given
It's readers many figures to prove the
[aith hat il in it.
IIn~Innhfnll %h;a N
polled the full vote of Chicago. 1t
ragged TO a great extent on intensely
'ocal Issues, in which the citizens were
not only Interested from motives Of
'loah patriotism, but as we'll because
hose very same issues touched the
oocke's OF the moneyed classes, while
IL Tie same time they furnished the
working people with an appeal for
'elf-protection. Every voter 10 Chi
E was personally interested in the
ohtest, and the papers OF that great
metropolis made their boast that the
vote recorded there would be
oiled on Tuesday. .
why Is that vote so, 900 short of the
ichluley-BryaD vote? Has CHICAGO
eterlorated? Has it los. it's snap. its
Its vlgor, and is it getting cold
act toward the United States Censusp 9
OF by any means. Chicago in April. 7
'9', mas certainly as many residents ..
it had in November 1896, and =,
robably has many thousands more. 3,
nd yet these figures under the cir
misunderstanding, as we do, that n
'ery available vote was brought to T
le ron yesterday-would tend 70
low that Chicago has lost nearly
oooo Ia population between Novem.
II 81, 1898, and April 9Th, 1897.
DID WIN, Mckinley carry the city OF OF
l'cago by 56,0O1 votes? W
The Bee does not believe he did de
The Bee does not believe be carried
q city Of Chicago at all. al
are sometimes themselves W.
e strongest ufhdavits. tn
Undoubtedly. much startling doom. b,
entary evidence In this line will he IA.
when all OF the tipuras of az
Iesday's elections shall hasa hean to
to the people. 1t