Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-09-27
DETECTION IN IOWA.
Cato Sells on the Local, State and Ma.
tional Situation.

From Tuesdays Daily.
''If the same ratio of gain that will
be given to the democratic electoral
ticket in Iowa this year. is kept UP all
over the country, the election this fall
will be landslide for Bryan" Said
Cato Sells to a Courier reporter this
morning, who interviewed him on the
political outlook. Mr.. Sells was seat
ed in his room at the Ballingall hotel,
and very willingly sized up the stu
alton, as he sees it. Mr.. Sells is in
the city for the purpose of addressing
democratic meeting this evening.
Continuing he said:
'Vomer will certainly be elected in
the second congressional district,
probably Steck will be elected in the
sixth, it is entirely possible that
O'Connell will be elected in the first,
McGinness will be successful in the
eighth and there will be material
reduction in the majorities of Cousins
in the fifth and Haugen in the Fourth
district" Mr.. Sells declined to give
his reasons why there would be
large detection from the republican
party in the state or why he thought
Steck might be elected in this district.
Continuing on the general situation,
Mr.. Sells said: II have never known
the political situation to point SO GER
tainly to democratic success six weeks
before election. 1t seems to be an at
mospheric condition pointing Bryan
ward. There is every indication that
Mr.. Bryan will carry practically all
the states that were with him in 1896
with the possible exception of South
Dakota, Washington and the one cleo
toral vote given him in California and a
certainty that Mckinley of the states
he carried in 1896 will loose Indiana
Kentucky, West Virginia, Maryland
and Delaware. 1t is conceded by both
national committees that the doubt
full states this year are New York,
Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsis, Michigan,
Minnesota and the republicans add to
| it Kansas. Added to the general
change from Mckinley to Bryan, the
local conditions in all the states re-
garded as doubtful are favorable to
democrats. Remarkable as it may
seem, it is unuqestionably true that
Mr.. Bryan is quite as popular in the
east as e was in the west in 1895,
and he seems to have suffered no ma
terial loss anywhere. Nearly every
large city in all the doubtful staEes-
for example, New York, Chicago, Mil
waukee, Detroit and Indianapolis and
very many others have democratic
mayors and with it necessarily all the
prestige it implies
in New York the democratic fac
tons are again thoro!y united; Croker
and Hill are working together III
Ohio, McClain and Jones are fcr
Bryan. In Illinois Stevenson, for vice
president, Altschuler, for governor
and Harrison, mayor of Chicago, ant
a possible candidate for United State;
senator, are all striving to carry the
state.
In Wisconsin every large town
from Milwaukee down. is in democrat.
ic hands and there is unmistakable
evidence of landslide in the German
vote for Bryan.
in Michigan governor Pingree has
a large following and there are 10000
Hollanders who are out of sympathy
with the Mckinley administration on
the Boer question.
ION Minnesota the democratic GOV
ernor is seeking reelection and viii
doubtless carry large per cent of the
Norwegian vote, which, of itself
makes Minnesota doubtful.
"The letter of Richard Olney is IN
questionably the most potential fac
tor in the campaign and is SECOND
only to Mr.. Bryan's letter of accept
ance 1t has had and will have {
marked influence in every state in The
union and is positive Indication O.
the fact that the gold democrats o
the country are largely for Mr.. Bryan
1t is everywhere evident that thi!
class is doing splendid work for tht
success of the ticket.
"The defections this year are il
the republican party and democrac.
is receiving acquisitions from ever,
element of society"