Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-17
BRYAN SURE Or INDIANA,
MICHIGAN and ILLINOIS.
JUST AS SAFE FOR THE DEMOCRA-
CY AS MISSOURI AND AR
KANSAS.
ODD CONDITIONS IN ILLINOIS.
PLANS PERFECTE FOR THE
GREAT FLOOD OF DEMO-
CaATIC ORATORY.
Special to the Register.

opeelai 10 tHf hSStstci.
CHICAGO, October 16~.-Indiana, Tlli-
nois and Michigan are in the Bryan col
umn as sure as Missouri, Arkansas and
Kentucky, is the sum of the reports re-
ceived and analysed at headquarters.
1t is now certain that Bryan will carry
Indiana by e, 1000 majority, Michigan by
$4,000, and Illinois by a closer yet safe
margin.
In Illinois the conditions are peculiar
this year. The labor vote in Chicago
has gone in a body to Mr.. Bryan, while
throughout the State the coal miners,
mastering 10000 votes, have done the
same thing. The Republican leaders are
putting up a bold front, but it is pri-
vately conceded faat Illinois is as good
as los. to Mckinley.
Chairman Watson, of the State DEM
ocratic Committee, has received poll
returns from nienly-eight of the one
hundred and one counties outside Of
Cook, and announces that Bryan will
receive 5000 10 $4,000 majority in Illi-
nois outside of Chicago. The best in
formed Republicans concede Chicago to
Bryan. The local Democratic mana
gers claim a majority of $4,000. 1t will
be seen therefore that the claim for a
Bryan majority in Illinois is not
- -. 49,.
As to Indiana, Parks Martin, chair
rnsa Of the Democratic State Central
committee, says it is safely Democratic
asd in the declaration he is %corrobor-
atad by every speaker sent into that
State by the National committee.
Another thing leading to certain
Bryan victory in Illinois and Indiana
is the shutting down of mills owned by
the trusts. On Saturday 1900 men were
thrown out Of employment in Chicago
by the shutting down Of the converting
and steel rail department of the Illinois
Steel Company. This, in the face of the
fact that the company had just received
an order for a portion of the 80, 900 tons
of steel rails ordered by the Pennsylva-
mia Railroad Company. The politics
i'm the action of the company is so ap-
parent that it will cost Mr.. Mckinley
many thousand votes in Illinois and In
diana.
From ocean to ocean and from great
lakes to gulf, in every city, town and
village of the country, Democratic meet
ings will he held October 27, and will
be addressed by the ablest speakers
that the scope of this gigantic plan will
permit. This was the scheme announced
yesterday.
The idea originated with the Demo
cratic National committee, which al
ready has set in motion the prepara-
tions necessary for the consummation
of such a giant project. Such a con
certed move such a
Flooding of the COuntry
with ~oratory on one day, never has been
known in a campaign.
The melting motive for letting loose
this avalanche of oratory is the de-
sire to reach at one time the hundreds
Df thousands of voters who, according
to the reports being sent in to the
National and State committees, are
coming over to Bryan and Stevenson.
Other hundreds Of thousands are be-
lieved to be in that mood when a log
teal exposition of Democratic principles
would win them from the Republican
party. To strengthen the atdiiation Of
the first class and to secure the support
of the second is the chief aim of this
concerted advance all along the line.
Scarcely less in importance of mo-
tives is the desire by this plan to Offset
the great outpour of Republican money