The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-10-24
RECRUITS FOR Mr.. BRYAN
They Come from All Glasses, the
Nottingham Leading
REPUBLICAN ORATORS SHOW THEIR FEAR
The Growing Ferocity Of Hanna and Roosevelt
Can Arise from Nothing but the Fact
That They Believe Themselves
Facing DE- feat.

Especial to the News and Observer
Washington October 23.-In the light
of a shrewd remark by one of my official
friends-that the highest claim of con-
greater confidence and the more certain
result-the outlook ought to be regarded
as favorable for Bryan. The figures for
the last two sets of competing claims have
shown that the Democratic campaign
committee considered the success of the
Democratic ticket as already sure, reck-
oned from the present standpoint The
tallest figures given by the Republicans
were published yesterday. They claimed
number of States which are pretty sure
to go for Bryan and Stevenson, but the
fact that Notwithstanding their occasional
pretence of predicting that every State
North of Mason and Dixon's Line would
vote for Mckinley and Roosevelt their
tabulated claim was simply for 284 votes,
or 60 majority in the electoral college,
shows that their real confidence is at
low ebb They are uncertain of winning
any majority. Their only hope is in the
coercion of voters in the business centres.
The Democrats here admit that the vast
body of the big business men of New York
are against Bryan, as they were before
But portion of these and most of the
smaller business men, with the mass of
workingmen in the towns, are supporting
Bryan. Mr. John p. Miller, of the Wash
ington Star, Republican newspaper, tel
egraphs that the laboring people in New
York, including the walters in the swell
hotels, are solid for Bryan this year. In
1895 it was impossible to reach that class.
Many business men of Republican or Gold
Democratic proclvities, realizing that it
is high time to stop the career of the
commercial spirit of greed in politics, and
that opposition to the growth of this
thoroughly selfish and unpatriotic spirit
becomes every year more difficult have
thrown every other consideration to the
winds and enlisted in the cause of Bryan
and true Democracy. 1t is pointed out
here that wherever Mr.. Bryan spoke in
his tour of New York State he had large
and attentive audiences, and with the
exception of the Cornell incident, perfect
respect shown him. These people were
evidently in large part composed of men
who have not been known as Bryan men
but the close attention and great respect
shouts and acclaims of thousands of thick
and thin supporters. The vest pocket
next President of the United States
Speaking of representations, it is well
to remember that some of those who are
making predictions of McKinleys election
are discredited prophets. The great in
dependent newspapers, and the metropoli-
tan press generally, were quite sure that
alo11 no 10,
rison in 1892 The Herald, which is con-
sidered by some persons as a wise fore
caster of political results, was away off
in 1884, predicting Blaine's election. These
prophets predict what is pleasant to them
and their readers. Their correspondents
do not go among the plain people.
Discarding all headquarters boasts and
prophecies on either side use my judg-
ment on known facts and say that If the
vote were cast today, most of the con
tested States would go for Bryan. 1t
seems almost sure that Indiana, Kentucky
and Maryland will. If the labor vote in
the cities of New York State is not intim-
idated, and the signs are that it will not
be, Bryan will carry It's Sc electoral votes
and receive majority of the votes in the
electoral college. Delaware is almost
certain Bryan State =
One of the best indications of Demo-
cratic victory is the ferocious temper of
some of the leading Republican cam
paigners. Early in the canvass Mr.. Roose-
welt lost his head and has never regained
it. But the most awful example is that
of the Senator from Ohio, who calls the
Democratic candidate for the highest pos
ton in the gift of the American people
liar and a man not fit TO be constable If
such speeches as those Mr.. Hanna has
been making recently do not cost his
party the votes, of some of its most
thoughtful and self-respecting members, /
am mistaken. Mark Hanna is a fearful
warning to business men who go into poll
itics for the first time late in life and
with exalted ideas of their own omnis-
cience and omnipotence. There have been
in the history of American politics some