The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-10-04
BIG GAINS FOR FUSION.
The Democratic Poll Shows Kansas Is No
Longer Doubtful.
THE STATE IS SAFE FOX BRtIDtNTAAl
Indications Also Point TO Bryan
victory by mt Lenst 10000 Major
ity-RepubIican Boasts Idle.

| hanSaS Clty, OCTOBER l.--lDdliy inhtS'j
At the close of September the
campaign 10 In much better con-
dtion than 1t has been at any
time in the political history OF the state
Nearly 1000 OF the 1900 precincts in Kan
sas have been heard from during the
week Just closed and the result is more
than encouraging. Returns SO rar re-
ceived show Bryan and Breldenthal
majority OF over 10000 in the State, anu
it is expected that tho complete returns
wild snow few thousand more.
rne returns MADE are based on certain
Bryan votoIs. Every voter who Is Wav-
erIng or uncertain Is included from the
returns. Win all doubtful representa-
tlyes to the legislature given TO the re-
puDlicans. the lower house Will have a
fusion majority OF eleven and tho upper
house a clear and certain majority OF SIX.
The fusion forces commenced early In
the campaign to figure on the theory or
having hard fight and they have gone
on that theory ever since.
AT democratic headquarters the feeling
Is bu0yant. There is no doubt in the
minds OF those in charge that the state
will go for Bryan. Neither is there any
, doubt but what the republican State COM
mittee knows that the State is hopelessy
lost TO Stanley and to Mckinley In the
minds of the democrats the republicans
can have no hope of carrying the cleo
t toral ticket except By money. of which
they have plenty, and no thought is en-
J tertained that enols1 kansans can be
/ reached in that manner to destroy clear
fusion majority OF 10000.
Republican Claims Are FIimsy.
1t being visible that the Bredenthal
and Bryan sentiment has largely IN
creased in the cities. the republicans are
. claiming Offset gains in the country, and
0 for time they made a showing to that
1 effect. enough at least to cause the tu
sionists to make rigid inquiry into their
8 claims, Instead of making gains among
. the farmers. they have suffered q no
. ticeable loss. and the election will prove
!, it, The republicans depended on pros
perity' to make gains among the farm-
l. ers. not reckoning on the increased cost
of everything a farmer uses. 1t now de-
y velops that the farmer is bringing out
n his old bills to prove that the prosperity
X that have been entitled to has gone TO
the trusts in the shape of increased
profits. They are measuring the pur-
chasing price of their wheat in hardware,
+ sugar. farming utensils and other wares
q rather in money Then, again, they are
a beginning to ask whether their prosperity
. is due to Mckinley or to their industry
q and the bounty OF nature. The moment
y they adopted this course of thinking and
h reasoning Kansas began to slide into the
ant-republican column. where ii will be
e found on November as sure as the sun
e rises on that day.
n What Fusionists Have Gained.
IS Up to date in the campaign the fusion
% lists have gained
/ One Catholic bishop, in whose diocese
< there are $4,000 Catholic voters.
'S Four priests OF the Catholic church.
> Fifteen ministers of the Methodist
St church, including one presiding elddr.
4. Forty-one ministers of other denomina-
j. lions.
,s one republican ex- governor and two re-
- publican ex-lieutenant governors.
~ One republican eX-iustice OF the gu
preme court of the State.
The entire family of a republican ex-
~ United states senator.
:. Fourteen editors of republican newspa-
Z. pers.
q One republican ex-consuI to foreign
Of country, N addition to two others wht
y came in 1896, and became permanent fu-
ne slOnistS this year.
~ one republican member OF the State
~ legislature.
% Eight republican bankers will vote the
a entire fusion ticket and seventy seven
S will vote a part Of 1t.
he over forty members OF republican coun
r. ty committees will vote a part OF the fu
H. sion Ticket.
-, The brother of one OF the officers o
"' the republican State committee has pub
vi liclv announced his conversion from re
puhlicanism TO democracy. and Will vot'
for every man, save one. on the tusioi
ticket.
~ Eight school teachers in one county. al
-, republicans. have announced themselve
~, ! for Bryan II Is estimated that 125 re
~ publican school teachers in Kansas have
no changed. and the estimate is considered
"a a low one.
. y. The republican mayors of three second
class cities have changed and the re
- publican city clerk OF one.
~ II is estimated that over forty repuh
90 to lican hotel keepers have Topped, anC
w that less than twenty passenger con
ne ductors in the State will vote for Nc
~ kinley.
ell The last time Bryan was in Kansas
"a bank cashier who has been repuhlca
'"e all his life took his three sons to tn
- Nebraska commoner and said "All fou
y" of us will vote for YOU"
re- Every gold democrat of prominence l
las the State has come into line save TIVE
IAN and one OF them will vote part OF tn
ro- ticket.
me There is only one Irishman OF promi
He nence in the State who will not vote to
NJ Bryan and he was against him four year
lch ago.
oes At least two men OF prominence in Km
ing campaign have Topped back.
MS Every officer In one OF the largest den
Is ocratic clubs In the Stste was reput
or licsn previous to the National conventio
al Kansas City,
IAN The information received at democrat
10y headquarters from ell parts OF the Sta
nee Justify greater claims than any DENT
ITS crat Is making.
'et That the pessimists are making clos
lily poll OF the state Is illustrated by a IA
BOY that comes from Sedgwick county. Fro
es one precinct populist returns came snow
mt, Ing sixty-eight fusion votes; from "
the same precinct came democratic return
hts showing only sixty-seven. Roth repor
ent we're returned and came back the sam
Sad The popUAist canvassers said they four
My one OF their men who will lack TWEEN
eye days Of being old enough to vote in N
at vepber.
Geo Hard to Get Refs on Mckinley.
In some parts OF the State betting
thhn still even on the results in Kansas, on
,ly- side OF governor where stanley's stoI
tile has fallen very low, but in other par
re- IL is impossible to get an even bet
I've Mckinley carrying the State. The 7
leir publican State committee has men O