The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-10-17
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condition in Cook county
Ill hich is really the city of Chi
Gag continues to give the Repub-
.lliea some uneasiness. Henry @
'IiPay4 s. vice chairman of the Repub.
illica National Committee, thinks
-Iboth p6rties will split even in the
cYhnt but admits that the situa-
ltfon 6ere is worse for the Repub-
ilican than in any other part of the
United States. Robert Burke
THE secretary of the Cook County
Dem cratic Committee claims a
majctity Of between 10000 and
$1,000
Ph6 Democrats claim the labor
vote Is IFish- Blaine vote of 5000,
Ia >lere pfoportion of the German
aud nearly all the Gold Dem
'sE-7==:.F,5 voted. Cor ISinley.
The1 tepublicans deny these claims,
without making any for themselves,
and say even if the oity goes Dem
ooratic, the Republican majority in
the State will Offset it. The fact is,
however, that, generally speaking,
as goes Chicago, 80 goes the State.
This was certainly the case with
Cleveland in 1892 and Mckinley
in 1896. The German situation
has been sufficiently oanvassed to
make it clear that the German
Catholic vote, which has always
been Democratic, but which was
captured to very large extent by
Mckinley in 1896, will this year be
for Bryan. The Democrats are
making many claims regarding the
German Lutheran vote, but there
has been no development to date
to demonstrate that any consider
able per cent of the original Ger
man Republican vote will leave the
party this year. The German
Catholic vote represents spproxi-
mately 40 per cent. of the total
German vote of the oity, which
would give Mr.. Bryan, if he se-
cures this vote in block, DO per
cent. of the total German vote of
Cook county. Bryan stands to
lose almost as large per cent. of
of the German Catholic vote as Nc
Kinley of thei. German lutheran
vote.
AT Republican headquarters the
county politicians contend that the
German vote of this city will be
divided according to the member
ship of the two churches, catholic
and Lutheran. If this estimate is
accepted as correct, and the Re-
publicans have certainly claimed
all they can depend upon, Bryan
is a decided gamer over the vote of
1896. 1t is conceded that in 1896
Mckinley received from so to so
per cent of the German vote in
Cook county, both Catholic and
Lutheran, which give Bryan this
year, Ieven according to the Re-
publican estimates, an actual gain
of $4,000 German votes.
OF the 1900 Jewish votes, Ais
ohuler, the Democratic nominee
for Governor, will practically get
them all. He will try to induce
them to vote for Bryan. Fully sol
per cent of this vote went to Mo
Kinley four years ago.
The Republicans are much dis
turbed by Mr.. Bryan's recent
speeches exposing the Republican
purpose, which was also manifest
at the CLOSE of the last presidential
campaign, to signalize the winding
up of the campaign of this year by
the wholesale debauohery of the
ballot-box with money exacted
from the trusts, as we'll as by the
intimidation of labor by corpora
tions which are large employers.
There is no doubt this is the great
obstacle to Democratic triumph
and the election of Bryan. Re-
publiouns rely on trust and corpor-
alton intimidation and the free use
of money to help them through.
1t is their boast in private that
this is. the power that will elect
Mckinley. We admit the power,
but we do not believe it will be so
effective as four years ago. Its
dangers in the destruction of re-
publican institutions are more ap-
parent than in 1896. The people