The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1900-11-06
Brokers Who Are for Bryan Dare Not 40.
nounce Il.
INTERESTING TALK With A NOTED DEALER
Hanna Relies on the Cash of the
Money League TO Carry Maryland
and Not ON Republicans.
Especial to Baltimore SUM-

Seated in the private office OF Il noted
stock broker, whom l have known fol
many years as most bitter republican. l
listened while he unbosomed himself.
81 should have liked to march in the
Bryan procession" ne said
Meeting my look of incredulity he con-
tinued:
yes. and there are more of us about
here"
Without seeming to need the least en-
couragement he went on at length. lie
sad there was a division of sentiment ID
Wall street. strange as it would appear.
But 1t was sentiment which was COM
PEELED to express itself in whisper. Talk
about c. ercion of the laborng classes;
why. 1t was nothing to the coercion ex
ercised in Wall street circles.
II man was suspected Of leaning
toward Bryan 1t would not only be visited
most severely upon him in all his business
affairs. but he would be boycotted social
ly and personally. Every minute In the
day almost there would be Haunted in his
face banters to bet at odds running all the
way up TO ten to one. II any man in
Wall street was rash en- ugh to take m
any of these offers it was Immediately
proclaimed from one end OF Wall street
to the other that he was a Bryanite, and
he was jeered ami hooted at from all sidel
until he disowned any such affiliations
Notwithstandirg this, more silent votes
for Bryan from cut OF Wall street would
be put in the ballot box than could b.
dreamed Of
GOOD TIMES NOT DUE TO M'KINLEY.
He said it made him sick at the stom-
ach to hear all the stuff about Mckinley
and prosperity, 1t was true the count.
had enjoyed three years of comparatively
good times. but IL would have been jus
the same had a goat been sitting in tle
White House. He could not subscribe to
Bryan's silver doctrine, neither could ne
subscribe TO the imperialistlc policy oil
Mckinley nor to MS UNFOLDING OF the
trusts. and il Bryan should be elected
there was no reason Whatever why the
country should go TO the bad.
Bryans election would most probably
bring on a pane, for" said he. "our
crowd will see to that" but 1t would have
no more than a temporary effect upon suo-
Biantial properties, II Mckinley is re-
elected there will be a squirt for shVrl
time, to be followed by one of the worst
crashes we have had tor long time. TINS
is certain"
He said the leading spirits on the street
were awfully cbagr ned and disappointed
that Bryan avoided the discussion OF tney
silver question during his tour IN New
York, for th S is pretty much all upon
which the street and the republican mp-
ayers hope for success They know Iat
the trusts and Imperialism are str5ng
cards sgansJ hem, although vehemgntly
declaiming to the contrary He wet on
in this strain for some time, and dnally
wound up with almost under his Bedth):
1T would tickle me 70 death}to see
Bryan elected, but for goodness sgHe don
say l told you
ROOSEVELT 4 RIDICULOUS FIGURE.
What this wall street gentlemen said
was significant in every respect. He
expressed thorough disgust for McKin.
ley, and much more so for Roosevelt.
whom he styled 4 ridiculous figure with
out honor or aspect in his own State.
He said if Bran had not chung to the
silver plank N his Platform there coulc
be no doubt Mckinley aud Roosevelt
would lose pew York By hundred thous
and at leat.
The republican National and State
committees have made much OF that class
OF democrats who. while not willing to
vote 10 Mckinley have positively de-
terminid not to vote for Bryan The
class jof republicans in New York WIZ
wonI swallow Mckinley nor accept
BrYn is much greater, he said,
THAI the democrats above alluded
to- They are not saying much,
tat their action, or rather their
fon-action, will have its effect on cleo
tion day.
Mr.. Richard Croker has been doing a
deal OF talking lately, and, as has been
noticed, much OF 1t not in very conserva.
tive style, It is assumed that some OF
his utteranees will do the democratic
party damage. and based on this assump-
ton the rumors OF a deal between him
and the republican ring, which have been
floating around for a month or more,
have taken new life. One of his closesl
friends said this talk was all bosh; that
Croker was not making any deals with
the republican ring this year; that he
was never more sincere or earnest In his
whole life than in the resolve to roll up
the heaviest possible majority for Bryan
in Greater New York,
In all the democratic calculations not
much, IL any, stress has been laid upon
Brooklyn II has rather been conceded
that Mckinley was likely to come our a
few thousand ahead in Brooklyn. With
the coming in of this week, however,
there is said to be evidence of a per-
ceptible change in Brooklyn sentiment,
and today. as | was told. distinguished
democrat OF Brooklyn who has all along
been giving 1t up made a bet OF $1,000
even 1t would so for Bryan, but gave no
figures.
WHY WOMEN ARE FOR BRYAN
After the passage of the Mckinley
tariff bill in 1890, when the congresslon-
al elections brought such woful discom-
hture upon the republicans. ex-SpeakeI
Reed said il was the women OF the cowu-
try who defeated his party. The women
OF tins city from all evidences are going
to have something to do with the determ-
lnatlon OF this election. They have a
cry sensible Illus ,raIion, in the rise OF
usehold necessities. of the effect Of
ne operations Of the trusts. and they are
eornseling the men TO vote so as 10
abate this burden.
In 1896 the small shopkeepers OF Now
York city, OF which there are many
thousand, were, almost to man, for
Mckinley. This class has been awfully
p'rrhed bv the trusts. and is squealing
spudlN The local politicians OF this
city have a way Of getting very close
20 the people. A Tammany politician Ia
speaking OF the shopkeepers, said; This
time we will have every mothers son
OF them"
Lower Broadway. from Twenty-thlrd