Arizona republican., 1900-11-03
SUCKER STATE WON
Illinois Sure for Mckinley by
 A Large Majority.
The Legislature Is Also Assured, and with It the Success of Senator Cullom A Strong Democratic Candidate for Governor.

Chicago. Nov. 2-The republicans of Illinois have made their final poll of the state. It shows that Mckinley will come to Cook county with 75,00O plur- ality, and will carry Chicago and Cook county by 25,OOO more, or the entire state by 100000 These are the mini mum figures. The Chicago newspapers strike a general average at 100000 for the state outside of Cook county, and al 10000 for the county, or a total of 14O0OO
 Pehaps a closer poll was never made of the state. In some instances an en- tire county was gone over three times, in Chicago ward after ward was can VasSed three and even four times for the purpose of locating men who had been missed. All doubtful voters were placed in the Bryan column. It is the universal rule in all parties to divide this doubtful vote, but this time it has all been given to Bryan. The can Vass is, therefore, believed to be the most conservative ever made in the state.
 REPUBLICAN, LEGISLATURE.
 The state must go republican by at least 47.000 to make the legislature safe. Hence this canvass insurcs q republic can legislature, which will mean a re- publican successor for Shelby NJ. Cui- lom in the United States senate; and. what Is of more importance, that the republicans will redistrict the state for congressional, judicial and legislative purposes. In 1890 the republicans. who then had the legislature failed to i'm prove their chance to redistrict and the democrats, who came into control in 1872, did the work themselves, and a most outrageous gerrymandcr was the result. In 1894 the republicans again controlled the legislature. and passed q reappOrtiOnmcnt bill. which they took into the courts; but the decisions were all against them. Under the constitu- ton of the state the state cln be redis- tricted but once In decade, immcdi- ately folloWiwng the federal census The legislative contest in Illinois, therefore, is of almost as much inter- est as it is in Nebraska If the odds are :; little in C,vur of tl.e proposition that there is more interest in Nebraska if is because two United States send tors are to be chosen there instead of one, and that Bryan will be one of them, provided the fusionists control the legisla ture
 Earlier in the campaign it was be- lieved that the labor vote of Chicago was against Mckinley Chairman Hanna was quoted as saying that, so far as the labor question was concerned in it's relation to the republican party. he believed Chicago was the worst place in the whole country" But that was early in September. Almost two months of hard campaigning has changed the condition. At meeting of tine republican state committee a few days ago it was unanimously agreed that Mckinley would poll as large a labor vote in the city and state this year as he did in 1896.
 True. Bryan came here two or three days ago. It was only after the result of the republican poll had become known that the dates for Bryan were made, He is anxious to hold his own here. It has been his policy since he saw that defeat was probable to fight for a vote as large as that which he boiled in 1896 He thinks that if there is no substantial falling off in the cleo toral college, or in the popular vote, he Cdl TclilStil as tue lcd'tcI OL the oI'P"- sition for another four years. But should Mckinley win by considerably larger margin than he had in 1896, Bryan realizes that he must retire.
 While organized labor in Chicago has been steadily swinging into line for Me Kinley, the country voters today stand where they have stood since the issues were defined early in the summcr-for
 
 to them with great force, but there is also the idea. that expansion will mean wider markets for the sur plusage of the farm. and consequently better prices. It is probable that the | republican vote outside of Cook county | will this year rise higher than any | point il has reached for number of