The sea coast echo. [volume] (Bay Saint Louis, Miss.) 1892-current, 1900-10-13
HIS SUCCESS IS NOW UNDou8T-
EDLy ASSURED.
Situation in Doubtful States
Encouraging = Great In
diyiduals and Newspapers
Neutral in Last Campaign
Are Now Outspoken For
Colonel Bryan.

for a month past toward MIR. Bry-
an is causing cold chills to chase
down Mr.. Hanna's spine. His
daily hints to Wall street are now
being made by Mr.. Hannain per.
son, and are usually accompanied
by a club.
The situation in all the doubt.
rul States is highly encouraging tc
the Democrats.
In New York, where six weeks
ago leading Democrats said il
would be waste Of time to make
a fight, Croker and Hill, with the
solid State and Tammany organi-
cation, are working unitedly fo1
Bryan, and the newspapers are
discussing the possibility of the
Democrats carrying the State,
The New York World has joined
the Bryan ranks. Powerful anti.
silver Democrats like Edward M,
Shepard, John Dewitt Warner
and Bourke Cochran, who oppos.
ed Bryan in '96, are actively sup
porting him now.
And mark this significant con-
trast. -Four years ago MIR. Croker
kept in Europe, giving Bryan
scarcely even a perfunctory en-
dorsement, and leaving the hope.
less campaign In the hands OF
John G. Sheehan. Sheehan's
whole campaign fund that year
was not over $50, 200. Ttis year
Mr.. Croker will have perhaps ST.
100000 to carry on the campaign.
This time he is not llstless.
The New York Herald, after an
impartial survey of the situation
in Maryland, declares that the
State is now for Bryan. The
same paper declares that Illinois
is as doubtful as Indiana, which a
careful canvassa month ago show
ed to be Democratic by 100000
votes.
In Kentucky the Democrats are
practically sure of carrying the
State. The louisville Courier
Journal says the Republicans are
ALARMED and are trying hard to
bolster up their cause. Bourke
Cochran is to fire the State for
the Democrats next month.
West Virginia is counted on by
Mr.. Bryan's managers. Delaware
is found by the New York He
raids correspondent to be close,
with a slight leaning to Mckinley.
The situation in Illinois is be-
coming more interesting every
day. Mr.. Hanna is becoming
gravely alarmed over 1t. He cal
led a special meeting of his advi-
sors last Thursday to consider
means of putting life into the Re-
publican fight there. The Demo-
Gratis are making a strong and ag-
gressive campaign and are aided
by an able and popular candidate
for Governor, Mr.. Alscnuler. A
recent Republican poll of the
. State has shown that Mckinley is
losing ground rapidly in the cities.
OF the situation in Illinois, the
Herald says:
1t is well known that the Repu-
blicans are weak in Chicago be-
cause of the strike of the building
trades unions there. The canvass
of the State indicates forcibly
that the Republican majority out
side of the city Of Chicago may be
insufficient to overcome the De-
moeratic majority IN that munich
pality.
Another cause for anxiety at
Republican national headquarters
is the insufliciency of the cam
paign fund. Where a dollar was
spent a year ago, the managers
can now spend only half as much.
There can be no question that
Mr.. Bryan is making a gaining
fight. Nor is there the slightest
doubt that he is vastly stronger
as Il candidate than.u,he was Six
weeks ago. Men who laughed at
his chances after the Kansas City
convention are now seriously con-
sidering his election. He has
made no mistake. His cause has
been helped along by the able as
sistance of Mr. Hanna on the
stump. Besides, the American
people have had time to think
and analyze all the buncome about
the "fulI dinner pail, " ssthe hon
est dollar" 'duty .and destiny, "
and all the Mckinley family Of
humbug. Apparently. they are
beginning to make up their minds
that they would rather have d
man in the white house than a
wax figure from Canton.