The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-13
He SIZES It Up
Mr.. Gibson of Philadelphia
Is in Wichita.
HOW ELECTION is GOING
What He Says About Probable
Results in Several States.

| In common with all other Kansas Re-
publicans the local Republicans of Kan
sas are now eager for news from New
York
| Yesterday they received definite, first
hand and assuring news from an eastern
man. This was Mr. E. J. Gibson OF the
Philadelphia Press.
Mr. Gibson is one of those discrimin-
ating newspaper men who can winnow
facts from buncombe, sift substance from
bombast For years he was New York
state political man for the New York
Tribune; he has been also the Philadel-
phia Press manager in Washington, and
before the outbreak OF the Spanish war
was correspondent in Havana, where he
met and knew Leo Redding, formerly OF
Wichita, now Of the New York Herald.
Recently the Philadelphia Press sent
Mr.. Gibson out to visit what states he
would and try to discover the trend of
political affairs in each. He has been in
half the states and this is what he said
yesterday to the Eagle:
leans assured of success in their own
vicinity who express an anxiety about
New York. Now, there is no question
about New York 1t is going Repubh-
can Tammany cannot by any device roll
up a sufficient majority in the city to
overcome the Republican majority in the
state. This is the belief in New York.
The Republicans there are confident, and
have not the shadow of doubt about
carrying the state. You know what
fight Tammany made against Roosevelt
and for a Tamnany man, in 1898. That
was state election year. In this presi-
Dental year Tammany will be powerless
to repeat the showing it made then.
Whatever anxiety about New York may
be felt in the west is not shared by the
people Of New York. The state is abso-
lutely certain for Mckinley.
'All the electoral votes of Washington,
Oregon and California are fpr Mckinley
and Roosevelt. You will not find this
disputed when you arrive on the ground,
to any great extent or with any spirit by
the Democrats themselves. The Pacific
coast people are the most rampant expan-
sionists you find in the nation.
THE Republicans have Wyoming sure,
and fighting show in Utah, for at Salt
Lake City the Republicans assert they
will carry the state for Mckinley"
'And in Colorado?"
1.-THE Republicans have a chance in
Colorado. The change in sentiment in
that state is something marvellous. Sem
ator walcott with whom I have talked,
To- hot &c 81 fn oil
electoral vote to Mckinley and Roose-
velt''
And Nebraska
Nebraska may go one way or the
other. is hard fight and very close
state so far as 1 could determine. The
Republicans are confident they will carry
it the Democrats are confident they will
carry it,
South Dakota?"
South Dakota will give its electoral
vote to Mckinley and Roosevelt
What do you know about Indiana?"
ST have not been in Indiana to study
the situation and cannot say
What do you say of the whole ma
TOM"
Put 1t in the Eagle that the election is
dead sure for Mckinley. One cannot
pass across the nation and make a con-
scientious, unprecedented canvass, so far
as single individual can make one,
without becoming convinced of this.
have waited until the campaign shaped
itself, remaining in Chicago until 1 felt
that the general lines Of campaign had
been formed. and 1 am as confident, as
mortal can be, that Mckinley is today
overwhelmingly elected"
After Mr.. Gibson arrived in Wichita he
discovered that the editor of his paper, |
Postmaster General Smith, is to be here |
next Monday. Mr.. Gibson will not re-
main until then, but will depart for the |
east this morning. He attended Mr.. |
Debs' meeting last evening.