The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-10-14
FIGURES SHOW
BRYAN WILL WIN
POpulist Committee EST
mates Big Fusion Majority.
UTAH AND IDAHO
SAFE FOR SILVER
Strong Hopes Felt For Illinois
and Indiana.

Lincoln. Neb-, Oct. 13.-The following
statement over the signature Of J. A. Ed
gerton the secretary. was ~iven out this
evening by the Peoples party national
committee:
Bryan viii be elected; he has lost none
of the support he had in 1896 except a
few silver Republicans in the mountain
states. OF these there will not be enough
to effect a single electoral vote He will
hold his own west Of the Mississippi and
will carry every state in that region that
he carried in 1896. with the possible ex-
ception of Wyoming. He will gain heav-
lily in the central west and east; he viii
not only have al the Democrats and Pop
ulists who supported him in 1896 but ad-
ded to these he will receive the votes Of
g large number OF gold Democrats and
former Republicans who have left their
party on the issues of imperialism and
trusts.
Calls Utah and Idaho Sure.
The following states may be classed as
certain to cost their electoral vote for
Bryan:
Alabama. II; Arkansas, 8: Florida. 4:
Georgia. Is; Idaho. 3: louisiana s; Mis-
sissippi, .; Missouri, II; Montana. 8; Ne
braska. s: Nevada. ?; North Carolina, II;
South Carolina, 9; Tennessee, u; Texas, Is;
Utah 3; Virginia u. Total, 153-
added to these are the following states
that Will probably cast their votes for
Illinois, "a; Indiana, Is; Kansas, 10;
Kentucky, IS; Maryland. s; South Dakota.
4; Washington, 4; West Virginia, 6. To
These added to 153 certain. give 2S7. or
13 more than A majority in the electoral
college. Outside OF these certain and
probable states are the following doubt
California, 9: Connecticut. 6: Delaware.
-. O. N-err-
10; New York, Sc; North Dakota. 3; Ohio,
| %; Wisconsin, Z; Wyoming, B Total, 10;
- u 1heSe I11iIils59cee, ~ v -. 80
Ohio can be claSSed as very uncertain Tor
the Republican candidate; in fact, were
it not that Mckinley lives In Ohio, that
| state could be considered as almost GER
tainty for Bryan
Great Hope For Illinois.
'sIn 1898 Illinois gave the Republicans a
majority of only q little over 1900 with
/ practically break even in Cook county
| 1t is now generally conceded that Bryan
/ will carry Cook county by good major
| ity- Twenty-Five thousand in Chicago
/ would give Bryan Illinois, provided the
/ rest of the state went as il old in 1888.
| But there is every indication that we are
/ making gains in the country districts, and
! that Chicago will give more than this ma
/ jority to the Democratic candidate
/ The same conditions which prevail II
| Illinois also hold in Indiana, where there
10 q ,,3 iIi e1o eoT sg nv about the
| same majority it gave him in 1886. The
/ Republicans are making hard nght 1ol
! that state, but they Will fail This Is q
/ PoDuliStic year in Kansas
| Kentucky and Maryland are practically
sure for Bryan
Confident of Washington.
IN South Dakota our forces are splen,
] didly organized and are making the beS1
fight ever made in the state They are
| confident of the result In Washington
/ we viii win with nearly the same plural
| " as we did in 1886. The conditions which
/ prevail in other coast states do not par
ticularly affect Washington
In West Virginia we are making gain!
constantly While Mckinley carried tina
state by over Il, Gee in 1886, the Republican
congressional candidates had only aOou
$500 in 1898 The same conditions which
will give US kentucky and Maryland VII
also win West Virginia Tor the reform
1 candidate"