New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-21
KANSAS TO 60 REPUBLICAN,.
PREDICTION THAT MKINLEY WILL
CARRY THE STATE BY FOURTEEN
THOUSAND MAJORITY.

Topeka Kan Oct 20 (SpeciaD-The question
asked In Kansas to-day IS not, do you think NC
Kinley will carry the State?" but How much ma
jority do you think Mckinley will have?" To be
sure usionists claim the State or at least the
PopuIist State Committee does. asserting that the
State will go for Bryan by 12O0O but the PopuistS
and Democrats seem to place no reliance what
ever upon that statement and concede the State
to Mckinley. but have a strong hope that they
will defeat the reelection Of Governor Stanley
The nearer the approach to Election Day the
better the chances appear to be for the election or
the whole Republican ticket by plurality run
ming into the thousands. The general opinion seems
to be that Mckinley will have larger vote than
Stanley simply because a great many Populists
and Democrats will vote for Mckinley who Will
not vote any other part of the Republican ticket
The Democrats have brought suit against State
Treasurer Grimes, alleging that he has taken in
terest State money deposited in banks, but
they have not made decent showing for in
shutting the suit, and like most Democratic eff
forts, it is a boomerang.
The voters of Kansas are wide awake TO the main
issues involved in the campaign, and will not be
led astray-prosperity. protection and good money
all summed up in Mckinley and the flag, which
Is the Republican watchword in Kansas. The Flu
sionists cannot recover from the shock that tho
full dinner pail has given them. and the fear Of
trusts will not supplant the knowledge that Kan
sas farmers getting good prices for their sur
plus cattle, hogs, wheat and
For comparison, here the election figures to
show what Kansas did and what she will proba-
bly, do in November: In 1895 the vote was: McKin-
ley, 1854; Bryan 17l,Sl0; Prohibition, 2551; Ma
tional Democracy, 1909; Bryans plurality, 1929;
total vote. 395.111 In 1885, for Governor: Stanley
lRep), 2S2; Leedy (Fusion) BALES; Prohibition.
2.341: scattering 2,695; SANKEY'S plurality 1874;
total vote. 2SS 4S2.
There will be large vote this year, and most
people think il will reach 100000. The Socialists
have a ticket in the field. but there is National
Democratic ticket. neither is there any Middle of
the Road Populist ticket. General r. c. Bradshaw
q leading Socialist, who took active part in the
Debs movement, and who formerly a Bryan
supporter, is we'll known a close calculator
elections He makes the following prediction
the result in Kansas: Mckinley. 1794S9 Bryan. 159.
$97: Socialist and Prohibtionist vote (combined),
f,51; total vote, 345.2J7; Republican vote, 52u per
cent. Many Republican leaders to whom this esti-
mate shown said they thought the total vote
would not be quite large, but otherwise they be-
lieVed the figures would prove a pretty accurate
forecast.
The contest for United States Senator between
Lucen Baker, the present incumbent, and j. r.
Burton has been a spirited one and the friends of
each assert a sufficient number of Republicans will
he elected to the Legislature to elect Republican
United States Senator, and that their will win.
There are also many Republicans who predict that
neither of them will secure majority of the eau
Gus and that 4 third candidate may carry off the
nomination In that case the political finger would
point strongly toward Congressman Charles Curtis.