Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-10-05
PROSPECTS ARE FAVORABLE.
Missouri IS in Doubt and Bryan's Own Stale
Is Wayering.

New York. oct. 4-The Republican
national committee will receive faiIy
reports hereafter from campaigncrs HI
the doubtful states. where the battie
VIII ragc fiercely until election day.
reports from Missouri indicate en-
couraglng developments There are
some Republicans, as well as Demo-
Gratis. Who laugh at the idea of N .ssouri
being doubtful state. but the SAM.
persons would have laughed formerly
at the idea Of Delaware. MARYLAND ana
Kentucky going Republican But that
actually happened in 1896 ana ii IA said
r. be quite likely that Missouri NAV
Z" SO, this year. This conclusion IL be-
Ing forced upon the Republican nation
~ committee by hundreds Of well
founded reports. The Missouri devcl-
onmcnt promises u be enc Of the sur
prises Of the campaign, The least that
can be said ~ Il IL that 1t means the
beginning of 4 strong. aggressive Rc-
publican party III Missouri. ana thr
state will hereafter bc debatable
ground, like Kentucky. instead Of hide
bound like the Gulf states.
To illustrate the situation d letter
from prominent lawyer Of Macon
county may W cited The LAWYER
writes: There are na ItcTubrcar-
who haze left our party since 1896 i'll
this county. All " the fra silver Re-
publicans have come back to Us. every
single man. The Republicans ara IN
thusiastic. the Democrats a2athetic.
The conditions look better here than |
ever saw them before. Three-quarter
If the Gold Democrats are with us.
The Pops are defunct The country
responds enthusiastically On the war
issues ana favors holding The Philip
pines. | am If opinion VT can carry
Missouri"
The Republican managers consider
that they have abundant reason ID
hope for Nebraskas vote fl November.
Several private advices are 10 the ef-
feet that the Democrats themselves re-
gard the state as very doubtful IT is
known that during the last few days
a great many Bryan votes in Nebras-
ka have been traded for votes for
Legislative candidates. and that the
Bryanite managers are now directing
the main efforts toward carrying the
state Legislature. 50 as to elect Bryan
to the United States Senate.
The news from West Virginia con-
tnues most encouraging AS one en-
huiiastic correspondent has it, grass
was never 50 green. flowers never 50
fair, birds never sang 50 5wectly as in
West Virginia. this year. politically
speaking"
Judge W. S. Kenworthy Of Iowa. has
been stamping this city for fortnight
on the East side and other parts Of the
city. He has had peculiar facilities for
observing the trend Of sentiment and
AZ Republican headquarters he summed
up his conclusions as follows:
II have attended about a score Of
Republican meetings in New York City,
Brooklyn and up the country. / am
agrecably surprised at the splendid
feeling on the part of the Republicans.
If there is apathy in the localities |
have visited it is not perceptible At
times there seems to be a disposition
to treat the contest as waged by Bryan
as farcical, but there is a deep seated
feeling that the Industrial and linan-
cial interests of the country are so con-
cerned that the people. common, every
day folks. are determined to wipe out
this Populistic idea from American poi
tiles as far as they can.
You ask me about the sound money
Democrats. | have met many of them,
both personally and from responses in
my audiences, and they are more
averse to Organism. this year. than in
1896. The Republican party will get
them, becarfse they feel that the attitude
Of the so-called Democratic party, to-
day, is menace to the industrial in
terests of the country
f. L. Davis Of Los Angeles, Cal. one
of the best known speIlbinders of the
Pacific coast. has been engaged by the
Republican national committee to