Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-05

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publican. New Hampshire will give
Mckinley about 10000 plurality"
EXPECT a LANDSLIDE.
Republican Managers ON Eve of Elec.
ton Predict Overwhelming Defeat
\ Of Bryan.
1 New York, Nov. 5.-The republican
national committee gives out the follow
ling official statement:
4 ION the eve Of election the republican
national committees forecast, based on
absolutely authentic and unimpeachab
! figures and facts differs from Its pre-
/ vious, forecasts only in increasing the
4 magnitude of the triumph which Tues
4 day will bring to the cause OF national
! honor and prosperity. All the sources OF
the committees informant tion. including
many who are unwilling Witnesses, con-
i cur in indicating the conclusion that
slTuesday " election will prove a yeritable
Landslide for Mckinley and seal the
4 doom of Bryan and Bryanism forever
The prime cause Of this irresistible
land Overwhelming popular revolt
4 against the Bryan populisr ticket is OBJ
A vious. 1t consists in the desire Of the
4 people to maintain the prosperity which:
Il they have enjoyed and now enjoy under
a the policies of the Mckinley administra-
Ition and In their well grounded fear of
! public calamity in case Bryan We're to
be elected.
THE laborng man, l1is wife and chill
dren remember the poverty. misery and
. despair which shrouded their lives in the
/ Iblack years previous to Mckipley's in
. auguration. and they remember with
II gratitude the relief which has come to
!. them since then. with abundant employ
/ lment and largely increased wages.
: They listen nov to Bryans invita-
4 ltions to throw away~their advantage,
l |but respectfully decline them.
: THE business men Of the United
5 States remember what happened 10
t them in those dark hours and they know
t that the practical result of the election
e of 1896 has been in reference to the re-
Ihabilitation and prosperity Of all lines
e iof commercial enterprise during the last
: four years. They regard the invitation
y Ito indorse Bryan and his free silver and
: free trade theories as nothing short OF
INSANITY.
& The farmers are not likely to forget
+ the evil days when they were reduced tc
bankruptcy and almost to beggary. ano
d now with mortgages lifted, their farm
iproducts bringing greatly ncreasec
d prices and their homes hiled with com
n fort and JOY, they do not propose tt
d |change their conditions at the behest o
i the false prophet of 1896, and the anar
z Ichial agitation of 1900.
!. All who have renuneratiye work tt
e do, all who have wages paid them. AM
Z who have q business to protect and de
% ivelop. all who have money deposited ii
Z, savings banks or invested in homes o
n their own, have been confronted with
~ threat to reduce the value of their pros
+ perity by one half and have besn aske
!, to ratify this suicidal proposition b,
oil their votes.
: "As they constitute the great mas
i. of the American people and as they al
sane, sensible and honorable men, tn
Overwhelming majority for McKinle
and against Bryan, which Tuesday wi
k. record, is thus accounted for
10 The country has prospered unde
id Mckinley: that wages have risen to
" higher rate than ever before; that en-
ID ployment Is abundant for all; that til
g. savings of labor have increased half
az billion dollars: that commercial pros
ae perity has been universal and CONNIE,
Id cial honor safeguarded against the at
=, vocates OF reputation, and so the
r. naturally have decided to re-eleet hi
Ill and continue the present conditions {
he prosperity and safety.
on The committees final foreca!
es claims at least the following states Fl
tn Mckinley: California. Connection
Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, kal
sas. Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Ma
sachusetts. Michigan, Minnesota, Ne
- Hampshire. New Jersey, New Yor
IT. North Dakota Ohio Ore9D Pennsy
of vania Rhode Island. south rakot
,rs yernonf Wa asq,ington swas, Virgin,
an Wisconsin and Wyoming. Total. 294.
az CORNELIUS N. BLISS
n :JOSEPH H MANLEY.
ne CHATHAM r. SCOTT,
IRE "a .sFREDERICK S. GIBBS,
~ s.I1ra ANEcIHN A1I1RIIIY j,