Omaha daily bee., 1900-10-18
coed TlDIyCS KEEP COMING
Visitors at State Headquarters Brng bn-
couaging Report from Country
FORMER tvsioVlsTs DESERT s9. BRYAN
Farmer HnNc Prrr comparing 'f"'-
ent ptIc.s win Those ot i"nr
Years Ago nId VIII
vote Hight.

Visitors we're at republican state mead
ou.rt,r. yrst,rd,y from counucs where re-
prhIicans have scarcely elected @ con
atahle or road oycrsccr since the haWu
NJ pnpuIigm They gave their tranh oplh-
ion TO the committee based on personal
,onyagses and while certain sections III
the heart Of the populist district WI"
stand tor Bryan. The old-tpe ma)oi'''e.
will be pppr,, Ia1ly eaten into. Margins ol
soo or 400 will dwndic to half that size
OF less. and In some cases they VIII be
overcome with votes to spare.
I'm tho four counties cf Hayes, Hitch-
cock. Chase and Duudy I have majority
TO combat of IyJ." remarked '. w. 'ull OF
Hayes county. candidate Tor the 'S''ls
lure. "but from the feeling I dul every
where as / have sonc about among th'
farmer + haven't the least doubt hut that
our tickot win win The county was car-
ric1 for Bryan by thn slender margin of
forty-Hvp out Of 600 votes and four years
aro BRYAN had his grand and hnal op-
portunlty among the farmers.
"Colfay county Is thcly settled with
Germans and Bohcmians and thoy gave
Bryan majority before Of 500 or 6OO'
said Colonel Russell, prominent worker
of Schuyler. They have been thinking a
good deal however as they have followed
tier plows arounn The fields for tour
years and it. viii take more than feyerish
talk to stir them this time One promi'
rent German farmer told me this week
that under Cleveland sell 1000 bushels
Of corn for : cents That make $3.50. |
have him now and he bring me In $3.50.
The farmers are willing to learn by hard
experience like the rCst OF us, but when
they learn they learn we'll. The crops
this fall are excellent aud that Is what Ia
kecping farmers away from our meetings.
They say, Wen vote all right, but We
want to husk our corn before sno"
comes
Gains il Platte county.
l. r. Morfs. q wen known citizen of
Creston, brought in encouraging reports Of
gains In the popuist stronghold of Platte
county. I'VE have a majority Of 700 to
overcome In the county and expect TO cut
It In half at the very least There was
only a republican vote OF eighty IN our
township four years ago and now We have
105 In the republican club. Jim North Is
making hard fight for the senate and
will win If anybody can. He was Internal
revenue officer under Cleveland and had
many friends among the democrats before
his conversion. He isn't a bit dHunted by
the adverse majority OF 700 in Platte county
and 500 In Colfax county"
Another populist county was accounted
for by ]. NJ. Forristall, an attorney from
Elm Creek Buffalo gave Bryan ma
jority of 600." said Mr. Forristall. "and he
will probably carry IL again. He will find,
however, that he can count on no such
majority as in the old days wnen farmers
and stockmen were getting poor prices and
were looking for any sort of "A political
Messiah. He'll be lucky II he leads by
300. There was a hot dry spell in July
which hurt the corn and small grain and
no crops are the best thing that can hap
pen for the popuist cause. In Elm Creek
we were beaten before by eighty votes, but
the town will go our way this time easily
Rock county, a community which has had
small balance OF about l26 on the right
side of the ledger, represented by j
A. Douglas and Il. l.. Myers, prominent
mercantile men OF Bassett and Newport
1--WE will do just a little betetr this time
than usual" said Mr.. Douglas. "and will
carry the county for Mckinley by more
than 150 In a vote OF about 700. The vot-
ers are mostly republican with a scatter
ing of Germans and these have not beer
affected in the least by imperialism, which
they do not feel. compared with prosperity
which they feel most forcibly. Van Bus
kirk has eighteen counties to cover in his
senatorial district, but he is popular, es
pecally with the cattlemen. because of hi
services as secretary OF their state associ
alton, and he ought to win with hands