The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-12

leans claim it by 100000. Judge j. r.
Challen, Of Florida, has been in the
Middle West. He is a native Of Ohio.
practiced law in Cincinnati for
thirty years. He il reported in a Jack
sonville special OF 7th to the Atlanta
Constitution as saying:
II was in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan
and Wisconsin. besides my own state.
Everywhere / found a strong Bryan
sentiment among a number OF hitherto
republicans and my observation was
the democratic party Is absolute
ly a unit. In Ohio some OF the strong
est friends Of President Mckinley are
even fearful that he will lose his own
state; and many republicans who sup
ported him in 1896 are opposed to his
Philippine policy, and In the great crisis
that his policy has precipitated they
are apt TO stand by their convictions.
They regard II as a serious PROPOSE
ton
81 found this same sentiment in the
other states in what is generally re-
garded the storm center In al Of
these central western states, of course,
there is a big German vote. Hereto
fore the vote has been largely divided
with a strsng republican element. /
find that this vote is almost solidly OPP
posed to McKinley's administration"
Senator German is sick and cannot
make the canvas he hoped to do.
has written a forceful letter setting
forth his views and for Bryan.
The New York Herald, for Mckinley,
publishes a reply from a German paper
at Indianapolis:
ITO the Editor of the Herald: Gun
opinion is that about rs Der cent. of the
German-American citizens of Indiana
will vote for Bryan. We estimate the
German-American vote of the state at
0,O0O."
A Nebraskan in Washington thinks
that state certain for Bryan. The
democratic candidate for governor in
Indiana, John w. Keen, thinks Bryan
will carry Indiana. D. j. Campan,
democratic state chairman, thinks
Bryan will carry Michigan. Ex-Gov.
Stone, Of Missouri, gives a good &C
count Of Bryan gains in New York.
He says:
mi. S%anchfield is making a splendid
campaign, n Mr.. Color, who accom-
NAAN AAh ID Oildill III hIo5I Ndlud-
Bile assistance. 1 was gratified to DE
that the large German-Ameri-
can vote in the counties 1 visited is
tending strongly to Mr.. Bryan. 1 feel
certain hat he will make great gains
in that direction"
Let us add this. A merchant in this
town, who has visited Boston, New
York and Baltimore says that there is
the greatest contrast between the ap-
pearance of things in 1896 and now,
and in favor of Bryan. He saw when
in New York a letter from a friend who
lives in a town in that state with 400
votes. This represents a town of about
1000 or a little more. In 1896, he
writes, Bryan got some twenty votes,
We do not recall the exact number
Recently a poll was made and in this
same town Mckinley had but seven
votes. The writer of the letter was a
republican.
President Eliot, of Harvard UNIVERSE
ty will not vote for Mckinley.
w. E. Curtis, who will support Nc
Kinley, in a letter to the Chicago Re
cord or the situation in Indiana, says
THE gold democrats who supported
Mckinley four years 6 will vote fol
Bryan this time, with the exception
of a few bankers and very rich men,
and the quakers will vote against Nc
Kinley because they do not like the
shooting of the Filipinos and the mill
tary invasion of China. There is said
to be considerable discomfort among
the IA miners, and also among the
labor unions in the gas district. ]
ave seen w or three people of both
parties who have been recently in ndi
ana, and all agree that the chances OF
success there are in favor of the dem
ocrats."
John r. Mclean is confident tina
Bryan will carry McKinley's owl
state, Ohio.