Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-03
UNSATISFACTORY
He Says Indiana is Safe for Nc
Kinley.
EXPECTS CONGRESSIONAL GAIN
Bryan's Visits Have Lost Him
Votes in the State.
CONGRESSIONAL
GAIN
MR. EMERSON'S FORECAST
Special From staff Correspondent.

Special From Staff Correspondent.
CHICAGO. November 3.-Harry S. New
member Of the executive committee of the
republican national committee and ma
ti0nal committeeman from Indiana, gave
The Star correspondent the following fore
cast of Inidana's vote today:
Indiana will cast her electoral vote for
Mckinley and Roosevelt. and in my judg-
nent the plurality given them will exceed
rather than fan below the republican plu-
rality of ISL given in 1896. The farmers
of the state are more soidly republican
than they have ever been. and | do not
believe that any weli-informed democrat
doubts the truth of this statement OF
the 3,400 voting precincts of the state more
than 1000 are in strictly agricultural COM
munities. and the gains from this source
alone will be sufficient to guarantee the
result. The business interests are unmis-
takably with us. Another source of
strength is to be found among the first
voters. There is scarcely a Rough Rider
organization in Indiana but that numbers
among its membership the sons of demo-
cratic parents who have been fired by pa
triotic enthusiasm. and are in favor of
national progress rather than national re-
progression.
LabOrinS Men for Mckinley.
The democrats have based their only
hope of success upon the laboring men. and
We have heard great deal about demo-
cratic gains in the gas belt. and in the
manufacturing cities. | have been at great
pains to investigate these claims. and find
that they cannot be subStautiated. On
the other hand. | believe that the repub-
lcanS will gain rather than lose among
that element. If this be true it is GER
tainly clear that the republican plurality
will be greater than that of 1896. few
who called themselves gold democrats four
years ago have been supporting Mr.. Bryan
in this campaign. but almost without ex-
ception they are men who for the sake of
the future desire to preserve at least a
semblance of party regularity. and not
few of them will vote for Mckinley in
the privacy of the booth. Those who were
against Mr. Bryan in 1896 are against him
now for the same reason. He has not
changed his position nor have they changed
theirs.
Mr. Bryan'S frequent visits to and nu-
rnerous speeches in Indiana have made him
no friends. on the other hand, | think
that there are many conservative citizens
who under ordinary circumstances would
be inclined to vote for a democrat of the
Grover Cleveland type who regard Mr.
Bryan as dangerous man, and his the
cries a positive menace to good govern
ment. | personally know of many such In
1876 there was IN Indiana a percentage of
people who had suffered from the hard
times of the four years preceding that
campaign. who We're taken with the free
silver idea. and quietly voted for Mr. Bry-
an in tn" hope that the expansion of the
currency promised by his theories would
enable them to more readily meet their OBJ
hsalons. These people have prospered
since Mckinley's Inauguration. and are per
fectly content to have present conditions
continue.