Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-03
INDIANA SITUATION
RESULT DEPENDS ON VOTE OF
SILVER MEN.
Both Parties Are Striving to Secure It
and Neither is Yet Sure
About It.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.

opecidl bispdtcH 10 Inc Evening star.
INDIANAPOLIS, October 3-That the re-
suit of the election in Indiana depends on
the vote of the silver men is conceded by
party leaders on both sides. The state COM
mittees of the two leading political parties
are exerting themselves to the utmost in
perfecting their organizations and each is
secretly guessing at what is the true reason
tor the lack of campaign excitement When
a republican is asked to the reason of the
quiet he will tell you that satisfaction with
present conditions and a general desire to
have no change is the cause When a demo-
crat is asked, he VIII tell you that the peo-
PIE are thinking and have not yet deter
mined what is best to do. Yet each is think
ing and working with the same object in
view: To line up the silver men The dis
trict and county chairmen come and tell
the state chairmen about the attitude of
the silver democrats. The republicans are
telling their state chairman of the large
numbers of silver democrats that they say
will not vote for Parker. The democrats
are telling their state chairman of dissatis-
ned silver democrats, asking for ad-
vice on how to proceed to get them in line
and are asking that Bryan or Gen. J. n
Weaver or B. F. Shively or some other for
mer advocate of free silver be sent to their
county to make a speech.
A Large Silver Element.
1t is conceded by democratic leaders that
there is large silver element in Indiana
not yet convinced that it should vote for
Parker, but they also say that the number
is fast growing less and that the opposition
TO Parker has almost entirely disappeared
In some communities The democratic state
committee Is directing its greatest efforts
at TINS time to soothing the silver demo-
Gratis. Charles A. Walsh of Iowa. secre-
Iary OF the democrat national foo in
the Bryan campaigns, was brought to In
diana to assist in this work, and is conduct
Ing bureau in a room adjoining that of w
II. U BrIen, chairman of the democratic
state committee. J. o. Henderson, who led
TIE Hearst movement in Indiana, is a trav-
eIlng representative of the state committee
and is engaged in organizing the Hearst
ana silver democrats for Parker and Davis
James B. Weaver, former populist nomi-
nee for President, was in Indiana over two
weeks Tor the democrats. and he will be In
i again, beginning October 3. for an
indefinite time. His speeches are intended
to snow the populists and silver democrats
why they should vote for Parker and that
this is the kind of speech the democrats
think they need is shown by Weayers re-
turn. Bryans speeches are so much in de-
mand that he will be asked to make thirty
of them in ten days, from October IL to
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Important to Democrats.
The Importance of the silver vote to the
democrats is plain to be seen. Any way
the democrats figure It, they must have
practically the solid silver vote to win.
And If they do get practically the solid sill
yer vote it is apparent that they have a
good chance to win. The gold democratic
vote, excepting such of 1t as became per-
manently republican, has gone back to the
regular democratic party this year. This
vote in 1896 was variously estimated from
1900 to %, 900. On the assumption that
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cratic votes that the republicans have been
getting, and on the assumption that the
democrats will be able to keep in line the
men who voted for Bryan, it appears that
carry the state.
This is the chance that the democratic
managers are working ON. They are back
ton. AS far as outward signs are to be re-
lied upon, the democrats are as well or
better on financially today than the repub-