The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-28
WILL WIN ONO
Results Of the Cincinnati En-.
qulret's Poll k-..ate
A BRYAN LANDSLIDE

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The Canvas Was Accurat, Made
and the Figures Show Big Demo-
cratic. Gains, and Are Such O. to
Put the Election OF Bryan Beyoaa
Any Doubt.
With the view OF getting a line on
the drift Of political sentiment 10
these last weeks before election, the
Cincinnati Enquirer has been taking
a secret ballot. The canvas is &C.
curate, the results being ascertainet
and verified by mathematical experts.
The figures show big Democratic
gains and are such as to put the
election Of Bryan beyond any doubt.
Most interesting are figures from
Taft's own State, Ohio, and his own
city. Cincinnati. They show a stats
of. affairs which admits Of only one
interpretation-that Bryan will carry
Ohio by many thousand plurality.
For example, the Enquirer made a
canvass Of the Lunkenheimer Brass
works In Cincinnati, one Of the larg-
est concerns Of its kind In the coun.
try.
Out Of those in the establishment
who voted the Republican ticket in
1904. %forty-nine will vote for Bryan
in: 1908. Only sixteen who voted
Democratic in 1904 will vote for Taft
this year, while eight Republicans
will vote for Debs. M Republican.
for Prohibition. one Republican wilt
vote Socialist and three Socialists
will vote Democratic.
The canvass made In the First Nat
ional Bank building showed thirty.
nine Republicans who will shift to
Bryan as against nine voters who
will shift to Taft. In the Fourth
National Bank building eleven r.
pIblicans voted for Bryan, while on'y
two who voted Democratic In 1904
will shift to Taft this year. In the
Mercantile Library skyseraper 10
shown this extraordinary change:
Republican to Democratic, 81; Dem.
ocratic to Republican, 4. In the
Union Trust building, among bankers.
lawyers, doctors and insurance men.
forty-three shift to Bryan as against
twenty-five to Taft.
In the canvass OF the plant of Hell
mers, Bettmann & Co., one OF the
largest shoe factories Of Cincinnati.
seventeen Republicans went over IN
Bryan, and not a single Democrat Will
vote for Taft, this being especially
significant as showing the Bryan
trend of the labor vote.
The d~ecisiveness Of Democrats
gains is brought out with startling
clearness by analysis of these figures.
Among the professional and mecan-
tile classes, as represented In tho
big Office buildings, there IL q Re
publican shift Of II Per cent, While
the Democratic shift to Taft Is only
s per cent. Among the laboring PEG.
ple, as shown by the canvass OF the
Helmers-Bettmann concern, there IA
a Republican shift to Bryan OF 33 1-8
per cent and no shift to Taft at all.
1t is fair to assume that workers
and salaried people represent At
least two-thirds of the entire vote OF
the country.
Now, the total Republican vote OF
Ohio in 1904 was 600,059. The tota!
Democratic vote vas 344,674. Ap-
nlying the canvass in Cincinnati to
general conditions throughout tho
State Of Ohio, We have:
Total Republican shift to
Bryan :.
Deduct Democratic shift OF s
Der cent of professional
and mercantile vote 80. 5000
Net Republican shift to
Bryan :. :. .......
Add total Ohio Democratic
vote In 1904 ..344,674
Estimated Democratic vote
in Ohio for 1908 ......601.s07
Estimate Republican vote In
Ohio for 1908, after de-
Quoting net loss OF 167,-
133 ............442,92s