The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1908-10-23
WILL WIN OHIO
Results of, the Cincinnati En-
quirer's Poll Indicate
A BRYAN LANDSLIDE

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The Canvas Was Accurately Made
and the Figures Show Big Demo-
cratic Gains, and Are Such as to-
Put the Election Of Bryan Beyond
Any Doubt.
With the view of getting line on
the drift OF political sentiment in
these last weeks before election, the
Cincinnati Enquirer has been taking
secret ballot The canvas is ac-
curate, the results being ascertained.
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 owIl
city, Cincinnati. They show state
of affairs which admits of only one
interpretation-that Bryan will carry
Ohio by many thousand plurality.
For example, the Enquirer made IL
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 Tafe
this year, while eight Republicans
will vote for Debs, zone. Republican
for Prohibition, one Republican will
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 Re-
publicans voted for Bryan, while on'y
two who voted Democratic in: 1904
will shift to Taft this year. In the
Mercantile Library skyscraper -
shown this extraordinary change:
Republican to Democratic, 81; DEM
ocratic to Republican, 4. In tlis
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 to
Bryan, and not single Democrat will
vote for Taft, this being especially
significant as showing the Bryan
trend of the labor vote.
The decisiveness OF :. Democrats
gains is brought out with startling
clearness by analysis Of these figures
Among the professional and mecan-.
tile classes, as represented In the
big office buildings, there is Re-
publican shift Of II per cent, while
the Democratic shift to Taft Is only
8 per cent. Among the laboring peo-
ple, as shown by the canvass Of the
Helmers-Bettman concern, there is
a Republican shift tc Bryan OF 80 l-S
per cent and no shift to Taft at all.
It 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 6OO,059. The total
Democratic vote was 344,674. APP
plying tn. canvass in Cincinnati To-
general conditions throughout the
State of Ohio, we have:
Total Republican shift TO
Bryan -. .1oo'3a%
Deduct Democratic shift OF
per cent Of professional
and mercantile vote 49,. 9,zpE
Net Republican shift to
BRYAN 1915
Add total Ohio Democratic
vote in 1904 .....'. ..'.344,61E'
Estimated Democratic vote
in Ohio for 1908 .501, SOC
Estimate Republican vote in
Ohio for 1908, after de-
duct!ng net loss Of 1877
20, 442.92,s