The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1908-10-28
Will WIN OHIO
Results Of the Cincinnati, En.
quIEeTs Poll Indicate
A BRYAN LANDSLIDE
The Canvas Vas Accurately Mada
and the Figures Show Big Demo
cratic Gains, and Are Such as to
Put the Election Of Bryan Beyond
Any Doubt.

| Put the Election Of Bryan Beyond
! Any Doubt.
/ With the view OF getting a lins on
the drift OF political sentiment ia
these last weeks before election, the
Cincinnati Enquirer has been taking
q secret ballot The canvas 10 ac-
curate. tIe results being ascertaiaeA
and verified Cy mathematical experts.
The figures show big Democratic
gains and are such as to put the
election Of Bryan beyond any doubt
Nest interesting are figures from
Taft's own State, Ohio, and his own
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
canvass Of the Lunkenheimer Brass
works in Cincinnati. one Of the larg-
est concerns of It's kind IN the coun-
try.
Out of those in the establishment
who voted the Republican ticket IN
1904, forty-nine will vote 10. Bryan
in 1908. Only sixteen who voted
Democratic in 1904 will vote for Taft
this year. while eight Republicans
will vote for Debs. one 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 viii shift to
Bryan as against nine voters who
will shift to Taft. In the Fourth
National Bank building eleven Re-
pubiicans voted for Bryan, while only
two who voted Democratic in 1904
Will Shift to Taft this year. In the
Mercantile Library skyscraper ls
shown this extraordinary change:
Republican to Democratic, 81; DEM
ocratic to Republican, e. In the
Union Trust building, among bankers,
lawyers, doctors and insurance mea,
forty-th7ee shift to Bryan as against
twenty-five to Taft.
In the canvass of the plant Of Hell
mers, Bettmanr & 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 decisiyeness of Democratic
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 laborins peo-
pie, as shown by the carCass Of the
Helmers-Bettmann concern, there ia
Republican Shift to Bryan Of SO 1-e
per cent and no shift to Taft at all.
It Is fair to assume that workers
and salaried people represent st
least two-thirds of the entire vote Of
the country.
Now, the total Republican vote OF
Ohio in 1904 was So0,059. The total
Democratic vote was 344,674. Ap-
plying the canvass in Cincinnati TO
| general conditions throughout the
! State of Ohio, we have:
Total Republican shift to
Bryan =. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 1858
| Deduct Democratic shift of 8
per cent Of professional
and mercantile vote -. $500
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