Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-10-24
BATTLE WON SAYS BRYAN!
Great Nebraskan Fully Assured Of His
Election To The Presidency.

William j. Bryan unqualiiiedly pre-
diets his own election. and in a state
ment, the first of the kind he has given
during the present campaign. he gave
the reason why he expects to be elected
Mr. Bryan sums up the situation as
it appears to him, two weeks before
election He believes that a Demo-
cratic wave even greater than that Of
1892 is sweeping over the country, and
that every happening of the campaign
so far has accelerated rather than check
ed this movement.
Everything up to now, he declared.
has gone against the Republicans; they
are divided and fighting among them
selves, and he expressed the belief that
in the two weeks before the campaign
closes it will be impossible for them to
save the day.
He bases his views not only upon his
own personal observation of the situ-
alton in the doubtful States, in every
one of which he has now made speeches,
but upon exhaustive daily reports from
National Chairman Mack and from re-
ports made to him by State chairmen
in the various States as he has gone
through them.
No political manager, not even Presi-
dent Roosevelt, is in more direct touch
with the progress of the campaign or
receives more complete reports. His
hand is upon the Democratic campaign
throttle every moment. and he is in com
plete charge Of the direction Of the ac-
tivities at New York and Chicago. Mr.
Bryan said
IF any reliance can be placed upon
reports that come to us directly from
Democrats and indirectly from Repub-
licans, the battle is already won. and
it is hardly possible that the swelling
tide can be checked during the two
weeks Of the campaign that remain.
We can discount the reports that have
come to us by half and still win a great
victory
Everything has gone against the
Republicans. The canvasses they have
made are not encouraging and every
thing is gloomy at Republican head
quarters. Our reports. without excep-
tion. are good and we are adding State
after State to the probable Democratic
column States which earlier in the
campaign we had no hope of carrying. 4"
Mr. Bryan then spoke of the meetings
he has had during the campaign. COM
pairing them with the meetings during
his former campaigns, and he said the
meetings this year have without excep-
tion been better While in certain sec
tions the crowds were larger in 1896,
then hostility was shown toward him
and at some places he was even denied
hearing This year this has all been
reversed
Then, replying to a request for a
statement Of the reasons why he cx-
poets to win, Mr.. Bryan said:
"A number of forces are at work
which together seem to insure a Demo
cratic victory. Our ticket has a united
Democracy behind it and frightened
opposition before it. And there is good
reason for the fright.
THE Republican party has been
weighed in the balance and found want
ing. The laboring men, embittered by
deception practicod upon them by the
full dinner pail argument eight years
ago by the refusal of a Republican
Congress to enact needed labor laws
and still further angered by the hostility
shown to labor by the last Republican
convention. both in the platform and the
nominees the laboring men. | say, for
these reasons are supporting the Demo-