The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-08-07

though It went for Roosevelt In 1904
and Is good fighting ground for Taft,
will be found in the Bryan ranks.
If So this adds twenty-five and ad.
lvances the Democratic total to 15S.
Here the definite and admitted
Bryan strength comes to q halt with
the necessity Of securing eighty.four
more votes If "the peerless one" is to
sit in the white house for four years.
Where are they to he found?
One no sooner begins the search for
hem than he is convinced of the hope.
lessness of the case unless there
should prove TO be a complete rev.
olution in public sentiment between
now and November, of which there
are no indications and for which there
Is no reason.
Mr.. Bryan can hardly expect to
carry an eastern state. Nowhere is
his leadership so ignored, nowhere are
his policies more distrusted among the
rank and file of the people than in the
states of New York. New Jersey, Del
aware and Maryland, where formerly
| Democratic majorities were the rule.
So well do Mr.. Bryan and his mana
gers recognize the futility of any ex-
pectations of winning victories in this
bunch of states that they have evil
IDENTIFY abandoned all missionary
effort in the east
The result of the campaign depends
entirely on how far Mr.. Bryan can
cause a break in the hitherto loyal
Republican states stretching from
Ohio westward. Call the roll of these
splendid western commemorative.
Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan,
Iowa, Kansas, Wisconsin, and the Da-
kotas. There IS not a scintilla of
evidence indicating that they will not
each and all of them endorse William
H. Taft at the polls in the same hearty
manner as they did his predecessors,
William Mckinley and Theodore
Roosevelt. Nor is there any grave
reason to fear the loss of further west.
ern mountain states Despite all
claims, the Pacific west is not in re-
volt against the Republican ticket
But in order to be generous, grant
without the least reason for doing So
that Indiana, Nebraska, Montana and
Nevada are to be found in the Dem.
ocratic electoral column in November
All these four states have only twenty.
nine votes and with them added to
those which have already been con
ceded Mr.. Bryan will still need fifty.
five more votes in the electoral college
before he will be justified in planning
to break up housekeeping at Fairview
and occupying quarters in Theodore
Roosevelt's present residence.
To get these fifty-five votes, the
Democrats must capture Illinois, Col
orado Iowa and Kansas. They will
: capture Iowa and Kansas when the Re
publicans capture Alabama and Mis-
sissippi.
Mr.. Bryan's chances for winning
the election are about one to sixteen
for being defeated Meantime Hitch
cock and his advisors are wise in
planning for very comprehensive
campaign in every state.
Mr.. Bryan will conduct an interest
ing contest. 1t will be spectacular
noisy and full of claims. His presi
deatial battles serve the double pur
pose of energizing the Republicans
and keeping before the country 6
charming private citizen.
The people admire the gifts and the
genial personality of Col. William
Jennings Bryan but they do not trus
his theories. He will not win. 1t I.
improbable that his defeat by William
Howard Taft will be more overwhelm
ing than was that of Alton B. Parker
by Theodore Roosevelt in 1904.