The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1908-10-26
Some Shifts Possible.

some SEiftS POSSIBLE
There is no doubt that many people
will believe that certain of these
states should be moved from one col
umn into the other. Quite probably
some such shifts may be made when
the eighteen million or more Amerl-
can voters proceed to register their
verdict. But by way of explaining why
certain states are included in the sure
Bryan colmun these explanations can
be offered:
For, example. Indiana, in 1892. gave
a plurality to the democratic ticket of
more than 1000 votes. In 1896, not
withstanding the colossal outpouTing
of money by the republican managers
and the fact that the chairman Of the
so-called gold democratic party was
chosen from among its public men,
it gave only plurality of only $4,000
to William Mckinley. This year in
that state there is a democratic unity,
the democratic nominee for vice-presi-
dent is one of its most popular citl-
Zens and the nominee for governor of
the same party is a man of extraordi-
nary political strength. The republi
can party there is badly torn by the
on the likuor question.
Kansas and Nebraska are safe for
the democratic party on the one issue
of the guaranty of bank deposits, the
latter of course, being influenced by
the honors won for it by its most dis
tinguished son. The republican cam
paign in both states has been practi-
cally abandoned.
AS to Ohio. this state is almost vi
tai to either party and is next to New
York, the battle-ground today. In 1892,
it was carried by the republicans by
the slender majority of 1000: in 1896,
change Of $4,000 votes would have
given the state to the democracy, so
this year it seems probable that the
change due to the resentment of JO-
seph B. Foraker and his followers, the
sullen hostility of Boss Cox and the
almost unanimous determination of
colored voters to vote the democratic
ticket, will give the state to Bryan
and Kern.
Michigan and New Jersey.
Among the states which / have
! noted as certain for Taft there may
be criticism as to the inclusion of
Michigan and New Jersey. AS to the
former it is probable that if as hard
work had been done there as was done
for example in Indiana, the state
! would be carried by the democrats.
| New Jersey, as the most corporation
| cursed state in the union, is normal
ly republican, but in the event of a
landslide in New York, New Jersey
might be swung by the influence of it's
! citizens who do business in New York
| city.
| Taking up the doubtful states. and
leaving New York for the last, Rhode
Island has long been electing demo-
cratic governors and my correspond
ence there justifieS hope, if not con-
fidence, that the state may this year
| gives its electoral vote to the oemo-
cratic ticket.
There are people in Wisconsin
many of them, and about the demo-
cratic national headquarters in Chica-
go, who would question putting Tis-
consin in the doubtful column at all.
! The support of Taft by Senator Robert
M. LaFollette is so perfunctory, while
the future of the La Toilette policy is
! to clearly to be served by the defeat
! of the republican ticket. that there is
much reason to expect a very heavy
vote from that element for Bryan and
Kern.
Oregon a few years ago elected a
democratic governor and recently it
voted him to the United States senate.
although the state itself has long been
reliably republican. The guaranty of
bank deposits. and particularly the di-
| rect election of United States senators
by the people which Oregon has tested
I successfully, will be of great influence
! in that state and may take it into the
/ Bryan column.
i The situation in Illinois is curious. 1t
is generally admitted that Stevenson
will be elected governor Should he
win by a swimming majority. his pop
ularity and his organization may car
ry Bryan through. A republican leader
said the other day that the only thing