The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-01-28

a sA-TtAAiAtA a'a' ANAAA' lNl AfN's III AN"N
Bryan polled $4,000 more votes there
than Cleveland did in lsg2. ana IN
1900 he polled 80 DoO more votes IN
Indiana than Parker did in 1904.
/ Does that show wea.u,ss og strength
IN Organism?
Take Montana dauomiuatcd "a
safe republican state. Bryan car
nyd it both times aul in 100 poll,d a
10000 more votes tan Parker did
four years later.
Take Nebraska. originally SAT,
republican state by about 2S 900
votes. Bryan carried it in 1896 and
though he lost it in 1900 by ul-
row margin, he polled more than
twice as many votes there as did
Judge Parker in 1904. Bryan has put
| Nebraska in the doubtful column ana
he can cary it in 1908.
Take Ohio. General Grosvenor
calls it sure republican stlte, and
! DECLARES Bryan the most unlikely
candidate to ever carry it, Yet what
are tie facts? They show that Bryar
polled more votes in Ohio than any
| democratic candidate for the Ideai-
| dency before or since. Bryan pollcd
I 10000 more votes in Ohio in 1900
against Ohio's favorite son, who had
the prestige of being president of
| the United States, thnr Parker four
years later, without any ohio candi-
date against him.
And even take New York, whore
they claim Il yam is lamentab.y
weak We find that Bryan pollod
even there substantially as many
votes in 1900 as Parker, son Of
New York, did in 1894, and taat the
majority in that state was not so
great against Bryan as against Par
ker by some $4,000 votes.
Even take the entie country,
Bryan received a greater popular
vote that any democrat. whoever ran
for the presidency. lie received in
1896 nearly a million more popular
votes than Cleveland in 1892, and in
1900 he received nearly 100000
more votes than Parker in 1904. In
1896 he received thirty-six, and in
1900 dfteen more electoral votes than
Parker in 1904. This ought to be
conclusive as to whether IA safe
sane and conservative candidate is
better for democracy than Mr.
Bryan. As Walter Welman recently
put it in the Caicago Record-Herald
THE men or party who proceed
upon the theory that Mr.. Bryan IS
not dangerous as a vote getter are
likely to wake up sometime and find
themselves sadly mistaken"
The House and Bryan.
Apropos of this matter of Mr.
Bryan's strength comes story
! which | can give more in detail some
two days hence. About ten days age
| the Washington Post, owned by John
| r. Mclean wdo Is well known tc
be one of Mr.. Bryans bitterest polit
ical enemies, printed at great length
and secured the publication through
the Associated Press of an alleged
| poll of the house of representatives
on the preferences of the members
for the presidential nominee. Dem
ocratic members, of course, only
We're questioned. Without going in
to detail, | may say now that the
Posts poll showed ninety-eight fol
Bryan, thirty-one for Johnson OF
| Minnesota and twenty-five scattering
with Judge Gray in the lead. Some
friends of Mr.. Bryan recognizing the
fact that the poll was taken by the
most inimical paper in the United
States suggested an investigation
The investigation was made by cor
respondents at the capitol who have
no interest whatsoever in personal
politics. The result showed one
hundred and five votes specifically
for Mr.. Bryan, fifteen for Gov. John
son, seven for Gray and twenty non
committal. The difference between
the poll of the partisan and the pol
made by the professional reporters
is chiefly shown by the fact that
| there is no unity Of action among
what is called the anti-Bryan Gle
ment. am convinced that the pol
is an honest one, for | am in pos
session OF the names of AL the men
interviewed. These names, 1t is
not my purpose to publish. But
have not the slightest doubt that
each one has been quoted correctly
even though ! find in the list one