Bisbee daily review., 1908-07-28
Over Byan's Strength in the Middle West, Which Is Greater Than It Was
 Last Campaign.
IA SEASON OF POLITICAL
 HYSTERIA EXPECTED
With Resultant Brief Panic As in Former Presidential Con-
 tests, Says Holland.

NEW YORK, July 27.-A business man of New England, who has also taken an active part in national poll ties, is quoted as having said a day Or two ago that the business inter ests of the country should not un- derestimate the vote which Bryan will receive on election day. He is confident that Taft will receive a. handsome plurality in New York state, but he confesses that the sIs- uatiOn in Ohio, Iowa, Indiana and IT. linCis is not one which should give to business men absolute confidence that the electoral votes of those states will be given to Mir. Taft.
 So, also, one of the leading bank CTS of Boston is quoted as havmg said that while Bryan as a candidate is weaker east of the Alleghenies than he was in 1896 and 1900, yet hls strength is probably greater in the middle west today than at the core spending date in 1900 Or 1896.
 These two quoted statements re- | fleet what is alleged to be the opin- ion of the more important business interests of the east. And from one point of view the statements do not 1 and Democratic campaign managers. All look for the concentration of the chief energies Of the campaign in the states of the middle west No one really doubts that the electoral votes of New York, New Jersey and the New England states will be cast for Taft.
 Yet inquiries put to business men sasF- statement that some business inter- ests are little anxious lest some Of the states of the middle west whicn since 1896 have returned majorities for the Republican candidate for president should this year cast their electoral votes for Bryan If thA1S be any apprehension of serious dan ger to the Republican canvass it is based solely on the vague but much reiterated report that some of the mid de west states are inclined to give majority support to Bryan
 As Vet uninformed.
 Some of the Greater New York merchants, whose sources of informa- ton are often better than those re lied upon by the politicians, because they come from reliable correspond ents, have not so far received commu- nications from these correspondents in the middle west that there is such a widespread dissatisfaction with the Republican party or that dangerous factiOnal disturbances in Republican states of the midwest as would leao 10 the expectation that these states would be lost to the Republican party.
 There Cften comes in campaigns strange. and unexpected panic waves. That was the case in 1896, when in mid-September, for no reason that could be given, business interests were frightened into the belief that Bryan would be elected.
 In 1900 the panic was so sudden and violent as to make it necessary that bank presidents be summoned enc Sunday evening from the noun tains and the seashoTe, so that before the beginning of the business hour uI Monday a gold fortress represented by a pool, pledged to raise on the in start S25 5,000,00 in gold, could be so swiftly constructed that impending panic could be resisted. So also in the last week of October, 1904. the Republicans of New York state were, from some as yet unexplained cause, of a sudden in panic.
 Some of these leaders were so badly frightened lest the Democracy should carry the state of New York, Roose- yelt being repudiated by his own state, that their inability as campaign man. agers was greatly impaired.
 This year undoubtedly, at one time or another, sudden panic will come, and for no reason that would explain it but it is too early in the campaign