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rJBTT. rar, , . THI COURIER. Hifbett of all in Leavening Power Latest tf. S. Gov't Repott fmsxsz Am&QMJVTEMX PURE Weaver has in succeeding Reasons preached succeeding doctrines, he still has a considerable following. He has jumped from party to party, flitted fron idea to idea, with surprising agility; but through all the years and in all bis wan derings he has never wanted a follow ing. Today, while the majority of the people of Iowa ridicule the versatile politician and condemn his views, he is generally given credit for sincerity and personal integrity. It was natural that Mr. Bryan, as he crossed the western border of Iowa, on his way from Lincoln to New York, should early find himself in the receptive arms of General Weaver, whose advocacy of fiatism was in the full vigor and swing of maturity when Mr. Bryan was yet encompassed in the swaddling clothes of infancy. Iowans who sought to pay tribute to Mr. Bryan fell, easily and naturally, behind the ex-greenbacker. When one considers certuin aspects of Iowa's history one is prepared to believe that the people of that state are partic ularly susceptible to the doctrines taught by Mr. Bryan. Mr. Bryan him self has long since dismissed Iowa from all consideration as a sure silver state, and public opinion in many sections of the country is ready to endorse his confidence. But a little investigation will show that Mr. Bryau and his friends, who have so glibly settled the matter of Iowa's political adherence in this campaign, have drawn largely upon their imagination and desire. No intel ligent person can ride across the state, talk to the paople, and look into local conditions, without coming to the con clusion that Iowa is securely fixed in the republican column. The facts and figures are all against the claim set up by Bryan and his managers. The Weaver idea still exists, but it is making no headway. There has been no great change in public sentiment in Iowa. The conditions this jear are, practically, the same as obtained two years ago or four years ago. In 1893 F. M. Drake, the republican candidate for governor, received 208,711 votes. W. I. Babb, the democratic can didate, received 149,428 votes. The peo ple's party candidate received 32,189 votes, and Bacon, the prohibition can didate, 11,014 votes. Drake was elected governor by a plurality of 59,286. His majority over all contesting candidates wm 1G.033 votes. Mr. Bryan or any one else who conteuds that Iowa will give a plurality for free stiver this year must account for a tremendous change sentiment. A republican plurality in of nearly 60,000 votes cannot be wiped out by glib gabble. The more one talks with the people the more one is convinced that this plurality will be in creased rather than diminished. Judge Babb, the democratic candi date for governor last year, is a conserv ative man. At his home, in Mt. Pleas ant, he is regarded as much more that ordinarily cautious and discreet. He has something of a local reputation as a political prophet "McKinley will carry Iowa by not less than 40.000," he said. "There will be a considerable demo cratic disaffection. I would say that publicans who will vote for free silver, but at the outside there will not be a republican loss of more than 25.000. It may be considerably less. But suppoa isg 25,000 people who voted for the re publican candidate for governor last year should vote for Bryan this year, there would still be a republican. plur-"rand through car windows ine the verdict of the people. We go to Mr. Bryan's home in this city, and we find that the candidate is not there. "He is down east," they tell us. We turn our eyes to the east and what do we 6ee? Mr. and Mrs. Bryan, like some rural Mary and John, taking tneir first ride on the cars. There they go, study ing their time tables, rushing aim lersly hither and thither, accepting in vitations from people they never saw, riding through great men's grounds when the great men are absent. Mr. Bryan is talking all the time. "When ever I see a crowd. I want to talk," be said Monday. And be told the truth. He talks from the rear platform of rail way cars, and be talks from the front platform. He talks from the sidewalks and through ality, supposing my other estimates are correct, of about 44,000.' These figures were nubm itted to peo ple of all shades of political I elief,and they were generally accepted as an intelligent, conservative estimate. One or two pop ulists were found who laughed them to scorn. It is the opinion of most of the prominent republicans who are given to figuring that McKinley will carry Iowa over 60,000 to 100,000. The venerable ex -United States Senator, James Harl in, whose political judgment passes current in all parts of Iowa, says there wil 1 be some shifting in political parties thiB year, but he expects any republican Ioeses to be more than offset by acces sions from the democratic party. He says Iowa is safely republican. There is a good deal of free silver sentiment ir. the Sixth and Eighth congressional dis tricts. The western part of the state has been affected by tho populi3t breeze from Nebraska. On the other hand, wherever the Germans are found in any considerable numbers there is a marked enhancement in republican, or McKin ley, strength. Scott county, in which is located the city of Davenport, gave Babb. democratic, a plurality of 2,000 votes last year. Davenport has a large German population and is a democratic stronghold. This year the Germans are practically solid for McKinley and sound money. Their papers are all opposing the Bryan ticket and platform. It is claimed that Scott county will go repub lican by from 1.500 to 2,500 this year. For twenty-five years Iowa has gone republican in every presidential election. In 1892 Harrison received 219,795 and Cleveland 196,397 votes. General Weaver was a candidate for president in 1892, and in his own state, where his popular ity is conceded, he received only 20,596 vnte. The populist strength in Iowa' reached its maximum in 1891, when 34,000 votes were cast for the state ticket The following year, as already noted, it was 32,000. In the election of 1894 a republican congressman was elected in each of the eleven districts. General Weaver was defeated for con gress in the Ninth district, two years ago, by a vote of 21374 to 18,517. The republicans of Iowa are aroused now as they have not been aroused for years, and there is a determination among the leaders to make McKinley "s plurality exceed that given for Drake last year. The people are prosperous and, as a rule, contented. There is every indication that the state is getting away from the vagaries of Weaver and his like, and settling into Keystone state conservatism. McKinley and Bryan! What a con trast! There is an instructive lesson in the personnel of the two candidates for president of the United States. In this country we are wont to regard the Bryan will lose one sixth of the regular office of president as the most exalted party vote, or about 2o,000 votes. Ur these 25,000 votes, 15,000 will go for the sound money democratic ticket, if one should be placed in the field and the remaining 10,000 will be cast for Mc Kinley. Of course there are some le- political honor in the gift of man. We expect the president, and the roan who expects to be president, to be dignified, to inspire us with respect. The cam paign is on. We expect the candidates to remain quietly at their homes, wait- his hat And what does he say? Can hip most ardent admirer show us any thing in his speeches since he left New York city that is not commonplace and repetition? He givet us the same old platitudes, the same old veneered dema gogy, the -Bame old sentimental non sense. Not a new idea not even new words. He has a reputation as an ora tor, and yet we venture to say that no candidate for president in twenty-five years has in the same space of time made so many speeches, and such poor ones, as has Mr. Bryan in the last two weeks. We go to Canton, and what do we find? We find Major McKinley at home, and we learn he has been at home ever since he was nominated. We see him living quietly and unostentatiously, as becomes a plain, sensible American citizen. Wo see him receiving callers with dignity, and responding to the de manus made upon him with rare good judgment and infinite fact. If anyone doubted Major McKinley's greatness his largeness of mind and heart, before the St. Louis t convention, that doubt must have been dispelled since his nom ination. He has lived up to the require ments of his position. He has sustained himself under a trying ordeal as few men have ever sustained themselves. He has, day by day, won increasing re spect from the people of the country He has vindicated American statesman ship. He has held aloft the standard of American manhood. Disdaining the stratagems of the demagogue, he has appealed to the honor and patriotism of the nation. Major McKinley's informal addresses from his porch in Canton have buen a constant revelation of power and wisdom. They stamp him as a states man, patriot and gentleman. If the world wants to see a typical American gentleman, let the world look at William McKinley as he passes his dajs, in this tniru,' time, in Canton. W. Morton Smith. Hunter Printing COMPANY . . GENERAL PRINTERS SMtfe halt .... 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