Show TALKS WITH TRAVELERS 0 ExCity Attorney L M Fisher of Davenport la is at the Cullen Mr Culen Fisher is n gold Democrat and has 11 use for the Bryan Democracy whom ho holds has been swallowed up bodllv by tho Populist party Ho said yoatcr day iowa wm pie up a musing Re publican majority for McKInley If the Democracy raises < tho Chinese I lon as a political Issue It will mean fues I the deathAarrant of that party The country will Bland by the Administra tion In upholding the honor of this Nation on Chinese soil and I rather think this war will prove a godsend to the Republican party The party con ducting n war always has the sympa thies ant backing of the people When asked about tho new Iowa Sen ator Mr Fisher said My personal I r pioference would be Mr Cummings of l Des Moines but I feel fairly sure that Gov Shaw will appoint Congressman Doll r Senator and in that event the probabilities aro that the Legislature will make Mr Dolllvcr permanent Senator Sen-ator Gov Shaw Is u great friend of his and In the convention at Philadelphia Philadel-phia wanted Dolllvcr nominated for t IcePl C8ldent D H Baker also a Davenport gold Democrat and business man is with Mr Fisher and agrees with him In his views I S Business In the toy market Is encouraging en-couraging and people aro discriminat ing In favor of the best goods In this l as In othqr llndp said Feidlnand J3m I mal Jrof New York at tthmc < Kenyon yest6rday There Is 0 great run of I novelties huH Hea on especially In tht > I I way of elcjctrlo toys which are operated bY dry batteries which arc of course I easily and quickly recharged For instance In-stance there is the miniature automobile auto-mobile costing 55 and is about fourteen inches long and twelve inches high I Is charged with electricity runs very nicely and will prove n favorite with halfgrown children especially 0 5 I 5 The old Bay State at large will go I heavily Republican although a few l cities may go Democratic said D Robertson of Holyoke Mass at the 1 Cullen yesterday Holyoke has a i Democratic tendency and Boston may I go that way but tho State at large Is so strongly Republican that the aggre stlonSI gation of slight Democratic majorltlos I In a few cities will bo easily wiped out Thero wore fine rains In Colorado when I left there and along the Union I I Pacific road through Nebraska The farmers are expectant now of fine I whcnt and corn crops and everything looks lovely agriculturally In the West I 0 iI i I said I am n black Republican Scott J Anthony of Denver yesterday Scot r I at the Knutsford and began as 0 Republican In Kansas but I can hardly hard-ly I see how Colorado can go Renubu j i can The Democracy has too firm 4 hold there There will bo a careful grroming of the Democratic loaders for the Governorship this fall but I dont I f think Thomas will be renominated as ho IB too much given to pushing himself him-self forward and Tom Patterson who would like tho nomination is not popular enough lu command it Tom ODonnell may get It he is an able man I |