Show NO BETS BEING MADE I Democrats Wont Make Wagers Wa-gers on Majorities j ARE VERY BADLY FRIGHTENED With Over 50000 Majority for Bryan Pour Years Ago No Democrats Can bo Found Now Who Will Bet on Any Majority of Size for Thoir CandidateAre Alarmed Over tho I Yearly Decrease of the Democratic Vote James Shoup Says Idaho I Will be Safely Republican I Tho attitude of Democrats toward the ensuing election especially an It relates to the result In Utah is amusing amus-ing From the greatest to the smallest they arc full of extravagant predictions predic-tions as to the majority that Bryan will secure yet when an offer to bet on majorities Is made they pull In their horns wth suddenness Four years ago Bryan carried Utah by over 50000 Two years ago Roberts carried It by over 5000 and after xhc was thrown out of Congress King carried car-ried tho Stale by over 1000 But with this record to go on the Democrats have so far declined to bet that Dryan the DemocraticPopulist idol will carry Utah by any majority over one And even on a majority of one It is I doubtful If jfny large sum of money would be put up The only offer to bet so far Is posted on tho bulletin board at the mining ofllce of D H Peery Jr I This offer is 5000 to 3000 or tiny part of it that Bryan will carry the Slate but It Is extremely doubtful If a cent of the money could be drawn out ban b-an offer to bet that Bryan would not carry the State by 5000 2000 or even 2000 I 2000Tho Tho fact Is that the rapid falling off in the Democratic vote the many defections I de-fections from the party announced and the revelations made by canvassers in the election districts has greatly I alarmed the leaders and if the best informed in-formed members of the party would say what they believe they would admit I ad-mit a deepseated fear that Utah will bo l found in the Republican column when the votes are counted I While the Democrats are pondering over the matter there are men with money who are waiting for them to I say something about a majority of at least two or three I |