Show MR BRYANS CHANCES I IS i said that Mr Bryan expects or did Just after the Kansas City conventions con-ventions to carry every State in the Union He has had some disappointments disappoint-ments since but he la still confident On what doc he build that confidence dence The whole number of elcctorlal volqs is 417 hence 224 arc required to elecL He begins with the 112 votes of the old secession confederacy I we give him In addition Missouri Kentucky Ken-tucky Delaware Maryland Colorado Idaho Montana Nevada Utah and Nebraska they will make the aggregate aggre-gate 177 Now where will he get the remaining 17 votes He counts on Kansas bacause In 189C he carried it by 122Gfl when tho men of Kansas were desperate under the depression but In 1SDS it gave a Republican Governor a majority of 15134 Ho may count on South Dakota which In 1SOC gavehim a majority of 183 but since then It las gone back to Us natural position Above we have given him several States which are most doubtful namely name-ly Utah Idaho and Nevada with Montana Mon-tana and Nebraska uncertain But considering con-sidering them his and keeping In mind that California Washington Oregon and Wyoming arc sure for McKlnley then Mr Bryan must get the forty seven votes from Illinois 21 Indiana 15 Michigan 1 Minnesota 0 i Wisconsin Wis-consin 12 But what are his chances In tho election four years ago their majorities for McKinley were Illinois 142495 Indiana 18181 Michigan 50 i 85S Minnesota G3S75 Wisconsin 102 612 I Is clear that Mr Bryans friends have studied the figures and havo decided that tho only show is to pipe low about silver and to try to scare tho Germans of the Mississippi valley with the bogie of imperialism They seem to forget that the Germans I were the old original fighting stock of Central Europe a race that was strong enough not only to subdue all their enemies but to subdue themselves until i un-til they became the anchor and the leader civilization In Europe |