Show I IThe The Phony Bransford Bet Vanished I For ten days dayn a n bet of three thousand Oar to ono thousand dollar dol dol- lars hats lar has sc the top of ot one on of or the betting boards on Brokers row I The he size of or the bet and the great odds offered have caused man many I to believe Bransford had an Immense advantage Monday Ion ay night a Republican whose Judgment is lg good and who whose bank bankroll I 10 roll roil Is ample called the bl bluff ff He wanted the short cna ems or that notable bet He offered the thousand dollars dolar In fri cash and wanted to find the theman theman theman man with the tho three thousand And then It Il was discovered that the thou thousand dollar and dolar man never had put up imp the mone money He would not put up He ne never meant to back bach bac his Judgment judgment He lie 10 never Inton Intended nor intended nor ed-nor nor dl did any anyone one else else to to risk three thousand dollars to one ono thou thousand n dollars on the iho proposition that Bradford ran rord would win The phony bet was a D sham from the tho beginning And when It i be beme beame be- be came me known about town that the tho big bet W was s simply a bluff blut that It Jt had been heen called and that no ono would maJ make mako o It good Bramford Bransford ford stock tock fell fel like le a rock Confidence In Bransford vani like Ice the mists of or the morning Plummer followers were exultant The They realized that their candidate was feared even In tho the camp of or the Bransford ford hackers I Plummer will wU be elected |