Show I SO soi I OF or THE DOUBTFUL STATES Utah litah IH is placed in tho doubtful column by the Washington Po Post t map And maybe mabo It belongs thero there One can better tell later in tho the campaign Jt Tt do doesn't nt seem so so on on form In a year of ot peculiar political panic when local conditions made nearly all men sliver silver adherents Bryan Bran tho the apostle of silver sil Il- Il ver vcr carried the tho state b by practical unanimity But It wasn't a a. Democratic vote b by any means Some of tho the best and strongest of ot Republicans made common cause caulle with tho the Democrats because it H seemed to them the campaign of ot the tho Nebraskan promised most for tor Utah They found their error four years cars later and in 1900 tho state was r re r.- deemed b by Republicans Tho The fitly fifty thousand Bryan majority was T turned Into two thousand for tor McKIn- McKIn Ie Icy ley And nd two years later that Republican vot vote voto was Increased Roosevelt carried the tho state decisively decisive decisive- ly in 1904 and tho congressman carried it In 1906 or very handily Judging tho tIm future futuro b by the tho past Utah doesn't seem to be bo very much In tho doubtful column But tho same Fame authority the Washington Po Post puts Indiana and Illinois in tho the doubtful list lIsL IllinoIs Illinois Illi Illi- nois has not been In danger of oC going oln Democratic since when Altgeld carried It It And when hen Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Clove land was given a second trial at national admin admin- Tho effect was such as os to convince Illinois Illinois Illi Illi- nois note people of every even party that thc they dont don't want any more of Democracy in theirs The state seems moro likely to go bO a a. hundred thousand Republican than to give II even the tho smallest majority to any nominee of tho the Democrats Indiana was Republican by over ninety ninel thou thousand and at the last Pre Presidential election eJection Governor Hanly who iho was vas elected on the Roosevelt wave Is the tho weak place in tho party part there and since he has given hl his hla influence to the Democrats Democrat the Republican party of or Indiana is pretty well united That state Is n. n not net t going to desert tho the cau cause e at this stage of ot tho the battle Without doubt Bryan Enan will get moro more votes vote s than were pl plumped for Parker But If It Republicans work for Cor the ticket as both Interest and patriotism dictate dic dic- lie lie- tate the they will escape both the Ignominy of ot defeat and md the disaster of or a Democratic administration |