People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1896 — A POSTAL CARD CANVASS. [ARTICLE]

A POSTAL CARD CANVASS.

Heavy Percentage of Voters Who Voted For Harrison, but Who Now Support Bryan." The Chicago Record’s postal card canvass of the vote of the close western states when subjected to rational analysis indicates that Bryan will carry them all. The conclusions reached by the New York World and other goldbug papers are so strikingly contrary to the facts that they will not deceive a single reader who gives the subject an instant’s thought. As only a small fraction of the voters have sent in replies, the fact that of these more have come from McKinley than from Bryan men points to nothing. The Bryan men were advised by Chairman Jones to refrain from voting, and, had they not been, the common people—workingmen and employees largely—do not care to indicate their intentions even where there is the remotest possibility of the fact coming to the knowledge of the unscrupulous money power. Taking the per cent of those who voted the Republican ticket in 1892, but who will now vote for Bryan, as indicated by this postal card canvass, and the per cent of those who voted the Democratic ticket in 1892 and now intend to vote for McKinley, and assuming that the same ratio exists in the entire vote, it indicates a victory for Bryan in all the states canvassed, as follows: Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, Minnesota, South Dakota, North Dakota, Michigan, Nebraska, lowa, Missouri, Kentucky, Kansas.

Mr. Bryan’s vote in New York city will be much increased by the opposition of the New York Sun. That paper’s vinification and billingsgate without a single attempt at the use of reason or logic has made thousands of votes for the Democratic candidate in that city.