People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1896 — AT THE MAJOR’S HOME [ARTICLE]

AT THE MAJOR’S HOME

Some of the Early Morning Scenes at Canton. PARADE OF THE TIPPECANOE CLUB It Passes McKinley's House at 4 o’clock in the Morning and the President-Elect Reviews It from the Roof of His Porch— Mr. Bryaj Rises Early at His Home in Lincoln, Neb., and Receives Callers— Encouraging Telegrams. ' Canton, 0., Nov. 4.— Major McKinley was about the house by 9 o’clock Wednesday morning, after three hours of naps broken by the demonstrations all around him. At 4 o’clock Wednesday morning he had stood on the roof of his porch reviewing the Tippecanoe club, 1,000 strong, from Cleveland. It was a stirring scene in the gray of the morning. Major McKinley took a final survey of the estimates up to 4:15 a. m. There had been marked fluctuation after midnight. But in any view of the situation the feeling about the McKinley home was that the contest was .now over. In order that Major and Mrs. McKinley might have rest members of the local reception committee were early on hand to keep away visiting delegations until later in the day. A curious crowd filled the streets and sidewalks about the home, but no visitors were admitted. Telegrams by the hundred had accumulated through the early morning and were delivered in huge bunches. Mainly Congratulatory. were mainly congratulatory, with sbme additional advices on the situation. Word came that Oregon gave a McKinley majority of 7,000; Louisville would give a majority of 13,500, an increase over the previous night of 1,500, which renewed interest in the Kentucky outcome; Wisconsin’s plurality would reach 100,000. In a general way the returns led to the conviction among Major McKinley’s close associates that '239 electoral votes were assured beyondperadventure; forty-eight more were regarded as probable for McKinley, and eighteen doubtful. Those regarded as certain are Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin. MeKinley’B Plurality. Those counted as probable for McKinley are North Dakota, South Dakota, Delaware, Kentucky, Montana, Washington, West Virginia, and Wyoming. The doubtfuls are Kansas and Nebraska. Joseph P. Smith, political secretary of Major McKinley, has made an unofficial summary of pluralities, giving the states in detail, and showing a total of 1,637,000 McKinley plurality in twenty-seven states. He adds: “The electoral vote of McKinley and Hobart will be somewhere between 289 and 354, leaving to Bryan and Sewall not more than 92 to 168. In my confident judgment McKinley and Hobart will receive nearly, if not quite, 1,500,000 plurality of the popular vote.”