Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1896 — HAVE FAITH IN M’KINLEY. [ARTICLE]

HAVE FAITH IN M’KINLEY.

Betting Men Offer to Oive Big Odds Without Finding Taker*. Now York Advertiser. It is a little early in the presidential campaign to look to the prophetic straws of the betting ring for evidences of popular sentiment. Nevertheless it is a mutter of record that the betting has already begun. At least offers have been made, although the tempting odds seem to attract no takers. When SIO,OOO Is put up in large or small amounts with odds of five to two that Major McKinley will be elected,and Stays up without any response, it may bo fairly concluded that the hope of boating him is very small indeed. The men who offer and take bets of this kind at this stage of the game are not politicians seeking at the last moment to influence wavering voters by professed confidence in the election of their candidate. They arc cool headed professional gamblers on the lookout for cash investments. Not one of these sees two chances in five, with all the possibilities of life and fate and circumstance on his side, worth backing, not even with the whole field of candidates against the Republican nominee to choose from. They are waiting, of course, tilf the true odds are given, which, two months hence, will probably bo 500 to 1 on McKinley.