Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1898 — Silver’s Fate in the West. [ARTICLE]

Silver’s Fate in the West.

The middle West has given the silver Democracy another staggering blow, and it was the middle West that became the fighting ground of the parties in 1896. Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, lowa, and Kansas went Republican with a snap that cannot be mistaken: Illinois, too, by 70,000 majority, Minnesota and North and South Dakota heavily, also Wyoming, California, Oregon, and Washington gave Altgeld no comfort, while Indiana, an old pivotal State, was a sorry disappointment to the silverites. The task of ever converting that region must seem appalling even to Mr. Bryan.— Springfield Republican.