The Manning Times

Test Vote Favors Bryan.

According to a test vote taken by the New York Journal recently, William J. Bryan will sweep Greater New York in November by at least 89,936 plurality. Out of the total vote taken, 4,358, only 82 who had no vote in 1896 will vote for McKinley this year, whereas 295 indicate their intention, on signed blanks, to vote for William Jennings Bryan. Twenty-six votes were recorded for thousand, five hundred and fifty Bryan, 1802 for McKinley, and 18 scattering. At this ratio, if the total vote in Greater New York this year is as large as in 1896, when it reached 519,296, the proportion of the two candidates in November should be:

For Bryan .304,616

For McKinley .214,680

The Journal's advance poll of the mayoralty contest two years ago proved a wonderfully accurate test of the real vote. It was a forecast the fairness and completeness of which were proven fully by the official returns. This straw vote was taken with the same degree of conscientiousness, and the figures may be accepted as prophetic of the actual returns in November next.