A Great Change Going On

"A great change is taking place in Chicago and through the west on the financial question," said an intelligen observer from the metropolis of 111 i nois to a reporter tliis morning. "The day after Bryan was nominated he was popular, and the laboring met ook him up. Thej' are intelligent merican citizens, and immediately )egan to attend the Bryan meetings leid over the saloons nightly in Chicago. What did they find? The very element hack of the Chicago candidato, every class of lawless people shouting or revolution, repudiation and a change n everything, waving the red flag, houting for Bryan, but free silver was -he farthest from their thoughts. This oon made an impression on the honest American laborers ; they took up the financial issue and its relation to the nan whose capital was the labor he had o sell, and they are now changing very ast for the side of honest money. Let he good work go ahead as it now is, and the Republicans will carry Illinois by a large majority. White that state may have been in the doubtful list at ne time, its electoral vote is now cerain for the Republican candidates."