Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-17
CROPS AND POLITICS
The Intimate Relation Existing Be-
tween Them.
Big HARVEST HURFFUL TOPREE SILVER
How "Favorite Sons" Are Re-
garded in Nebraska.
THIRD TERM SENTIMENT
OMAHA. Neh.. August IA. $50,

| OMAHA, Neb., August IA, 1895.
| Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
| Crops and crop prospects are always SUBJ
| jects of interest in agricultural communal
| ties, such as is all the Mississippi valley;
| but 1t does not often happen that the poll
ticians are studying cornfields and the prob
abilities of oats and wheat and potato crops
| as carefully they are doing this year.
| So much depends, If they are right in their
estimate of the temper of the people, upon
| the outcome Of the crop this year, that
| every report from the crops of the west.
| every shower, every hailstorm or suspicion
| of drouth, are watched by the politicians
with almost as much anxiety as they are
| by the grain spectators in the great cities
! of the east.
Ask your average politician, or your
| greatest politician if you please. of the
| western cities and states what the pros
| poets are about political developments here,
| and he will respond by asking you the
| latest from the crops, and he will base his
| reply to your question upon the latest in
| formation he can get about the crops, not
| alone of this state, but of the country gen.
orally.
| Disastrous to Silver Men.
It would, perhaps, be injustice to the
| leaders in the free silver movement to say
that they are chagrined over the good crop
prospects and the prospect of business i'm
| provement; but it is fact that the assur-
ance of good crops in this section is prov
ing. extremely disastrous to their theories
and hopes. Already, with the harvesrln, of
an enormous crop of oats and a good yield
OF wheat ana WIZ me finest corn crop in
signt mat r.ls ever been seen, people are
! oxx,ne u the silver discussion.
improved prices for grain and meat, and
| DrOSDacf of Dlaptv of n
| idly leading the average citizen to lay aside
| theories and turn his attention to condi-
lions. Oats are an enormous crop, running
| aN ay up to fifty bushels per acre, and the.
| are already being threshed and put upon
the market. Wheat is better than for
years. and with improved prices, and it Is
| now taking the attention of the farmers
and dealers and carriers. Corn, which is
| the most luxuriant growth seen for years,
carries double burden Of two ears to the
stalk. and shows to the farmer that he
| must enlarge his cribs increase his supply
| of stock for feeding, and get ready tD
| gather it as soon as its condition will per-
| init him to begin.
| And while he does not expect to get the
'gilt-edged" prices of the past few months.
| he is confident of fair rates both for grain
| and the stock which he may feed with
| part of 1t. All along the line of the North
| western road from Chicago to western Ne
| braska. and along the lines of the Buriin T.
| ton and Missouri road. the fields of corn
| are such as have lot been seen for years,
/
| er than for decade.
That this condition of affairs is turning
| the attention of farmers from discussion of
| the silver question goes without saying.
| Eut while it does go without saying, it is
| being remarked upon, especially by the
| political leaders. Even the silver people
| themselves admit that 1t is likely to prove
damaging to them, while the opponents of
| free coinage look with delight upon this
| and other assurances Of returning prospect
| ty, as an evidence that the silver sentiment
l hi otn hoe hcasay1 co c n
| the past year is going to disappear to
| great extent.
| OF course the leaders of the free silver
| agitation are keeping up the agitation as
| well as they may, by speeches, newspaper
articles, and all that sort of thing. Ex-
Congressman Bryan of this state divides
| his time between lectures at grange and
| other gatherings and the writing of ed-
| torials for the World-Herald of this city,
| which he is making the leader of the free
| silver sentiment here. through some con-
| stood by the public here. Yet there is
| general feeling on all sides that the anxiety
about free silver is dying out, and that it
| will continue to do SO as the crops con-
! tinue to be harvested, and the entire conf
| munity is kept busy in the work which
| must follow.
| Responsive People.
| Nobody who has rot seen this country
| can realize how quickly it responds to crop
| success or failure. When you realize that
| the average farmer has from fifty to one
| hundred acres of corn, and that he ex-
poets this year from fifty to eighty
| bushels per acre, and that corn of late has
| been fifty to sixty cents per bushel, YOU
| begin to realize the vast sums of money it
means to the country in which it is grown.
This man." said gentleman driving
| with me past a farm house some twenty
| miles out of Omaha, has 1000 bushels of
| old corn in his cribs. and will probably
| gather 5000 bushels more this year"
\
as anxious about the probable effect of he
| silver craze they We're a few months
ago.
Gold Men Apparently Ahead.
Leading republicans say that in this
state there are very few in their own
party who will be at all troublesome about
| the silver question, and democrats, gener-
| ally, are beginning to realize that the gold
| element of their party is pretty likely to
control its nominations and demand their
votes.
The utter failure of the silver people in
Iowa last week distressed the silver men
here a good deal, for they see in it another
| evidence of the fact that when it comes 10
fight the gold men, backed by the forces
| Of the administration, have much the best
leadership and methods. And there Is a
foreboding on their part that this means
| the control of the national convention and
| a declaration for gold in the national
democratic platform.
candidates.
The feeling which I have encountered In
Cincinnati, Chicago and Omaha, in careful
talks with leading politicians, is that the
next national conventions are not likely to
be particularly interesting ones to favor
| lite sons"
How the Candidates Are Regarded.
1t is very doubtful If Morton can get
delegation from Nebraska, for the silver
men will send delegation claiming that
| they are the regulars" while the gold
| men, who will send a delegation, are not,
rule over enthusiastic for Morton.
Talks with leading republicans in Ohio
showed remarkable lack of enthusiasm
for Mckinley, and an apparent feeling of
Indifference as to the length of time that
they would be required to stand by him in
convention.
OF course Mr.. Reed will have ais own
state, but If whispers true there is not
much love between him and several of the
strongest mea of his party there and their
persistent last ditch support can hardly
be expected
The Iowa men seem more thoroughly de-
voted to Allison at prese mt than do the peo-