The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-31

Delaware West Virginia and Kentucky
from the democratic column was a disas-
ter, but 1t was not disaster so great as
the loss of every state north of the Po-
tomac and Ohio rivers and east of the Mis-
sour. In 1892 Cleveland carried New
York, New Jersey, Connecticut. Indiana,
Illinois and Wisconsin by majorities ag-
sregaung 1864, whereas Bryan lost them
to Mckinley by majorities aggregating
So4,255, notwithstanding 72,52S populist
woes given in those states for Wea-
yer in 1892 were cast for Bryan in 1896. The
only compensation for this overwhelming
disaster in these great states is to be
found in the vote which Bryan received
in the populist states of the extreme
northwest In the eleven states OF Colo
rado Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska,
Nevada, North Dakota, South Dakota.
Utah, Washington and Wyoming Cleve-
land received, all told, I'm 1892 9e360 votes,
whereas in 1896 Bryan received 1864.
Bryan carried all these states except wy
oming and North Dakota by majorites
aggregating 2S9SS6, of which an aggregate
majority of 90. 56S was given in the five
mining states of Colorado, Idaho, Mon
tana. Nevada and Utah. So the eleven
cotton-producing states Of the south, by
the blunder of Chicago, have not
only greatly reduced the democratic
vote within their own borders, but they
have parted company with four of their
sister southern states and all their old
allies and friends of the north for a hope
less and unnatural condition with
populist states of the extreme northwest
which combined have not as many votes
In the electoral college as the state of
Illinois. Behold the commercial aspects OF
the case! With whom do the cotton pro-
ducing states trade? Whence do they ex-
pect immigration and capital? Every
river, every railroad, every coastwise line,
In short every interstate channel of COM
merce penetrates the eighteen states ly-
ing north of the Potomac and Ohio rivers
and east of the Missouri, that vast and
popuous region which holds the seat of
empire ia the republic and which gave
its entire vote In the electoral college to
Mckinley. Not river, not a railroad,
and not ship goes from the cotton
states to the inhospitable mining states
of the Rocky mountains, yet politically
we have abandoned the one section for
the other We have parted company with
a giant who has in the past co-operated
witheus for coalition with pigmy who
is powerless as an ally. / speak for a very
large body Of the intelligent and patri-
otto citizens OF the south when / protest
against the folly which has brought about
this result. Those for whom / speak nave
the development the happiness and the
prosperity of the southern people most
at heart. They are eager for their
democratic brethren to abandon an
issue which has led to
disaster and which Is hopeless and ought
to be hopeless. and to. unite with them
again OH the lines which in the past have
led to party success and promoted the
welfare OF a common country. The demo-
Gratis who voted for Mckinley and Pal
mer, and the democrats who voted for
Bryan only for the sake OF party regulari-
ty will never follow their brethren into
repetition OF the blunder committed at
Chicago. If Bryan is to be the leader OF
the democracy Of the future, II his speech
al Chicago is to be its inspiration and
the deliverances at the Chicago eonven-
ton are to be its guide. then l say it in
sadness and sorrow-there is nothing left
for us but to take our stand on the In
dianapolis platform and there resist as
best we can the encroachments OF pa
ternalism, whether they come in the form
of an attempt to create values by the coin
age or emission Of deprecated money, or
In the effort to create prosperity by un-
necessarily laying the burdens of taxa
ton on the substance Of the people.