Middletown transcript., 1896-07-25

i m7TNM 9 publican Congress
/1fIlINM sional compaigl
Il ksfselsefnEN6As. committee. VIII,
II ES has just returne'
Il ,Essgslsa 8.dY2sy sdsY3sy from conference
isSssa with Major Nc
Il At!r J Kinley and Chair
man Hanna, o
Il theNationalCom
mittee, is again on duty at the commit
tee headquarters. He expresses little
interest in the Populist. convention te
be held this week at st. Louis. Like
most Republicans, he is of the opinion
| that nothing the Populists can do will
prevent the election of Mckinley and
Hobart and sound money Congress.
1t is generally believed in Washington
that the Populists convention will in
dorse Bryan. the Populist candidate,
and the Populist platform adopted at
Chicago, and that the talk to the con-
trary is merely bluff made for the
purpose of making better deal.
| Insignificant as was the part
played by Mr.. Bryan in the two Con-
crosses in which he served, he will find
that it was sufficient to stamp him as
being unfit ed for the Presidency of the
United Stat. s. Progressive Americans
have to man been in favor of the
building and maintenance Of a navy
sufficiently strong to command the
respect of foreign nations, and the
events of the last few years have fully
justified the correctness and patriotism
of that position. There have been
several times when the strength of our
Navy has been factor, the principal
factor many believe, in preventing war.
Mr.. Bryan proved his unprogressiveness
when he was in the House, and when
our Navy was more than twenty-five
vessels weaker than it is to-day, by op-
posing the strengthening of our Navy,
on the ground that it was then strong
enough. 1t is such things as these,
and not platitudinous speeches deli
vered in sonorous tones and with dra-
matte gestures, which demonstrate the
calibre of a man. Mr.. Bryan could
not be elected President on his record
no matter what sort of platform he
stood upon. He simply isn't up to the
Presidential standard.
The prominence that Senator Quay,
as member of the Executive Com
mittee, is to take in the management |
of Mckinley and Hobart's campaign is
very gratifying t. the admirers Of the
brainy Senator from the Keystone
state; besides, it shows what excellent
judgment Chairman Hanna has used
in selecting the men who are to help
him fight anarchy, disorder, and repu-
diation and to elect 100-cent dollar
President.
According to news received by pro-
minent Republicans, Speaker Reed is
not only going to take an active part in
the National Campaign, but he is also
going to whoo.' things up for The
State and Congressional elections in
Maize, which will occur in September,
IN order to show the country tie fall
sity of the claim put forward by Mr..
Sewall, the Democratic candidate for
Vice President, that the silver senti-
nent is on the increase in Maine and in
New England He believes that the
Jest way to show this is to pile up an
enormous Republican majority in
september in his State, and he intends
pending all his immense power as a
towards the accomplish
nent of that end. 1t would be WELL
Ugh impossible for big Tom Reed to
i'd to his popularity among the Re-
'ublicans of the National Capital, but
anything would do it it would be
ust what he has started upon; and in
'ther places where he is not SO well
.noWn. bis action will make him new
nd staanch friends, because it will
how, what Of his personal friends, in
luding Gov. Mckinley already knew,
hat he is not sore-headed because he
int get the Presidential nomination.
The actions of man, and not his
rofessions, are what he should be
udged by. A striking Illustration of
his is found in the case of Senator
millionaire silver mine owner,
rec silver advocate, and owner of the
Silver Knight, !" nea aspaper published
/ Alexandria, Va, but issued under
Washington date line. No man is.
ouder in professions of a great and
ll-consuming desire to raise up the
lboring men who are frodden UNDER
be feet of the millionaire employers Of
he country. Some of the aforesaid !.
own-trodden laboring men who poss-
IS brains as well as skin with their
ands have been ascertainiDg how wide
part are Senator Stewards professions
nd his acts. He moved his paper :
.om Washington to Alexandria,
olely because that town has no Typo
raphical or Pressman's Union, and
Q now pays his printers and pressmen y
Da week for six days Of nine hours Fl
lcb, just about half OF what the Un- o
N establishments in Washington pay f
If the same work, and, as thou sh to d
Id insult to injury, the men he em- :
oys are required to be members of !.
% Union elsewhere. so that it can be 7
aimed that Union men only are en- =
Dyed onthe paper. That's the sort !
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