The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-10-06
THAT sewoRLDp EDITORIAL.


Considerable interest has been man
Tested in the New York "Worldv edi-
torial in which it was said to have de-
cIared that Mr.. BIcKinley's chances of
success were much weakened by his po-
sition on trusts. The World is a strong
anti Bryan paper. but has every means
Of obtaining facts and figures and it's
utterances are generally quite fair
minded. The following is the Worlds
editorials
Beneath the noise and smoke of the
campaign the quiet, steady progress OF
fusion recorded from time to time in a
paragraph hidden among columns OF
political speeches has attracted little
attention. Yet it now presents a very
different aspect from that of a few
weeks ago. Then Republican hope was
high on account of Democratic and
Populist dissentions. Now that hope
has dwindled to few faint and fad
ing gIimmers from a few states that are
normally Democratic by large major
tiles.
Fusion has to a reasonable certainty
added Alabama, Kansas, Nebraska,
North Carolina and Tennessee-hfty-
two electoral vOtes-to the forty-six
electoral votes of Arkansas, Colorado,
1UAAOs A1l5S4SA1ppl Montana GDuL4
Carolina. Utah, Washington and Wy
oming that We're already assumed to
be reasonably safe for silver. 1t has
presumably given $4,000 POpunst votes
in Illinois $4,000 in Indiana. 10000 in
Iowa, 2O.O 600 in Kentucky. 10000 in Mis-
souri,. $4,000 in Virginia and 900 in
Minnesota towards making good the
losses from the detection Of sound
money Democrats and towards swell
ing the accessions Of free silver Repub-
leans While it has not yet been con-
summated in Georgia and Texas, those
states are anything but certain for
honest money. In brief fusion has
made it necessary that there shall be
enormous Democratic OBJECTIONS from
the free silver ticket if Mr. Mckinley is
to have even a respectable majority of
the electoral votes For even if he gets
every state east of the Mississippi and
north of the Ohio and the Potomac,
which includes Delaware and Mary
land, and gets West Virginia also. he
stin needs two votes to make the neces-
sary majority.
This is the campaign at glance
the peril Of free snver's success, the
peril of free silVer's bare defeat
Suppose Mr.. Mckinley gets only
enough states to just elect him. and
those states all in one section of the
country. what VIII be the net result Of
the election The silver heresy will
have carried ten or a dozen more states
than did Mr.. Harrison in 1892 1t win
continue its absolute control of the sem
ate. 1T win control the machine of a
national political party 1t VIII be In
trenched as never before. 1t viii or
game Immediately for the congress
ional election two years hence and for
the presidency two years after that.
Is not this common sense2
Mr. Mckinley can prevent this. The
honest money president must not be a
man chosen by a section or by pOlit-
ical party. He must be the expression
of the nations overwhelming repudia-
ton of the doctrine Of reputation The
wave that sweeps him in should sweep
out free silver forever.
Is not this common sense2
Mr.. Mckinley cannot accomplish this
work of sound public policy without the
aid of hundreds of thousands of hest
tating voters in the states that are or
may be made doubtful These voters,
whom MI Bryans free silver repels
and whom Mr.. Mckinley does not at
tract. are thinking of the insolent ag-
gressions of the Iaw-defying, la.w-per-
verting. corrupt trusts and monopOlies
They wish to know what Mckinley
thinks and feels about that subject.
Mr. Bryan has spoken We gladly give
him credit for it, although we cannot
agree with him that the trust evil may
be cured by creating a rapacious silver
trust whose unjust and universal levies
would double the cost of living and
halve wages and savings But in his
seventy speeches MI Mckinley has not
said a word to indicate that he even
knows Of the existence of the trust evil
To speak means to win the support of
this multitude Of voters who take ehis
silence as a danger signal. He must
not put in jeopardy the overthrow Of
free silver
Is not this common sense2
What do you think about the trusts?
Speak out, Mr.. Mckinley!