Great Falls weekly tribune., 1896-10-09
IT IS ADMITTED
The New York World Virtually Con-
eeIes the Election of Bryan
and Sewall
HOW IT FIGURES the STATES
How Fusion Has or VIII Accomplish
Silyer's Triumph Next
November.

From out OF the smoke OF the can
paign tho New orlz World, indisputabl
McKinley paper, has dscerned ra
of Bryan sunshine. 1t is now willing +
concede that the election is in seriou
doubt, and that Ghe chances are in favo
Of the Bryan and Sewal ticket. Th
World Is one of the most bitter Of th,
anti free coinage papers and it is equal,
opposed to the overshadowing power O
the trusts and combines as represented
by Mckinley. Ia the editorial column:
Of the issue Of the World which reached
Great Falls yesterday, we find the fol
lowing, double loaded. Il is worth read
ing by the people of Montana, and is
therefore reproduced in full without al.
teratIon or elimination:
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 at
tention. Yet it now presents very
different aspect from that of few
weeks ago. Then republican hope was
high on account OF democratic and pop
ulist dissensions. Now that hope has
dwindled to few faint and fading glim-
rYarc from fou, %ofo hot oro rorp, oily,
democratic by large majorities.
Fusion has to a reasonable certainty
added Alabama, Kansas Nebraska,
North Carolina, and Tennessee-52 cleo
toral votes-to the &c electoral votes of
Arkansas Colorado, Idaho, Mississippi,
Montana, South Carolina, Utah, Wash
ington, and Wyoming that were already
assumed to be reasonably safe for silver.
1t has presumably given G0,OOO populist
votes in Illinois, $4,000 in Indiana, 3d.
600 in Iowa, 10000 in Kentucky, 10000
in Missouri, $4,000 in Virginia, and
$4,000 in Minnesota toward making
good the loss from the detection
of sound money democrats and toward
swelling the accessions of free silver re
publicans. While it has not yet been
consummated in Georgia and Texas,
those states are anything but certain for
honest money. In brief, fusion has made
it necessary that there shall be enor-
nous democratic defections from the
free silver ticket if Mr.. Mckinley is to
have even a respectable majority of the
electoral votes. For even it he gets every
state east of the Mississippi and north of
the Ohio and the Potomac, which in
cludes Delaware and Mary land, and gets
West Virginia also. he still needs two
votes to make the necessary majority.
This is the campaign at aglance-the |
peril of free silver's success. the peril of
free silyer'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 will be the net result of
the election: The silver heresy will have
carried ten or dozen more states than
did Mr.. Harrison IN 1892 1t will con-
tinue its absolute control Of the senate. |
1t will control the machine of national
political party. 1t will be intrenched as
never before. 1t will organize immedi. |
ately for the congressional election two
years hence and for the presidency two
years after that.
rs not this common sense?
Mr.. Mckinley can prevent this. The
honest money president must not be a
man chosen by section or by politi-
cal party. He must be the expression
OF the nations overwhelming repudia-
tion of the doctrine of Reputation. The
wave that sweeps him in should sweep
out free silver forever.
lie not this common sense:
"Mr. Mckinley cannot accomplish this
work OF sound public policy without the
aid Of hundreds OF thousands of hesi-
tating voters in the states that are or
may be made doubtful. These voters,
whom Mr.. Bryan's free silver repels and
whom Mr.. Mckinley does not attract,
are thinking Of the insolent aggressions
of the law defying, law. perverting, cor
rupt trusts and monopoies They wish
to know what Mr. 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 ere.
ating rapacous silver truat whose un-
Just and universal levies would double
the cost of living and halve wages and
savings. But in his 70 speeches Mr.
Mckinley has not said word to indi-
cate 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 his silence as a danger
signal He must not remain silent. He
must not put in jeopardy the overthrow