San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-13
EDITORIAL HOT SHOT.

From the st. Louis Globe-Democrat
1t is a significant fact that the rail
roads that report the best earnings
are those which run to Canton, Ohio.
When Bryan's speeches are care
fully annalyzed they do not promise
an advantage to anybody except the
owners of silver mines. --
Bryan is at his saddest when he
tries to be humorous; and it is equal
ly true that he is apt to be funniest
when he thinks he is most serious.
Senator Brice has given $4,000 40
Miami college, which is q much better
way of using money than givin it to
an Ohio Democratic legislature.
Let us have sense enough, says
Col. lngerSoll, ito vote for our own
interests" and if all classes would do
so McKinley's election would be I'm
animOus.
The speeches of the Bryanites on
the falling prices of farm products as
related to the decline of silver have
become very ludicrOus since wheat
has been advancing.
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AS the official figures came from
Georgia and Florida in driblets. il
shows that the Bryan men who were
doing the counting had a job on hand
that taxed their utmost ingenuity.
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Bryan has been urging the laboring
man to study the money question, and
the fact that they are generally for
Mckinley goes to show that they have
profted by his advice.
Cleveland carried Georgia in 1892
by pleurality of S1,O56. He can an
swer his free coinage critics by point
ing to the consumptive pleurality Sc
cured at the election last Wednesday.
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There is something worth thinking
about in the fact that not single first
class speech has as yet been deliver
ed in favor of free silver All of the
speeches of that kind are made on the
other side.
The greatest present need of the
country is not more money, but moro
OF the credit and confidence that puts
money in circulation and makes chan
ces to obtain it in exchange for labor
and commodities.
Thomas b. Reed says that there is
much resemblance between this cam
paign and that of 1872. But unIess
present signs fail, the Greedy colIanse
will take the second instead of thn
hrSt place in political history.
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speaker Reed is coming west to
make speeches for Mckinley and hon
est money and it gees without saving
that they will be speeches infinitely
worth better listening to than any
that are being made for Bryan and dis
honest dollars.
Ex-Governor Campbell says that if
the Republicans will put $4,000 in
Ohio the last week of the campaipn.
they will gain 10000 votes by it.
When the votes of anti-Republicans
can be bought for 81 apiece, Bryan
certainly has a right to talk sadly
about low prices.
Bryan will have to look after his
running mate, Sewall, who asks:
How can you increase labor's purch-
asing power by increasing the prices
of labor's products" That is lust
what great many workingmen
would like to know, but the question
is not answered in any of Mr.. Bryan's
speeches.
Bryan-is not likely to do any better,
and he can't do any worse, in the
campaign days that remain to him.
1t will be noticed that the distingu-
ished Americans whom Bryan claim
as in sympathy with his politics are
all dead.
If the Mexican tax of six dollars on
each wheel is a test of Mexican pros
perity the bicycle vote in this country
may be counted solid for the gold stan
dard.
Mr. Bryan has passion for theat-
rical effects. If he gets tired of trav-
ell he may be expected to buy Coxey's
circus tent and talk to the overflow at
Canton.