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Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

From the New York Mail and Express.
Wien the smoke of the presidential bat
tie now raging shall have lifted, exposing
the forces of sound money and Industrial
protection in possession of the field-as We
can no longer doubt they will be-thank-
fulness for the outcome will be mingled
with qualification that the people of this
great republic, the masses" now SO fondly
rolled upon the tongue of the Popocratic
candidate, have applied their understand
ing to the serious study of social and eco
nomic problems as they never did before,
save when the existence Of human slavery
was at stake.
We shall look back upon this Campaign
of education as among the chief public
blessings of the United States during the
century that will close in the first term OF
William Mckinley as president. Filled as
1t has been with matter justifying the
acutest anxiety for the immediate future of
invested capital, of the wage-earning pow
er and of principles upon which must rest
the stability of our institutions. We yet
shall count the cost as light when this Is
placed in the balance against the gain in
popular comprehension of those subjects
which have too often and too long been
felt. in all save their most superficial as
poets, to the intellectual grasp Of states
maEship and moneyed interest.
1.-THE peoplew 1.-The masses!" It is the
people and the masses who. reading the
truth IN the nerCe l1Sht OF exposition tnat
has beaten INCREASINGLY upon both sides of
the issues involved, will place the seal of
condemnation upon the fallacies and law
less threats of the Chicago platform. 1t
Is the masses who will emerge from this
fight not only realizing the awful dangers
they have passed, but fitted by their ex-
perience. as they have never before been
fitted, to meet similar dangers in the fu-
trre should they unhappily present them
selves
The mental tread of the country during
the past two months has been toward an
arrival first at exact facts, and secondly,
at logical deduction. 1t is vain to assert
that the average unlettered man POUNDS
his conclusions upon observed facts alone.
He depends upon deduction not less than
the professed economist and when his
wage-earning power. the integrity of his
Savings and the welfare of his family are
at stake in the measure that marks this
fight, he will take care-unleSS he Is ig-
norant beyond redemption-that his deduc-
tions are not from improved hypothesis.
This is precisely what. as We have every
reason to believe, has now happened in the
earnest search of the American working
man after the truth, regardless Of the per-
sras!on of interested politicians. This is
precisely what, as We confidently expect,
will bring the republic safely through 4
grave peril. This is why We shall count
as nothing the heat and burden of a cam
paign which has made of every intelligent
man something of a political economist
and sounded the death knell OF socialism
and the American Jacobin.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29
Facts yerxu. Blun.

Chicago Cor. n. Y. Evening Sun.
The situation at the opening Of the last
week of the campaign expressed in elec-
toral votes is that Mckinley is sure of 29O.
Bryan reasonably sure of 80, while 81 are
in doubt. OF those in doubt 1t is believed
that Mckinley has better chance than
Bryan for 80 of them, while the free silver
candidate has the better chance for the
others. If the estimate on the doubtful
votes is correct the totals of the two candi-
dates will be Mckinley 800. Bryan 125.
Taken altogether, the reports on which
the Republican campaign managers base
their claims are far more complete than
any ever before obtained In national
campaign. They not only cover a greater
number of precincts in every state, but
they indicate the preference of a much
larger percentage of the voters of the
country and have been prepared with
greater care They are detailed reports of
actual polls and not guesswork and gilt
terng generalities. One of the Republican
campaign managers. in speaking of these
reports, said to the Evening Sun corre-
spondent:
with these facts before us, do not see
how it is possible for us to be deceived.
There is one other feature of the situation
which is important In connection with
these figures of the Republicans. The
Popocrats of the West are a mob. They
are nowhere oTSdHlZeN, tHey nave HoWuSic
done any systematic campaign work, and
in every state and county where they have
leaders these leaders are new and untried
men. The organization of the nationsl
Democratic party, following the Chicago
platform, disrupted the Democratic state
and county organizations in every one of
these Middle Western states The old lead
ers and the men of business and social
standing almost without exception went
over. to the sound money Democrats or
came out openly for Mckinley. The re-
suit was that state and county committees
had to be entirely reorganized everywhere
at time when the campaign work should
have been we'll under way to have been of
value. The Popocrats were left without
leaders and without funds. In scores of
counties in these Middle Western states the
Fopocratic county committees have not
had enough money to pay for the printing
of single campaign document. They
have not been able to pay the expenses OF
speakers, and in many counties no prac-
tical campaign work of any kind has been
done.
The Popocratic national committee has
made no poll of any of these states; has.
in fact, attempted none. The so-called es-
Inmates which they give out are guesswork
pure and simple, based on nothing more
reliable than the imaginings Of Senator
Jones and his assistants. They have abso-
lutely no intelligent basis on which to
frame an estimate of how any state is 60
ing The Popocratic party as 1t exists in
the Middle West to-day Is the Democratic
party of two years ago minus all the
brains. honesty and experience. 1t is not
possible for such a disorganized, leaderless
and disreplltable mob to win this fight"
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29
NOT ERROR, But DISHONESTY.

In defiance of history, logic, experience
and common sense Mr.. Bryan continues
to assert in his speeches that the opening
of the mints to free coinage of silver will
bring gold and silver together and keep
them there without the variation of a
fraction of cent in their bullion value.
Mr.. Bryan does not attempt to explain
why gold and silver did not remain to-
gether in 1873, and prior thereto. when we
had precisely the same free coinage law
which he is now demanding. 1t is not an
error in judgment or weakness in reason
imp power which leads him to evade this
question and continue in his declarations
that gold and silver will get together and
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29
Lawle.sne.. ut Public Meetings.


From the Chicago Chronicle Dem).
Acts OF rowdyism and mob violence have
occurred during this campaign in various
parts OF the country where honest money
Democrats have been called to address
public meetings. In some cases meetings
have been broken up and lawlessness has
had a complete triumph.
Tho worst case OF the kind that has oc-
Cured was that Mt Covington. KY, last
Thursday night, when John G. Carlisle.
secretary of the treasury. was pelted with
eggs while making speech in a public
hall, and was threatened by hoodlums and
rufffans 6fterward in the street. Nothing
as disgraceful ever occurred before since
Kentucky has had a place in history.
Mr.. Carlisle is one of the most distin-
gCished citizens of Kentucky. 1t has had
but few men SURPRISING him In ability as a
statesman. 1t has not had his superior for
patriotism or public spirit or for political
and official integrity. He is a great Ken
tucky Democrat.
The fragrant outrage against free speech
of which he was made victim occurred
at his own home in Covington. the prin-
cipal city of the district which he repre-
sented many years In congress. 1t oc-
CURED while he was among his old neigh
bors and friends of half lifetime.
But this outrage and others of the kind
are the natural fruits of a political move
ment controlled by the forces of lawless-
ness and disorder. 1t was an outbreak OF
Illinois Altgeldism in kentucky. 1t was
a bomb explosion kindled by an electric
current starting at the point where the
justification of crime Is most eloquent and
where the pardon of criminals Is the chief
executive industry of the state.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

remain there; it is premeditated dishonesty
of which he stands convicted on his own
testimony.
In his speech in congress on the repeal
Of the Sherman purchasing law on August
16, 1892 page 404 Of volume % Congressional
Record, Mr.. Bryan said:
I'VE established a bimetallic standard In
1892. but silver. being overvalued by our
ratio of Is to /, stayed with us and gold
went abroad. where mint ratios were more
favorable"
A few lines further along in the same
speech, in speaking of the ratio adopted In
1854, he said:
'The ratio of 16 to overvalued gold. and
silver went abroad because the silver IN
dollar was worth more there"
In both Of these extracts Mr.. Bryan ad-
mits the total untenability Of his present
position. He admits in this speech that
when the silver in dollar was worth only
a trifle less than the gold in dollar, Sill
yer could not be brought up by free COIN
age to the value of gold; and, to double
clnch the argument also shows that when
the gold in dollar was worth only trifie
less than the silver in dollar, gold could
not be brought up to the value of silver.
Think, then, of the cool and insufferable
impudence Of the man when he goes about
the country declaring that free coinage
will make so cents worth Of silver take the
value Of a gold dollar.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29
THE CHANCES IN GEORGIA.

There really seems TO be a fighting chance
for Mckinley in Georgia Mr.. Hanna an
nounces that the Republicans, gold Demo-
Gratis and Populists have successfully
formed fusion. and that it would not
surprise him If Mckinley carried the
state. Georgia has thirteen electoral votes.
and while they will not be needed to elect
Mckinley they will come in very handy
TO make the general result look all the
more imposing. At the last presidential
election the Republicans in Georgia polled
Is, ,305 votes. end in 1894 the Populist vote
was nearly 5000. while in the same year
the Democratic strength amounted to l2l,-
osi votes.
This pleasing state of affairs has been
brought about by several things. In the
first place the treatment of Watson has
greatly disgusted the Populsts In Georgin
and they are thirsting for revenge. This
has been the means of turning many votes
which Otherwise would have gone to Bryan.
The revolt of the gold standard Democrats
3s formidable and the 50-cent candidate will
lrse largely from this detection. Altogether
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

United States. The trouble with most
finecut is Its liability to damage from
early frosts by premature stripping and
DR.. Depew's timely discovery is likely
to increase the output largely If his plan
is followed. A number of the members
had been attracted to cowpeas as dairy
food by reason of the name. but it was not
a success. The interesting point was made
that each feed" of COW cost the farmers
about 80 cents, or 60 cents a day; the but
ter averaged about II cents. so the loss
was not so great as 1t might have been
with more expensive provender.
The New York Farmers seem to be do
ing great deal Of experimenting and there
is no doubt at all that the noble calling
will be greatly strengthened by their ef-
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29
Cheats, Direct or Indirect.

From the New York Sun.
The number of Democrats who, prior to
the Chicago convention, denounced free
silver coinage as fraught with public and
private dishonor and dishonesty. was, hap
PLY. as it seemed. very great. The number
of these same Democrats who, since the
Chicago convention. have eaten their cred
table protests. and have shamelessly ac-
cepted free silver and Debs, with the ex-
cuse that Bryan. their candidate, was NOM
mated regularly is also very great.
When they all denounced free silver they
were right; it is a fraud. cheat.
The sole difference between these per-
verted politicians and men notoriously and
undeniably dishonest Is that. while. as
they said. they themselves were unwilling
to cheat. they are willing to cheat when
some other authority gives them the word
That is very little difference.
These unfortunate gentlemen, so lament
ably feeble in personal straightforwardness
and self-respect, have still until November
to repudiate Bryan and free silver. and
to withdraw publicly from their disgrace
full course. or merely to decide In their
own minds to cast ballot for Mckinley
and the financial honesty Of the United
States on election day.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

The political campaign has been SO alb
sorbing that several months have elapsed
since any resolutions of sympathy for Ar
menia were passed in this country Is it
not rather brutal in our people to let the
Armenians welter so long without resolu-
tions?
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

Butler will not give out Tom watson's
letter and Watson will not give 1t out. 1t
is probable, therefore, that the country
will have to take a fresh hitch on its trous-
ers and try TO finish the campaign without
that immortal document
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

it looks as If something might come Of the
fusion arrangement. At any rate the situ-
alton is such that it wouldn't surprise"
Mark Hanna If Mckinley carried Georgia,
and when that point is reached the out
look is mighty good for a Republican vic
tory down there.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

The Bryan organs in Kansas are clam
orously demanding that United States Dis
trict Attorney Perry be called down from
the stump. The president should heed the
demand, and the calling down should not
be delayed longer than Monday evening at
the latest. We want no offensive PARTISAN
ship in the rugged West.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29
After-Election Consolation for Brya
Bryan an q Morali.t.
from the Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald.
Mr.. Bryan is rather lame in the depart
ment of ethics. Having been taken to
task for advising workingmen to deceive
their employers by wearing Mckinley but
tons and voting for Bryan. he insists that
there is nothing immoral in his advice on
this point. inasmuch as In voting for him
the wofkingmen obey their consciences.
while in wearing Mckinley buttons they
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29
The Man of Maine.

From the New York Sun.
No figure prominent in the present CAM
paign is more truly admirable in its va
rious aspects than that of the Hon. Thomas
Bracket Reed of Maine, a defeated candi-
date for the nominal ton which Major Nc
Kirley won. The speaker occupies in the
affections of the Republicans of the whole
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

Honesty is the best policy. but it is not
always discreet to preach 1t from the pull
pit. A New Jersey minister has got him
self into trouble with his free silver mem
bers In that way.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

A Wisconsin man has wagered $50 to
cent that Mckinley will carry New York
by 10000. This is an unwlse bet. because
McKinley's New York majority might pos
sibly not exceed 1i9,009
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

"Plumb was for silveri" shouts m ex-
change. Possibly, but Plumb was never
for man like William J. Bryan for pres
ident. or for a platform like the Bryan
Altgeld platform.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29
Wage. and work in Japan.

From the Chicago Post.
When silver orators weary of contradict
ing the experience Of the world with their
1--WE believe" they appeal in the vaguest
possible way to the remarkable prosper
ity of the countries which have enjoyed
the blessings Of free silver" So far as
our neighbor Mexico is concerned, this aa,-
peal to the prosperity attendant on the
silver basis has been met with derisive
shouts by all familiar with the conditions
of wages and prices in that country. Ac-
cording to a committee of workingmen
sent to investigate the subject. "Mexico
has been marking time in the onward
march of civilization" She has free silver
worth 81 cents on the dollar. labor receiv-
and paid in deprecated coin, and the ordi-
nary comforts Of life costing 100 per cent
more than in the United States.
Japan is favorite example Of the pros
perity of country on silver basis
probably because Japan is long way of
and recently clicked China" another ex-
ample of silverized prosperity. Some idea
of the rare richness of prosperity in Japan
may be CLEANED from the following facts
relating to the pay of petty government
clerks in that lovely land. According to
the Kohumin of Yokohama, a native paper
devoted to their interests. they draw II
yen month. The present value OF yen
is about SO cents. Therefore their pay Is
s6 month. From this princely stipend
10 per cent is deducted as a contribution
to the warships construction fund (which
accounts for the japanese navy, and /
per cent for the relief of the survivors of
the war with China. This leaves him a
net salary of s5.34 month, or s64.08 a year.
There may have been a time when a silver
yen went as far as an American silver
dollar when George Washington threw one
across the Potamac. but. in the plaintive
words Of our Japanese contemporary. 10.6S
(s5.3D a month, is "a sum barely sufficient
to keep body and soul together. seeing that
the market prices of commodities have
risen to an extraordinary extent"
Another picture Of the prosperity en-
joyed in Japan upon the silver basis Is
given by Chicago tourist under date of
Toxic. October 6: lone hires jinrikisha
and man to pull it for IS sen. or about 3s
cents In our money. for a whole day. and
twenty-five miles made on a slow run is
an ordinary days work. With two men
to pull-one in the shafts and one hitched
tandem-one can make six or seven miles
an hour for. say. two hours at a time"
How do American workingmen like the
picture of prosperity in the land of the
lotus and the vivid landscape. where every
prospect pleases and man plays the role
of horse to his fellow man at S8 cents a
day?
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

Chairman campau not only can't fool all
the people all the time. but he can't fool
any considerable number of them a min
ute with such absurd claims as he is put
ting out.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29
THE WEATHER.

Washington. Oct. 2s.-For Indian Terri
tory and Oklahoma: Rain and severe local
storms: much colder; north winds.
For Missouri: Increasing cloudineSs and
rain and severe local thunderstorms; south
winds. shifting to north. and much colder
Thursday night.
For Kansas: Generally cloudy, with rain
or snow; much colder: north winds.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

obey their employers. whom he accuses OF
coercion. The evidence that he is wrong
in his premises is abundant, and his re-
Election on the intelligence. independence
and manliness of the workingmen to whom
he addresses himself is little short of de-
spicable. Major Mckinley pungently ex-
presses the exact truth when he says that
the only coercion in this campaign is that
Of reason, conscience and experience.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29
A Distinction.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Il have no objection" remarked inventor
Keely. "to being spoken of as the motor
man. but shall object most positively to
being called the motorman. There's a Diff
ference"
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

Campau includes New York and Ohio in
his list OF Bryan states. but for some unac-
countable reason leaves out Vermont and
Pennsylvania.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

The Bryan people are apparently concen-
trating their final campaign efforts In the
state of dependency.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

my friends, may be wrong" says Mr..
Bryan. This is one instance. at least,
where Mr. Bryan was not wrong.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

1t is due Chairman 'Campau to say that
he is not such a blockhead as he adver-
tises himself. He knows his figures are
bogus.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

About the hardest thing yet said about
Bryan Is the statement that AHgeld will
run ahead of him in Illinois.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

The rot about Hanna having a mortgage
on Mckinley is too contemplate to deny.
If it has made any votes it has made them
for Mckinley.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

The American flag has been pulled down
several times this year. but it has never
been pulled down by Republican hands.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

Bryan declares that the press Of Chicago
is against him. When the Chicago papers
come out with his speeches fully reported
it will be seen that Mr.. Bryan is right.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

The free silver agitation has spent itself,
and has also spent some fat contributions
from the silver trust.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

1t is not at all improbable that that
Chicago egg throwing was arranged by the
Bryan managers as an Offset to the Ken
lucky affair.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

Next Saturday Is set apart as sound
money nag day. and next Tuesday as sound
money victory day.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

The blustery claims of the Bryan man
ayers now fall on skeptical ears. Their
candidate is beaten and everybody
knows IL
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

Although he poses as the champion Of
the "toiliug Masses the defeat of W. ].
Bryan will be the most substantial victory
for the masses that has been won in twen-
ty years,
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29
Stations.

The advance agent Of prosperity is ad-
vancing at a rapid gait. Only six more
days of waiting.
Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-29

Mr.. Bryan emphaticalIy denies that he is
a demagogue. There are public men in
this country who have never found It nec-
essary to make such a denial.