The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-10-18
CAMPAIGN COMMENT.

CAMPAIGN COMMENT.
Tom Watson believes I'm that kind OF
fusion which inhabits the hind leg OF a
mule Baltimore Life.
The postal card vote In Chicago is al
right as u straw, but wait till the vote
Of the ballots. Bryan and his followers
will find that vote bale OF hay for each.
with the hay on top.-Boston Traveller
There are q few people so foolish as
10 be led TO believe that any man can
be coerced into voting other than as nc
desires 20 long as no one but himself
can know how he votes.-lndanapoils
Journal.
II Is the nimble sixpence that makes
things hum-not carloads of the white
metal TO be dumped into the government
vaults because IL cannot be forced into
circulation. as experience has shown
New York Advertiser.
The men who talk loudest on the street
corners for free silver" are those who
never saved n dollar under the best imam
ciai system this country ever had. and
who would not earn dollar under aux
system. Chicago Times-iIetaid.
The Australian ballot system stimulates
the paper-naking industry. The ballots
in Pennsylvania this year may be all
wool, bur IL Is no exaggeration to say
that they Will be more than a yard wide.
--Pittsburg Commercial Dispatch.
il appears by the latest accounts from
the Siverite headquarters that the gold
bugs" have not only artidcially raised
the price OF wheat, but have produced the
drought In India, az we'll as the dimin-
ished harvest in -Philadoiphia
Record.
Several gentlemen called at the Office
OF the Tribune last night and lodged
. complaint against the management OF
the Exposition meeting. They said that
after Mr.. Bryan commenced speaking the
ushers were stationed ~ all the en-
frances. with orders 10 allow no one 10 30
out. A number OF people wanted 10
leave the meeting and fairly had 10 fieh-
their way by the ushers. Others were
not so successful and IN this way the
Bryan people succeeded in keeping a ful.
house Minneapolis Tribune.
Organism Is buried to-day as certainly
as if the official count were contained in
this mornings dispatches. IL Vermont
and Arkansas and Maine and Connecti-
cut and Florida ana Georgia 60. not
foreshadow the overthrow OF the Is 10 !
delusion, its fate may be read IN ihe
prevailing sentiment everywhere except
in the extreme South and West I'm the
increasing recklessness and demagoSlsm
OF the candidates appeals in the dis
organization OF his following, the i'm
potency OF his campaign management.
the absence from the field Of any num-
Der OF Senators who were expected 10 do
yeoman service for the cause. and. above
all, the impregnable alignment OF forces
in opposition. BY all these portents IL
the collapse of Organism revealed, AS
surely as IL Il were already registered Ia
the election returns.-Detrolt Free Press.
Mr. Germans denuncation or the Me-
Kinley tariff with its higher rate OF du-
ties IS calculated TO take the breath away
OF those who remember how MIR. Cor
man succeeded in the Senate I'm Mckin-
levizing the Wilson tariff bill passed by
a Democratic House in February. 1877. In
short. the whole speech is characterized
by profound Ignorance or a wonderful
failure OF memory on the part OF the
Senator or an equally astonishing as
sumption OIL TIC tSHOAhh'' aht
want OF memory on the part Of his au-
ditors and readers. II proves that Mr..
German regards his own case as hope
less: that. despairing OF a reelection TO
the Senate next year, or Of q Democrat
&c victory in this State this year. In sheer
DESPERATION he has thrown himself into
the ranks OF the Bryanites, the Tillman-
ties and the Silverites and all tho strange
agglomeration that constitutes the bulk
OF the supporters OF the Chicago plat
form.-Baltimore Sun.
The undying hostility OF the silveriteS
10 free speech finds fresh illustration
every day. No apology has ever hecn
made for the act of the owen county
mob which refused Mr.. Atherton the
privilege OF speaking al Owenton. Since
that time the advocates OF Democracy
have repeatedly been de~'ed the privi-
lege OF addressing their silow-citizens.
or interrupted when they attempted II.
This was illustrated anew by the at
tempt OF silverites TO howl down Judge
Humphrey at Hardinsburg and by
similar effort at Salvisa to prevent Mr..
l.. c. Willis from carrying out an agree
ment for a Joint debate with siiverite.
IL n unnecessary to say how contrary
All this Is to the letter and spirit OF the
laws and to the underlying principles Ok
American institutions. Free speseh Is
the breath OF life In q republtc.-i>oais-
vile cour1er-Jsurnal.