San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-10-04
x is SAFE.
MKINLEY WILL CARRY THE STATE
ELECTORAL VOTE.
Silver Men Becoming Mawkish and Lay
Their Defeat to the Usual Cause of
Every Bvil-The Money Power.
BY Special Wire to the Sunday Light.

~ |PNNA~A o
Austin, Tex, Oct. 3-There is now
something like four weeks intervening
before the November election will def
initely settle the silver and gold con
troversy. in Texas the silver men
have made a noble fight for their
white alley, but they admit at this
time that their fight has and will be
in vain so far as the carrying of the
national electoral vote for Bryan and
Sewall is concerned. They make this
admission reluctantly and are still
bravely whistling to keep up their
| courage, but they make the admis-
sion nevertheless, and that is more
than they would do even two weeks
ago. They are now busily engaged in
| saying that the masses cannot with
stand the gold of the syndicate and
will vote for Mckinley, even though
their personal preference is for Bryan,
| and il permitted to vote their views
without hindrance Bryan would be
elected. In this matter as in all 9TH
ers they will not listen to argument
and insist that they are right. mus
it is that the gold men of Texas are
| comnelled to be satisfied with the al
mission made by the silver men that
Mckinley will be elected and let the
| silver fellows place their own con-
| struction on exactly how it is done.
II matters little to the gold men what
| Tho silver men think about the vote OF
the workingman being tempered with.
The assertion that such is the case
| bears on its very face its aDsurdity
| and the gold men are willing to let
the thinking public decide that after
| the election. That such is moi the
case however every II will admit.
The silver men see that the tide mas
turned against them and they are now
busiIy engaged in trying to ind out
o~Xoctly what brought it about and not
| heing able to realize in their W den
| sitv of mind the true facts in the case
\ they 90 to work and assert that II
working man is being bought up. In
Texas especially the past campaign
b,s baop one of the hottest ever wag-
| ed and IL is not over yet. During the
next four weeks the atmosphere VIII
no fairly blue with Oratory While the
| mails are being burdened with all
| binds of literature. The campaign OF
| education is being pushed for all that
is I'm sight. Away out in he brush OF
| Texas YOU find dozens Of men VINO
think that Billy Bryan has h eartn
in the palm of his hand, but in the
| cities of Texas among the politicians
| who watch every movement OF the
political dial you will not find a dozen
mon who will state that Bryan Will
he elected and then back up Their as
| sertion with money. They will all
talk. but that is all.
The silver men have had their hands
| full trying to elect their state tlcke
| and not long ago, if all reports are to
he believed, the word was passed
! down the line to let up on the fight
| for BRYAN and Sewall, as it was
| antagonizing men who would vote for
the state ticket, and pull for number
| one and let Bryan and Sewall look out
for themselves for awhile. Now III
state silver forces are busy looking
after their own interests n they
have good cause for ~uneasiness too.
| Several months ago the republicans
began figuring on Texas. They be-
gan to see that there was n fighting
chance in the Lone Star state since h
democracy itself was all torn up over
the financial question and they sent
| their men down there, pitched their
| tents and they are nov lining up for
battle. That they will make n good
fight and possibly a winning n goes
with the saying. They find half the
| democracy willing to side with them
not only in their effort to elect Nc
Kinley electors. but in their effort to
down the silver democratic ticket in
the state. The republicans seeing that
it would benefit their cause several
weeks ago made a fusion with the
pOpulists, by which the latter is to
throw it's strength to the Mckinley
electors and the republicans in turn
are to lend their support to the popu-
list state ticket. The sound money
democrats are helping both parties and
Joining hand in hand with them to
| down the silver ring in charge of the
| state government. With such n pow
erful ally as this combination pre-
| sents, numbering some 215,0OO out or
n possible 100000 votes, confronting
| them the silver democrats have good
| cause for being attacked with politi-
cal ague, from which they are now
| suffering. Under these Circumstances
il is not to be wondered at that the
| silver ring in this state have deemed
| it wise, for the time being at least, to
let Bryan and Sewall take care OF
themselves and look after number
| one. This apparent neglect of the ma
| tional ticket by the local crowd places
| the position in rather a bad fix so far
! as Bryan and Sewall are concerned.
| 1t leaves them without any hackers
| i N a state that is not too sure any way
| and gives the enemy all the better
showing for winning. The enemy
are not overlooking the opportunity
| either. They are busy. The republic
cans with National Committeeman
Grant at their head, and a shrewder
politicians never lived. have opened
their headquarters at Dallas and are
onening up a fight the likes of which
has seldom been seen in this state.
They are carrying the battle into the
enemies country and they are making
things smoke. In their efforts to car
nv this state they are being aided and
abetted by the gold men and the pop
uilsts and they seem sanguine that