The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-04

is sharp in suspicion; quick in criticism
and amenable to no one. His chief
regret is not that the rich are getting
richer on a financial system, but his
humiliation is that the rich in doing II
are listing the western man with the
suckers"
On this account it is very difficult TO
persuade the western man that Bryan
is not sweeping the east today like
whirlind. If he will think of his own
| observations on the east he will see
very quickly that Bryan is not sweep
ing the east, and why he is not.
The eastern laborer and farmer has a
certain feeling of awe for him who is
| commercially great. He regards the
| great banker of New York City as the
possessor of financial secrets which a
! farmers mind could not retain We're
| anyone so foolish as TO present them TO
| him. He regards the owner of q great
store as commercial magician whose
shrewdness is far beyond the COM
prehension of any ordinary man. He
| regards the words of a newspaper as
| sparkling crystals of truth. Now when
all the great bankers of the east pre-
dict TO the farmers of the east and the
laboring men that free coinage means
national disaster the farmers believe
them and argue no longer. When the
great business men add 10 the testi-
mony OF the bankers the farmer wants
to read no more: and when all the
great papers in the Democratic party
surrender their partisanship because
of the expressed conviction that free
coinage is national suicide, the farmer
and laboring man of the east obstinate
ly refuse to even listen to free coin
age argument.
We all know how the western man
cells about this He regards the bank
er as a man who is manipulating the
money of the country in his own inter-
est and against the masses; he believes
that there is nothing magical about the
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prince, but holds him to be a very
common mortal whom circumstance
and fortune have favored: he regards
the eastern Democratic newspapers as
blinded by their editors social proxi-
nifty to the eastern aristocracy- blind
ed to the needs Of the common people.
But the eastern farmer and laboring
man believes nothing OF this; suspects
nothing; and critics no one.
The other day the manager of a great
railway system in Boston wrote his
views on finance out and distributed
them among his men. The men read
them Of course, and they consider the
Judgment of their manager much more
sound than that Of the Eagle of any
other western newspaper. The presi-
dent Of the New York Life Insurance
company, a highly successful business
man who has had a prodigious amount
Of bushes with money, tells the policy
holders Of that company that free sill
yer would be disastrous to them. The
western policy-holders of course are In
dfgnant: but the eastern policy-holders
believe that the president OF the COM
pany took the step OF announcing him
self because it was absolutely neces-
sary and he was absolutely right. They
believe he knows more about money
than PETER of Kansas, who, before
he reached the United States senate,
was getting SO a week.
For this reason Bryan will carry |
nothing in the east He will lose the |
Democratic state of New Jersey, the |
states OF Maryland, West Virginia and |
Kentucky in all likelihood. He is the |
regular nominee of the Democratic |
party That party east Of the Mis- |
sissippi river is totally demoralized; |
west of the Mississippi river it never |
amounted to anything; south of Ma
sons and Dixon's line the Democratic |
party and the Populist party with the !
same presidential candidates are !
fighting each other bitterly. Disorga-
nlZeu III JllS Ssisst. uISOTSdulZtu III lhe |
south and unorganized in the west, |
Democracy, with Bryan its champion. |
can not win, even If It were entirely |
free from the stigma Of four years Of |
the most idiotic laundering ever re-
corded Of any regime either in Re |
public, Monarchy or Duchy.
The Democratic party can not win |
the nation. Kansas and Nebraska |
and Colorado might believe unani |
mously in free silver and so believing |
vote for Bryan. and Mckinley would |
carry the nation Just the same.
If the Kansas man must make pre- |
dIctions and desires to have his opin- |
Ion held in some regard by his hearers
lac should quit declaring that Bryan
VIII be the next president Such pro-
phets should remember that Kansas Is
the greatest agitabor of all the states
and that she occupies poor situation
and uses a poor telescope TO tell just
what the whole nation Is going to do.
KANSAS DEMOCRACY.
There Is no Democratic party IN Kan
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