San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-08-12
EVERYTHING sATIyFAcroRY.

There is nothing in the situation
as it developes from week to week
that should cause alarm to the Repub-
lican managers or to the great bust
ness masses who are looking to the
Republican party for that salvation
| from financial disaster that is so Sc
riously threatened in the Chicago
movement. From over every section
of the disputed territory the most
gratifying assurance comes of earnest
protest against the views that were
put forth behind Bryan and Sewall.
1t is accepted that in the great inland
central states is the battle to be fought
between the forces of sound money
and virtual reputation. These states
are not only on the alert, but are sys-
tematically putting their forces in the
field and ascertaining by actual can
vass of the closest kind the real num-
Der of voters that are to be depended
upon in the most thoroughly repre-
sentative districts. These enquiries
cover the ground in several of the
great northwestern states, not forget
ting Nebraska, and the returns re-
ceived are in no ways discouraging. A
close canvass of Bryan's district has
been made. as carefully as is made to
ascertain the school census, and the
result is that the Republican COM
mittee for that district assert that it
is good for 1900 Republican majority
in November. The state Republican
committee are just as sanguine as the
people of Bryan's district that he can
not carry the state, and put it safely
in the Republican column. In Min
nesota Senator Davis is doing splen-
did work and that old north state is
coming around to her cable as serene
ly as if there had been no PopuIist
squall upon the placid waters of the
state. Illinois is expecting great things
from the sound money Democratic
ticket that is going TO be put into the
field there. This is no doubt the case
not only in Illinois but in Kentucky
and Indiana and New York as well,
where there are so many Democrats
who hate to fall into line behind the
Republican electors These men are
willing to aid in every way in the
aInntinn Of l,A ;nTn JnI,
short of voting the Demo
cratic party out of time, as they fear
they would by open advocacy of the
Republican electors. They are hon
estly of the opinion that they will do
the Bryan and Sewan ticket more
harm by putting out Il third ticket |
than by letting things go by default. |
At Indianapolis there will be ma
tiOnal ticket put out solely for the |
purpose of Withholding from the Bry- |
an electoral ticket the votes that will |
not under any circumstances be east /
done, then each state will be left in |
its state convention TO pursue the |
course most likely to prevent the cleo
ton of the free silver electors. and |
with this the situation will be left TO |
the evolution of circumstances. There |
is no doubt expressed as TO the east, |
and in the great middle states the
situation grows more and more en-
cOuraging from week to week. In |
the south there was nothing expected !
and consequently there can be moth
ing lost there to the Republicans, but
in the two-tailed kite arrangements
of the Developments, there is dan
ger of Bryan losing several of the
states in the southern belt. AltOgeth-
er there is great hOpefulness among
the Republicans.