The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-12-12

Not Much Hepe for IL In the Next Prssi-
dental Campaign.
We are told that cause which mus
tiers 100000 votes. as popocracy's did
in the recent canvass, cannot be crushed
eternally by single defeat by
popular majority of 100000 OF 800, 900.
A combination which carries 20 states,
or almost half of the whole number,
must necessarily have sufficient vitali-
ty to enable it to make at least one more
hard contest. The republican party in
its first national canvass was 100000
behind the successful party on the
popular vote, and yet 1t carried the
country four years later. With such
talk as this popocratic papers are al
tempting to keep up their party's cour-
age.
The attempted parallel between the
Bryanite forces in 1896 and the repub-
licans in 1886 is destroyed by the fact
that the Bryanites were only coalition
while the republicans were a party, and
by the further and much more impor-
tant circumstance that the republicans
had morality, intelligence and civiliza-
ton with them, while these are oil
against the Bryanites. The Bryanite
supporters were coalition of two dis
tinct parties, in which one element
called itself democratic and the other
populist. It was formed for that can
vass only, and the leaders of the popu-
list section of IL say now that no moro
combinations of the sort can take place,
and that they will not support any man
for president hereafter unless he gets
squarely over on their side and adopts
their party name. The men who sup
ported Fremont in 1856 did not call
themselves wings, or democrats, or free
soilers though all of them had pre-
viously belonged to one or other of
those elements. They called themselves
republicans, and the union which they
formed and the party which they
founded was designed by them to last
until the purpose which drew them to-
gether wns accomplished, whether de-
feat or victory came in 1895.
No reasonable, unbiased being now
believes that oil the forces which sup
ported the Chicago ticket can ever be
arraycd again under the same banner.
Even If another coalition were formed
between the populsts and the silver
democrats, and this is exceedingly I'M
likely, the silver republican element Is
still to be reckoned with. The present
temper of most o. the many republicans
In the silver states who supported Bry-
an is 20 drop all obstruction to re-
publican legislation on purely partisan
questions aside from silver. and this
disposition indicates that the greater
part of them will be back in the re-
publican fold by 1900. 1t is safe TO as
sumo that n third or fourth of the
democrats who supported the Chicago
ticket were opposed TO the platform,
but voted for the candidate because of
his regularity" 1t would be unreal
sonable to suppose that this element |
would vote against its convictions a
second time. If the same issues should |
he up in 1000 most of this faction would |
support third ticket |
like that recently represented by |
Palmer, or vote for the republican can
didate as 100000 or more democrats |
did four weeks ago. A 100000 or $780,
WV PoPuiar plurality LOT honest money |
on an aggregate vote of 13.500.000 or |
thereabouts may not look formidable |
to the popocratic fanatics, but every |
sane person believes that il the election
were to take place to-day under the
hew light which has come to the cheap |
money dupes since the election. Nc
Kinley's plurality over Bryan would be
between 100000 and 1000, o0o.-St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.