The sun., 1896-10-18
LESSON OF THE BANNERS.
Sound Money and Patriotism Found To
Cetheri Popocrnts Appeal to Prciudice.

Sound Money and Patriotism Found To-
Gether, Popocrnts Appeal to Prciudice.
There is lesson worth remembering to be
drawn from the inscriptions on the campaign
flags and banners that are floating to-day in al
most every street in the city. 1t lies in the DIFF
ference In the appeals made by the two parties.
To be sure one has almost to hunt with mag
nlfying glass and search warrant to find q
Popocratic flag or banner from from one end
OF Manhattan Island to the other.
There are n few, however, and sent-
ments like those they bear have never
before found expression in the United States
outside q congress OF Socialists or meeting Of
rioters. The inscriptions on the Mckinley BAN
ners. on the other hand. express a spirit Of
patriotism. There are not many Mckinley and
Hobart campaign banners of the usual tyne in
town. The Stars and Stripes seem to have been
good enough for the sound money advocates TO
fling ont. Tho inscriptions will speak for
In Brekman street. near William. there is a
Mckinley and Hobart banner which bears this
inscription:
An honest dollar and n chance to earn IT,
At the corner OF Ferry and Clr streets the
Irish American Republican club Of the Second
Assembly district has inscribed this legend on
Its banner:
Protection 70 home and country; Profession to
properly AT home aud our citizens abroad. Mckinley
ana Hobart An honest dollar and chance TO earn IL
From the IIaght building on the east side Of
Broadway, across to 100 h oadway. Is suspend
ed an immense American flag. at the bottom Of
which one may read this:
Mckinley and Hobart will restore confidence and
credit
From the Hanover Fire Insurance Company's
building across to the IMPERIAL building, AT 80
Pine street. is q flag whose motto reads:
Gooi money never made hard times National
honor abpNe party.
Beaver and William streets. hangs the flag OF
the Cotton Exchange Club. whose legend is:
Honest money and the integrity OF tho Government
From 10 over to 90 Madison street ia stretched
the banner OF tho Second Assembly district
Tam IS,mmsny Hall rCpoera!s: The preyaii'ns
but the green Of Erin. In the centre, occupying
tie large, st, space i picture labelled The
once, surrounded by bags Tlled with gold.
ticker ticker tHEs , IN the other From the tap. 10
read: Nv heat IS going up, and he adds,
tnttered and torn farmer. working in his wheat
field. The whole idea Of the picture 10 to array
part OF the nation against The other part. "a
Bryan has been trying 10 do all through the
campaign. While THE SuN man stood look INK
at the banner. AN aged lrishman. with II tne
intently at the device OF Popocracy for several
minutes. Finally he turned around slowly 10
stopped. laid his hand kindly on the reporters
shoulder, and said:
Don't bother TO look At the thing any longer
young man. II won't do you any good. and II
might do you harm. unless you're Ievel hraded.
That banner teaches Americans to hate one
another, and such teaching never did any man
any good. I'm nn lrishman, born In ireland.
and got what little schooling ever lad In re-
land. love the green flag, with its yellow
harp, as dearly as ever an lrshmRn loved the
flag Of the land Of his birth. When came to
tho States and became naturalized the first
vote ever cast Was Tor buchanan. and I've
voted the Democratic ticket ever since. won't
vote that ticker this year"
Tn on the Bowery. opposite the COmanche
Club, is another Tammany banner, which pic
lures the capitalist with hi. iron heel on the
skull OF labnring man. This Is, perhaps, the
most brutal picture on a campaign banner in
town. AZ Enst broadway and jefferson street
Is the banner or the Thomas Jefferson Assocla-
tion. which bears this Inscription:
opposed 10 trusts AMI monopolIes Down with
thrn. lu favor OF silver apd god existed prior
1873.
In front Of the club rooms Of the Swiss-Amer-
lean Club In Fourteenth street lust east of
Third avenue. hangs n flag. Inscribed as follows;
Honest money ani protection Protection to tho
ron as wen a. the poor Protection 10 natlNo and
adopted sons aud a living wngr Tor al.
tpin l25th street. Just east Of Park avenue,
Is an elaborate banner SWING out hy an or
On either side are vigncttes of Bryan and
with the hands pointing 10 sixteen minutes to l.
Then there Is the uplilted arm OF laboring
man holding hammer. Underneath these
pictures arc the inscriptions:
The classes against the No British gold for