The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-11-11
Meaning Of the Majority.

.. tae Naw York Tribune.
4Inauo.e published by Senator Carter,
suggests that those who have the di
4 a7a Of affairs viii find il wise to do
smshi1g about silver, in view of the
krge vote east for Mr.. Bryan. II would
wise flr senator Carter 10 remember
] AZ the vote for Mckinley was more
b. million larger than the vote for
! yla. that his plurality i the largest
y gwen, ualess, perhaps, IN the iar-oif
ys before there were political parties in
y modern sense, and that Mr.. Mckin-
3 has d clear majority Of the popular
ts. and. f1rtheiirst time IN many years,
! very large majority. Ifhe does not un-
fr,,auit the meaning Of this result, he
ls, surely be unqualified in a remark
e degree for any position Of response
.iy iH political affairs.
Men who know much about politics,
r. Carer may well observe. never
hash their heads against the solid stone
p '. enormous adverse popular ma
pin. They have sense:enough to un-
7staud that. although such majorities
sy az times ie overcome. through the
D il-lar methods of electing Presidents
\ n1 members Of the Senate in this coun-
p, ye. in the long run they are certain
\ have an irresistible influence. That
Thence D, eXerted not merely through
I press, not merely through the fear of
4 cry active and prominent politician
\ al be wi.l sci against himseifa body
people far TOO powerful to be resisted,
1i q is largely due to the fact that the
4 iloHiy. nfor time thwarted in lis de-
r. has a strange faculty of changing
P opinions oi multitudes who are op-
4 Ned % Il. u j. toierably safe u say
more than three-quarters Of the votes
.la--y east tor Mr.. Bryan al the recent
e-l'n we're east for him solely because
had come % De the regular Democrat
candidate, and without any regard
--.7'er 10 the opinions Of the voters
>'eeAng the questions Of silver coin
Tue great majority Of the voters
supported Mr.. Bryan has been in
e measure converted already from the
'ls'ls opinions he JAS advocated, by
discovery that the support Of such
-.'ns has brough. to their party the
~ tremendous defeat of modern times.
-- ia-t alone suflices To induce great
'ss oi voters to reconsider the opin-
I, "liea The desire for party regularity
l induced them toaccepL Probably it
-'' 700 much 10 say that. if another
,'i' could be- taken this week, consider
y mole than half the Democratic vot-
'-E country woald cast their ballots
- Mr. Bryan aud all thar he repre-
= WIN much indignant feeling that
parry which they have for 50 many
=, ned dear has been utterly wrecked
lnoe. y NJ perform
- : u. j I'D the least probable that any
4 :. political party viii ever again un-
4 '-Ae 10 Sc. itself deli rerately against
1 ae'ming maj ,.ity % the people
-, having nearly half the electoral
Il there were the slightest possi-
- W overcoming the enormous ma
ia states ike New York. Penn
ana Massachusetts, and Illinois and
r. between the Atlantic and the
.-5 Fl'- hiver there might be. in the
y politicians more daring than
J, -, ,'i'e notion Of appealing to West
l.. southern prejudices and inter
i ~ "a ms last campaign has illustra-
'''lAing manner the exceeding
- 'i party which starts with q
syir, -'''ii'y o. failure in States
~, : !, ~ only almost half the electoral
much more than half the pop-
Ar. Bryan's cause was iron,
uoomed 70 disaster bv the fact
r.. -Afge Commercial State. in no
an, extended influence outside
Ensns could he hope to com
b. ~ p respectable support. Al
T. " men IN the silver region do
J.. -. iaprehend it. the silver capse
h. - 20 nearer H. end once for ALI bv
Eea,s VI las' Tuesday than it ever was