Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-10-29
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The Bryan Party in Position Which Ri-
val Campaigners Dared Not Hope For.
neutrality-suspicious. OF Gazette and Journal
Chicago, ILL.,, Oct. 26. Chairman
jones' epistle to the workingmen, given
TO the press some days ago, has lot the
Bryan party down to level of incen-
diarism which rival campaignere dared
not hope for. In the same degree does
tho victory of the cause of sound money
and business stability and national
government, grounded in tho votes OF
the sober majority, become more evil
dent.
Not many Of the absurd things Jones
has perpetrated have hurt his cause as
this screed is hurting it, In the first
place he has given the workingmen
themselves new view of Popocracy,
and view which arouses no little re-
sentiment. Abundant evidence comes
to the SOUND money headquarters both
Democratic and Republican, not merely
that the workingmen, as a rule, have
had no thought of using their political
strength to exact largesses from their
employers, but that by publicly i'm
putting such a purpose to them Mr..
Jones has go wounded their self-respect
as TO lose Bryan many votes which
seemed sure for him one short week
ago. Thsn the employers have been
driven to institute more careful in
quirles and make more earnest remon-
strances among their employees
LII the men intended to organize for
unwarranted promises of impossible
wage rates, the employers were bound,
as matter of common business pru-
dence, to find it out without loss of
time. Jones evidently meant to work
up big strike as the only agency in
sight competent to produce that up
heaval of the elements which would
give Bryan chance to win. A general
strike, even of the railroad men alone,
is Just little more dreaded through
out these big Western States than a
money panic.
There could hardly be worse time
for strikes, whether for employers or
employees, and in no large industry does
there seem to be any especially acute
cause for strike. The whole occasion
was favorable for the managers of the
big industries to get close to the wage
earners and show them the devilment
Bryan and Jones and Altgeld are trying
to do. This is just what the managers
have been doing ever since that crazy
dispatch from the Popocratic head
quarters startled the Indian summer
zephyrs from Lake Michigan, and they
are doing it, too, with az unwonted
SUCCESS. They are able to report to
the sound-money campaigners some
pleasant surprises.
The wheat growers and the bull
speculators are little more pleased with
Jones than the industrial people are.
The farmers-whose method of thought
is straight if not swift-were already
taking into their heads that the un-
common disturbance which the Popo-
cratic movement has stirred up has
been the chief agent in arreRting the
rapid rise of the price of wheat. They
romark now that the biggest tumble
in wheat came on the heels of JONES'
call for strike of tho workingmen.
While they arc figuring out the extra
profit they would have made at the
top.notch selling price they are not
thinking any the better of Jonesism as
a scheme for the relief of agricultural
distress.
And now Chairman Jones is saying
it's just like his luck that that foolish
dispatch won't out from his place. He
wasn't in the city himself when it was
given out, and it appears now that he
would like to avoid all personal re-
spcnsibility for it.
OF course the public does not concern
itself about the discipline of Chairman
Jones' Office. 1t merely says to itself
"Jones has put his foot in it again. A
little worse than usual; that's the only
difference.
A notable event Of the last few days
is the spirited attack of the sound
money forces on Missouri. There has
been an unlocked for increase of Palmer
and Buckner votes in that State. The
outlook is SO very encouraging it has
been thought worth while to send the
National Democrats into that State
for two or three days after they have
finished in Nebraska. IL they have
any such reception there as they had
ain Nebraska and Wisconsin, it might
'be determining factor in the vote of
the State. Mark Hanna, too, has some
new Missouri figures on which he ia
basing high hopes. Forty of his best
speakers, and doubtless pretty good
bundle OF Republican money have been
ordared into that State; and the Re-
publican campaign authorities, as a
rule, for the first time. believe Nc
Kinley will carry that great Democratic
stronghold.
Another State from which the Re-
publicans have some sort of new assur-
ance is North Carolina. No details are
given to the public, but they are reach
ing out now for the vote of that State
in deliberate, business-like way that
shows that they have found, or think
they have found, big chance Of
getting it,
So far as Hanna is concerned, these
new enterprises signify chiefly that he
believes the fight is over ia the States
which have been most in the public
eye for the last two months. He is
not the sort of man to move his spell
binders into new ground while he had
any doubt of the old. There is con-
vincing accumulation Of evidence, in
deed, these last few days that all the
Republican managers feel absolutely
secure as to Illinois, Indiana, Ohio,
Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and
Iowa.