The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-10-11

spontaneous OutpourluSS VI AhuAoA
tudes to testify their admiration for tn,
Usage at Canton" While these excur
sions and the activity of the Republican.
everywhere in behalf of their -nationa
ment, there are still other schemes tt
promote McKinley's election, which viii
be tried from now until the election byMr
Hanna and his friends, and rs their cause
will they be in their attempts to turn
the tide now so strongly set in the direc-
tion of Mr.. Bryan and free coinage.
The New York Journal, i'll abiding to
the certainty of Democratic success, says
the country may be prepared about a
week or ten days from now for wide
spread attempt to inspire the fear that
Bryan's election would mean the over
turning of the financial institutions of
the country, and that u pretended panic
may be expected about that time. All
the Indications, says the Journal, now
favor the belief that Bryan will carry
most, if not all, of the contested Middle
West by great majorities and be ever
whelmingly elected. The tide towards
him deepens and broadens. 1t has caught
in its strong current McKinley's own
State and in the Judgment of so impartial
n student of political tendencies as Henry
George Ohio is lost to the Republicans.
Boss Hanna himself is alarmed, and it
is not to be presumed that II man of his
resources in brains and money will
leave anything undone that has in it the
smallest promise of reaction against
the Western Bryan boom.
1t has already been proved that great
many bankers, insurance men and other
handlers of other peoples money, says
the Journal, are ready at signal from
Hanna to move in concert for the adj
vancement of McKinley's prospects
They will, therefore, be prepared to use
their immense power to destroy conf
dence temporarily by pretending to fear
the results of Bryan's election, and Il
brief run on the banks to give the people
the movement for free silver should sue
coed is believed to be part of theRepubli-
can programme, if the indications continue
for week or more to point, as they now
do, to an overwhelming victory for silver.
The people of the country, however,
having..been forewarned of this, will not
be in the least disturbed. The Cam
paign of education" has done it's work
well. The silver question is thoroughly
understood in the West, where the
schemers hope their financial furry will
have it's greatest effect in turning the
tide from Bryan. 1t has long been stud
led and debated by the people there. The
effect of the support Of trusts, syndicates
and millionaires of the East to Mckinley
has been tremendous in turning the pro-
ducers of the West towards Bryan and
silver, and what is the source of the for
ners greatest strength on the Atlantic
seaboard constitute his greatest weak
ness beyond the Alleghanies. Wall
Street and everything that the name inn
plies to the people of the West and South
work day and night for Bryan in those
sections Therefore, the attempt of
Hanna and his assistants to scare the
voters away from Bryan with the cry of
"panic" will be worse than futile, since
it will only result in welding the silver
forces more closely together and adding
more largely to the majority for Bryan.