The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-06-30
WEST AND SOUTH ALLIES
Every Former Slave State Will
Go Democratic.
THE ENTIRE WEST is SOLID
Mckinley is Not Sure of Anything Ex-
cept the Gold Strength and Even
Bolt at Chicago Will
Hurt Him.


1.-TWO months ago [ wrote from
Washington that the West would bolt
Mckinley and gold at the ST. Louis
convention. AS this is written the
West, the silver West, is marching
out. The revolt is practically accom-
plishd The white savages of silver
are leaving the reservation for the war
path. Their great medicine man, Tel
Ter, has set up the war pole and the
young bucks vie with one another as
to who shall be the first to strike his
war axe into it, as proof of his en-
listment. The mutiny is on. Rebellion
is afoot and the silver West, with its
own candidate and it's own platform,
win wage war on gold and the East.
This means the defeat of Mckinley.
Possibly the death of Republicanism.
Not the least significant of the
signs of the hour is the steady conf
dence with which the silver forces
march away. They leave their fellows
of gold as Dundee left the Whigamores
of Edinburgh; their feathers tossing,
their banners wide flung and free.
They nail their gauntlet to the gates of
gold and the East stands defied to the
uttermost of war. They have remem-
bered what the East forgot. They,
too, have country and a cause. There
is a West, as well as an East. Silver
has its clans, as well as gold its people.
The allied natives the East forgot; the
West did not.
And SO the silver fighters go back
to their tribes. Hannaism, Mckinley
ism, an over-reaching East playing the
hogs part in its golden selfishness
1aSxx H., 1np~ cha
of success for the Republicans has
disappeared.
There be hills beyond Penland,
! And friths beyond Forth.
II there be lords in lowlands,
There be chiefs in the North
THE East can laugh at these people.
The East should laugh at people less
and tstudy them more. This Eastern
policy of the tip-tilted nose has already
cost it the South. That region glowers
at the East across its borders, and the
fires of its hatred never die. To-day
the West arrays itself against the East
and begins running out its lines of bat
tie. The West has become ally to the
South, and the ally will be found the
harder. more indomitable enemy than
the original foe.
1T is pleasant and easy for the East
to come from its baths and its gardens,
its games and its houses of marble and
gilt to idle about the forum and malign
the West and call its people goth and
vandal. But it may hardly prove prof
liable. The East might better recall
what the goths and yandals did to
Rome.
These silver people are the Swiss of
America. They are poor in all save
90 hay r.
horns sounding and the battle is on.
They will fight with the cool yalor of
buccaneers. When the East goes
against them, pride-blown, purblind in
its conceit of riches, yet really weak
with the possession of that which it
relies most upon-its money-it will
be the old story of Charles of Burgun,
dy over again. The Swiss will win,
and whereas just terms might once
have been made with them in their
hour of might and wisdom, the West
will grant as little as it got. What
was done to the West, the West in its
turn will do.
Mckinley will be beaten. and now
I'll tell you how. This silver revolt
will sweep the West between the Mis-
souri, and the Pacific. You may buy
gold plank in Dakota and again in
Oregon, but you can't buy the people.
You can't bride the public in the wide
region extending from the coast to the
Missouri, from the Rio Grande to the
English line. Silver will sweep all be-
fore it. Teller will get most of them,
but at least Mckinley has lost every
electoral vote after you leave the Mis-
souri, river. They will go to Populists,
to Democrats, to silver Republicans,
but they will none of them GO to Nc
Kinley, that candidate handmade by
Hanna on platform to which in his
heart of hearts he is false.
Heaven hates a coward, and Nc
Kinley has not been brave. The peo-
pie are against him, and the gods will
not fight on his side. Give the West
to silver California. Oregon, Wash
ington, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, Utah.
Colorado, Wyoming, the Dakotas, Ne
braska, Kansas and Texas-silver has
already conquered them all. And the
South-McKinley cannot win or hold a
foot of it. Every former slave State,
bar Delaware, will go Democratic.
There is no doubt in a National war
with the Democracy for free silver of
such States as Missouri, Kentucky and
Maryland. Even West Virginia would
be hard to hold Mckinley may kiss
hope goodbye so far as Missouri, Ar
kansas. Louisiana, Mississippi Ala
bama. Tennessee, Kentucky, Georgia,
Florida, the two Carolinas, Virsl MIA
and Maryland are involved. He'll get
none Of them.
Count up the others, and see if
he'd haze enough should he carry them
ALL He'll be made to sup defeat But
even were they enough, faith has not
decided that Mckinley can carry the
others He can carry Maine. New Hamp-
shire. Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode
Island and Connecticut, the six New
England States. Reed, the Repnbli-
can Achilles. will sall in his
tent. but his region will go for Ac-
Kinley. Unless a split occur at Chi
cago, and 1t well may happen, and a
gold Democrat do IN the East what
Teller is doing in the West, Mckinley
will carry New Jersey and Delaware