The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1896-09-22


CAMPAIGN COMuENTS.
And what would happen II a Populst
were put in AIR. SeWalIs place? Would
DEMOCRATS generally support the ticket?
We are satisfied they would not. They
would 50 over TO the Palmer and Buck
ner ticket Dy the tens OF thousands in
every State. They would let the popu-
LISTS have tho ticket. and badly beaten
ticket II would be.-Sayannah News.
Mr.. Sewall WIS nominated en- order 10
carry Maine ana break the solid Neg Eng
land. and he did not 90 IT, He did not
carry "a single county in the State. There
is a game popular in our childhood cali
ed Take it or before ] knock it Off" Dir.
sowall san study it with proht.-Mobile
Register.
Bryan IS brilliantly eloquent, everlasting
ly energetic and stubbOrniy honest. It's
Il pity that wise men have not been his
councillors in this campaign and that
biunders have butchorcd his prospects"
ln Ike strain the Boston Post says: 1T
must be apparent even to tho most SAN
guine supporters of the Bryan and Sewal
ticket that their campaign has been badly
managed thus far. The absence of exc
porienced camraisners 1T the hcln ac-
counts Tor this
The nomination OF separate candidates
for vice-pres by the two conventions
which selected Mr.. Bryan as their can-
didate Tor President was tactical mis-
take Tho only way TO repair IL IS FOX
one OF tho candidates to withdraw. The
result Of the Maine election points 10 Mr..
sewall as the redundant candidate and
calls for his retirement. Failing 20 re-
sp0ud to this call. Doe can scarcely fail TO
contribute 20 the defeat Of the ticket OF
which he is q part.-kansas City Star.
Estimating the wealth Of the mon who
compose Hanua's Finance Committee at
1852 10000. the Charleston News and
Courier says: TT is a notable coincidence
fhnt the combined capital of the million
aires named is just about equal 60 that
of the leading si'ver-mine owners i'm the
United Sattes. who shall say that the
world IS not growing better when such
men give their time and a good deal of
their hard-carned money 10 promote the
political welfare Of the poor and humble
workingman"
IL is ahundan1y manifest that Mr. Bryan
offers nothing 20 tempt the wace-earner %
suuuort the free-silver experiment. The
higher prices Of which be talks as quite
certain TO come from free coinage would
have 10 Doe paid hy the wage-clrners. IL
is true that, If Sir. Bryan's belief that
silver VIII rise az once 10 a par with gold
under free coinage were realized. there
would De no higher prices demanded for
food and clothing fuel or rent. But 80
that case the farmers and planters who
want the higher prices would be deceived
and disapp o.uted.-BMumore sun.
II IS an utter waste Of time to send Mr..
Bryan campaigning here az the East. Bos-
ton Will be glad 10 see and to give him q
respectful and interested hearing. as it
would any presidential candidate but the
influence on the result can amount 10
nothing. Why waste so much ammuni-
ton I'm q section whore there is not the
remotcst chance of getting q single elec-
t0ral vote? The vote of the West Tor
Bryan IS by no means foresone concll-
sion. and that IS the place where the
work should be put in.-Boston Post.
Before 1873 not enough silver dollar had
been coined in the United States in eighty
years to furnish each family then in the
country with specimen dollar as an
heirloom or curiosity But since 1.-THE
crime OF 1873" a silver coinage has been
effected and q mass of silver bullion ac-
cumuiated by the Government or a nomi-
nal value altogether OF siX hundred mill
Zion d.llars-en0ueh. If distributed, 10
furnish every family now in the country
with over forty do.iar. only one great
nation I'm the world has larger per
capita circulation OF silver than the
United States. and that is a nation Ike
tho United States doing business on gold
basis.-phlladolphi Record.
The free-siiver advocates profess 10 de-
sire TO do two things M one and the SANE
time. one Of these IS 20 raise the value
Of silver pto or above that OF gold the
other IS so 10 dcpreciate the value Of the
silver dollar that it can Doe used for pay
Ing debts no far less than their face
claim. It should be plain. from what has
been said. that both OF these results can
not be accomplished 10y one act or Con
eress. Several different enactmenis viii
be required 20 compass such undertakings;
and when success shall be attained that
success will not be for the good or the
American people. but FAR otherwise.-New
Orleans Picavune.