The evening times., 1896-11-05
BRACERs NO EARTHLY GOOD
POpocrats Trying to Smile
U d r Grinding Defeat.
FACING THE INEVITABLE
Senator German VIII Not Talk, for
He Sees Political Oblivion Ahead.
Free silver OffIce-n Oiuers Quak-
ing in Their Boots-fresident Has
Three Appointments to Make.

Democrats and Populists are getting
| down 10 hard pan ana trying To accustom
their sight To the inevitable.
1t is an awful spectacle and it nearly
kills, but they have to do it. They can
find no hope. They have died hard.
And there Is fear ana trembling iii Of
fcIal circles. Two fee SILVER heaus have
already iol!ed into Mr. Clevciand's golden
stra w-coiured basket OF political oblivion.
Now the uIher fellows VINO placed party
above country are shaking worse than u
Southern INDIANA POpulsJ sufi iering from
chliis and fever.
The most mIIerly disappointed man Of
ali, though, from surface indications is
tnat great leader OF Maryland, Iaf-iained
for his Democratic shire wdneSs, Arthur
Pue German. SO bitter is the dose that
his lips are still contracted by the pucker
and he won't ralk
No one can blame him much, though His
political future looks very black 10 him
now. Twice have the voters of the State
he Is supposed 10 carry III lis vest pocket
gone against him. He sees the handwriting
gu The wall, and will soon 70 to loin the
Adonis of the Senate, his Junior colleague,
Charles II. Gibson. What will the Scnal. be
without the two G.'s OF Maryland?
There are some persons, though, unkind
enough 10 suggest that Mr.. German is not
50 disappointed as he appears to be. They
say that lie waited until lie was assured
that MCk inley would win and then began
speaking for Bryan. He did this 10 keep in
line Win his party. He would be able To
say to the voters o? his State two years
from now that he had stood by his party
against his own personal belicfs and that
tie party must stand by him. In that way
only could lie secure another lease on SIX
years III the Senate. Be that as il may he
Is gone ana reels IL. Hence his bitter disap-
polntInent, silence, etc.
! he Il. a.utude Of the President is causing
pCi.lcal students some amusement. Never
before IN tie history of Presidential cam
paigns was there ever presented a stranger
Scene Jhan. when a Democratic President
watched the telegraph ticker and read with
approval me VIII oi the peCIlc who had
vO-ed to maintain the nations credit
The Comments that passed tetwcen the
President ana the membcIs Of has Cabinet
who received the election returns with him
were few bus that there was an absorbing
interest manifested by Mr. Cleveland is
Indicated by the fact that until O'Clock
wednesday morning he Remained III his
Office and wai.ed for the bulletins
Now the President declines to comment
on the result, and there is little prospect
that he Will have anything to say On the
question between now and March l. Mr.
Cleveland proceeds under the theory that il
is not his province to comment on the situa-
uon as now presented, and that the attitude
OF the administration in the campaign was
so clearly defined that an expression OF
opinion from him now would be impolitic
ana iI-advised. Unquestionably he wei
comes Mr.. Mckinley as his successor rather
than Mr.. Bryan, and has made no effort
10 Cunced his satisfaction TO thos,. who have
been brought intOintimIte contact with him.
How he feels, though, can readily be sur
missed from the fact that he issued his
Thanksgiving proclamation lust so soon
as he was assured that the free Silver
heresy was buried forever