Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-18


the workingmen should be at enmity with
those who give them work. and that what
ever public policy the employer would pro-
mote as conducive to the welfare of his
business the workmen should vote against
for that very reason!
Is 1t not astonishing that men can be
found who will reason in this way? Can
it be that there are honest workingmen
who believe that their interests are differ
ent from their employers?
Our WorkinRmen Are Not Hypocrltes.
From the Chicago Post
With every sign and index of the CAM
pagn pointing to their overwhelming de-
feat, the Popocrats still affect a smiling
confidence in Bryan's election. Ask them
for single poll or straw showing the drift
of popular sentiment in their favor, and
they say: I'VE take no stock in polls or
other Indications; we know" Point to the
splendid organization and work of the Re
publican campaign managers and contrast
it with the confusion and lethargy that
marks every Popocratic agency except
Bryan's vocal organs, and they tell you
that organization and work will not AFFECT
the result this year. Recall the phenome-
nal Republican victories in Vermont, Maine
and Connecticut as proof that the farmers
of the East take no stock in the free sill
yer delusion, and they retort that the
farmers Of the East; but, after all. 1t Is
upon the vote of the workingmen they
place their last dependence to crush the
''goldbugs' and trample the money power
in the dust.
Now, upon what is this Popocratic reli-
ance on the vote Of the workingman based?
What evidence have the PopocratS that
the workingmen Of America are less INTEL
ligent, less patriotic, less honest or more
easily bamboozled than any other class OF
citizens? Whenever and wherever the
American workingman has had chance
to indicate his views in this campaign he
has invariably declared himself for sound
money, for the maintenance of the public
credit and honor inviolate. for the preser-
vation of national unity and the authority
Of the constitution and of the courts. In
every manufacturing hamlet. town and
city of Maine, Vermont and Connecticut
the vote of the workingmen went almost
as a unit for the party of protection, sound
money and democracy. Throughout the
West the workingmen have Joined Mckin-
lev and Hobart clubs with remarkable en-
thusiasm. Here in Chicago week ago
we witnessed parade in which somewhere
between 10000 and 10000 workingmen
marched with their employers. From every
point word comes that the workingmen OF
the West are enthusiastically in favor OF
sound money and protection as necessary
to the return of that prosperity which can
alone insure them good wages and a steady
opportunity to earn them.
And vet we are told that there is no real
basis for believing that the workinSmen
favor the Republican ticket. We are told
that what they do now bellies their pur-
pose November 3. We are told that beneath
| their Mckinley buttons beat Bryan hearts
We are told that all the cheers and en-
| thusiasm for Mckinley Is but the mask for
a deliberate, deep-laid plan to elect Bryan
and disrupt the republic. In short we are
| told that the American workingmen are
an oath-bound band of hypocrites conspir'
| ing to delude us with false expectations to
betray the nation to direst consequences.
We simply do not believe this. We dc
not believe that the great body Of Amer.
lean workingmen is capable of any such
| Janus-faced hypocrisy. we may oene'e
that some noliticians are either knaves OF
| fools, but we cannot believe that any large
class of American citizens is capable OF
| such knavery or. such folly as Is necessary
| to the fulfllment Of the Popocratic pro-
| rnrnp