Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1897-10-06
Bryan Almost as Great a Factor az
He Was Last Year.
Bis INFLUENCE NATIONAL IN EXTENT
Hot Fights in Nebraska and Colo
rado-California Apathetic.
RETU RN OF PROSPERITY
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star

| LINCOLN, Neb., October 3. 1897.
commence rs said &c be big element in
political success. IL IL were the only e,e-
menf, William Jennings Bryan n,:s,nt he
sure of yet tenanting the White aor.e
Campaigns In four or five states have rc-
cei'ed guiding direction from Lincoln
ana the Chicago platform of 1s.m; has bocn
Kept 20 the front with the confident as
sufance that ON 1t victory would be achiev-
eu IN E"o Mr.. Bryan's devoted polfticaI
toiiowers ale as sure of success i'm the ulti-
n*te future as they were a year ago at
this Tune OF winning in the immediate fu-
lure They are loyal. enthusiastic and
hopefui. Mr.. Bryan's views or the political
| SITUATION as affected by the rise In the
| price of wheat have been given I'm news
\ paper articles. so I forbear to quote Them.
He himself discusses the conditions with
| frankness in the speeches he makcs. His
| fiiends tell me he is buoyant as at any
| period OF his meteoric public career He
| continues to receive overwhelming evil
| cence that the masses of the siemocra lie
| party look TO him as their leader, and is
| Indifferent to the efforts made to yrest
| that leadership from him.
| Seine personal observations taken in
| )ourneying from the Pacific coast eastward
| help to frame an idea of the political pros
| poets. II is proper and fair 10 state that
| the rising tid' of prosperity has not SUBJ
! merged The Bryan people. On the coast
| tIey continue in full control of the demo-
| cratic organization. Some of them seem
| to recognize that a shifting of the issues
| may he demanded within a year. but they
| all say it can only be done by the acknowl-
| edged leader.
| California has no election this year and
| everybody out there is just well satis-
fed. They are all too busy making money
\ tc want their energies diverted. within
| thirty days more gold has come from Aus
| tralia to pay the California farmers for
| their grain than has been brought down
| from the Klondike. l saw the vessels load
| Ing the wheat at Benicia bay late IN June.
| In August arc this month when they
| touched at Honolulu on their return the
specie room would be carefully guarded.
/ The last vessel to touch there carried 81
100000 in gold for the settlement of grain
| balances. Much of it went into immediate
| circulation. With this direct benefit reach
| ing the farmers and the prosperity which
| the whole state has received from the re-
vival CT mining. California republicans may
| lock forward to the congressional campaign
| a year hence with equanimity, though the
| free .ilver sentiment remains strong In
their own ranks and dominates the oppo-
sition-
Hot Campaign fn Colorado.
In Colorado there Is a heated campaign
| for the supreme court. 1t is causing a
| breakup in the fusions which were formed
| last fall. The democratic party. as such.
| can hardly be said to have an existence in
| the centennial state. IL disappeared fifteen
months ago. when the organization prac-
| tically merged into the populst party. A
fusion of all the elements supporting free
| silver was bro, ght about. Ii was thorough
When the election returns were counted
! the vote was nearly unanimous for
Bryan that the Mckinley republicans Won
dered at their cwn pluck in standing by
| their party. The fusion of the Bryanites,
however. was only a surface one. The sil-
yer republicans had only silver In common
| with the populists. They would not yield
| their identity. Slice the national election
they have been drawing away from their
temporary associations. Their position has
been defined in the present campaign and
ii has caused a disruption in the forces
which supported Bryan. The silver re-
publicans have ramed their own candidate
for the judicial Office and apparently they
are going to have rothng to do with the
populists. Thu issue is complicated by the
fact that Judge Hoyt. their candidate. is
also the nominee of the Mckinley rep.Sli-
cans. The latter really nominated Hoyt a
little in advance of their silver brethren.
1t was known, however. that he would be
nominated by the silver republicans. so
that the Mckinley nomination was. In eff
feet, simply an Endorsement. II was very
distasteful to The populis.s. Judge Hoyt
was charged with yielding his free silver
principles in accepting the Mckinley NOM
ination. A fierce controversy sprung up.and
is still raging.
Senator Teller has beer drawn into the
fight. He wrote a letter indorsing Hoyt's
through his newspaper, is supporting Mr..
Gabbert, the populist candidate, has at
tackled the senator quite savagely. consid-
ering their close associations. He charges
that Teller at first repudiated Hoyt. and de-
clared that an acceptance of the Mckinley
nomination forfeited all claim to the sup
pert Of the silver republicans. Senator
Teller's change of base. Editor Patterson
asserts, is due to corporation influence. A
point is made that If Hoyt is elected 1t
will be claimed a straight republican
lot I<.d l4f4a e.
In its natural stronghold. Interviews with
Chairman TowEe sustaining this claim are
telegraphed from Washington. and pub
lished under glaring headlines. Towne calls
on the silver people to repudiate Hoyt's
candidacy, and il he is correctly quoted
pointedly criticises Teller.
Teller fs Undfsturbed.
Senator Teller is not moved by the criti-
cisms on his course. He has q wonderful
hold on the people of Colorado. He knows
nearly every man in the state by name.
Outside OF this. his constituency has abso-
lutte confidence in his sincerity and integri-
ty of purpose He might differ from them
widely. and their confidence in him would
be unimpaired. In the present instance he
&c es not seem to be at variance with them.
Three out OF every four men with whom I
talked on the trains upheld Teller. j was
told that Denver municipal politics cut
some figure in the situation and that the
defeat of Hoyt was desired by one element
thStC ioh aoCdi fcoscuS WHICH mac nOtHtng
to do with the cause of free silver As 10
the Mckinley republicans nominating Hoyt,
that was said to be for the purpose of con-
cealfng their cwn insignificence in num-
bers. but the silver republicans saw no
reason why their support should be re-
fused. Judge Hoyt was pronounced free
silver man, and no misunderstanding of his
position could arise.
do not think the statement that the
Mckinley republicans nominated Hoyt in
order to conceal their meager numbers was
unbiased. They are not numerous, but IL
Was the general testimony tina, they could
make better showing at the polls now
than they did year ago. Some observers
told me II would be % per cent better
Others placed II at a lower figure, yet all
agreed there would be Increased vote,
In nominating Hcyt. the Mckinley republic
cans seem to have made q sensible polit:cai
move 1t must be remembered that they.
too. are believers In silver They simply
declined to abandon their party orsaniza-
ton on that one issue. They are hopeful
that Senator Wolcott's European mission
will Justify their course. Quietly they
plume themselves little On the falling out
between the silver republicans and ths