The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-11-10
HOW THEY TAKE II.
TIE GOLD PRESS ON THE RESULTS
OF TEELECTlON.

Most OF Them Take 8 Blue View and Says
Silver is Still the Issue and Something
Must be Done to Check Its Speed.
They take it iIl-the various minor
ties in New York, except the George
ties. Reproaches and anathemas fly
briskly between the Lowites and the
Plattites and the organs O. boiling
Democrats and boiling Republicans.
1t is as lively postelection scrim-
mage as We ever saw.
Satan and bis agent Plat did 1t,
says the Evening Post. The renegade
Low did it, says the Sun, and thanks
God that Seth at least was not elected.
The Tribune and the Sun exchange
body blows near the solar plexus. The
World prints columns of lis old edi-
torials to show how wise Il was and
how wicked Platt. Low intlmates
that he has only begun his con-
secration to the cause CT downing
both the regular parties AMI thus be.
coming ''unifying force" and the
Plattites breathe vengeance against
the ho!ier-than thops CT the ClTz3ns
Unior. Altogether, It is dazzling
showup Of shining r5Z )rs, and If the
sound money" brethren shall com.
pose their differences in time to work
in harmony for the congressional
elections next year they will have
achieved q victory crester than Tam
manys.
The Herald took latter.day "holt''
for Low, in lis usual fashion, bun it
accepts tie result with philosophy,
also after its habit, and calls for fair
play for Van Wyck. The Herald is
very much impressed by the Demo
cratic sweep all over the country.
Lice The State it thinks the results in
Ohio and Maryland Republican disas
ters, even if Hanna has Won and Cor
man has lost. l. goes on to say.
The tremendous upheava( is almost stun
Ming in lie magnitude. The only thing 1t
can be compared with is the great landslide
of 1898. The year before that Cleveland
swept the country. The year following New
York, New Jersey, and, in fact most of the
doubtful states that Cleveland carried, swung
back into the Republican column. The effect
of the Landslide on national politics IS likely
TO be very great. Above the wreck the face
OF VIM. J. Bryan appears. One can readily
see opening up almost Immediately the De-
mocratic campaign for the election OF gov
ernor in New York State next year. Unless
the pendulum swings back, it will not re-
Quire very lively Imagination to figure out
a close contest for the control Of the next
house of representatives. When the senate
already in doubt aud really anti-Repuolican
on many questions, there is trouble ahead
for President Mckinley. The administration
has the floor.
Just SO. And next year the condi-
tons will not be as favorable for Re.
publican success as they have been IN
this campaign. The Democrats will
carry the house and William Jennings
Bryan will loom up bigger than ever.
The Evening Post is constrained to
suspend its requiem over the remains
OF free silver and to remark:
No one can doubt that these elections
They make it certain that the elections, con-
gressional and presidential, will be fought on
that issue. What can be done to check the
onset of 80 to T." The only thing possible
is to take some irrevocable step in the way
of currency reform and the establishment OF
the gold standard-some step which shall
remove that issue from politics or great
ly diminish its force. One such step would
be the refundiug of the national debt in
q gold bond at a lower rate of interest, as
Secretary Gage desires; but with the present
composition of the senate it is hardly posi-
bic to effect that. Another would be such
amendment osthe national banking &C: a.
would make both possible and save the ISSUE
of bank notes against the general assets ofthe
banks, instead OF requiring bond security.
The foremost authority in this country IS
undoubtedly Prof Dunbar of Harvard, who
in the last number of the Quarterly Journal
Of Economics, gives his adhesion to this step
in banking reform. His article IS the
weightiest &c have seen on the subject, be-
cause it enbodies all the information tnai
has been collected in the past three or four
years, together with much that nobody else
has thought Of One thing is certain, II this
currency question is allowed to drift three
years longer, the Republican party will
90 out OF power. Not even business pros
perity, lift should be here in 1900: would
prevent that result.
So the goldite wake has been over q
corpse that will have to be killed again
this time ''irrevocably." The trou.
ole is to do it. As The Evening Post
admits, the outlook is not promising.
Neither OF the schemes It suggests has
a chance Of passing the senate. The
first would be rejected for the obvious
reason that the senate for free silver
and against more bonds, especially
gold ones. The second would be re-
jected because it contemplates extend
ing the power OF the national banks
and OF making the new currency a
strictly national currency, which
would cause the advocates or State
banks OF issue TO oppose it. a bill for
the unconditional repeal OF the State
bank lax might to be put through the
senate, out the Republican majority
would hardly allow it to pass the
house.
We bave observed that When
ever W&t!erson's money devil IS
SICK !. calls fer currency re
form" but that its currency re
form" always turns out 10 be some
thing 10 bolster up the gold standard.
II tne money devil is really repen.an:
il must wholly relax its grasp upon
the paper currency CT the country and
then take lis chances OF forgiveness.
Bl. il cant mold on TO the gold stand
ard ana currency monopoly together.
The Wolli said on The morning Of
the election:
The result; in Nebraska, Ohio, Kentucky,
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, where Bry-
an and his platform were endorsed and ne was
proclaimed as the leader il 1900, will De ac-
cepted as IN indication ofhis strength in the
party and with the people.
We'll, Nebraska last November gave
13 600 majority for free silver, and
now gives about 10000 for il. Ohio