The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-09-09
THE INTELLIGENCER.
wHEELINo, SEPTEMBER ., 1897.
The Elections In Three States.

Owing 70 the unusual circumstances
surrounding them the elections in three
OF the states voting this year will attract
national attenti0n-those IN Ohio, Mary
land and Nebraska. In Ohio the contest
will be somewhat exciting because OF the
bitter fight that will be made by the sill
verites against Senator Hanna, who lie
a candidate to succeed himself In the
senate. The lines have been closely
drawn and national Issues will take pre-
cedence over all local questions by reason
OF the reaffirmation of the Chicago plat
form by the Bryan Democrats, The
Gold Democrats will not vote to send a
free silver Democrat to the senate. but
even II they should, 1t would not damage
the Republican cause much, as Ohio is
regarded as safely Republican on ma
tlonal questions, Heretofore, 1t is true,
she has been In the habit of going Dem
ocratic in of years and has always, I'M
til recently, managed to have both par
ties represented in the United States
States senate However. the prosperous
condition of the farmers of Ohio this
year has not aided the silver party, and
the Republicans are expected to hold
their own.
In Maryland the situation is interest,"
ing because the interests of Senator Cor
man are involved, and though the state
has gone Republican. in the past two
elections, the outcome Is doubtful. The
senator has attempted to unite the two
wings of the Democracy on straddle
platform. but the straddle, which is
a cowardly evasion of the silver issue,
has disguised many OF the Gold Dem
ocrats, and what the effect will be can
not be foretold.
No little interest is attached to the Ne
braska campaign, in spite of the fact
that only state Offices that are usually
regarded as non-partisan places are to
be filled. The interest Is due to the fact
that II is Bryan's home state, and al
though it has been a Republican state,
1t went off on the free silver craze last
year and gave the Bryan ticket thirteen
thousand majority. This was because
the farmers were made to believe the
fraudulent cry that the depression in the
agricultural regions of the west was for
the want of free silver medicine.
Now that they are having demonstra-
ted that the prices of their products are
not dependent on the price of silver, and
are experiencing a season OF almost I'M
precedented prosperity, the old time Re-
publican enthusiasm of the Nebraskans
Is reviving. Republicans at heart they
needed only the proof that the Popocratic
calamity wall was delusion to bring
them to their senses.
To stem this tide Mr.. Bryan win be
obliged to work very hard. and It will
require all his eloquence, and then some,
to maintain his hold on Nebraska. De-
feat for the free silver ticket this fall
would mean a severe blow to Mr. Bryan.
AS all the silver interests are united.
they may succeed, but conditions are so
different from what they were last year
that Mr.. Bryan is very much on the anx-
ious seat. The farmers can no longer
be deceived with the fallacy that the
price of wheat Is dependent on the price
OF silver and It will task the boy orators
ingenuity to win out" with some other
argument.