The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-11-03
"BRYANISM IS LOOMING"

New York, Mr.. Bryan, Chairman Jones
and the other real leaders of the Demo-
cratic party were true to the time-hon-
ored Democratic principle of Home
Rule. The wisdom of their attitude
was apparent to all Democrats.
Van Wyck, who was yesterday chosen
Mayor, declared that in 1896 he sup
ported Mr.. Bryan with all my heart and
soul" His election is a great victory
for organized Democracy, and accord
ing to the testimony of eminent Repub-
leans and other anti-Democrats, 1t
means that Organism is looming" to
quote an expression from the New York
World. Senator Thurston, Of Nebraska,
who was imported to New York to
speak, declared that if Benjamin +.
Tracy should be defeated no Republi-
can President would succeed Mckinley.
Mr.. 1hurston was right.
The New York Sun, few days pre-
vious to the election said:
IF New York City is carried against
the Republicans, led by so commanding
a candidate as Gen. Tracy. the prospect
that the Empire State will endure the
same fate later, and later still that the
country at large will endure it, will be
in the highest degree alarming"
Later the Sun said:
"The city of New York is the out
post Of anti-Bryan success in the nation.
If it is not held ON the side of the st.
Louis platform, then, in the public eye,
the national Republican administration
will look more like a house of cards
than a house founded on a rock"
Ten days ago, the New York World
contained the following editorial:
The ONLY 16 TO i CANDIDATE.
Voters who believe in honest money
viii betray their principles if they vote
for Cookers candidate.
Low, George, Tracy, Gleason and
even the Prohibitionist and Socialist can
didates are all recorded against free sill
yer at 16 to /. Croker's candidate alone
refuses to express himself ON this issue.
1T would be a strange travesty on
common sense if Greater New York
should encourage Organism and financial
heresy by selecting for Mayor the only
counterfeit candidate on the whole list"
The voters selected by tremendous
plurality "the only Is to l candidate 4"
In an article urging the Platt men to
pun down Tracy so that theRepubli-
cans and Mugwumps could unite on
Low, the New York World said:
First-According to the most unmis-
taxable signs and evidences, Croker's
candidate and Henry George, both hav-
ing voted for Bryan, both believing in
Bryan for 1900, and both now openly
First-According to the most unmis-
taxable signs and evidences, Croker's
candidate and Henry George, both hav-
ing voted for Bryan, both believing in
Bryan for 1900, and both now openly
running as Bryan men, will have polied
together the largest Democratic vote
known in the history Of New York and
Brooklyn. 1t will exceed even Cleve-
lands plurality of 10000 in 1892.
Second-This enormous vote and the
election Of the mayor Of the sound mon
ey centre of the nation, with colossal
powers for four years, will give Bry-
ans friends and Bryan's cause all over
the United States more encouragement
and hope, more confidence and joy, than
any other event short Of his own cleo
ton to the presidency.
Third-The New York delegation In
1900 will be his, as are now the delega.
tons from Massachusetts, Pennsylvania
and the entire South and West. He
will be nominated with whoop.
Fourth-While the Bryan Democrats
everywhere would be encouraged to per-
slst not only in Mr.. Bryan but also in
the 10 to issue, the sound-money Dem
ocrats in this city and State who went
against Bryan last year would be ire
trlevably discouraged and Disguised with
Republicanism. No political evil will
seem greater than the despicable despot
ism of Platt. And tens of thousands of
the independent anti-Platt Republicans
now struggling through Mr.. Low for
honest government will agree with them.
We might multiply such utterances.
They show what the gold men thought
would follow the election of Van Wyck.
We seldom agree with our gold contem-
poraries, but are happy in this instance
to be able to concur with them.
The seed sown last year in New York
seemed to have been sown on stony
ground. 1t has taken root. The true
Democrats are certain to win like a cy-
clone in 1900.
The news from Ohio, whatever else
II shows-provaS what thp Democrats