The Republican journal., 1897-10-14

this is not Democratic administration,
There is Mr.. Bryan making two speeches
day in Iowa and just aching to break in
to Ohio and New York, but the willy Nc
Lean and oheehan are sternly motioning
him away It's too bad, in view of Mr.
Bryan fondness for public speaking.
good deal was heard about coercion in
the last fall campaign. The latest case
comes from Ohio in the announcement that
the manager Of the Democratic campaign,
Allan O Myers, has ordered eX- Congress
man Towne and other silverene orators
down off the stump and out of the State.
The Dingley law receipts fol- the month
of September exceed those of the second
month of the Wilson law, and the deficit
for the month is tritling. The second
month of the Wilson law developed de-
felt of over sl3, 600, 900, while the second
month Of the Dingley law was only about
one tenth of that sum.
The Nebraska banks are complaining
that they have more money than they can
loan, and the farmers of that State are pay
ing off their debts with unexampled rapid
ity, thus making Mr.. Bryan home State
a rather uncomfortable place for him just
now. This may account for his anxiety to
break Into Ohio and New York
The nomination of Henry Single Tax
George tol the position OF Mayor of Great
a New York by large element of the
Zen, cratic party in that city is another
evidence of the fact that the leaders of the
late Fopoclatic party are in search OF a new
iesue and are likely to adopt the single
tax as possible hit. especially among the
cities.
The American Econom>l Say. 1.-The
spreading Of ns9teet.o1ist sentiment in the
~utl, the impartial and wholly national
spirit which has determined the provisions
OF the Diugley law, and the wise and states
nulike uttelances of President Mckinley
lave zone fan to destroy the remnants of
flat ~ectionalism which years ago threat
eued to destroy the union.
Chairman Jones views and attitude i'll
regard to the recognition of silver by State
platforms a1e still uncertain. One day he
announces that he is opposed to it; the
next day he announces that he favors it.
and tie next day he tries to announce that
lie has said nothing on the subject. The
late Popocratic leaders, evidently ashamed
OF the company he is keeping, but APP
Parently sees no way of breaking loose
from it. There are others in the same
boat
Retaliatory legislation with reference to
our tariff is not being heard from. despite
the dismal predictions of last June and
July. The only place where it is suggest
ed is in Argentine, and study of the COM
meicial relations of that country with the
United States shows that there is little
probability that any action will be taken
which would disturb the business relations
of the two countries in view OF the fact
that we buy more from Argentine than she
buys from us.
ANY how, there is one thing that William
Jennings Bryan can still do. He can write
letters. He has been blibed to keen out
OF New ork State in person, elected from
Ohio, given the cold shoulder in Maryland.
and shelyed in Kentucky, but this does not
prevent his writing letters at long range
and injecting his advice where it is not
wanted. The UniTed States mails are still
q Il to Linn and by furnishing to the news
ialeIs advance copies of lis letters he still
damages to keep himself before the public
eve despite the efforts of the leaders of his
party to silence him.
The ohio Democrats are not by any
means happy family The silver question
has not only made wide breach in the
ranks Of the party but is making the breach
wider every day. Not only are the gold
Democrats absolutely divorced from that
branch Of the party which made free silver
the chief plank of the platform, but now
candidate Mclean and his followers want
to abandon free silver and as result are
making another division in the party. Chair
man O>Myers, who, it is said, ordered ex-
Congressman Towne off the stump and
out of the State, and even Mclean him
self, are understood to be urging the abso-
lutte abandonment of the silver cause.
MI Bryan seems to be defying the chair
man and political leaders of his own party.
Chairman Jones has recommended to the
New York Democrats that they ignore the
silver question; Senator German has al
ready ignored it in Maryland, and John
Mclean in Ohio is trying to ignore it, even
after the State convention had made it the
chief feature of its platform. In spite of
the attitude OF these three leaders, how
ever, Nh. Bryan prances boldly to the front
and i'll a letter just published urges the
New York Democrats to make silver the
leading issue of their fight, saying: "The
issue is the life Of the party 1t now be-
comes an interesting question 10 see