The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1897-10-07
POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS.

POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS.
BY a CONTRIBUTOR.
PROSPERITY and business activity
began the moment a Republican
President and a protective Congress
was elected. Was it mere ''luck='
THERE is something of a contrast
between conditions under the Mckin-
ley administration and those under
the Cleveland administration. 1t is
but a short time since President
Cleveland was selling bonds to bring
gold into the Treasury, while now the
Mckinley administration is actually
rejecting offers of gold which come to
it from various parts Of the country.
THE iron and steel industry is uni
versally recognized as a faithful ba-
rometer of trade, and the activity in
that line is telling the story of present
business conditions. Rolling mills,
steel plants, and furnaces generally
are actually rushed with orders, and
what is of great significance is the
fact that the enormous demand is
perfectly legitimate and without the
slightest tinge of speculation. Rail
roads, manu- cturers, and builders
are all busy, and when they are busy
there is a demand for iron and steel.
UNLESS Chairman Jones and Sen
ator German can make it appear that
the mails of the United States should
be open to defeated presidential can
didates, they will be unsuccessful in
their efforts to suppress Mr.. Bryan.
They have squeezed him out of New
York, and frozen him out of Maryland
and Ohio, but he is now firing at
those targets at long range by United
States mail and by some mysterious
process managing to get the letters i'll
print and his name before the public
despite the efforts of the leaders of
his party to cage him.
THE mad rush of the leaders of the
late Popocracy for Il new issue to take
tie place of the exploded silver the
DRY has resulted in the nomination of
Henry George for Mayor Of Greater
New York by a large element Of the
Democratic party Of that city. Mr..
George, as is we'll known, is the chief
apostle of the single-taX idea, and his
nomination by a large element of the
party i'll that city strengthens the be-
lief which has been growing for
months that the leaders of that party
would adopt the single-taX theory to
take the place of the discarded free
silver proposition OF last year.
THE jingo policy on the Cuban ques-
tion which was urged upon President
Mckinley as soon as he was inaugur-
ated President is now seen to have
been an unwise and unsafe one, and
the wisdom of the Presidents course
of action is meeting with popular
approval. 1t is now apparent from
the developments since Minister
Woodford's arrival in Spain that the
attitude of the administration will be
such as to bring about termination
of the troubles in Cuba, and i'll a way
which viii avoid the criticism which
would have surely followed the pre-
ciDitate action urged by many people
Immediately after the inauguration
Of the President. Those who We're in
clincd to criticise what they consider
eG the slow progress Of the President,
now see that his course was the wise
one.
EX-CANDIDATK Bryan seems to be
OF the impression that he and silver
are THE Democratic party. Despite
the fact that such time-honored and
experienced leaders as Senator Cor
man and Chairman Jones and others,
W lio NClC tlCb4NN III lICAhAlNtlI lIiI ''N-
fore Bryan was born, have urged the
abandonment Of the silver issues in
New York, Mr.. Bryan has written a
letter urging just the reverse of this.
In that letter he insists that the Dem
ocrats of Greater New York should,
and indeed must indorse the national
platform, which, of course, means the
free-and unlimited coinage of silver
at-the-ratio-of- of-1G to- / = without the
c0rsent-or- corporations of-any-
nation; also the denomination of Will
liam Jennings Bryan in the year of
our Lord particularly the latter.
1t is understood in inner Democratic
circles that there are few Democrats
in New York city and State who are
inclined to the opinion that the iudg-
ment of such men as Mr.. German,
Chairman Jones, Ex-Governor Boies
and other men of long experience is
quite as valuable as that of the Boy
Orator of the Platte. What will be