Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1897-08-19
BRYAN's OCCUPATION GONE.
Richmond Times.

IelCuluOhO AuSsi
The newspapers are noting that the
Hon. VIM. j. Bryan has not recently
made speech. The explanation is easy.
The tide of prosperity that has now set in
has struck the Nebraskan dumb, and re-
ports from his own State are among the
most Encouraging that we have seen in
print.
MIR. w. H. Crary, real estate dealer OF
Omaha, Nebraska, and formerly president
of a Democratic club there, is in Washing
tan, and the Post of yesterday reports Mr..
Crazy as follows:
Nebraska has produced an enormous
amount of wealth in the last two years,
said Mr.. Crazy, who proceeded to quote
figures about the S50,0OO,0 O0-bushels
corn crop-75,OOO, 900 bushels more
than the phenomenal crop, and 25,-
600, OOO-bushel crop of other small
grains. The hard times of last year
seem to have been godsend to
the farmers, for most of the two years
crops of corn is still in their hands and
commands good prices, If they had been
able to sell last year they would be much
worse off now financially"
Mr.. Crary says the State is starting out
on a phenomenal boom, and quotes his
authority for the statement. Omaha Ii
soon to have 500-ton beet sugar plant
connected with glucose factory that will
use 10000 bushels of corn a day.
''There were never so many cattle in toe
State as to-day" added Mr.. Craly. "They
are being finished for the market by the
farmers, who are slow in selling their corn
outright. For feeding cattle corn is worth
upwards of 80 cents a bushel. We have
had ample rains, aud Nebraska is the best
looking agricultural State in the Union.
Farmers can borrow plenty of money to
buy feeding cattle. Since January LIST.
$40 ,00O,0 900 of mortgage Indebtedness has
been paid in the State. Populism and
Organism are, therefore, on the wane, and
the Representatives of those ideas ere
ceasing to feel that they can legislate
money into their pockets.
Mr.. Bryan was peculiarly product OF
bard times. If it had not been for the
panic of 1898 and the period Of depression
that followed it, there would have been
no free silver campaign, which made Mr..
Bryan what he is. The ebb tide of pros
perity, contradictory as it may seem, We
to Mr.. Bryan vertiable food tide, upo,
which he rode on to fortune and to fame
The tide has now turned, however, and 6
prosperity flows in, Mr.. Bryan's tide is
necessarily on the ebb.
Several months ago, Mr. Bryan We
progressing through the country, jocularly
asking every man he saw if he had yet
met the General" and being erked
"what General would reply General
Prosperity" Mr. Bryan chuckled over his
joke, and seemed to enjoy it most heartily
though it was anything but amusing to
those who had not made so much as he
had out of the period of depression. But
Mr.. Bryan now sees the General approach
ing and with every stride forward, Mr.
Bryan retire3 farther o1d farther into the
background, and is silent.
The march of progress docs not make
music for Mr.. Bryan's ears. He he's fat
tened on calamity and hence prosperity
means everlasting retirement for Mr.
Bryan from the field of national politics
We do dot mean to speak harshly. We
state the simple facts as we understand
them. If this country is prosperous ii
1900 as there S now, every indication thai
it will be, every sensible man knows that
free silver and Organism will be an impos
sib!e issue Bryan without free silver is
dead.