The Roanoke times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1897-1977, 1897-06-08
Sill YER TO
THE FRONT.
A Significant Victory in the First
District of Missouri.
STEWART WANTS MR..
BRYAN TO PARTICIPATE IN
THE OHIO CAMPAIGN THIS
Wharf.-The REPUBLICANS EN-
TIRELY OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
FARMERS AROUSED TO THE
NEEDS OF AN AGRICULTURAL
BoUNTY-GooD ROADS PROB.
LEM.

Washington, June Especial 1.-The
result of the election in the First Con-
gressional district of Missouri, where the
only issue was the free coinage of silver
at the ratio of is to ], and the decided in
crease in the Democratic majority has
created good deal of unensiness among
the Republican leaders, who have been
loudly proclaiming the silver question
WIS settled They have asserted this so
loudly and so often that they had begun
to believe it was true, but without excep-
ton, every State in which the Democrats
have acted has adopted the .Chicago plat
form, and that, too, without any regard
to possible fusion or lack of fusion.
Senator Stewart does not believe, with
some Democratic Senators, that it will be
bad politics to have William jennings
Bryan participate in the Ohio campaign
this year. 1t has been argued that If this
Is done the campaign will be given ma
tional significance; and the Republicans
will win by getting their full vote out on
that account.
"You cannot avoid the fact that the
campaign 10 national whether Mr.. Bryan
goes there, or not." said Senator Stew
art. 1.-The mere fact.that Mark Hanna
is candidate makes it a national cam
palgn, for the association of this man
with the President, his control of him,
makes him national figure, and one too
who might be overwhelmingly defeated.
For one, [ believe in making this cam.
paign national. would make them all
national, and compel every constable to
run on n free coinage platform. The only
way to conduct the elections is to have
the people know that, at all times and
under all conditions, the one dominant
question is the issue before them when
they come to cast their votes.''
Another matter which gives the Repup
licans great uneasiness is the lack of any
other issue. The tariff will ce out of the
way by the time the next Condgress is
elected; they realize that the administra-
ton is on the wrong side of the Cuban
question; and they are Mt loss where to
look for an issue except silver; and the
leaders have given orders to treat that as
finally settled by the election last No
vember.
Thus the Republicans are left entirely
on the defensive. They can only defend
the autucratic course of Speaker Reed,
and the waste of time and money during
this special session, the delay in reorgan-
izing' Cuba, and the failure of business to
revive as it was promised it would during
the last campaign are all subjects that
must be explained The Republicans ure
placed on the defensive from the start,
and the prospects are that the Fifty-siXth
Congress will have the largest silver ma
jority ever known in that body.
The Republican leaders at first made
fun of the farmers bounty amendment
to the tariff bill, but they have ceased be.
ing humorous over it, and now regard it
very seriously. David Lubin has been
quietly at work upon the matter for
about ten years; and has aroused the far
mers throughout the United States pretty
thoroughly. The benefits of bounties are
illustrated from reports of United States
consuls as To the success achieved in Ger
many, France, Russia and British Colo.
MES under the bounty system. Every ar.
gument used for the protection CT manu-
features Is fitted to the protection of farm
products; and great care has been taken
to incorporate nothing except the princi-
Piles laid down by Republican leaders. To
fight the proposition is to openly admit
that the Republican party is opposed to
any measure to benefit the farmers, while
to grant the bounty would be to increase
prices of farm products and thus lose the
laboring vote in the cities. 1t is an I'M
comfortable dilemma. The amendment
will be defea ted; but the Republicans are
very uneasy about the effect the defeat
Will have on the next election. The
dlfference in belief between the Republic
cans from the East and those from the
WesI is SO marked that it threatens a
sectional fight within party lines, and the
farmers bounty amendment will increase
the trouble
1t is quite probable that the sugar
schedule in the Senate will be laid over
until the tariff bill is practically COM
pleted, just as it was in the committee.
Several reasons are assigned for this &C
tion. Senator Aldrich, in charge of the
bill, is confined to his room by illness,
which, though not at oil serious, may
keep him out of the chamber two Or three
days'and compel him to take little
rest Several of the Senators also wish
to attend the Nashville exposition at tie
same time the President goes.
The m pre- potent reason, however, APP
pears to be the BELIEF that, with every
thing else out of the road better headway
can be made on this schedule, the exact
form of which has not yet been agreed
upon. 1T Is no longer a secret that the
managers of the bill in the Senate intend
to pull this schedule back into the com
mttee room for repairs. They have made
very careful canvass of the Senate, and
nnt' that they cannot get it through in
its present shape. There is no doubt
that, in its present temper, both the
House and the Senate, by very comfort
able majority, are opposed to the substi-
tuition of ad valorem rates in this sched-
ule, and that the fight is to be made
against them bitterly
Republican leaders Sin the House have
condemned this schedule more than any
other provision in the bill, and have