The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-07-17
THE ISSUES OF 1896 WILL Be THE ISSUES
OF 1900.

| convention, Governor AltSelu ueclaTeu
| that Bryan was kept out of the White
| House by gross frauds. 'Mr. Clevc'
! land" said Ex-Governor Altgeld, scar
| ried Kentucky in 1892 by 10000 MAORI
ty. In 1896 our candidate for the Presi-
| dency received nearly $4,000 more votes
than Mr.. Cleveland got, and yet the
State was counted for Mckinley. Mr..
! Cleveland carried Indiana by 1000 ma
jority. Our candidate in 1896 received
| $4,000 more votes than did Cleveland,
yet the State was counted for McKin.
| ley"
| Even if we have pcstilcncc and fam
| inc added to war, nothing can blot out
bribery and corruption thwartcd the will
of the people in 1896. That crime must
never be forgotten nor forgiven. Mr..
| Bryan and Mr.. Tilden are two Presi
| dents who were elected and cheated out
of it. Mr.. Tidcn had enough money
to prevent shc frauds and bribery that
tribunal unknown to our government he
was frauduenty kept out of his office.
If he and his party had been wise enough
to renominate the old ticket in 1880,
and charged fraud, it would have been
avenged. The party will be wise
enough in 1900 to profit by that mis-
take, and in addition to the justice of
the Chicago platform and Bryan's
popularity, the party will be aided by an
exposure of the frauds of 1896, the con
troll of legislation by the men who
bought the election, and the failure to
redeem every promise made during the
campaign.
There is a popular error lin supposing
that the war will keep Mckinley in
the White House. 1t may help the
party this year, and would help it very
much but for the mismanagement by
Secretary Alger and the sons of their
daddies whose incompetence has entailed
untold sufferings on the brave volunteers.
The shrewd Republican politicians see
that they have but little to hope from
the war except in 1898, and they are
trying to secure a division of party lines
upon the new problem that the country
must solve at the conclusion of the war.
If possible they will postpone their so
luton until after the election in 1900,
as they sought to postpone the war
until September. Other forces are ut
work, however, and if the war is brought
to a close before the Fall, as is almost
certain, the Congress that meets in De-
cember will have to determine our re-
| lationship to Cuba, Porto Rico and The
| Philippine Islands. When that relation
| ship is once settled, it will be settled,
and will afford no campaign issue.
TIE Democrats are too wise, even ii
| there should remain an open question i'll
| 1JuO. to let the Republicans make for
| eign relations the paramount issue in
the campaign. The votes in Congress Oh
| the Hawaiian question showed a divi-
| sion in the Democratic party-a division
which Mr.. Bailey unwisely sought to
| curb by caucus action. 1t was fortunate
| that he failed, for such action would
| have tended to help the Republicans
make annexation or Imperialism the
A..
| paign. There are Democrats, who are
| opposed to silver. anxious to let the
| campaign be waged on Imperialism or re-
| publicanism. All these will be disap-
! pointed, for there is no such division be-
tween the parties upon how to dispose
| of the islands acquired as to make it an
issue. 1t will be necessary to wait until
/ the Mckinley administration has acted
before there can be IA defined difference
| as to policies, even il it were wise tC
/ give IA temporary issue first place.
/ The islands in question will be an
nexed, given home rule, or returned tt
Spain long before 1900. While the
| American people are interested to SEE
that no un-American policy of imperial
ism is entered upon, they are much, more
vitality interested in destroying the un
American financial policy that rObs th,
producers for the enrichment of the idle
hoarders Of idle wealth.
The American people, under repubi
| can form of government, saw the cleo
ton bought and paid for by men wht
had pecuniary interest in keeping il
force the policies that have brought
| want into thousands of homes by Their
unjust opera tons; that have multiplied
mIilionaires; that have turned the tsca
| policy Of government over to syndicates
that have under form of law permitted
| the strong to rob the weak The wal
| taxes and the wholly unnecessary wal
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