The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-11
THE ISSUES AND THE CANDIDATES

THE ISSUES AND THE CANDIDATES.
II is quite generally agreed that Mr.
Bryan and Mr.. Mckinley will be the presi-
dental candidates OF their respective par
ties next year. Mr. Bryan is easily the
most popular Democrat In the country. and
Mr.. Mckinley appears TO have the ap-
prevail of nis party What will the is
sues be?
The New York Journal. which says that
1t is heart and soul Democratic paper,
aud which is a staunch supporter of Mr.
Bryan, in its comments on Tuesdays cleo
lions, says:
It is said now that The Republican ma
jority in Ohio will reach or exceed 30. 600.
The democracy has been beaten down in
Iowa, in Kansas. In South Dakota in
Massachusetts. In New Jersey in Ken.
lucky and in this state outside Of the me-
trop3s. The only states in which there
has been Democratic encouragement have
been Nebraska, which was carried by the
enormous personal popularity OF Mr.
Bryan, and Maryland, where the admins
tration was warned months ago by Re
publican leaders that its persistent perse-
cuton of Admiral Schley would bring on
Republican defeat.
WnFT
ever live Democratic issue, like that Ct
the trusts was made prominent If Hanna
had been able TO cover the whole OF Ohio
with his trust-praising speeches he might
have given the state TO Mclean. But he
could not. ard where he wns kept in rea-
sonable obscurlty the American feeling on
the subject of national expansion had full
sway.
The New York World, which claims 10
be Democratic paper, sees nothing in the
elections comforting to the Democratic
party. 1t regards the defeat last Tues
day as a greater one than that of 1896
It's points out that in 1890 and 1891 the
Democrats carried Connecticut. Illinois
Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan, New
York, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Wis
consin, having a total of l43 electoral votes
an these states being Northern except
Maryland. Therefore the success of the
Democratic party in 1892 was practically
assured. 1t calls attention to the fact that
all of these states this year and last. ex-
cept Maryland, went Republican, and that
Maryland was recovered by the Democrats
because they dropped free silver and made
the fight on local issues. In the course
of its comments 1t says:
The elections mean a victory for impe-
rialism in a majority of the states vot-
ing. There is neither honesty nor profit
in denying this. They mean also a triumph
for Mr.. McKinley-but a triumph that
was made easy by Mr. Bryan and his
friends In thrusting again to the front at
the beginning of the campaign the futile
and fatal fallacy of free silver and the
thrice-condemned Chicago platform.
According to the Journal therefore, the
Democrats cannot win the national cleo
ton next year if they make anti-expan-
sion one of the planks of their platform
and according to the World they cannot
win If they again push free silver to the
front. Neither of them, ii seems, thinks
that Mr. Bryans victory in Nebra ska
counts for much, because 1t was due to
his personal popularity, which would NOT
be as effective in a national as in a state
election. Both seem to think. however.
that the antitrust issue Is popular one.
There Is some truth in what these papers
say. While the people may not desire to
make permanent possession of the
Philippines, they are undoubtedly in favor
of asserting their right to the islands.
They may consent to give the Filpinos
self-government to an almost unlimited
extent when prepared for it, but they in
tend apparently to control the commerce
of the islands and to utilize them in get
ting fair share of the commerce of
China and other countries of the Far
East This appears to be the growing
sentiment of the South, and apparently IL
is the dominating sentiment of the North.
The free silver issue is stilI live one.
but Is there as strong a feeling in favor
of free silver as there was in 1896? II
is quite certain there is not. Efforts
were made by the Democrats to keep sill
yer In the background in some of the
states in the recent campaigns.
At present therefore, it looks as IL the
antitrust issue were the one the Demo.
cratic party ought to rely upon chiefly In
the campaign next year. THE tariff. 81
said an eminent Republican recently. 81,
the mother of trusts" Let the tariff issu.
be brought forward again. On the issue
| OF a tariff for revenue only, the Demo
cratic party has won great victories, ant