Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1899-11-11
MCKINLEY AND BRYAN WORK
Review Of Political Situation by the
Philadelphia Times.
Bryan Must Carry Nebraska 70 Win The Nom
inatIOn Ohio Important 10 The PrssI-
dent-Chanetshsics.

President Mckinley and William J.
bryan are both now engaged In very
active political skirmishes TO win the
vantage ground for the great battle Of
1900. Mckinley must win Ohio to as
sure his renominstiop next year and
Bryan must win Nebraska or be rstir-
ed from the Presidential race. Both
have hard fighting before them. but
Mckinley seems to have a vastly bet
.er chance to win Ohio than Bryan has
to win Nebraska.
( Mckinley has kept his eye steadily
on the political situation and It's bear
ing upon his denomination. No man
was ever elected President who did not
want to be reelected, from Washington
down to Mckinley, and the present
journey Of the President Westward Is
simply q we'll devised movement to in
spire his party in Ohio and throughout
the West, and also to quicken the per-
sonal interest felt In his denomination
next year.
President Mckinley is one Of the few
public men who can be safely trusted
to speak from day to day and even sew
eral times day to mixed multitudes.
He Is fluent talker and careful
thinker, has abundant caution, and
seems to know Just when It Is neces
sary to say something significant, and
when to take refuge in glittering gen
eralities. In several recent speeches
he has in an epigrammatic way so
clearly defined the attitude of the Gov
eminent toward our new Spanish pos
sessions that all must credit him with
candor, and few could dissent from his
propositions. His last terse express
sion on the subject was made when he
welcomed Admiral Dewey. He said:
There was no flaw In your victory;
there will be no faltering In maintain
ing It,"
In addition to being thus equipped
for discussing public questions before
the public, he has always followed
the natural and uniform purpose OF
Lincoln to keep in the closest touch
with the people themselves. Like
Lincoln himself, he at times gets .
little astray, as ne Gid In the disGrnce-
full army and navy scandals, which
cast the only shadow upon the heroism
of the Republic in the late war, but
he Ia always likely to get right in the
end, and he 10 thus powerful cham
pion Of his own cause and of his party
In a tour such as he IL now making
among the people. He will carly Ohio,
not so much because the Republicans
Of that State believe in the domination
that the President has sustained there
az because II ID supreme necessity
to defeat the Democracy that goes be-
fore the people with the unqualified
approval Of the Chicago platform with
all its cheap money, reputation, and
agrarian features. Ohio seems likely
to carry itself, and the victory will be
for Mckinley.
Mr.. Bryan is fighting an uphill bat
tie in Nebraska. He has been a per-
sistent babbler on any and every pos
sible occasion, with or without pay,
ever since he was nominated for Presi-
dent at Chicago In 1896, and he has
very clearly proved that "he who talks
much is much mistaken" He has
spI cad his sails for every new and pop
ular breeze that came up for the mo-
ment, and thus has been for and
against the Spanish war, for and
against holding the Philippines, and
for and against making free silver the
great issue for 1900. He could carry
Nebraska easily II the people were i'm
poverished and cherishing general dis
content, as was the case three years
ago, but today the corn fields and the
wheat fields have risen up against him,
and they are hard to vanquish by poll
teal theories.
Nebraska Ia richer today than ever
in her past history. Her corn crop
alone is 100000, 900 bushels the largest
ever grown, and that means 100000
900 additional money to her farmers.
The mortgaged farmes are growing
less each day. The poorhouses Of the
State are almost tenantless. The banks
of the State have ample money de-
posted by her own people to meet all
the requirements of business, and that
means defeat to Organism. The peo-
pie of the State now we'll understand
that a man must champion a bad
cause that can win only by general
calamity among the people.
Thus the two great LADDERS of 1896
are active on the skirmish line of 1900
with every reasonable prospect that
Mckinley will win Ohio and thus fore
shadow his denomination and re-elec-
| ton, and that Bryan will lose Nebras-
ka and thus efface Organism from De-
mocracy.-Philadelphia Times.