The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1899-11-17
NORTHERN OPINION AS TO THE
RECENT ELECTIONS.


The recent elections really look ON
nous for the safety of our country and
the long perpetuation of free govern
ment here. Mckinley, gold and I'M
perialiSt candidate received las electo-
raj votes, and Bryan and a constitu-
tional limited goyernment-one of the
people-received 81 votes. If this pro-
portion were to be continued in 1900,
then the downfall of the is
only a question Of time. We have no
idea that all the states that voted last
week will vote the same way in 1900.
But most of them will doubtless. We
confess We do not like appearances.
The signs are not propitious for a re-
public and the people Even so earn
est an opponent of expansion" as the
New York Evening Post is comedies
that the vote was an Endorsement OF
that movement of the Mckinley gang.
II Endorsed a great increase OF taxation.
a vast piling up of h expenditures.
h probability of a great menacing
standing army, the reinforcement of
gold, the reputation of the ~constitu-
Eon as a e letter and the contempt
uous rejection of the glory of .sur fore
fathers, the Declaration of 1Edepen-
dence- The present war expenditures
are nearly three times as great as the
total expenditures were to carry on the
government for three years under Pres
dcIl JdIiIcS buc1dIldl DSiOTe the gTe2r
war began.
The Brooklyn On. W Eagle. goldbug
democrat, says the nation has voted
for gold and for expansion in so far as
IT voted on those questions ait all. The
net result is for them. AS between Nc
kinley and Bryan, TO the degree they
We're in the thought of men. the first
was Endorsed and the second was re-
jected. To the extent to which the
Ky QllPtInnC fnrQnnC+ chose Of 1nlG Hhz
significance of Tuesdays contests is
unmistakable." In looking over the
opinions of SO called democratic papers
in the north they seem to be as we'll
pleased at the results of the election
as the most cantankerous organ of i'm
perialism and gold could possibly be.
The organs were tickled
much at h victory for little McKin-
ley. If there are any important dailies
in the north that are not with the re-
publicanS On finance, foreign ~conquests,
etc, they are unknown to us. They are
all tarred with the same stick. All
are happy together. There is very lit
tile if any p~erceptible difference, in al
legged democratic organs and indigo
blue republican organs. Some little
difference in some as to a high tariff.
They could all belong to the same party
without much, if any, sacrifice of prin-
ciple. Even the rabid silver New York
Journal has deserted the flag under
which 1T fought in 1896. The north is
seemingly almost n as ito the policy
of the present absurd and weak ad-
ministration. The New York World
that opposed Bryan and silver in 1896,
is very free in it's deliverances now.
Looking at the meaning of the cleo
lions of last week, it says:
I'm the elections Of this year and last
the democrats have lost all of these
states save Maryland-which has just
been recovered by dropping free sill
yer and the Chicago platform and max
ing a fight on local issues with sound
money candidates..
How stands the comparison with
1896? Mr.. Bryan was beaten by a ma
jOrity of 50 in the total numbers of
electors. He has lost since then, of the
former republican states carried by flu
sion, Kansas, South Dakota, Washing
ton and Wyoming. The first two vot-
ing this year, have greatly increased
their republican majorities Of 1898. All
are irretrievably lost ITO fusion, with
their 81 electoral votes.
"Of the former democratic states lost
by Mr.. Bryan in 1S96-COnnecticut,
Delaware, Indiana, Kentucky, Mary
land, New jersey. New York and West
Virginia-al remain in the control of
the republicans except Maryland,
which was carried by the democrats
this year in the manner already ex-
planned. There is no reason to doubt
that it would be lost again next year
upon the free silver issue. The fourth
successive republican victory in the
formerly rock-ribbed democratic state
Of New Jersey is most significant"
If the representations of gold or
sans n republican organs, and mug
wump organs, for OF against imperial.
ism on6 cn-ooJ1a6 dam orotio
count for any thing, the country will
go for Mckinley and his gang in q
whoop. Take the New York Times
rather claiming to be a democrat, but
| for expansion and gold and Mckinley
as much as the New York Tribune is
for them, says this:
The truth is now made plainly evi.
dent that upon the great question o.
h day, the policy of the administra
ton in our new possessions, Bryan has
set himself against the beliefs of tht
American people. They condemn him
they sustain the president. An unmis-
taxable forecast of next years election
may be read in the returns this morn.
ing. That sure prophecy of coming
the field unless his supporters are will
ling to incur the odium of putting il
nomination a candidate already visibl,
foredoomed to defeat"
This is the view of an able neWspa.
per that opposed Bryan and silver witt
great bitterness, hat is aggressively
vigorous for foreign conquests, that il
really a republican paper at bottom
whatever its p~retentions otherwise. /
is a fair exponent of opinion nov
among the dailies Of the north, unles.
it be in New England where there ar,
a few Independent and perhaps a hal
dozen democratic papers that antago
nize McKinley's foreign tongues
scheme.
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