The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1899-08-22
NOTES AND OPINIONS.

The Democrats have paid a fearful
price for their surrender to the cheap
money crusade of 1896. They are to-day
without single United States Senator or
Governor in any one of the Northern
States. There is a Populist Governor or
Senator here and there whose election was
aided by Democrats, but for the first time
in the history of the republic since De-
mocracy was successfully founded by JEFF
ferson, in 1900 there is not Democratic
Governor or United States Senator
throughout the entire North. Such is the
price paid by the Democracy for following
Bryan the hopeless. Times.
Congressman-elec DAILY continues to
make himself ridiculous, and is fast losing
friends among the people of the state.
His idiotic expression of serYility to Bob
Davis was indicative of failing manhood,
but he proved his degeneracy on Wednes
day in his speech to the farmers Of Hun
terdon county when he applauded the
Filipinos in their rebellion to United
States authority and virtually gloried in
the killing of American soldiers in the
Philippines. DAILY was ever cratic, mild
~ SO, and his vagaries were considered
rather amusing, but his late knuckling to
Davis, his servile acceptance of the kick
ing given him by Gourley, and his unpa-
triotic language regarding the efforts to
tame the unciyilized Filipinos and make
them submit to good government have es-
tranged from him large part of his Dem
ocratic following. DAILY would seem to
be done for, and he is the author of his
own undoing. - Camden Courier.
1t must be evident to any intelligent
and dispassionate observer of existing pol
itical conditions, that Mr.. Bryan couldn't
carry single state between Maine and
the Mississippi and north of the Potomac
and Ohio; and of the states between the
Mississippi and the Pacific, all that he
could reasonably hope to carry would be
Colorado, Nevada, Wyoming and possibly
Idaho and Montana. Not a single state
on the Pacific slope would cast an elector-
al vote for William ]. Bryan for Presi-
dent.
Mr.. Bryan carried the solid South in
1896 with the single exception of Ken
lucky, but next year he would be likely
to lose Kentucky, Tennessee, North Caro-
lima and West Virginia, with little more
than an even chance for Virginia, Ala
bama and Georgia There can be no re-
vulsion in the present business and indus
trial conditions within the next year to
galvanize into fitful life the cheap money
and Reputation theories of 1896, and with
both capital and labor more profitably en-
ployed than they have been at any time
since the war, William ]. Bryan as can
didate for President in 1900 would be sim
ply Bryan the hopeless PhilG. Times.
Apparently, one may, after all, have too
much of good thing. For example; At
the great shipyard of the Cramps, on the
Delaware hundreds of employees are being
discharged solely because the firm cannot
get enough iron and steel to keep them at
work
More than fifty vessels of various classes
are now in process of construction along
the Delaware; the shipyards on the Great
Lakes are crowded with business, and
work at all of them is delayed simply be-
cause the necessary iron and steel cannot
be obtained with sufficient promptness.
Although the pig iron product of the
country is now at its highest levelaver
aging almost, if not quite, 1900 900 tons
per month the supply is still far below
the demand, and other industries are
threatened with the same embarrassment
that has befallen the shipbuilders.
The situation here described is one of
the hardships of prosperity. The boom
is hitting backward, that is all The re-
action will come in good time, and it will
be healthful and wholesome, says the New
York Mail and Eaprsss, but just now we
witness the extraordinary spectacle of la
Dor being forced into idleness because of
the excessive demand for its own products
State Gazette.