The age-herald., 1899-06-25
BY NED BRACE

fails he is just that kind of a democrat to admit his defeat and go to work enthusias- tieally to elect the nominee of his party. Indeed, l would not be surprised to see next democratic ticket Bryan and Sehley, and to see German one of the managers of the campaign committee, if not it's chair man. German believes that Mckinley can be defeated next time. but he believes the democrats must carry New York to do it. As to Maryland, he believes any democrat can carry that state, because of the indig- nation of its people against the present administration, owing to the manner in which it has treated Schley.
 Yet the friends and admirers of William Jennings Bryan must not forget for an in- stant, that however little German may say, he would defeat Bryan for the nomination If he could It is, however, practically a sure thing that when the democratic con- Vention meets next year Bryan will have solid delegations from every state south of Mason and DiXons line, including Missouri with the possible exception of Kentucky and from every state west of the Misss- sppi river; and it is possible that he will have the delegation from New York Bryan is many times stronger in New York than he was four years ago.. Of course if Judge Van Wyck becomes a candidate he will get the New York delegation, but Van Wyck is too shrewd a man to go be- fore the democratic convention unless he can see prospect of the nomination.
 
 Alfred Henry Lewis is making the very best democratic publication in America out of "The Verdict" This Is the paper that Lewis and Oliver H. P. Belmont are publishing in New York. It is in the nature of a weekly, illustrated magazine printed on the order of Puck and Judge, and is one of the cleverest publications of this character ever issued in this country. In the last edition Lewis pays his respects to Mark Hanna and tells interestingly how it was that Mckinley was elected presi- dent. Of that MT. Lewis says:
 "While one is thus pleasantly diseursive of a past-foul with the fraud-engenderinS money of that grocer of office, Hanna-it Is well to note that the presidency was stolen, stolen by bribes and lies, from Bryan. When the door is locked and the kings of republicansm relax with glass and gossip, not one denies it. There is general free admission of the crooked methods of Mckinley's White House con- ing, and gIanna has much praise therefore as a fashion of born Fagin of the parties; and in good soothi Hanna receives these plaudits with tacit blushes, as one who comedies his worth odestly. There were vote-swindling and poll-frauds in Ken lucky, in Maryland, in Ohio, in Indiana, in Michigan, in Illinois, in Iowa, right here in New York. With honest returns, Bryan would have beaten Mckinley in the cleo toral college by as many votes as Mc<in- ley-when the villainy was done-had over him. No one weepeth over split milk or purse in the hands of the pickpocket But when such political Bill Sykes as Hanna begins to feature his patriotism and pure morality of place and power and talks of what the public owes him. it's time for some Prescott, or some Bancroft, or some Gibbon, Grote or Macauley to put a neb on his pen. There were frauds of registra- ton and frauds of count in 1S96 They were planned and the ropes all laid months in advance. It cost SIS, 100000 to beat Bryan; for which assertion, Whitney-who collect