The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-11-14

, served upon him. To not one of the
more commanding commonwealths was
he indebted for Endorsement. Where
schools are scarce and race prejudice
| rampant, he made a fine showing at the
polls. Ignorance and passion made com
mon cause with him. The Massachusetts
majority against him was more than two
hundred thousand. This out of a total
vote of less than twice as much. There
are many schools in Massachusetts,
The announcement quoted is an intima-
ton to the effect that Bryan looks upon
himself as having been engaged in per-
petuity. 1t serves notice that his pur-
suit of the presidency has become pur-
suit. For more than three years the man
has been seeking the office His candi-
dacy has become chronic. 1t will end if
not at the White House when the lid
closes over his coffin. If he has any other
business, it Is that of a lecturer. Even
as a lecturer, however, his chase of the
presidency will be kept in mind. His
topics will be chosen with due reference
to the main purpose of his life. Nor
can it be doubted that his profession as
an aspirant will contribute to the receipts
at the box office. To that extent, there
fore, he will be making a living out of
his candidacy. 1t is an addition to the
list of professions. 1t has no duplicate
in the history of national politics. The
Nebraskan now monOpolizes a class He
has no rival in his line of business. His
advantages are obvious. While others
are passive he is active. While others
others remain at home he hurries from
state to state, placing party leaders I'M
der obligations for service rendered,
dauntlesS, determined and never to be
disheartened. And the country has be-
come so well accustomed to it that it
would be rather lonely otherwise.
There never has been a time when
Bryan was not delighted with the out
look. He was especially pleased with the
situation in 1S96-before election Then
he predicted that with the assistance of
the cross of gold, his party would carry
every state in the Union. 1t lost few.
This year he is as delighted as ever
Asked for his opinion concerning the re-
suit of the recent elections, he dictated
this dispatch: THE elections have shown
a decreasing confidence in the republican
policy. and a growing opposition to all
for which that party stands, which will
result in the overthrow of the republican
policy in 1900"
The only evidence of decreasing conf
dence worth considering is a decreasing
vote If, as the World Showed yesterday,
the recent elections had been for presi-
dent in all the states the distribution of
electoral college votes would have been:
republican ZS5; democratic, 1872. McKin-
ley's lectoral college majority was IS;
mad he been running this year it would
nave been 12S. In the teeth of this fact,
TB4 ryap dde,o of no dispute whatever
denced diminishing faith in the policy OF
| the government. The proof positively
palpable and palpably positive, is of in
creasing, not decreasing, approval Do
facts cease to be facts when they are
dropped into a Nebraskan vocabulary
The truth, the whole truth and nothing
put the truth, is that not only was the
truth ignored in the dispatch but that
that which is not the truth was deliber-
ately set forth. In short, the Nebraskar
| is a-candidate
He is also quite expensive He has
| cost democracy its supremacy wherever
results are influenced by discussion Com.
| pare the position of the party now witt
| Its situation in the corresponding year be-
| fore Cteyelands election One year before
| the presidential fight of 1892 the demo.
| Gratis carried New York New Jersey, Il
| linois, Indiana and many other states
since alienated by the "fatuous and fata
| fallacy of silver.H This year they carried
| Maryland. Mississippi, Nebraska and Vir.
ginia This year they lost Iowa, Ken
| lucky. Massachusetts, New jersey, New
| York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and South Da.
| kota. That is to say, never under more
to strip for the national fray. This is the
| record of the fatuous, the fallacious. anC
| the futile up to date. This is the Bryar
| balance on the democratic ledger the
| debit side. Not hat in hand will he stanC
| at the door of the next convention He
| will be there demanding what he ha.
| come to regard as his own, with strength
| enough to rule and not enough strength
| for anything but ruin.
He will be there playing the Little Ole
Man of the Sea to the partys Sinbad. the
/ Sailor and knowing not that those whC
| do too much do worse than nothing.
Meanwhile richer in words than matter
| and with mint of phrases in his brain
| ne Will go on converting night into noon
| gloom into glitter, shadow into sunshin,
and tribulation into triumph And by tht
| party the interminable piper must b,
| paid