Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-08-10

cor, historian and lecturer, Marse Henry
Watterson, recognizes the inevitable,
and in an interview which he thought
Of sufficient consequence 10 give 10 the
Associated Press in advance declares
that Bryan is the predestined candidate
of the Democracy in 1900. OF course
Marse Henry is very fearful ON account
Of this great calamity, as he sees II, but
the fact remains that he does see it and
has sense enough to say 50. As Marse
Henry is now supporting tooth and nail
the Hon. William Goebel and the entire
Democratic ticket in Kentucky the
chances are that in 1900 he win wipe
his weeping eyes and jump from the
humble position Of private in the rear
rank Of the Democratic army, which
be voluntarily assumed in 1898, to the
very head Of the Bryan hosts in 1900.
Return Of the ProdigaIs.
We expect Marse Henry to be the
drum major of that great procession to
the White House. Yet another distin-
guished prodigal is showing unmistak-
able indications Of an intention to re-
turn TO the fold That is the Hon John
De Witt Warner. have always been
exceedingly fondof Watterson and have
a great deal Of admiration and personal
friendship for Warner. On the Fourth of
July the latter delivered q speech in
Brooklyn, in which he took occasion to
make some rather pointed remarks
about McHanna and McHannaism. he
ripped them up Che back and down in
'front.' scalped and tomahawked them in
the most approved fashion Of q wild
and woolly westerner. He did not de-
clare for Bryan and Bryanism, bat he
did declare most empSatically that he
was most thoroughly sick of Mckinley
and McKinleyism Jerry Simpson in
his worst estate never gave them such
a drubbing "a Warner did As there is
no sort Of hope for repentance on the
part Of the Mckinley gang and as
Warner, like Collins ram, Is most en-
phatically a man Of his own head, /
take II that his Brooklyn performance
Is really his first long ktep toward a rec
onciliation with genuinl Democrats.
fervently hope that thls Is trues for
John DO Witt Warner Is man Of SPLEEN
did capacity, perfect integrity, great
courage and in the very flower Of his
years. He Ia honestly a single gold
standard man. He is also honestly an
out and out free trader. / hope that in
the end he loves his country and his
kind better than he does the single gold
standard and that he will return to his
first love. l heard a very wise Repub-
hcan say once, and | believe it to be
true: Democracy is a constitutional
disease. If a man ever has 1t once, it is
liable 10 break out ON him again at any
time. In my Judgment Henry Waiter
son and John DE Witt Warner were 50
thoroughly inoculated with Democracy
in their youth that they must in the
very nature of things nolens volens,
return to the Democratic party. They
must forever feel like strangers in the
Republican camp
Tammany's Cheers.
And Byran is dead, is hei And free
silver is dead, is 1T If so, will the wise
men Of the east please inform us how II
happened that one James s. Hogg, erst-
while governor Of the imperial com
monwealth Of Texas, managed to create
such a terrific uproar at Tammany on
the Fourth How Hogg, who was down
for a short speech, Just to fll up the
programme, don't you know, happened
in Eve minutes % get more applause
than all the rest put togethers If Hogc
had been ON for a long speech, no tell
ing what would have happened How
did he do i'll Simply by declaring in
the Tammany lair for William Jennings
B~ryan-who we are solemnly told is
dead-for president and for free silver
at 10 TO / rs the issuel But let the
aforesaid Jeemes not jump at the con
clusion that Tammany cheers mean
Tammany votes They cheered me lust
lily once upon q time-to wit, July 4,
1898. when ] made a free silver speech,
very much to their surprise, in the teeth
Of Cleveland and his new administra-
tion, and nearly every Tammany con-
gresham has been voting for every
goldbug measure over since. But Hogg
did well TO thus serve notice on the
goldbugs Of what we intend to do, and
that Is t~orenominate Bryan on the Chi
cago platform with such new planks as
are deemed proper and elect him svheth-
er Tammany likes II or not Having
cut our eastern leading strings and
kicked of a swaddling clothes at Chi
csgo in 1898, We the genuine Demo
Gratis, propose to run the circus 10 suit
ourselves As those eastern Solomons
never read western and southern papers
30 as to know what Is happening, Hogg
did right 10 knock the scales of Of their
eyes
New H~ampshire's Warring Senators.
have never been employed as either
the spiritual or legal adviser Of New
England philosophers and reformers
nevertheless l make bold 10 suggest that
for q few moments they cease from
their efforts 10 make the Cubans and
Porto Ricans give up bullfghting and
expend their surplus energy and piety
on New Hampshire. Most assuredly, II
the public press L 10 be believed, that
ancient and rock ribbed commonwealth
Il IN q bad way, which I regret exceed
ingiy, for Daniel Webster, fondly called
'the godlike'' at n period Of bis ca
rer and wrathfulIy dubbed sIchabod"
At another, was born there. and the
spot where that intellectual Titan frst
saw the light must forever remain en-
object Of intense interest everywhere
Not long since the governor Of New
Hampehire-a Republican governor Of
reliably Republican state-astonished
the world By declaring unequivocally
In print that religion wa on The decline
In the old Grants Stats-in fact that
u was entirely played out-auagaspielt
lin many parts Thereof That startling
proposition was denied and affirmed
fociferously. such - uproar was Great
Cd that movements were sct on foot IN
The mining eamp~ and upon the ranches
q The wild and wooiiy west 10 sad mis-.
nonariea 10 New Hampehire
The other day 20 event happened In
Concord the capital Of New Hampshire
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