Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-19
HAT THEY ARE DOING
Affairs 0flowa People Taking Place In Iowa
Towns.

aIdlSSlSs spinal meningitis ana eczema,
That object -lesson is so recent that, al
tho the memory OF the populace Is pro-
verbally short. the people will hardly
want any more demo. tariffs. Once Is
enough for me- The blow almost
killed father-and everybody else.
And, then, Bryan is not Cleveland.
and does not In 1900 have the confidence
of his party as Grover had it in 1892.
Because he lacked that measure of par
ty confidence in 96 he was badly
beaten
Boiling is ominous. It was so In
Blaine's case. Paper after paper, pub
lie men OF influence one after the other
assailed him Just after his nomination..
1t looked fatal, and so 1t proved. There
was no such revolt in Cleveland's case,
either time. But the mutiny against
Bryan in '96 was tremendous. The east
and middle west seeded from him. 1t
was enough to Jar the teeth and secre-
tions all out of man and out of a
party The revolt is on again, bigger
than ever. Conservative business men
profoundly distrust Bryan, and fear the
effect of what he might do or try to do,
IL he had one house of congress with
him, as he would have IL the We're
elected.
Nor is the cup Bryan offers as seduc-
tive as 1t was four years ago. Indeed.
there isn't much in that cup now but
dregs and grounds and debris, the
wrecks of all the pTophesies he made
four years ago. But when he first Of
fered this Schooner" in a time of
panics and wholesale failures and uni
yersal distress, and confidently offered
| 1t as q panacea for all the public woes
that We're so grievous. folks stood
around with their eyes bulging like
Idragon-fiies' eyes, their mouths water
ing, smacking their lips and licking
their chops, and sucked everything the
eloquent poet told them about his magi-
cal and miraculous liquor. Free silver,
Is to 4! Lots of them actually believed
Uncle Sam, by some hocus pocus of a
divine dispensation, was going to give
them silver: give 'em SIG for every 81
they could scare up! For a month or so
after Poet Rryan's cross of gold speech
| it looked as If his cup of tipple or booze
would so intoxicate the populace that
lthey would follow him as the rats fol-
lowed the Pied Piper of Hamelin. not
withstanding the revolt OF the conserv-
deal alike. But you can play or sing a
tune until it is perfectly maddening.
and you want to kill the performer.
And when liquor goes stale,O my.
That's what's happened to Bryan's
Gree cup: Its contents are flatter than
tdish-water; 1t is mere slop now. and
even hogs have choice in slops.
1t is not now as it was in &c. when
millions We're in distress and in debt.
and Bryan's proposition to cut the doll
I lar in two seemed TO promise to cut
debts in the middle. That dream Is
over. No one Is SO ignorant as to be-
ilieve that any more. Since then, money
has multiplied. and interest has fallen
low. Contrary to all of Bryan's prophe-
\ sizes. prices OF products. and wages.
nave risen, and millions on millions OF
mortgages have been paid Off. So that
the silver hook, baited with repuka-
ton, is no longer seductive Convinc-
4 ing proof of that is the fact that the
Kansas City convention wanted TO UNI
| load silver, say nothing about it, and.
when Bryan said no. tucked it away OF
in dark boot and shoe closet In the
4 platform, and shouted "imperialism is
the paramount issue."
All in vain The commercial world.
that favors and hats ..expansion," In
the interest of markets and of foreign
trade,--expansion ne(,sssfated by the
fortune of the wal, and by the Paris
treaty that secured the fruits Of that
war.--our commercial world, composed
lof manufacturers. agriculturists and
traders, refuses to be scared by the silly
Ecry of "imperialism,i but does take
| fright at the renewed menace Of tam
pering with the currency, and nothing
can convince that world that the bogy
Of imperialism is the para mount is-
sue, for 1t knows that scotched. but not
killed. Is to I is the real issue and is
the thing that is to be fought to the
death in this campaign.
This economic heresy or vagary has
made no new friends in the past four
years, but it has lost hundreds OF
Ithousands-else the Is. C. convention
would not have hankered to dropit.
We repeat, the chances favor the
Republlcans. But the outs want to be
Inns, And there are a whole lot of EN-,
and they'll be even more strenuous"
than Roosevelt would like them to be.
Yet. full vote will keep the outs out
and the ms In.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS