Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1900-09-26
IN THE NATION.
Features of the Campaign as Seen
From the Empire City of the
Nation.
The Maine Election and Its Signif-
canoe as it Applies to the Ma
tional Campaign.
Work Needed to be Done by Individual
Voters to Help Good Cover

ment.
New York, Sept. 23.-(S Especial -
The result in, Maine is satisfactory to
republicans here for the same reason
that the result in Vermont was, only
it is more so. That is because the
proportion of republican apathy is
manifestedly smaller. Many republic
cans stayed at home, however, and for
that reason those best qualified to.
judge of the exact situation feel even
more certain than before that there is
not a republican or expansionist, or
sound money man, or loyal supporter
of prosperity, of law and order, but
needs to do his utmost to win over to
the side of the right cause as many
voters as he can. The uncertain ele-
ment is the really independent vote
the class of thinking, quiet, conserva-
tive business men, who are very busy
making money now and have little
time for politics, but who usually de-
eide a contest, in a close state at least.
To illustrate: In certain ward in
Brooklyn recently less than 25 per cent
of the voters in the last election were
willing to declare their allegiance to a
certain party at the primaries. The
Is per cent or over Of these voters are
evidently influenced on most occasions,
when it is necessary for them to vote
and when they are sufficiently aroused
to vote, by the considerations which
Immediately surround them In an
average community, whether in New
York or Kansas, will Mckinley and
Roosevelt get that vote? It would
Eseem as if they must. This kind of
thinking, quiet, conservative business
men-and this class includes all of the
clerks, wage-earners, etc, who depend
upon business for their occupation
would reflect tnat present conditions
| of prosperity are good enough for
them; that Mckinley is tried and has
been found true; that Roosevelt repre-
sents the aggressive American senti-
ment which, whatever they may say, is
exactly what they like; that in state as
well as national affairs they had better
Eplace control in the hands of those
who, from experience and wisdom, not
to say from a superior stock OF patriot
ism, have proved all right.
Yet work needs to be done among all
such voters. Suppose every man Of
this kind were to secure for the repub-
Ecan ticket a single additional vote;
/ suppose one in ten among them Sc
cured a single vote additional, the re-
suit would be secure; for who is there
who needs to be told that it is only the
5 per cent, or even the 2 or 1 per cent,
OF Independent, changing voters that
determine the result?
It is expected that this work will be
done. It has not been done thus far.
The democrats are not Inactive; they
are neglecting no opportunity. It is
even more evident than before Senator
Jones came here this time that his
campaign chest is well filled-pan'tly
because his, own turn for business,
I since becoming millionaire within a
year, has put him on to certain new
methods, partly because he is undoubt-
edly getting the financial support Of
certain gold democrats who want to
crawl back into their party and who
are willing to pay for it-and who con-
slider that a business panic, which they
admit to- be, entirely possible, is a
small price to pay. z ~.
There is another interesting thing
that every antagonist of Organism
ought TO know. It is that the most
Isocialistic and incendiary utterances of
the populisss are now being repeated
in i hundreds Of places, and are likely to
be repeated in thousands of places be-
fore this campaign lis over not merely
In the socialist and incendiary news
papers and on the stump of the Bryan
orators In the usual way, but in hun-
| dreds Of unusual ways and in thous-
sands Of unusual places. 1t has been
MT. Bryan's plan, which he Is taking
pains himself to execute. that his wild
charge that the laborer is not receiv-
I5ing his share, Z and where do you
come Ia my poor working man y and
all that sort OF thing. shall be taken
frotn person TO person in the work.
shops, mills, oftlces, barber shops sa-