The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-04
Tidal wave. and Lnnd.lidc~.

This is not the first time we have men,
| toned the fact that Mr.. Bryans campaign,
which began in the apparent condition OF
| a forlorn hope, is ending in the promise
| of landslide and a sweeping victory.
| 1t should be noted that when, about the
| first of October, the real fighting began
Hanna and his masters, the trust mag
| mates. were confident and contemptuous
of their opponents. But, since that time
several things have happened. Among
them may be mentioned Mr.. Bryan's tri-
! umphal progress through the Middle West,
his whirlwind tour of New York and the
East. in which the masses displayed
feeling for him never before shown to-
| ward any public man in America since
Abraham Lincoln was called TO his re-
ward.
The results of this most astonishing and
successful personal canvass in our politi-
cal history have been demonstrated in
various ways. Among others, they have
been recognized and acknowledged in the
terror and rage which Hanna and Roose-
welt have disclosed on the stump; in the
billingsgate and vituperation which these
trust creatures have INDUCED for nearly
a month Finally, the position Of the two
great parties today is illustrated in the
pitiable Republican parade fzzle in New
York yesterday, compared with the two
magnificent receptions rendered to the
Tribune of the People by the inhabitants
of that city.
I'll. nf ha
tropolis and State of New York is exhib-
tied in the fact that Republican employers
of labor generally were forced to compel
their Democratic clerks, statesmen. and
workingmen to join in the Saturday parade
in order to render it numerically respecta-
BILE. The outcome was what might be ex-
pected Men with families dependent upon
them marched by the thousand for Mck1n-
ley yesterday because they had been noti-
fed that il they did not they would be dis
charged. But hundreds of them did not
submit to this outrage upon their liberties
as free citizens without notifying the DEM
ocratic National Committee and the Demo-
cratic press of their persecution. After the
election there will be a large crop Of
criminal cases against the bulldozers.
Instead of creating an eleventh hour
boom for the trust candidates, the dismal
fiasco Of yesterday simply fed the popular
tidal wave which is rolling toward Mr..
Bryan The last card of the trusts has
been played In New York, as far as APP
peals to the people are concerned. From
this on the sole hope of the Hanna-McKin-
ley managers lies in the successful appli-
cation of bribery, fraud, for gerry, and CO.
ercion. They know that they are misera-
bly, beaten on the basis of al honest cleo
ton. All the vast fund of corruption mon
ey they have received from the trusts has
not been sufficient SO far, to dam or even
obstruct the course of the food. Their
criminal devices TO delude the masses and |
to blacken the reputation of the peoples |
candidate or some of them, have been de- |
tected. as in the case of the forged Agui- |
naldo letter which was all but ready for |
fac smile publication tomorrow. No doubt !
they have other things of a similar sort in |
reserve. They have thousands of imported |
repeaters colonized in Ohio, Indiana, West |
Virginia, Maryland Delaware, and New
York They are prepared to buy election
officers everywhere. Possibly these meth
DDS, which determined the result Of the
election in 1895. may win
again. Nevertheless the chances this year
seem to be against such an eventuality.
The indications this morning suggest that
the landslide Is too great and universal to
be affected by the sum total of all the in
fiuences, devices, lodges, and crimes that
the trust campaigners will be able to util-
ize for their nefarious purpose to steal the
election.