The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-05-30
HENRY p. BIKER, YdLE ,06.
some Interesting Views on tho Coming
 Grcnt Political Struggle.

| Grcnt Political Struggle.
 Henry D. Baker, Yale '96, a prominent
 man of his day, now of New York, is
 in town for day or two.
 MT. Baker says that the leading
 business men of New Haven will not be | beguiled into the fancy that silver is not | to be just as important an issue this 1 year as in 1896. "The business man." | said he, 'is soon to put himself again
 in politics, heart and soul, in order to
 present the end of prosperity by such l a disastrous event as Bryan's election. 1 With true business sense he sees the folly In the contention that a republican senate for four years can prevent the | consequences from such bull in a china shop as Bryanite secretary of | the treasury would be. Also he knows that the same causes which could elect
 Bryan would also change the complex | ion of the senate. Were about nine of
 the sound money senators replaced by democrats the finance law, he knows, could be repealed and nothing then stand between Bryan, if president and dangerous general bankruptcy. Two sound money senator's Lindsay of Kentucky and Caffrey of Louisiana,
 will at the next session be replaced by
 silver democrats. Also Wolcott of Col
 orado, who voted for the finance bill, is
 likely to be succeeded by a senator rep
 resenting the silver interests of his
 state. Senator Shoup of Idaho, similarly
 may be lost to the sound money cause,
 unless there is revolution of senti-
 ment in his state. Senator Pritchard of
 Co cli liy,n 1,y inYyn tn
 represent, after the expira ton of his
 present term, a ''solid south" demo- cratic state. Republican reverses in Maryland in Kentucky, in West Vir- ginia in Montana, Kansas and Nebras- ka, states closely, if not normally dem- ocratic in sentiment, would undoubtedly wipe out completely within the next three years, the present senate sound | money majority, while the loss of any | regularly republican state like Michi- gan or Illinois, which Bryan must car " to be elected, would also mean the | loss of their legislatures, and a positive | free silver majority in the senate. Bus mess men feel alive to the danger, and | as the campaign progresses they will | show plainly that no side issues, such ] as imperialism" or trusts has dull ed their realization of the menace to | property which would come from the success of the party which Senator Spooner in the senate the other day, so aptly characterized as being opposed to all that is and in favor of all that is not; never was, and never can be-" They see no symptoms of the democratic party getting better On the contrary they observe it getting worse and more dangerous They see it's leaders in close alliance with the enemies of the United States in the Philippine Islands. They observe that the party is committing itself to the cause of nterposition in the Transvaal, which would mean war with England. The disgust of business men with the Bryanites is too unspeak- able to express itself in noise at the present time. It will be duly felt, how ever, as the campaign progresses. will mean that Bryan in 1900 will be the worst beaten candidate in American history"