Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-08-23
If Bryan Should Win.

"Oh, but he won't replies the aver
L age Vermont Republican. lit is i'm
! possible. The people are not fools
! They will let well enough alone
I There is no use of being frightened
1t will all come out right. Mckinley
will win better than he did before
.. just wait and see.H
And he will saunter away, the most
contented creature in the world. He
is so supremacy confident that it is an
even shot that he will fail to vote him
self, when the time comes. You have
Jared him somewhat unpleasantly and
he half suspects that you hope Bryan
will win. You suggest that the thing
is not already settled
Now it is not the worst thing in the
world to get scared, even If it turns
out in the end that there was no need
of it. If, at the time Of the flood, the
fellow who hailed Noah, asked Tor
ride on the ark and being refused re-
piled, "Oh, 90 or with your old mud
scow. | don't think there's going to
be much Of a shower'-if this fellow
had been real frightened there is a bare
possibility that Noah would have taken
him aboard. We have noticed many
times that it is the side that is pretty
badly scared that wins, when II would
not otherwise. When thoroughly
men will work harder and
better and longer than when they are
assured that victory will come anyway.
If that is SO, they reason. what is the
use OF sweating ourselves? Let's take
/ easy.
Now, as we have remarked before J
his. Mckinley is not vet elected. It
nay be ridiculous to suppose for !
moment that he won't be, but we will
Iefend ourself by quoting as good '
as Mark Hanna. who has
ecently said that Mckinley wasn't
leeted, and that while he expected /
e would be, he realized that it would
e hard fight, and he proposed to n
lake it. Now we will get behind
lark and say, That's our position CT
xactlyr
We had good deal rather suppose :.
lat Mckinley would be successful;
Iat the policy of the past four years, o.
hich has brought the country up from H
oyerty to prosperity; which has en-
rged our borders; which has filed n,
II treasury which has enlarged our d
here Of usefulness-we had much
ther draw this picture than the other. liz
It for the sake ofimpressing the need. II
e necessity, Of the hour we are going
suppose for a moment or two that
ryan should win a.
If Bryan should win, he saws him -
Il that he would at once call Con- r,
ess together in special session to
-ss measures assuring the Filipinos st
their complete independence and I'll
e entire renunciation by the United
ates Of any claim to the islands. IN
ms would mean absolute and entire ~
Frender by America to the Filipinos.
would mean that for the first time in va
7 history we should have fought I'M IA
ceessfully. 1t would mean that the
Indseds Of lives brayely given for the IL
g IN distant Luzon would have been an
ven in vain; that the millions spent ca
ready have been wasted that the
rye number of natives who have es- :.
used our cause and been promised 4
election would be left to the tender
ercies of the rebels that like a whip IA
q cur, we should haul down the FLAG. rel
aboard ship and sail away, leaving G.
hind our prestige as a military pow
leaving behind the scene ofDewey's wa
'rious victory and the graves of our lie
oilers for the foe to guard. And I'M
It after having once practically con. -
cred the islands, destroyed the in ~
-gent government, dispersed its TOW
mics and driven its leader into hid Sal
A cheerful, charming prospect out
ly One calculated to warm the |
cd Of ehiyaIrous Americans! A NJ
,uttle policy" OF
I Bryan should win, his principal En-,
Users would be those prominent in Ne,