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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-05
THE WOES OF MCARREN.

Mr.. McCarren is discouraged. He has about
given up the struggle and is so nearly ready
10 admit that the popular verdict will be
against Mr. Bryan that he has already begun
to abuse the court. His wall is that the peo-
pie are bribed. He is convinced that if the
people were honest they would choose Mr.
Bryan President, but they have their eyes fixed
on Mr.. Hannas money, which Mr. McCarren
has counted and knows amounts to just $25,
100000 and intend to sell themselves to Nc
Kiney, militarism and the despOtism of empire.
This is terribly sad, and if Mr.. McCarren's
view of the cause of the defeat which he eX
poets were correct he might naturally cease
being proud of his robust Americanism. A peo-
pie who would sell themselves by the million
to Mr.. Hanna could hardly expect to command
the respect of a stern moralst like Mr.. Nc
Carren, and we should not blame him for leav-
ing them and seeking out the bosom of some
Filipino ally on which to pour the bitter tears
of disappointment and console himself for his
blighted ideals Of pure and honest government
patented after the Tammany model. Well may
Mr. McCaTren say, How can you make this
out a free coUntry?' The country is indeed
doomed If not less than 2,500,000-the lowest
number on which $25, 100000 could be spent in
buying votes, according to any conceivable
tariff-of the 100000 voters in all the States
in which either side needs to make a campaign
no more prize their liberties than to cast their
ballots to the highest money bidder. If that
is what the American people have come to Mr..
Bryan is right in offering to be their "hred
man.; he correctly understands that the Presi-
Dental Job and its wages. rather than a place
of dignity and honor, are at stake in the pO-
litical market place. If Mr.. McCarTen really
thinks the American people are sunk so low
he must regard it as a waste of time to appeal
to their higher feelings, TO talk to them of
liberty and the Constitution, of trusts and free
silver, of ice stock and department stores. They
really not worth saving. He might as well
let them stew If they stand ready in such num-
bers to sell themselves into the saucepan.
1t may be that Mr.. McCarren is mistaken
Possibly he thinks ciphers mean nothing more
to the right of numerals than when standing
alone and so has innocently mixed up his rec
ord when making his careful count of Mr..
Hanna's campaign fund. But even if he Is
correct as TO the amount, he ought to remem-
Der that 1t takes two to make a bargain IF
Mr.. Hanna buys a vote, voter sells 1t. I'm
| less Mr.. McCarren is so disheartened that he
| does not want to fight the campaign out he
should not advertise to all American citizens
! that he thinks the most of them rascals.
so wicked as to reject Bryan so inherently fit
for treasons, stratagems and spoils that bride
taking is in comparison only a minor offence;
| but he shouldn't tell them so if he has still re-
naming the slightest hope of their conversion.
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auy one read the sentence quoted at the begin
ming Of these para graphs and assert that Bryan
has advanced one step on the road toward
political sanity or political honesty?
The facts concerning the growing practice of
calling in the Army to settle labor disputes" are
that just twice in twenty years has the Army
been called out to suppress disorder resulting
from labor disputes. On the first of these two
occasions 1t was sent by Democratic Presi-
dent to restore order where the mails OF the
United States were being interfered with. The
other occasion was the sending of troops into
the Coeur d'Alene region, at the request of a,
Governor elected as the result of a fusion be-
tween the Democrats and the POpulistS of
Idaho The first case was in the summer Of
1894, when Debs and his men were conducting
a reign of terror at Chicago in connection with
the strike on the railroads there. The city Of
ficers were unable or unwilling to check the
disorder, and the Governor of the State, Alt
geld, took no action. Matters were going on
from bad to worse, when Mr. Cleveland sent
regular troops to Chicago under the command
of General Miles. and, after an anxious period,
peace was restored. There was great hue and
cry by Altgeld and his crowd at the time, but
Mr.. Cleveands action was sustained not only
by the enlightened public sentiment Of the coun-
try. but also by the best legal and constitutional
autnOrlJy. Inc trOuDle IN 1udno Wnlcn brought
about the sending Of troops into the Cpur d'Alene
country resulted from depredations by lawless
miners, whose arrest was resisted both by
mob and by the immediate local authorities.
Practical anarchy regned when the Governor ap-
pealed to President Mckinley for aid, which
was promptly given. This was in the spring of
1899. The troops are still there, though the Pres
ident has sought more than once to withdraw
them. The local authorities have not yet
reached point where they feel strong enough
to maintain order and protect property If the
military were withdrawn.
These are the two occasions in more than
twenty years when the Army has been called
upon to suppress disorder within the States. In
neither case has there been the slightest trace
of any motive other than the restoration Of
order and the protection Of property. In both
cases the President was sustained by public
opinion throughout the Union. All these facts
are as well known to Bryan TO any one. When
he makes such statements as those made at
Duluth and such insinuations as are contained
in the paragraph quoted from his letter of ac-
ceptance, he simply barriers his honesty for
the chance of winning the votes of few ignO-
rant and deluded men.
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of cruelty. it is also a foolish and unthrifV
practice to force horses to go without drink
for hours and then, say, twice day, let them
drink 10 repletion. 1t is of the most fruit
full sources of equine ills.
Humanity and business thrift should both In
cite us to follow the Sultan's example There
could be few greater boons than to provide
in the city such a number of drinking fOun-
tains for man and horse, so placed and so
constructed that none would need to go thirsty
for a moment. Similarly, there should be on
every we'll travelled country road, at intervals
Of a mile or two. such watering places; not
mere fords of brooks, through which one must
drive and get his carriage wheels muddy and
get out and uncheck the horse, and compel the
horse to drink uncomfortably at the level of
his feet, but elevated trOughs, to which one
can drive up and water the horse without diff
Guilty or inconvenience. Such things may seem
trifes unworthy Of the attention of men whose
minds are occupied with great problems Of
craftsmanship But it is in the proper adjust
ment of precisely such details that civilization
largely consists.
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this year is more deeply stamped than this with
insincerity and false pretence. $50 far as the
Executive has power TO protect them" is the
saving clause which gives the Democratic party
in Congress and in the Southern and Border
States free range to carry on it's crusade of
prescription against the negro. Mr.. Bryan
knows that the States from which he viii get
perhaps three-fourths of his electoral vote, and
which will continue to control Democratic party
policy in Congress and in the Nation, are sup
porting him in this canvass not because he
stands for government with the consent OF the
governed or even for free silver imitation but
because they feel that with him in the White
House their purpose to strip the negro of tho
last vestige Of his political rights and privileges
can be pursued without moestation or check
Only few weeks ago 1.-The Memphis Scimitar,"
one of the ablest and most courageous of South
ern newspapers, had this to say about the
Seuth's attitude toward negro suffrage
The white people of the Southern States where
the negroes constitute a large proportion of ths
population determined to nullify the -Four
teenth Amendment to the Constitution Of the
United States so far as they can. White people
of the South are going to rule, without regard
to numbers or Federal laws They are of the
superior race the only race that is Mt TO control
the government of any country, whether 1t be
the United States. the Philippines, the West In
dies or Africa itself Then why not be honest
about It? Why twist and squirm and palaver
about "constitutionality or consent Of the gov
erned" when the dominant race is going ahead
everywhere and asserting its supremacy? The
South would have nothing to conceal in this
connection even if concealment were possible.
Colonel Bryan is fully aware as are the
Southern leaders themselves that the power of
a Democratic Executive would never be exertcd
10 challenge a denial to the Southern negro of
both his natural and his acquired political
rights. The Nebraska leaders promise to the
st. Paul colored club is n heartless piece of
campaign tTickery, less creditable even than his
earlier contention that the South's wholesale
reputation of the pledges of the Fourteenth
Amendment would be condoned by any voter
after a perusal Of General Batess recent treaty
of amity and suzerainty with the Sultan Of Sulu.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-05
BRYAN,S talk OF MILITAPISM.

In his recent speech at Duluth Mr.. Bryan
sought to arouse the fears Of the ignorant
among his hearers by the following statement,
which. of course, he knew to be false:
They want to build fort near every large
city, and have the Army there to suppress by
by legislation. Under the pretext that we want
a large army for foreign use, there are Repub-
lcans who want it for domestic use
This is by no means the first time he has
given utterance to just such misstatements as
this both directly and indirectly. In his letter
of acceptance he said;
The establishment of arbitration Will insure
friendly relations between labor and capital and
render obsolete the growing practice of calling
in the Army To settle labor troubles
1t is, of course understood that such talk
as this is directed to the ears of the ignorant
and the foolish alone. If Mr.. Bryan's utter
ances were 10 be listened to only by those who
possessed the average amount of information
and the average amount of common sense there
would be no harm done, and there would be
no occasion for discussing the subject at all
Such charges would simply react against the
man who was silly enough to make them But
Bryan is a cunning demagogue. and he knows
his ground. He knows that among those who
come to hear him there are many who have
little understanding OF our institutions ana
little knowledge Of any kind with which TO meet
his reckless assertions, and he knows that these
men are naturally suspicious and fearful; their
very ignorance makes them so. Many Of them
are foreigners, and know well what it would
mean TO have fort near each large city with
the military ready at any moment to prey upon
them at the behest of an Oppressor. 1t does
not matter to Mr.. Bryan, apparently, that he is
leading these men to dstrust the country of their
adoption. and their countrymen, with whose in
terests their are indissolubly bound: II does
not matter to him, apparently, that he is teach
| ing them a dread that is wholly and cruelty
false: it does not matter. because by this means
IL may be possible for him TO arouse their pas
Eions TO such pitch that they win vote the
Democratic ticket 1t seems that as the can
vass goes Oh this candidate is growing more
and more abject In his appeal for support Can
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-05
Nem9lo1.ls DaiIp Gribntrs
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1900.
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FOREIGN-Germany submitted a modified
proposal as to China, confirming the view that
Lord Salisbury had failed to support the drastic
terms Of the first German note; the withdrawal
Of the American forces from Picking began on
October 3; the American force which will re-
main in North China VIII be about eighteen
hundred men; the Empress Dowager has ordered
that elaborate funeral honors be paid Baron Won
Ketteler The days polling throughout
Great Britain continued TO show Conservative
gains, and greatly increased majorities; Captain
Lambton. Of Ladysmith fame, was defeated by
his Conservative opponent at Newcastle-on-
Tyne - The Philippines Civil Commission
appropriated S2S7, 900 (A1exicam for expenses
incurred by the military for the benefit of the
Insular Government during September; thirty
rebels and one American we're killed in a hght
on Bohol Island. == Owing 70 the devastation
wrought by storms soldiers have been sent TO
help gather the crops in the vineyards Of several
French provinces. == War taxes on imports
into Venezuela have been abroGated.
DOMESTIC-The State Department returned
a favorable answer to a modified proposition
from Germany regarding the punishment or
ringleaders in the Boxer disturbances in China;
A Franco Russian proposal was received ana
transmitted TO President Mckinley. - There
was no change in the situation in the anthracite
coal region the strikers manifesting no DISPOSE
fion TO return TO work until the union is recog-
nized; many of the miners families are begin
1Irp n suffer for want of food - Assistant
secyetsry TavIor of the Treasury Department
acted on the cases of four accused Barge once
employees, dismssing three OF them ana ex-
tinued his campaigning tour in Nebraska, ad-
dressing large and enthusiastic audiences.
CITY.-stocks were active and generally high
er - The strong box Of William Marsh Rice.
the dead millionaire, was opened. - Richard
Croker offered 20 aid Bishop Potter and the
churches IN the suppression OF vice. many as
orderly houses on the East Side were closed.
The owners of automobiles are TO test
their rights to ride in the parks before the su-
preme court. The jury disagreed in the
case Of Charles E. Ackron, former proprietor or
the Tfvoli, who was charged with the larceny OF
fifteen dozen chairs. - Maxwel w Long,
the runner. did a straightaway quarter mile at
the Guttenburg track in - seconds, reducing
the worlds record by q second. - Win
ners at Morris Park: Redparth, Ondurdis,
Modrine AIusette. Cyrano and First Whip.
THE Observation-Disclosures for to-day;
Fair. The temperature yesterday: Highest 81
degrees: lowest sc; average, 699s.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-05
" TOO RTSY"

Mr. Jacob s. Coxey, of MassiIlon, Ohio, is not
marching to Washington at the head of a ragged
rabble this year. He did so in the last Admin
istration. He was then the general of an
army" of the unemployed, marching upon
Washington as the mRnadS marched upon
Paris-a multitudnous object lesson and pro-
test against the industrial depression Of those
Democratic times There were those, indeed
who feared the demonstration would prove as
formidable as did that of the m9nads afore
said and would mperil the stability of the Re
public ITSELF until an ingenious policeman
plucked safety from danger by the simple expe-
dent of ordering Mr.. Coxey and his army to
keep off the grass"
But, as we were saying before we fell into
this reminiscent mood, Mr.. Coxey is not march
ing to Washington this year. He has good rea-
son for not doing So He is too busy. He has
opened quarry and mine, and is building fac
tories, from which he has every prospect of
growing rich. With these things on hand he is
too busy to go tramping through the mud
Besides, if he did march to Washington he
would have to go alone He could rally no
army Of the unemployed" this year. All the
men are too busy. This latter fact is strongly
impressed upon Mr.. COXey's mind by the dis
cOvery that they are too busy with other profit
able jobs to come and work for him at the high
wages he offers. So he cannot get all the hands
he wants to build and to operate his factories
He Is himself too busy with profitable business
to bother with politics, and the former COM
rades of his tramp are too busy to consider new
offers of employment. TOO busy" 1t is a good
excuse
1t is common excuse this year. We believe
Mr. Bryan himself came pretty near making
use Of it, earlier in the season, when he was
too busy gathering in plentiful and profitable
farm crops to accept invitations to talk at
lower rate than $500 an hour We shall not be
a bit surprised if next month he makes that as
his excuse for getting beaten at the polls-that
he was too busy making money under the
runouS gold standard to attend properly to the
free silver campaign, and that voters all over
the country who would have voted for him if
they had been idle were this year too busy
making money under Republican policies to go
TO the polls and vote for reversal of those poll
cies. No, we should not wonder at it a bit.
And If that excuse should be made it would be
a good deal more truthful and sensible than
most of the Bryanite excuses The American
people are indeed too busy attending to their
own profitable business to go wandering through
the Slough of Despond after the Bryanite will-o'-
the-Wisp ~
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COLONEL BRYAN AND THE coLoRED VOTE.


Colonel Bryans capacity for cheap and fimsy
sophistry seems absolutely unbounded. Each
day of his desperate Presidential canvass seems
marked by a descent to some lower level of
dssingenuousness and deception. At st. Paul on
Monday night the Democratic candidate was
forced at last to face a puzzle in party logic
which he had repeatedly brushed aside with
growing evidences of irritation and i'll will.
The problem which the Nebraska leader had
hitherto held at arms length was TO reconcile the
Democratic party's new found ardOr to yindicate
The political rights of the brown man. in the
philippines with its persistent and successful
effort TO destroy the political rights of the
srblack man. in the United States. To the
question. How about negro dsfranchisement
IN North Carolina" which has punctuated so
many Of Colonel Bryan's impassioned appeals
for an application of the consent of the
governed" theory in the far off Philippines, the
Nebraska leader had found no more relevant
reioinder than go read the Sulu Treaty; then
"you will be glad 10 forget that we have a race
question in this country"
Al St Paul. however. a colored politician who
owes his right TO vote to the fact that he lives
in a State where Democratic policies have never
taken a settled hold, appeared on the same
platform with the Fusion candidate and pre-
seuted him with a Life OF Lincoln" and the
uromised support of a local colored political
club Colonel Bryan could not very well tell
the cOlored orator TO read the Sulu Treaty, and
so forget the wrongs done his own race in this
country by Southern Red Shirts" and Southern
Legislatures. Something more ingenious was
needed to cover the absurdity of a colored
voters Offering aid 10 the candidate of party
which has already DISTINGUISHED his fellows in
eleven Southern States. SO, after INDUCING in
the characteristic slur that 1.-The negro had
bestowed Presdencies on the Republican
aparty, while the Republican party had be-
"stowed janitorships the negro the Ne
hraska leader was driven 10 a hollow, mis-
leading and spiritless confession that, after
ALI. there might be some room for the applica-
tiou of a consent Of the governed" theory
within the United States. To his colored inter
locutor he said: II appreciate the support
sauromised by your club If by the suffrages of
ssny countryInen I become President of the
limited States You may rest assured that the
..rsgllts of the citizens Of this country, regard
.qess OF color. creed or condition, will be pro
sstected as far as the Executive has power TO
protect them"
30 utteranee of Colonel Bryan's on the stump
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Amnsements.

ACADEMY OF MUSIC-s:i5-The Rebel
AMERICAN ADMINISTRATIONS Blind.
BROADWAY THEA TRF-S-Ben-H
CASlNO-S-The Belle OF Bohemia.
CRITERION THEATRES :1o-Zaza.
DALl s TEEATRE-S-San Toy.
EDEN MuSEE-The World IN Wax.
EMPIRE THEATR :20-Richard Carvel.
THIRTEENTH STREET TIEATRE-S-I4ost River.
GARDEN THEATRE-S-Henry Y.
GARHICK NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Harum.
GRAND OPERA HOUsE-S-Telephone Girl.
EAAiMERSTEIN'S VICTORIA-S:30-In Central Park
szAki-EM OPERA HOUSE-S:l5-An on Account Of Eliza.
HERALD SQUARE THEATRES :l5-AFfZona
IRVING PLACE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. FordeTung and
Der TuEendhof
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Performance
KNlcKERBocKER THEATRE-s:l5-The Monks of
Naishar.
ROSTER s. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
LRcE-jiA iBATRE-s:9a-A Royal Family.
MADISON SQUARE THEATRES :20-The Husbands Of
Leontine
METROPOLITAN OPERA HoUsE-s-Faust.
MURRAY HILL TFEATRE-2-S-The Tree Of knoTl-
edge.
NEM-YoRK THBATRE-s-A Million Dollars.
PAsroR'S-Day and Night
ESOCTOR' 6--contnuous Performance.
hlPCBLlc Observation-Disclosures Harbor.
WALI~ACK'S Observation-Disclosures Otto.
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WHY, Oh, WHYP

why IS it." demands Mr.. Bryan, in his finest
high tragedy. crown of thorns and cross of
gold" manner, why is 1t that the Republican
party allows the trusts to groW?" We do not
know that he expected any answer to be given,
save that which he presently supplied in his
own inimitably Illogical way. If he did not it
was most kind Of hir', because 1t might be a
trifie difficult for any one else, especially for
Republican, to give an answer that would be
satisfactory to Mr. Bryan 1t always
trif1e Earring to sensitive nerves to be required
to respond, categoricaIly and courteously, to the
interrogation Where did you get that hat?"
Nevertheless, it is the indefeasible brthright
of the Yankee to answer one question with an
other. Wherefore if Mr. Bryan should press
his conundrum too strenuously for an answer,
some desperate Republican might be moved to
ask in reply why the great statesmen Of the
Democratic party, in framing the last Demo
cratic tariff law, were so uncommonly regard
full of the welfare and of the desires Of the
Sugar Trust Or, coming down to the present
moment it might be asked how the foremost
leaders of the Democratic party in the chief
city of the chief State of the Union come to be
so particularly interested in the Ice Trust and
how the chairman of the Democratic National
Committee happens to be so intimately con-
nected with the Cotton Bale Trust 1t might
further he asked if any trusts exist which more
directly affect the comfort and welfare Of the
people than these, and if ever any trust more
wantonly and wickedly oppressed the people
than the one organized and maintained by Mr.
Bryan's most earnest supporters. Or yet again
seeing that Mr.. Bryan and his friends charge
that trusts are an outgrowth of the Republican
policy of protection, and would be abolished
if the Bryanite policy of free trade were
adopted, it might be asked how it is that Great
Britain, the birthplace and home of free trade
is also the birthplace and home of trusts, and
was ''plastered all over with trusts" years be-
fore Mr.. Bryan and his friends ever took to
hunting the dreadful octopus.
Such inquiries might, however, be deemed
frivolous, not to say iippant and therefore I'M
worthy Of so grave a theme. Wherefore it
might be better to PROFOUND at once to Mr.
Bryan this answering question, Why does the
Democratic party allow so many of its mem
bers to have corns?