The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-10-26
BRYAN'S BELIEF.
Thinks He is Sure of Reaching
the Presidency.
Montana and Other Western States Re.
publican.--=GOrman and Daniel
Don't Want Bryan Elected.

Washington, Oct 90. "A close friend
of Bryan's says he is absolutely sure
of being elected to the presidency.
He talks of what he will do when he
comes to Washington, and is making
arrangements with the apparent view
that there can be no question of his
election. In view of the fact that
Bryan was as absolutely sanguine in
1895 as he is now, and was so over
whelmingly defeated, it must be that
there is something wrong with the
mans intellect. Having made the
best fight he could four years ago, how
can he now make the same boasts with
the same--.apparent belief. in%@..what he
says? More than this; he made all
kinds of dire predictions and pro
pheices of disaster which would befall
the country if Mckinley was elected.
But not only have all his prophecies
proven false. but nearly every asser-
ton and argument he made has been
refuted. With slight notifications he
is making the same assertions now.
But he is using little different tack.
He is as solid on all new propositions
as he was four years ago. There is
evidently something the matter with
the mans head. - go
One of Bryan's favorite assertions
this year, besides the dire disaster he
predicts in case the policy of expan-
sion is continued, is that there will be
most of
which will over-awe the people of
this country Bryan seems to forget
that the whole movement of the Anglo
Saxon race has been in an opposite
direction from that, and it has been
the purpose of the now dominant race
of the globe to go further and further
towards government, and to reduce
the military to actual necessities. 1t
is not possible that he frightens any
body by talking of military posts at
every town. 80. - -'
There is this to be said: If Bryan
should be elected and carries out all of
his threats it would mean the practi-
cal disbandonment of the army, so far
as he could accomplish it. 1t would
be interesting to know whether the
defenses of our coasts would be kept
up, or whether he would in his the
oretic way practically leave us with
out an army. He is not only APP
parently seeking to injure the officers,
but also the enlisted men. But he
will never have the opportunity.
There is too much sound sense and
among the american people
- f@ss s.s ssssrsgsIz
The people, of Washington are very
glad to have President Mckinley re-
turn to the capital again, but there is
no person mean enough to begrudge
him the time he has spent in his old
home. 1t is well known that although
many pressing matters required his at
tention here, that he went away solely
on account of the health of Mrs Nc
Kinley, which has been very precari-
GUS during the summer. At the same
timo be has not neglected q single i'm
portant affair in the nations welfare,
and has been in actual touch with all
the questions considered by his ad-
By telegraph and long
distance telephone he has been in
formed of and directed every import
ant step which has led to such tri-
umph in American diplomacy.
Such men as Senator Daniel, of
ex-senator German, of Mary
land, and even Bourke Cochran, of New
York, all feared short time ago that
Bryan would be- elected. I do not
take much stock in what is said of
Bourke Cochran, because he con-
tinues to go on the stump and is gain
ing nothing in the flop he has made
since 1896. But really believe Daniel
and German were at one time afraid
Bryan might win Daniel recognizes
that all the material interests of pros
perity of Virginia depend upon Nc
Kinley's election, and yet he is sup
porting Bryan. German knows that
not only his interests, but the best in
terests of his state will be benefited by
McKinley's election He is only Civ
ing that passive support to Bryan
which will probably result in Mary
land casting her electoral vote for
Mckinley.
WALLACE SEELEY.