The Irish standard., 1900-04-21

stuffs have decreased $1,000, ooo cattle
and hogs decreased 100000, provisions
decreased 100000, cotton decreased
$22,ooo,ooo and mineral oils decreased
ST, 100000. In the nine months last
passed breadstuffs have decreased $780,
100000, and cattle and hogs, $500, ooo
What labor and capital have jointly lost
in strikes should be added to the score.
The Minnesota reform forces heard
with regret the announcement that
Judge Caldwell would not stand for the
vice-presidency. Judge Caldwell's de-
termination was in Senator Jones hands
for some weeks. It is safe to say that
no other man than Judge Caldwell is
now so generally urged as our glorious
Towne. Still Minnesota with all her
love and devotion to this her great son,
will remain disposed to leave the final
determination to the assembled wisdom
at the national conventions.
Twin City labor unions will shortly
be supplied with all the terrible facts OF
the Idaho horrors and outrages as
brought out in the congressional inves-
tigation, and therefore official. One of
the facts shown is that the wicked
proclamation of the governor was in
fact the product of President Mckinley
that the governor instead of issuing
the proclamation, as he had testified,
sent it in blank to the president, who
changed it and sent it back, and it was
thus issued as the president had CEN
sored it. Another is that of the petit
tons sent to Washington, praying for
troops to be left at Wardner, purport-
ing to be signed by some 5000 names,
were in fact bogus, and not more than
one-third of the signatures were genu-
inc, but were put on the petitions by the
wholesale signing by. others. Won't la
Dor reckon with Mckinley when the
proper time comes?
A good specimen OF the prevailing
opinion that Bryan will be elected, is
given by the Philadelphia Record, and
New York Evening Post, neither of
which papers are Bryan supporters but
whose Washington correspondents
agree that McKinley's fate is in doubt.
IF the election should occur this
week" says one, bryan would be the
next president" con the Porto Rico
tariff ISSUE" he continued, "the repub-
licans would lose Indiana and also Illi-
nois; and Mckinley on that platform,
(as he is now destined to beg, will find
the chances against him in Michigan,
Wisconsin and Minnesota, and Ohio
would be very doubtful.
If it would not be violation of con-
fidence, the writer could give the name
of prominent Minnesota republican,
recently returned from a long business
trip in the east, and who informed the
writer in confidence that the impression
grows in Wall street and other business
quarters in the east, that Bryan is going
to be elected. And this man added the
reason why there was no regret ex-
pressed, much less fears, which was that
the prosperity" on the country is only
that of the great concerns, where bust
ness and high prices have been forced,
they taking all the profits, in word
the big fish only getting anything, and
these eating up the little ones. THAT'S
what's the matter with u.s. this man
confessed
AS fast as those who were so preju-
diced against Mr.. Bryan in 1896 come
to know the man, and learn his real
character, they are as pleased with him
a they were formerly prejudiced. A
specimen of this is Secretary Erving
Winslow of the Boston anti-imperial-
lists, who opposed Mr.. Bryan before,
and who now has the following to say
OF him: II want to say that I consider
Mr.. Bryan one of the cleanest; SINGER
est, most alert and single-hearted public
men that we have to-day" G.. S. C.