The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-08-17
SOME sTRAWS WHICH SHOW.
THE DIRECTION OF THE
POLITICAL TIDE.


There are many surface straws which
seem to indicate that the political tide
is turning Bryan-ward. OF course, 1t
is too early to make an accurate fore
cast Of the result by States, but there
are many very gratifying indications
in general. The German-Americans
are pleased at neither the imperialistic
tendencies of present policies nor the
attitude OF the administration towards
the South African Republics; the Irish
Americans are not especially jubilant
over the manifest secret alliance into
which the Mckinley administration
has entered with the government of
England; the ex-soldiers of the Union
are not verjoyed at the treatment
they have received at the hands of Me-
Kinley's pensionman, H. Clay Evans;
the negroes of the country feel that
they have not been given that consid-
Grafton which they were promised and
had had right to believe they would
get at the hands ofthis administration;
the honest bimetallists. who supported
Mckinley in the last contest under the
belief that he was really a bimetallist
and would do all he could towards
bringing about international bimetal.
lism, are not satisfied with the bad
faith and duplicity which have been
manifested by the administration in
pretending to favor bimetallism solely
for the purpose of gaining power and
establishing as firmly as statutes can
e-tablish anything in this county the
iniquity of the gold standard, and there
are thousands of honest, hard working
and deserving Republicans in the
country who feel like resentiug the
fawning favors which Mckinley has
been bestowing in pro>elyting spirit
upon those recalcitrant Democrats,
who, under the guise of opposition to
free silver, have given Mckinley tenn
porary support. Republicans claim
that the gold Democrats have gobbled
up about everything worth having
around the Executive Departments in
Washington, and that executive favor
has discounted Republican loyalty.
But, in addition to all of these favor
able signs, there is another considera-
fion Nubinh 10 ra ooSurinr, Ia, tho b;n last
sense. There is a vast wave of popular
resentment sweeping over the entire
country-rt sentiment of those tenden-
cies in executive and legislative policy
which belittle the sanctity of the land
mars of limitation set up by the peo-
pie in our Federal Constitution, repud-
late the traditional policies of the Re-
public, mix us up with the politics and
wrangles of European nations and
commit our government to a military
spirit with vast standing army, de-
pendent colonies and imperial equip
page. The people are not especially
pleased, either, with the wonderful
growth, under Mckinley adminislra-
ton, of those gigantic trusts aud COM
mercial combinations of capital which
have taken control of the prime neces-
saries of modern life and made them
the source of unjust and extortionate
exactions and which, in exchange for
favors received, are piling up fabulous
sums of money as a corruption fund in
aid of the reelection of those who have
placed the great agencies aud fostering
powers of the government in co.part-
nership with the private interests of
those who are bent upon the spoliation
of the masses for the enrichment of
the classes
There is abroad in the Lar, d vrey
firm conviction in the minds of the OBJ
serving and thinking people that our
popular institutions can i'll afford four
more years of such management of pub
lie affairs as McKinleys reelection
would insure.