New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-27


long breath of relief.
The people CT the lid Congress District OF this
State, which includes Brooklyn Heights, the
financial centre OF the Kings County Borough
are without doubt in favor OF sound money, and
they ought to be represented at Washington
efficiently and effectually for sound money and
not by a who is at odds with the most
vital of his own partys principles. but not
enough at odds with the organization to dis
solve partnership with it when 1t accepts free
silver and Bryan. Mr.. Fitzgerald the Demo-
cratic candidate. believe. says he is a gold
man, but If elected he will doubtless vote for
Mr.. Richardson some other silver man for
Speaker, and II possible give the Bryanites
power to overturn the gold standard, even IL he
does not vote for the overturning bill himself.
Mr.. Henry B. Ketcham his Republican opponent
is a lawyer Of ability. and springs from sturdy
stock Of which good Congressman are made.
He is a son Of the veteran Representative from
the Poughkeepse district General John H
Ketcham The lid District. though naturally
Democratic, has been carried by the Republi-
on the sound money question, and it ought
to be again. The voters should not let the issue
be obscured by the shallow plea that the Demo-
cratic candidate does not believe in the platform
which he is running. If he does not, common
honesty should forbid him to run.
The amazing feat OF riding more than forty
miles On a bicycle within a single hour has
just been accomplished in Brockton. Mass
With automobiles and bicycles for outstripping
the highest possible speed of the fieetest horses
with railroad trains moving more swiftly than
ever before. with Bryan's tongue wagging
faster than any other in ancient or modern
history--this is truly a rapid age
Mr. Chamberlain's relations in the manufact-
ure Of military supplies sold under contract to
the Government have provoked no end of ma
hciOus comment. and the War Office issues
circular ordaining that hereafter all bidders
must submit the names of their partners in
business or if companies. the names of their
directors. that it see at a glance with
whom it is dealing. If advantage has been taken
of its innocence and inexperience it is time that
additional safeguards thrown round it or
that it was overhauled and reconstructed alto
gether. But the likelihood is that it has not
suffered half much as its critics assert and
that no ldnsman of the Colonial Secretary has
driven an overheard bargain with 1t or made any
effort to do so.
The testimony which Bryans recent speeches
have given that ne is not fit to be President
carries conviction with it to increasing num-
bers OF his countrymen and if he were not
near IHe emu OF MS rope COHNeTStOnS WITHOUT
faith might take in the whole population, in
Guiding Tammany and other Indians not taxed.
An important and influential committee of
the Chamber of Commerce has adopted report
in favor of municipal control of gas and cleo
trici;y for the use of New Workers. provided
that the city can do the business at fair rates
and acquire the plants for reasonable expendi-
ture Ay, there's the rub Many communities
have discovered by dismal experience that
public control of gas works and electricity is
a highly expensive luxury. With Tammany
in complete charge of iumnants New-York
would soon be wrapped in gloom.
Jolly sort of fellow that who started faro
bank TO swindle all and then squealed
when his pal away with the bank and
swindIed him. It's a poor doctor who can't take
his own medicine without making faces.
Bryan's campaign oratory is more interesting
to the Filipinos than to his countrymen They
think that if he is elected the American troops
will be withdrawn the next day. and the islands
handed over to the islanders, TO do what they
like with. free from any outside interference.
That is the promise which they find in his
but wind floating the chaff of all sorts of absurd
doctrines and proclamations. TO be shut off pres
entity and silenced, ii may be hoped, for good
and all