The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-01-28
A CHANGE OF SENTIMENT.

fuences that are working against anoth-
or term TO the most servile admins
tration that America has known.
Upon his recent trip to New England,
Mr.. Bryan was everywhere hailed with
pleasure by the drummers and assured
of their support. In 1896 no men did so
much for Mckinley. In 1900 not sin
gle drummer who is not employed by a
trust or house dominated by trust in
fiuences will vote for Mckinley.
When Mr.. Bryan spoke in New
Haven a few days ago, he received more
applause from the Yale students when
he spoke against imperialism than any
where else In 1896 the Yale students
treated him rudely.
In the East the people have come to
measure him at his TRUE yalue-the
ablest honestest, bravest and most cour-
ageous public man America has produced
since the war. In 1896 he was unknown
in the East and the hostile press made
many people believe he was a radical,
unsafe an anarchist, but they now
see that he is the real friend Of capital
because he stands for its protection in
all it's just rights, and regulation when
selfish men seek to use it to rob or in
jure the mass of mankind.
The sentiment in neutrality-suspicious.
in the West and among the Germans
is overwhelmingly in sympathy with the
Beers. The understanding between
Mckinley and Paamcefote, denied in a
halfway manner but virtually admitted
by the policy pursued, has not met he
approval of the American people. They
know that England's Show cf sympathy
in our war with Spain was a cheap wGy
of bidding for our support in IFS wars
for criminal aggression" The people
are sick and tired Of hearing about the
obligation we owe Great Britain for
standing by us when we were at war
with q tenth-rate power. If it HAD not
been purely selfish exhibition, England
would not have shown us cheap sympa-
thy. Referring to the understanding" be-
tween this country and Great Britain,
and the weight foreign questions will
have in the campaign Mr.. Joe X. Oil,
writes the Atlanta Constitution:
with the policy of this government,
one of avowedly strict neutrality, the Re
publican administration is undoubtedly
tied up as closely as it we'll could be to
England. For this reason President Nc
Kinley and his political advisers are be-
coming alarmed Mt the many evidences
that the sentiment of this country is un-
doubtedly in favor of the sturdy Dutch
men who are fighting to save their coun-
try. They see the possibility of losing
what in the campaign of 1896 was one of
the strongest factors in bringing about
Republican victory.
There is no doubt had they lost the
German votes in the close States or had
that vote been divided in any degree
between the two parties Mr.. Bryan
would be in the white house now iu
stead of Mr.. Mckinley. We in the
South know very little about the power
of this German vote in States like Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
the Dakotas and in New York. OF all
the foreign vote this German vote Is the
most clannish; it is vote which cannot
be bought, but which is influenced malnly
through German newspapers and through
the social clubs. Four years ago every
German newspaper of any circulation was
working for the election OF the Repub-
Ncan ticket. This was due 70 the mis-
representation of the meaning of the
Democratic platform on the money ques-
ton. The result was that the Demo
cratic ticket got absolutely none of these
German votes. and this vote alone may
be said to have turned the scale against
Bryan.
'The Republican policy with regard to
the Philippines started the tide in the
other direction to such an extent that
the administration politicians became
greatly alarmed. They have been work
ing quietly and persistently to create
the impression with these people that the
keeping of the Philippines as perlna'
nent possession would mean vast com
mercial advantage without any resultant
permanent increase IN the standing army,
but their success is predetermined.
"a leading Senator who is very close
at the Write house and who, although he
does not figure much in national commit
tee councils. is yet one of the strongest
and most influential of the Republican
politicians, admitted TO me the other day
that for a time Mr.. Hanna and his assO-
ciates had been greatly alarmed at the
tendency of the German to get away
from the party, though he believed that
the argument on the Philippines ques-
ton had brought the leading papers
around; but Just at the time when
things seemed to BIO a little better from
their point of view, this Boer question
comes along to compicate matters and
to add to their troubles. They see that
the overwhelming sentiment, not only OF
the Germans, but of the people Of this
country, is against the English. and they
realize that this sentiment can undoubt-
eddy be turned by the Democrats INTO
political account. The party which
stands for tho Intimate in0e1Spndence OF