The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-10-18

Looming Up ns Certain Winners.
Things are coming our way.
A short day is better than a short
dollar.-Wiliam MCKINLEY.
The vote of next November will decide
the length of the war in the Philip
pines.
Mr.. Bryan's sneers at the full dinner
pail will not erIace the memory Of the
No. -ingE!cn.
The Democratic party is consistent
In that 1t is keeping up its record for
Inconsistency.
Wear the Fln-.
Mr.. Bryan will omit all illusions to
the Tammany ice trust during his cam
paign tour of New York.
The drift OF public sentiment Is
growing stronger every day in favor
of the Republican party.
The Hon. George Fred Williams de-
clines to permit some of the gold DEM
ocrats to return to the party.
Those who uphold law and order
wenr the Flag.
| The Republican party Is the party
that performs. The Democratic party
Is the party that promises only.
Currency is now going west and
south to move the crops. Never before
did 1t have such a job of moving to
perform.
Fly the Flag.
Senator Wellingtonton goes away
from home to do his campaigning. BY
this move he manages to escape some
of the wrath Of his constituents.
| The difference between Organism
and Democracy is the difference be-
tween politics in its worst sense and
craftsmanship in its historical sigifica-
tion.
| Bryan desrairs of the future of the
country because the voters insist on
permitting business to influence their
politics, and yet he himself has grown
wealthy by making politics his busi-
ness.
| It is safe to predict that free silver
will never again find place in Demo-
cratic platform, but it will take the
party long time to overcome the stig-
ma of having adopted such a financial
| heresy.
| Don't haul down the Flag.
Mr.. Bryan fears that the full dinner
| pail may not last through the cam
| paign. 1t is sure to do that but it will
be empty pretty soon after election, If,
| by any unexpected accident, he should
| be elected.
The settlement of the differences be-
tween the steel workers and their en-
ployers is serious blow to the Demo-
] cratic managers. campaign which
A., depends upon business depression is
naturally fragile and sensitive.
| Those who uphold law md order
! wear the Flag.
A multiplicity Of paramount issues
! has not been productive Of harmony in
, the Democratic household Even those
! who desire to follow their leaders havs
had to "about face" so often that they
cannot for the life of them tell whether
they are coming or going.
After the November elections the
gold Democrats will be in position to
say 81 told you So" and 1t will be their
turn to dictate the conditions for res
toration to membership FOR those who
abandoned the worship of the true
principles of Democracy for the privi-
lege of dancing around the silver calf.
The Democratic papers print with
yhoulish glee every piece of news cal
culated to show with more or less ac-
curacy that the Filipinos are rising
everywhere and killing the soldier boys
Of the United States. But they forget
to add that the responsibility for It
rests with some of the Democrats.
In 1895, under Democratic adminis-
tration, our favorable trade balance
was $75, ,56S,200. During the last three
years, under the Republican policy of
expansion in the worlds markets, our
valuable trade balance has averaged
more than $565, ,0OO, 900 each year. This
means more work for the mills and
more work for American labor.
Be sure to read the new story,
"Malcom Kirk" now appearing in
the Posi-.