Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1900-09-26
Is ALL BRYAN's WAY.
EVIDENCE OF A LANDSLIDE TO
DEMoCRACY'S CANDIDATE.

EVIDENCE OF A LANDSLIDE TO
DEMoCRACY'S CANDIDATE.
Even Party Managers Are Surprised
at the Bryan Enthusiasm Mani
fested-small Percentage of Gain in
Each Precinct Will Do the Work.
Washington correspondence:
1t Is a campaign coincidence worthy
of note that on the day when the Re-
publicans inaugurated their campaign
in Indiana, Senator Fairbanks, speak
ing for the administration, devoted
much Of his time to the farming ele-
ment of the voters and attempted to
show what great things had been done
for them by the Republican admtnistra-
ton, while Mr.. Bryan, addressing an
agricultural and mining community in
West Virginia, proved conclusively that
the Republican party had done nothing
for the farmers except to foster COM
bines that put up the price Of every
thing the farmer had to buy. Both
these speeches were printed, side by
side, in the metropolitan press.
Mr.. Bryan's attention was directed to
the farmer at some length because of
the attempt of n New York newspaper
to make 1t appear that Mr.. Bryan was
making large profit out of the pro-
ceeds Of his farm" In showing that
he did not own the large farm alleged
and in celebrating his text by showing
that the farmer was not the beneficiary
of the benefits claimed by the Repub-
licans, Mr. Bryan innocently and mad
vertently replied to the very speech de-
Ayered on the same day in Indiana by
Senator Fairbanks, who made the far
mer his chief auditor and who pledged
the Republican party to curb trusts and
combines and repress everything that
sought to restrain legitimate trade.
The condition Of affairs in Indiana
and West Virginia, both of which
States went for Mckinley four years
ago, have filled the Republican manag-
ers with alarm. The reception that
greeted Bryan In the Hoosier State o
few days ago was a revelation even to
The managers, who a few days before
the arrival of the distinguished candi-
date were compelled to admit that the
party poll indicated landslide to the
Democratic ticket. The order went out
for the Immediate opening up of the
campaign, and Indianapolis, where
Bryan spoke, was selected US the place,
and Fairbanks, the Presidents mouth
piece in the Senate, as the spokesman
of the administration in the State.
Meanwhile Bryan, Fastening across the
Presidents State, hau set Maryland
and West Virginia ON fire and started
a wave of enthusiasm that the Repub-
licans have endeavored in vain to re-
press.
Mr.. Bryan has asked his hearers to
name one thing that has been done by
the Republicans to raise the price of
farm products. Proving that the Re-
publicans have no policy that will raise
the value of the farmers products, Mr..
Bryan has shown deliberately and con-
clusively that it does promote the trusts
and through them raises the price of
everything controlled by the trust that
the farmer has to buy, from the Irvine
with which he binds his grain to the
article on his table and the material
used by his good housewife in every
branch Of the household economy,
And yet Senator Fairbanks, pushing
the history Of his State behind him and
ignoring the record which was an open
book, INDUCED in glittering platltudes
intended to catch the unwary and ap-
peal to Republicans that might be wa
vering in their allegiance to the party
of trusts and combines. Mr.. Fairbanks
attributes the gain in the value of farm
products and live stock, which he says
have gained in value, not to the law of
supply and demand, which usually con-
troll prices, but to the Republican ad-
ministrati0n. He declares that the
ranks of the employed have been in
creased by hundreds of thousands and,
in the shape of an axiom, says: "Those
who toll should not be defrauded of the
fruits of their labors."
1t is tile literal fulfillment of this tru.
. s<,s .A" nhas. ...,.s IN =, pI.ty ue-
lanus. Inoss VIZ ooi' ~ ihaiana.
their labor. 1t is one of the trust-rid-
den States of the West, and vet no.
where are the trusts more loudly in
Weighed against by the Republican poll
ticians than in Indiana. A recent can
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