Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1900-09-25
is ALL BRYAN'S WAY.
EVIDENCE OF A LANDSLIDE TO
DEMOCRACY'S CANDIDATE.
Even Party Managers Are Surprised
at the Bryan Enthusiasm Mani
fested-Smail Percentage of Gain in
Each Precinct Will Do the Work.
Washington correspondence:

Each Precinct Will Do the Work.
Washington correspondence.
It is campaign coincidence worthy
OF note that on the day when the Re
publicans lnaugurated their campaign
in Indiana, Senator Fairbanks, speak
ing for the administration, devoted
much of his time to the farming ele-
meut &C the voters and attempted to
show what great things had been done
for them by the Republican administra-
ton, while Mr. Bryan, addressing an
agricultural and mining community in
West Virginia, proved conelusively 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, i'll tie metropolitan press.
A1r. Bryan's attention was directed to
the farmer at some length because of
tie attempt of a New York newspaper
10 make it appear that Mr.. Bryan was
making a large profit out of the pro-
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-
hcans, Mr.. Bryan innocently and mad
vertently replied to the very speech de-
byered on the same day in Indiana by
Senator Fairbanks, who made the far
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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 filed the Republican manag-
ers with alarm. The reception that
greeted Bryan in the Hoosier State a
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
campaign, and indianapolis, where
Bryan spoke, was selected as 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
q 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 10 raise the price of
farm products. Proving that the Re
publicans have 40 policy that will raise
tie 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 III glittering platitudes
intended to catch the unwary and APP
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 adj
minstration 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 the literal fulfillment of this tru-
ism that the Democratic party de-
mands. Those who toll, in Indiana.
have been defrauded of the fruits of
their labor. 1t is one of the trust-rid-
den States of the West, and yet no
where are the trusts more loudly in
Weighed against by the Republican poll
ticians than in Indiana. A recent can
vass of the State shows that the glass
trust the pottery trust. the iron and
steel trust, the wire nail trust and the
..,eycle trust. have thrown out of en-
ploymeut upward of $4,000 men who.
through no fault of their own. have
been compelled to stop work and suf-
~ COR the absolute necessities of life.
This sroGpage was not due to the con
e s~l-n Of + IN, 4,
aaee of the demands S0r the products
of the labor of these men. They were
surned out and the works closed Sown
simply because the capitalists behmd
fhe establishments wanted 10 lessen
the output, create an artificial demand
for the goods and by reason of the
shortage push up the prices. That was
tais condition the Indiana laborer was
seQured to suffer.
The loss of something like five thou
sand votes in the Republican majority
IN Vermont this year was accounted
for by senator Proctor of that State 81
the White House when he said THAI
the loss was due TO the return of the
senator Proctor is noted for his blunt
frankneSs, and he doubtless believes
that this is the real cause of the big
Republican loss. His statement has set
Republican politicians to thinking. Ii
The same change is seen in other States,
where the Mckinley majority four
years ago was small and due entirely
To Democratic disaffection. what may
toe result be this year when the party
Is united and haTmonious2 The Yer
mont election indicates that the drift
is toward Bryan. that the tide is turn
inc aad that the Republican party must
fight and fight harder fer further
lease of life. Compared with four years
ago. the Republican loss In Vermont is
about 10 per cent and the Democratic
gain about 16 per cent. In 1876. IL
Bryan had received forTy-eight more
al votes be would have been