Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-05
A GE N E RAJ VIEW
Important Developments of the Cam
paign.
UNION OF THE BUSINESS MEN
Usual Familiar Signs Indicate Re-
publican Success.
HOSTILITY TO B R Y \ n is NJ
Special From a STAFF Correspondent.


for perhaps several weeks.
On this last day before the ballots are to
be counted the more familiar signs by
which election results are Indicated and
those forces which ordinarily are counted
upon to be controlling in an election, are
with the republicans. The situation which
is easily observable here is indicated to ex
list elsewhere by reports from nearly every
state in the Union where any contest is
being made. Whether these reports come
from republican or from democratic sources
they indicate more or less clearly a thor
ough and practical republican organiza
ton, and less thorough and less practical
organization of the democrats. They indi-
cate also that business influences every
where are strongly hostile to Bryan, this
hostility having grown stronger as the cam
paign has advanced. 1t is also plain that
there is a great intensity of feeling in the
campaign, and this may justify the con-
clusion that 1t will be more than ordinarily
difhcult to influence any considerable num-
Der of voters to depart from their original
purpose. From what ] learn of the
inner workings of the canvass, ! do not be-
heve there Is any warrant for the talk of
wholesale purchase of voters. The cam
palgn promises to be unusually free from
that The democrats have not sufficient
money, If they had the disposition to enter
INTO such a scheme; anG the republicans
nave found more practical and Surer meth
DDS of using their money in the canvass
Purchased votes are too doubtful of de-
livery and there is always the liability of
having to purchase that which is already
your own and inaugurating a system of
breeding which would drain campaign
fund of the largest proper tions one of
the difficulties the democrats have in com
pehng with Hanna's management is that
they do not rightly comprehend the broad
lines along which he operates and while
they are looking for some small political
move, he se1zes upon opportunities when
they have failed to see or do not know how
to handle. ~
bile the opposing managers draw rad
1aHy dlnereht conclusions from the con-
u.lohs "hlch they see at the close of the
canvass, and very bold claims are made on
each side, there is little disagreement when
you sift it down, as to conditions that NAV
reaclIy De known; and in what is absolutely
Known there Is more that is favorable to
the republicans than to the -democrats
whether there are forces at work at this
tme that have not before appeared in a
campaign and whom they favor if thew
do exist, neither party can be certain The
conservative observer accepts the Irish
mans proposition that the COMMONPLACE
Is more common, and looks upon the sue
cess or the republicans as a fairly safe
prediction. The man who is looking for
things out OF the ordinary finds abundance
of evidence to found his theories upon, but
1t Is all Of the sort that theories are made
of. The man who tries to be practical must
discard it all. Perhaps genius might read
these unfamiliar signs to his entire Satis-
faction Bryan may be such genius and
may base his confidence upon things clearer
to him than to other persons. AT all events
his confidence is contagious among demo-
Gratis. though l can find no practical politi-
clans among them who can produce tangf-
Bile reasons for this faith
The campaign has made clear If there
was any doubt about 1t before. that trusts
are unpopular. 1t IS also evident that a
large number of people, of them
among those who well to do, feel that
somehow they have not got their fair share
of the goods Of this life Manifestly there
are a lot Of discontented people in this
world. The canvass has disclosed strong
opposition in some quarters to the most
conspicuous policies of the administration
and also that there are many voters who
have been disappointed in their ambition
for office. who think that a change Of ad-
ministration might benefit them 1t Is prob
ably beyond dispute, too, that there has
been growth of the socialistic sentiment
IN quarters where philosophy of that sort is
most readily adopted and In a general way
the labor element is growing more inde-
pendent and aggressive.
Union of business interests.
But all these conditions and tendencies
have operated conspicuously in one direc-
tiOn-that is, to make business men more
conservative and to unite business interests
II. opposition to any radical departure that
might affect capital or change social COndi-
lions. All the great agencies of enterprise
are found by the reports from all quarters.
To be exerted in behalf of the republican
party. This is found to be true on the
Pacific coast. among the intermountain
states AMI in the middle west, it is here
in New York. in proportion to the influence
Of hat element in the community, its great
est influence probably being felt here.
The clements opposed to each other in
this campaign have not before measured
their strength, and opinions may differ to
which will prove most powerful, without
having any definite standard to calculate
IRON.
Business Mems Parade.
The business mems sound money parade
here Saturday was surely an impressive
demonstration of earnestness-the more 50
from the fact that it req hired courage 10
march for hours in such weather 1t was
probably deprived Of some of its influence
upon the floating and doubtful vote by the
fact that the number OF spectators was not
nearly so large as it would have been had
the day been fair, but this Is compensa ted
for in a measure by the fact that most men
in these days are newspaper readers.
Mr.. Croker and other democrats insist
that many of the 81. 600 men in line were
democrats and will vote for Bryan If This
assertion be true as to their being demo
Gratis it is not likely to be true that very
large number Of them Will vote for Bryan
Participation in that great demonstrators
and imbibing the enthusiasm of the occa.
sion will be likely TO make most of those
who were democrats conclude TO vote as
1NtS mdfCneu+ JH6 banners mat ram
many strung across their path and the
cries of White slaves" raised by groups ol
men and boys along the line of march vii
probably help them to that conclusion. II
the parade had other effect 1t proba bly,
made converts OF some of the in line
for there were some democrats in line. moi
because they were driven TO 1t. but because
they thought it good policy.
The Employees In Line.
The parade composed of bushes.
men and the higher class of employees. 1t /:
not common among that class of employees
who make a good living, dress we'll anC
have a social standing ambitions, to fine
feeling of antagonism toward their EN-
ployers toward the administration under
which the business in which they are EN-
ployed fiourishes. The young men in tht
banks and business houses with whom
have talked show disposition to identif.
themselves with the interests with which
they associated, and most Of them car,