The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-11-02
EVEN BROKERS coERCFD.
wall Street Men Dare Not Come Out
for Bryan

BALTIMORE Nov 2.-The travelling
political correspondent OF the Baltimore
Sun has made some interesting revela-
tions in letter from New York. He
writes:
Z was down in Wall Street yesterday.
What I heard there was such a revelation
10 ne / could scarcely credit my own ears.
Seated in the private ofT1ce Of noted stock
broker, whom I have known for many
years as a most bitter Republican, I list
ened while he unbosomed himself I
should have liked TO march in the Bryan
procession, he said.
Meeting my look of increduIity he con-
tinued; Yes, anE there are more OF US
abort hCr re-
Without seeming to need the least en-
couregenleRt he went on at length. He
said there was a division of sentiment In
Wall Street, strange as ii would appear.
But it was -lntiEuent which was COM
PEELED to expr IS itself in whisper Talk
about coercion OF the laboring classes;
why, il was nothing TO the coercion exer-
cised in Wall Street circles.
IF man was suspected of leaning to-
ward Bryan it would not only be visited
most $ veFely upon him in all his business
affairs. but he would be boycotted socially
and personally. Every minute in the day
almost there would be faunted in his face
banteTs TO bet at odds running all the way
up to III to l. If any man in Wall StTeet
was rash enough TO take up any Of these
offers it was Immediately proclaimed from
one end OF Wall Street to the ether that he
was a Bryanite and he was jeered and
booted at from ali sides until he diSown-
ed any such affiliations. Notwithstanding
this, more silent votes for Bryan from out
Of Wall Street would be I't in the ballot
box than could be dreamed f.
He said it made him sick at the stem-
ach to hear all the stuff about Mckinley
T
had enjoyed three years of comparatively
good times but it would have been just
the same had a goat been sitting in the
White House. He could not subscribe to
Bryan's silver doctrine, neither could he
subscribe to the imperialistic policy Of
Mckinley nor to his upholding of the
trusts, and if Bryan should be elected
there was no reason whatever why the
/ country should go TO the bad.
''Bryan's election would most probably
bring on a panic, for said he. our crowd
will see to that but it would have 10
more than a temporary effect upon sub
stantiaI properties. If Mckinley is re-
elected there viii be a spurt for a short
time. TO be followed by one of the worst
I is certain
He said the leading spirits On the
/ Street were aWfulIy chagrined and disap-
| pointed that Bryan avoided the discussion
| of the silver question during his tour IN
! New York fer this is pretty much all
/ upon which the Street and the Republican
! managers hope fer success. They know
| that the trusts and Imperialism are strong
| cards against them, although vehemeRtly
declaiming to the contrary He went on
/ in this strain for some time, and finally
wound up with (almost under his BREATH:
/ Tt would tickle he to death to see Bryan
elected but for goodness sake don't say I
/ told you
What this Wall Street gentleman said
| was significant n every respect. He ex-
pressed thorouah disgust for Mckinley,
| and much moTe - for Roosevelt, whom he
STYLED a ridiculous figure, without honor
| or respect in his own State.
s'The Republican National and State
| Committees have made much of that class
| of Democrats who, while not willing to
vote for Mckinley, have positively deter
mined not to vote for Bryan. The class of
| RepuhIicans in New York who won't
] swallow Mckinley nor accept Bryan is
| much greater, he said, than the Demo-
| Gratis above alluded to. They are not say
, ing much, but their action, or rather their
non-setson, will have its effect on elec-
| tion day.
.In all the Democratic calculations not
| much. if any, stress has been laid upon
BROOKLYN It has rather been conceded
| that Mckinley was likely to come out a
| few thousand ahead in Brooklyn. With
| the coming in of this week, however, there
| is said to be evidence of a perceptible
| change in Brooklyn sentiment, and today,
| as was told, distinguished Democrat
| of Brooklyn who has all along been Civ
ing it up made {, bet of S1,O00 even il
would go for Bryan, but gave no figures
After the passage of the Mckinley Tar
| if bill in 1885, when the Congressional
| elections brought such woeful discontinue
upon the Republicans ex-Speaker Reed
said it was the women of the country who
| defeated his party. The women OF this
| city from all evidences are going TO have
J somthing to do with the determination of
this election. They have very sensible
Illustration. in the rise of household ne
cessities. OF the effect of the operations of
the trusts, and they are counseling the
| men to vote SO as to abate this burden. .
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