The daily sentinel., 1900-10-12
HOW POLITICAL SITUATION LOOKS.

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and Mr. Bryan total of 6,5o2o25
all of FIVE New England states in New York. New
Jersey Pennsylvania Michigan Wisconsin and Minnesota the
republicans but little if any, organized opposition
upon thousands of democrats did not to the
polls incentive restrain decrease the repub
maoes In these eleven doubt existed as to
37 electoral would be and whether the
ajoties supporting amounted thousand ten
thousand Of political Democrats
dislked platform dsrusted the candidate voted tor
Mckinley Palmer and the Others practically abandoned the
eleven Mr. Mckinley obtained majors
ty o6372 more than his plurality over Bryan IN
the whole poll In very fair fight made and the
been counted Mr. McKneys majority would
probably not have of 43o7
Two years later the republican vote in hoty
tested state election fell off 10000
No informed candid politician doubts that in Ohio
Illinois, by known Mr. Hanna and es
tabished of his million dollar corruption
fund hundred thousand votes
ported having for Mckinley which never
deposited the ballot boxes good portion Of which were
changed Bryan his opponent Not
bushng brutal the Hayes frauds of 1876 were the Hanna
frauds of 1896 but much more effective
The country dazed by the result, but owing to wide
dssnson democrats and the eachey and
apostacy Cleveland OF the party great amount OF
attention given In this of our Lord all the
1896 changed OF the organized host led by
Palmer Buckner years ago and supported by
Cleveland oicehode but three solitary survivors worth
namng-L Sterling Morton, William D. Bynum and John P
Irish Cleveland himself but unfagant memory OF the
milions-hadly willing to confess to it.
Mr. Bryan grown public estimation other states
the last fifty He longer ridicued
and distrused Once in while like Hanna utterly de-
void of shame of propriey besotted egost
like Roosevelt fings epthe him. but the offenders
are few without regard aiaton believe
honest and independent Again. democrats
be animated by the greatest enthusiasm
They enough the post
age bills different commtteesbut they alert active
and fight knowledge that they have another
gigantic corruption fund.- contributed by the gorged trusts and
Hanna does appa them does not dis
indicates that
they will n spite of all they have to contend with
Four years ago Mr. McKney's supporters pofessed to
favor Thousands Of their orators protested
on the Mckinley would be able if elected to bring
about Bryan They pointed McKnes speeches
and his votes silver republicans why they should
template desertion of their when it
and in the line. That lie
stands Now pretending favor the double
ratio the republican party firmly and unbushngy for the
gold standard
Certainly nobody that the frauds OF
the Mckinley strengthened him. Who
there he vote for another four
wears of Mckinley of Ager Eagan Rathbone and
Neey2
Who is there who has the courage to declare that while
doubtful before enroll himself under the Hanna and
Mckinley of his pride the Porto Rica and
Philippine episodes in our history?
If onehalf of the voters the
perasm of the administration their ballots against
it in the hitherto state their electoral
will given Mr. Bryan.
what In which gave in
1906 Mckinley the negro furnished the de>
cisive had been in the opposite direction
McKneys nnetyhve majority in the electoral college
would have been changed to a minority Of seventeen
And what has his party done for the colored