The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-07-20

The New York Evening Post, which
| has persistently attacked the admins
| tration. in and out OF season. which is
rabidly hostile to the retention of the
| Philippines, and to every detail OF the
| Republican programme, save so far as
it extended some grudging approval to
| the financial bill, announces in the
\ most emphatic terms that IL will not
support Bryan or the Democratic plat
| form. The same course is taken by the
| New York Times, Harper's Weekly, the
St. Paul Globe. the Washington Post.
| the Philadelphia Record and the Hart
| ford Times. all newspapers Of character
and standing. which supported the
Democratic party prior to the Chicago
convention of 1896.
The Southern newspapers show in
| their columns the same sentiment. Says
the Chattanooga Times: I'VE believe
we were right in 1896. and we shall con-
tinue to be right in 1900 by contributing
nothing to the election OF Mr.. Bryan"
The Charlotte. N. c.. Observer says:
| THE Observer cannot support the can
| dldates nominated or the platform
promulgated at Kansas city"
Speaking OF the manner in which Mr..
Bryan dominated the Kansas City con-
vention, as no man ever before con-
trolled a body OF representative Demo-
Gratis, the Baltimore Sun says: "As
the dictator Of policies and candidates.
he is without a rival. but the dictator
is not always acceptable to the Ameri
can people"
The Brooklyn Eagle. being sound on
the subject of expansion, has no use
for any portion of the Democratic pro-
gramme, and supports the Republican
| national ticket without any equivoca-
ton. saying: IAN issue with manhood
in II, and with the baptism Of blood ana
bravery on It, has rarely been losing
one in any country of the English
speaking race"
As with the newspapers. so with the
| men. Ex-President Cleveland says:
"The method by which the party is to
be hsrmonized and Democracy Is to
gain the support Of thinking and re-
Elective citizens is beyond my compre-
hension"
Hagermann, a Democrat OF many
years party service. president of the
German American Savings bank. OF
Burlington. Ia. and Alexander E. Orr.
former president of the New York
Chamber of Commerce. one OF the fore
most Democrats In New York. and
strong anti-expansionist besides. each
| announces that he will work and vote
for the success OF the Republican ma
tional ticket in the present campaign.
Former Comptroller Eckles fatty re-
pudiates Organism, saying: II do not
| accept Republican doctrines as against
pure Democratic ones rightly Interpret
ed and Incorporated into the admins
tration of public affairs. but as between
Republicanism and Populsm filtered
through the channels of Organism.
prefer RepublIcanism;" and therein he
expresses the sentiment of nearly every
Gold Democrat. as well as those OF the
Democratic advocates OF expansion.
| Just one independent newspaper OF
standing has accepted the Bryan candi-
! daey on the anti-expanslon issue, the
| Springfield Republican. 1t had gone so
| far In its rabld denunciations OF the
administration that 1t could not retreat
and while processing adherence for the
other issues of Organism, II supports
| the Democratic ticket for the sole rea-
! SON that the success of the Democratic
! ticket would mean the immediate with
drawal Of all the United States troops
| from the Philippines.
From the foregoing il will be seen
how slim is the prospect that the Bry-
antics will recover any portion OF the
| Democratic votes which were lost to
them In the East four years ago.
A sey,l-cty Hired povver FIJI enor, aar,