Pike County press. (Milford, Pa.) 1895-1925, 1900-09-07
IF BRYAN is ELECTED.
SOME DISASTROUS RESULTS
WHICH WOULD FOLLOW.
He Stands on wo Platf1rms. Demo-
cratic and Populist, Both Dan

maze Two SpeeCneS II acceptance.
He is standing on two platforms.
He combines in his proper person the
perils of both Democratic and Popu.
list success. BY all this he has made
it possible to marshall clearly, dis
tinctly and unmistakably the evil
which he can do if he becomes Pres
ident.
1. The House will be Democratic,
if Bryan is elected In thirty years
no President has been elected with.
out a House of the same political
complexion, save when Hayes was
chosen in 1876 By no possibility
can it happen in the present elect
ion that a Republican House can be
chosen if Bryan is elected. Presi-
dent Bryan would have a Democrat
Populist House behind him.
2, The Senate will be silver DEM
ocratic and Populist, if Bryan is
elected. In no way can any one, as
we have repeatedly shown, reckon Il
majority for Bryan in the Electoral
College without giving a Democrat
ic-Silver-P Populist majority in the
Senate out of the doubtful States,
and through Silver Republicans. sill
yer VIII be two votes stronger in the
Senate than Bryan's party. Bryan
will have the Senate.
3. II elected Bryan has pledged
himself to call an extra session
Next March, therefore, every bust
ness interest in the country will face
a Populist- Democratic President,
House and Senate, in extra session.
Business will stop until their work
is done. What will this work be if
Bryan Is elected?
4. The Philippines will be sur
rendered, endangering our position
IN the East but this is only to come
after.a "stab'e government" is es-
taN'lshed by the United States,
whether the Filipins want it or not.
The country will have all the evils
of "scuttle" and none of the advan-
tages. such as they are, of a swift
retreat.
8. The gold standard law will be
repealed and free silver coinage or
dered. Both parties and platforms
are pledged to this, and so is Mr..
Bryan. He and his party stand to-
ward free silver exactly where Pres
ident Mckinley and his party stood
toward protection four years ago.
Whatever issue may be conspicuous
in the canvass, free silver is sure to
come forward in 1901, if Bryan is
elected, as protection did in 1897,
when Mckinley was elected
6. If the gold star dard law is not
directly repealed Mr. Bryan's Secre-
tary probably Mr.. Altgeld, has only
to do two things-order silver paid
out where gold is not required by
law and refuse to sell gold bonds to
maintain a gold standard, and both
he could legally do-to bring in the
silver basis, if Bryan is elected.
7. In his Topeka speech Mr.. Bry-
an attacked the the banks and plant.
ed himself on the Populist platform,
favoring the substitution of the ma
tional bank currency by greenbacks.
'"The final question, at this time"
said Mr.. Bryan at Topeka, Gas to
paper money, is whether the banks or
the Government shall issue it."
With President, Senate and House
fav0ring Government issue, an ir-
redeemable paper currency would be
added to unlimited silver coinage, if
Bryan is elected.
s. Both parties demand a free
trade tariff. This would be passed,
if Bryan is elected, exactly as a pro-
tective tariff wass passed in 1897.
8. No free trade tariff can give
sufficient revenue. Witness the de-
ficits 1898 to 1897. An income tax
would be indispensable to meet ex-
penses, if fBryan is elected.
10. An income tax requires a re-
modelling of the Supreme Court. The
court next year will have one mem
Der "A years Of age, two members so
and 6s, and two 60. Either Presi-
dent Bryan's appointments will re-
model the court or a statute can add
two members, reversing the income
tax decision. Holding President,
Senate and House, any change can be
made in the Supreme Court, if Bry-
is elected.
II. Pledged by both platforms
not to use the army TO suppress riot,
in the labor strikes certain to follow
the panic, depression and disaster
these things would bring, our great
cities and their peace, order nd pros
perity and property would be where
Chicago would have been if Cleveland
and Oiney had not acted in 1894.
Moreover, the Supreme Court, as it