The Saint Paul globe., 1900-05-06

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Henry T.oo,nie NaIso,, in Cofiia,,s yv.al-7v.
NJ De-, -. -. % 49,. -
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least ne mas called hlInsef SO IN speaking
oI the East as the enemy 5 country
It is a misfortune to the country that
this should be the attitude Of 4 candidate
FOR tho r,reeidenc7, 1,,bo bas ,oI7aI G -fG oOn
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''oouL 0'yO'VVo VI uiie7e 'OIeS 'dIIC liCHl
west Of the Allegheny mountains, and
that those who cast them share NJ. 3ry-
ans enmitv. Even more unfortunate &
tha fact that ,ra-+ Of tho Aueo,a,,tas md
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-Iy VI IHOle IiS'I 1o0''OY WIS over Nict>ll-
ley; 50 that the enemies OF the EAST were
in a majority in the West and South, and
while these election statistics may have
LITTLE sienifoanca en- far a. tbo ron:n,
oop+eet is oo,oa-n,d tho, ,ra ,,.,..tt.,, cs
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q ioii ''2e 81 'i'9ll
bearing on lAe 4Qture Q+ lEe country ahi
It's politics. .: -.o"4. tE-%
In 1896 BRYAN was not taken 81 ssrI5usIy
bz- the East Al first tbara vas 81, in
cIfnation to LAUGH. at him. and afferward
= strono, disposition to treat Him as a
fearfUI nortent ,There are = a,a-d nt.r1y
things thar. to the Eastern mind are
agrotesoue about this orator of the d o.
pie He does precisely what our mounte-
banks and charjatans do. and 5coDle in
his mart of The c0untrv look rnOn Demo-
cratic antics as tricks of the D0litfciafi's
trade When tbe,. think that an at emit
is heinz, made to .DIay.upon them they re-
sent what they regard as the cheap DEM
agoyv of the business. Politicians IN this
mart of tbcs world" VIII not soon forge the
fate that ibafelI candidate for goveracr,
who, thinking to put himself upon a foot
ing Of friendly familiarity with an audi
ence in a ROwprv beer garden took off
his coat as he began his address to them.
We have. come to regard a proper obSerY-
ance of the conventions as an accompani-
ment of a -dignified character Fne man
who takes the trouble aud. was trs the
time REQUIRED TO carry on an pctive con-
test against conyenti0ils @cafftot be a
Great man. whatever else NAV Datsaid Of
him; and Bryan.s rushing through The
co1n+rz, Dn1,qi,ie.. c1ti phrases. aad per
hitting himself 10 be nfauled over by the
public, was not pleasant object to the
Eastern mind. His rise too. was Very
sudden He had not been known IS a
Democratic leader. 1t was evident. il ad-
vance of it's meeting that the Chicago
cOnV GntiOn would declare IN FAVOR OIL the
free coinage of silver at the ratio of six
teen to one. but it was supposed that tie
real leader of the free-silver movement.
Richard j. Bland. would be the candidate
OF The party There was g certain fitness
about his candidacy, and. Gisagrea With
Bland as we might. every one who knew
him respected his high character ard tiis
sturdy integrity When the actor-ro1-
tician anneared 1DOn the scene. the ru-
conventio, was received with ircreduliiy.
and when he was finally nominated on the
ff+b ballot after the theatrical eneach
CONCLUDING with its tawdrv figure cf tho
.croU,n Of thorns" and the "cgoss of
gold" a good many people in tits part Of
the country laughed and concluded that
the campaign was over almost before it
had begun. But it was not and the ele-
mental struggle in which it is an e-is0de
will not be done with until the East and
the rest of the country come to q better
understanding. Not that it is purely a
sectional strife that Is going on; il would
be much more accurate to call It a social
strife
Rr,ve,1 must he taken seriously and his
cause Needed because he is the product
of roIiticaI and economic conditions still
existing in the country. He is Of what
w. ara wont TO call n,1ra American stock
=
mothers side which have long heen. in tho
country and whose ancestry is English.
tba transplantine. to this side of the ocean
having taken Mace I'm the seventeenth or
eighteenth century. BRYAN himself.
moreover, is of pure Western origin. He
was born in Illinois. at Salem. where his
father was an honored citizen. a leeis-
lator and a Judge. He. too. was Western
In his instincts and sympathies. and
Io,,,oo,, ,oo4bar ,roe l>orr in Jll;roi,
The father was a devout Baptist, man
of daily prayer, and the mother, brought
up Methodist. became a BAPTIST when
she married Bryan himself is a devout
Presbyterian.
Mr. Rrvan was born IN domestic ot
noosnhera Uf+1e known in +his T,a,-f oF tIo
comntryNintensaiv Mons and i,l+e1seI',
Democratic. The snirit that moves fhesc
TaonIe tho anthusiaer,e No. ,+ir -,