The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-29
New YorL,s Bryan Cyclone.

Today Mr.. Bryan is again on a forty
eight hour final rush through New York
to wind up his Eastern campaign. As on
his recent trip through the State, he
leaves the metropolis with the impetus
impaired by the greatest welcome and
political demonstration in his honor ever
witnessed in the national metr, polls. Ii
is admitted by the less rabid Adninistra-
ton press of the city that the Bryan eel
ebration Saturday broke all records. and
made the chilly Roosevelt reception look
insignificant by comparison.
All accounts agree that the gloom at
the Republican national headquarters
both in New York and Chicago. is thick
enough to cut with a knife. Fresh re-
ports from above the Bronx are discour-
aging to Platt and odell. and are growing
more SO daily, as the effects Of Mr.. Bry-
ans personal contact with the country
voters are felt 1t is said, also, that the
Republican campaign managers have just
become aware that a organized pre-
ventive movement On the part of heir
opponents will certainly spoil the schema
to bring over Canadians to the border
counties and vote them for Mr.. Nc
Kinley. So the situation in the Empire
State today may be regarded as highly
encouraging for Mr.. Bryan and corre-
spondingly the other way for Ea2na.
Rockefeller. Eavemeyer, Morgan, Carne-
gle and company.
Conditions in New Jersey, Indiana, and
Illinois are also grave cause for trust
alarm. The first named is giving unmis-
taxable evidences Of a tendency to get
back into the Democratic column, which
it left in 1896. The small number of
votes necessary to change to effect the
revolution. taken in connection with the
wild enthusiasm of Jersey voters every
where for the Democratic Presidential
candidate, present consideration of a
most serious nature to Hanna and his as
eociates. Indiana, too, is worrying them
e nightly. 1t is not denied tina. there is
. considerable element in the State which
II purchasable. The difficulty is that,
counting it at the outside limit, it does
not promise this year to be large enough
to overcome tho honest vote, even if every
political criminal in Hoosierdom can be
bought and polled and the customary
fraudulent vote from Ohio introduced
The trust issue has created a landslide to
Mr.. Bryan in Indiana, whatever it may
dications are that it is great enough to
bury all the bribery, corruption. and fraud
that can be opposed to it.
The situation in Illinois is more than
interesting. For weeks the Republican Ma
tional Committee had been organizing the
monster" prosperity parade, which oc-
CURED without any monstrous feature on
Saturday. So desperately bent were the
campaign managers on having it success
that they induced many large employers OF
labor. which, in the Windy City, is unani-
mously for Mr.. Bryan. to threaten their
workingmen with discharge il they did not
Join in the Full dinner pail'' procession.
By resort to this and such other means
as presented themselves, the Hannaites be-
lieved they had made it certain that there
would be not less than one hundred thou
sand men in line on the great and glorious
occasion. They were miserably disap-
pointed BY actual count there were only
thirty-eight thousand, and Republican ma
tional headquarters in Chicago is a place
Of fear and awful profanity.
Every day brings new comfort TO those
who are fighting the battle of the people
against the trusts and for liberty and the
Constitution. 1t is always unsafe to pre-
dict the nature of a national verdict at the
polls. and the rule applies this year, al
though. perhaps, less forcibly than usual.
But II indications in pivotal States, and
everywhere else over the theatre of war,
are good for anything, the verdict will be
q righteous one