Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-06-18
A GLANCE AT NEW YORK.

The New York Press is a stalwart,
thick-and-thin Republican paper. 1t
is for Republicanism at all times,
against all other ideas, policies and
parties. But it isn't above telling the
truth, and it has just done SO. Under
the caption Face the Truth" it
warns the Republican party of New
York, and the nation that that State
is in grave danger Of being lost to the
Republican cause. Almost at the op-
ening of its article it says:
The Press does not want needlessly to
Brighten anybody over the New York sit
uation. but it would ten times rather
frighten Republicans than to see them the
dupes of an infatuation that threatens
fatal consequences to the party ticket in
November. That infatuation is that New
York simply must so Republican IN No
Vember; that the Democrats cannot pos
sibly carry It; that the old Mckinley vote
OF 1896 is eagerly waiting for election day
to swoop down on Organism and bury it
under another plurality of 26S,00O votes.
"Where under the sun can any sane or
reasonable man find any indication of this
painting eagerneSs of anti-Bryan Demo-
Gratis to rush again to the polls in support
OF the Republican party? What Demo-
cratic leaders of men, thought or princi-
pies are open to their supper of the Re-
publican ticket which is to be nominated
next week? CThey all know the platform
as well as they know the candidates.
They have gone back to their party,
haven't they They say so frankly,
and against the Republican party. aren't
they? They admit 1t freely, don't they?
But they are the leaders, the selfish poll
ticians, Ell? How about the plain people,
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ing or defeating of candidates after they
are nominated? How about them? Well,
how about them? What have they been
doing for the Republican party and for
Republican tickets since 1896?
After this prelude the Press sails in
and calls a spade a spade. 1t says:
In 1897 there were so few anti-Bryan
Democrats acting with the Republican
p2rty-tor that matter, there were so few
Republicans acting with their own party
that the Republican tickets in New York
We're utterly lost from the sight of man.
Ihat was only one year after the astound
ing landslide of 1896. But, some one Will
say. the issues We're local. Very well.
IN 1888, the next year, Theodore Roose-
velt, running for Governor, had q plural
ny OF a quarter OF a million less votes
than Mckinley had: and he squeezed
through by the very closest margin. He
was as far below Governor Morton's
plurality in 1894 as $4,000. He lost county
oNNNA NRNANN EtAtA1 ~ AAGli On tIEflED-
dously adverse pluralities. that Morton
had carried with the greatest ease. The
Republican reaction swept him so far
back from the Republican water-marks
o. 1884 and 1885 1--WE say nothing about
1880 that the only thing that saved him.
the pride and Joy of the Republican
party. was the devotion Of his purely
personal following of Independents and
muSwumps. Was Roosevelt a mere local
issue also? Well. let us look again.
In that same campaign of 1895 the Re-
publican party lost a dozen Congress dis
tricts in the numbers below the Seven
teenth district. In each of these districts
the Republican candidate for Member of
the House of Representatives went before
the voters on the issues of the campaign
OF 1896. Each Republican candidate stood
in 1895. and each Democrats stood for
what the Gold Democrats had voted
against in 1S96-Bryanism. And each and
every Republican was defeated,
Where, then, we ask. in the name OF
common sense and truth, has gone that
Gold Democratic support of which the
oraggarts this year pretend to be so