The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-23
DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL TICKET.
FOR president.
WILLIAM ]. BRYAN.
FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
AOlAi E. STEVENSON.
REPUBLIC ANS ELECT Mckinley
IN PRINT.

II we may credit that decided advo-
cate of Mckinley and his "isms," the
Washington Post, the game against
Bryan is about won. Now having ex-
hausted all possible abuse, lying.
threats, intimidation, trade bargains.
hootings, Interruptions. ETC., as the
campaign has advanced, the republic
can manipulators, ~tooters, stumpers,
are turning to h event
OF Bryan's defeat" to find out what will
really happen to the country after
wards. The republican leaders, as the
Post saws. are convinced that business
men, north and south, are not friendly
to Mr.. Bryan's political creed, and that
his election, if brought about, Will be
by an uprising of the masses" There
are not as many men of the class des1S-
mated in either section who are as hos
tile to Bryan as there were four years
ago. Look at the distinguished demo-
Gratis who opposed, and the distinguish
ed republicans, who are now for Bry-
an. When such men as Schurz, Sher-
man, Boutwell,, Wellington, Harrison
and scores of OtherS-life long repub-
licans-are against McKinley's foreign
policy it is not a good time to brag too
high on Bryan's defeat. or for demo-
Gratis of any school. good or vicious, to
bolt and go over bag and baggage to
the force bill, usurping, high tariff
robber and imperialistic advocate.
The Post intimates tina the conf
dence is not so strong for a democratic
house. 1t says that the hostility of
the business men and of prominent
democrats of the south to Mr. Bryan
grows more apparent every day. The
constant talk that his or that south
ern state has tendencies to support Mr..
Mckinley means absolutely nothing a.
far as November votes in the electoral
college are concerned. but it has a world
of meaning as regards the drift of SEN
timent in that quarter of the country.
Expasion sentiment has grown there
more than anywhere else in the United
States" We do not credit the state
ment- We believe it is false. The dem
ocrats who are not democrats at heart
have always existed. But for the ne
gro question and dominancy they would
TnSye % long ago to tht party to
which they really belong. If we We're
Il high robber protectionist. believed in
the utility, blessings and fairness Of
trusts, in gold only and imperialism, We
would not remain an hour even so
much as outwardly a democrat. Know
ing democracy means, the great
battles it has fought for the people, and
its fidelity under all pressures to the
constitution. to the Bill of Rights. to
the Declaration OF Independence, to a
government of the people strictly, it's
opposition to a great standing army and
all else that would menace the liberties
Of h people, we are a democrat from
conviction, from knowledge of political
history, from a belief in certain we'll
defined and we'll based principles, and
We shall stand by the grand party Of
Jefferson and Jackson and Calhoun un-
der defeat as when victorious, una we'd,
-unterrifed, unseduced.
We judge from what the Post says
that South Carolina is against Bryan.
How is it that the ablest paper in tina
state. the Charleston News and Courier,
hat 80 ably opposed Bryan in 1896, is
giving him faithful support now. 1t
says a Dave Hill has given up New
York as hopeless. Even it quotes one
or the Virginia democratic representa-
tives saying that Virginia is in the
doubtful column. As to Indiana the
Post says:
The latest inside information abou,
the campaign in Indiana and Illinois
is that the democratic state ticket will
probably be elected. The republicans
are thoroughly frightened about Indi-
ana, but the best observers agree that,
while the electoral vote would be for
Bryan if the two parties were equally
matched for the closing struggle of the
campaign, nevertheless the republicans
have the SinewS of war, which are
particularly effective with a certain
class of Hoosier voters, and the state
will be swung into line for Mckinley,
whatever the cost"
Read that again. The ~Indianaians
are to be bought. That is the game and
the hope. The Messenger has consist
emily insisted that the menace to this
country and the potent factor to be
feared was money. The republicans are
not too good to resort to that means
or to anything else that the ingenuity of
man can suggest that they may win
the day. The corruptest, the, most venal,
the most aggressive and dangerous
party under the sun at this end of the
century will do any thing, however low
and d~isreputable, to defeat the great
est man now known in politics to the
American people.
Ex-Governor William J. Stone, of the
democratic national committee, insists
tina both New Jersey and Ohio are
fighting grounds for his party. He says
that both New York and New Jersey
will go for Bryan. This was said on