The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-02-18
GORMAN DENIES A CAMPAIGN
STORY.

Senator German denies emphatically the
story which has appeared In some of the
New York papers that he had Joined Mr..
Croker to bring about the nomination of
Mr.. Bryan for President, because he be-
heved that Mr.. Bryan would be defeated
and thus permanently removed from poll.
tics.
There was no need for Mr.. German to
deny the story. 1t is doubtful If anybody
whose opinion is worth anything believed
it. AS a matter of fact Mr. German sup.
ported Mr. bryan in 1896, and it is his in
tention to support him this year. 1t may
be that he does not think Mr.. Bryan is
the strongest man the Democratic party
could nominate, but he recognizes that
Mr.. Bryan has the people behind him, and
that there is no doubt that he will be Sc
lected again to lead his party in the pres
idential contest.
Mr. German thinks that the prospects
for electing the next President are a great
deai better than they were a month ago.
and that they are improving all the time
As he puts it, public sentiment is now
running against the administration. The
President made mistake when he sent
to the Senate the amended Clayton Bulwer
treaty. He thought the people were so
anxious for the Nicaragua canal that they
would raise no objection to the treaty in
its amended form-that, in fact his ad-
ministration would earn great applause
by removing what appeared a great OBJ
stacle to the building of the canal.
The people want the canal built, but
they want TO control it absolutely, in time
of war as we'll as in time of peace They
do not want the canal to be neutral as
the Suez canal is They want to fortify
it, if they think it advisable to do so, and
in the event of war, 20 close it to the ships
of the country's enemy while keeping il
open to their own ships. At least that is
the position Mr.. German takes.
There is another thing that is causing
public sentiment to run against the ad-
ministration. 1t is the suspicion that the
administration has a secret understand
ing of some sort with Great Britain This
suspicion is strengthened by the state
ments of Mr. Macrum, ex-consul at Pre-
toria In his published statement Mr.. Ma
alter dSScIllH5 lHdI letters al
dressed to him at Pretoria from the state
department were opened by the British
censor before reaching MIN, says that he
was not aware that there existed an all
lance between the United States and
Great Britain. He does not say of course
that there is such an alliance, but what
he does say is calculated to strengthen the
suspicion that there is.
There is one other thing which, in Mr.
German 5 opinion will help the Democrats
in the coming campaign. 1t is the passage
of the gold standard bin. Thousands of
gold Democrats, having no longer fear of
silver recommendation, will vote the Dem
ocratic ticket. even though it does con-
tain a declaration in favor of silver at
the ratio of 16 to l. These gold Demo-
Gratis contributed largely 90 the defeat of
Mr.. Bryan in 1896. There is no doubt
that the outlook for Democratic success
is very much brighter now than it was a
few weeks ago. And the outlook for the
Democracy will continue to brighten I'M
less serious mistakes are made.