The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-08-22
NOTES ON POLITICS.

To a friend in Washington, Dennis I. Flynn.
just renominated for the fourth time as dele
gate to congress from Oklahoma, writes: You
want to know what the political complexion out
west is IL will probably surprise you, but the
atmosphere and the color of the sky are about
the same as they are in the cast The west
never has seen such prosperity. The crops are
abundant the people are not only wearing
smiles, but good clothes, and no that you
can find honestly believes that Bryan will be
elected. You can bet every dollar you have got
that Mckinley will carry Kansas Just as Ger.
tain as he will carry any state in the Union
Local pride will probably give Nebraska to Bry-
an by a scratch. South Dakota, Wyoming and
Oregon and Washington have all kissed the Kan
sas City platform and its nominee goodbye.
Mckinley and Roosevelt are so far ahead in the
race that the distance nag will be dropped be-
fore the Democratic nominees realize that it
has begun. Mckinley will get more votes than
anybody dreams Of from who do not pro-
fess to be Republicans. They won't state so in
public, but they know when the country has
had clean administration, and there is a sort
OF feeling existing that the proper thing to do
is to uphold the presidents hands"
''In 1885," remarks the Rochester Democrat and
Chronicle, ''Mr. Bryan advocated free silver as
sovereign remedy for hard times He insist.
ed constantly that the free and unlimited coin
age Of silver would compel a rise in prices and
that rise in prices just what the working.
men, the common people, needed to make
them prosperous and happy. II this was a fact
four years ago it is fact today. Mr. Bryan is
as devoted a free siverite today as he was four
years ago. Consequently he must still believe
that rise in prices must he for the benefit Of
the workingnan. Still Mr. Bryan is hercey op-
posed TO trusts, and one OF his most serious OBJ
jections to trusts is that they raise prices. But
il Mr.. Bryan's argument for free silver is good
for anything why should he object to trusts
this account2 Is he not rather Lound to advo-
cate them?" He certainly is if he believes the
report of Carroll d. Wright, the United States
commissioner Of labor, that trusts or combina.
tions pay on the average nearly 90 per cent.
higher wages than were paid in the same es-
tablishments before the combinations took effect.
According to Representative Robert G. Cous-
ins, Of Iowa: ''The people disguised with
the Democratic party. 1t has no policies which
appeal to them; it is headless thing, plungng
blindly about-reactionary, retrogressiye, OBJ
structive and standing upon the decayed founda-
tons Of past and expired issues. 1t seeks to pull
down, not to build up; to undo rather than to
create, to destroy than to foster, to hinder than
to progress, to oppose than to aid, and, alto
gethcr, has long, long outlyed its usefulness
The people are sickcned with its mixed senility
and mbeClity and the cant Of its leaders. The
catch words upon its banners deceive none not
even its own followers. The people Of the west
contrast the present splendid prosperity with
the blight of Bryansm OF four years ago and
well, just wait until the returns come in and
count the majorities."
The Colorado Springs Gazette has formulated
a case which will be tried next November, with
the American people for the jury. 1t thus
states the situation: