Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-06

| populistic notions. The districts have
| been so evenly cut up that the party or
the other, it is predicted will carry
them all.
/ The east has little realization of the
rapidity with which Colorado has re-
covered from its free silver infatuation
| Today Denver is in control of the re-
publicans, and in the county elections
of the last twelve months the republi
| cans have carried off considerably more
than half the honors. And yet this
small state gave Bryan in 1896 the stu
pendous majority of 134,SS2 votes. The
Mckinley electors polied less than II
per cent of the total vote, showing that
only one man and woman in seven adj
hered to the republican cause. But
| four years wrought an astonishing
change. The Bryan vote dropped from
| 10000 to 10000, while the Mckinley
vote pulled up from $4,000 to $4,000 and
| the tide has ever since been steadily
moving republicanward. The silver is
sue is dead The state is prosperous in
| the extreme; the need OF an enlarged
metallic basis in order to keep prices
| from steadily lowering. is not now APP
| parent Gold mining has taken the
I place of silver mining, and the people
| are happy.
| To retrieve their failing fortunes the
| democrats have decided upon course
so radical that it deserves the Afternoon
| of the country, for there is no knowing
| how such things will spread. They pro-
pose in Colorado-and this Will be the
Iloca! issue of the fall campaign-to es-
tablish the New Zealand system OF 10
/ cal option in taxation, allowing cach
| county to decide what 1t cares to ex-
| empt from assessment.
The anti-imperialistic issue is ap-
parently not making great Roadway IN
Colorado: both the present senator's:
Teller and Patterson, We're originally IN
favor of expansion. and so their etior's
now directed against its consequences
| dc not command wide popular support.
THAT Senator Teller's personality VIII
be of advantage to his ticket IN the
coming campaign can not be doubted'
/ in certain ways he is one of the notable
men of the senate. His foresight IN
drafting the resolution of April, 1898,
disclaiming any purpose to keep CUBA,
has had most important history
making results. Without this speeific
promise it is doubtful whether the
United States would have withdrawn
/ from Cuba: at least, that course Woula
have been less clearly marked out as
the proper one; and, whatever the fu-
ture of Cuba may be, everybody must
rejoice that it is left free to act for it
SELF and to taste for q while the de-
lights of freedom and home rule. The
fact that Mr.. Teller's senatorial future
depends upon the results of the coming
election will doubtless be worth thou
sands of votes to the democratic ticket
He has always stood strongly for Colo
radios supposed interests, walking out
of the republican convention of 1896
after an impassioned and fearful
speech, when that body declared for
the gold standard. Before the rise of
the silver excitement Colorado had been
IA pretty trustworthy republican state,
giving its electoral vote to Hayes, Gar
field, Blaine and Harrison.
The change in the Bryan majorities
in Colorado in a single four years brings
the state into strong contrast with In
diana, where party fealty is rarely
shaken. Indiana men of both parties
have so acquired the habit of voting
continuously in the same way they
started in life that estimates of results
are usually based on comparison of
births, deaths, and migrations as these
have affected the two parties, rather
than ON any variableness of sentiment.
An old campaigner tells the story of an
inquiry at a railroad station in Indiana
during the campaign of 1900 as to the
outlook. I'VE shall carry the county
this time sure" remarked an old stager
whose sympathies We're evidently re-
publican. I'VE tied the county four
years ago, and since then three repub-
leans have moved in, and there amt
today case of sickness in the republic
can family"
An interesting map might be drawn
of the parts of the country where poll
tics remain fixed as in Indiana and
where they are subject to violent
changes as in Colorado. The cities, of
course, lead the rural districts in mo-
billy. Chicago drops from a 10000 re-
publican majority in 1886 to a $4,000
majority in 1900, and on municipal cleo
tons goes democratic. New York city
exhibits surprising variations; it was
carried by Mckinley In 1896 and by
Bryan in 1900. California is state of
violent changes; so are most of those
Of the northwest.