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Dunn. 608 14th N W. For sale In Denver, Ceto., by Hamilton & Kendrlck. 806-812 Seventh street. i TODAY'S WEATHER. Increasing cloudi ness, probably followed by rain; winds mostly southerly. rORTLAM), TCBSDAY, SOVEMBER O TUB MEANING OP THE CONTEST. Shall we reopen the monetary agita tion? The oountry knows through bitter experience what that agitation cost It, down to the election of Mc Kinley on. a gold platform, four years ago The Bryn party, its candidate and its platform, are pledged to renewal of this agitation. Let no man say it is an Imaginary danger. The party has de clared for it, In strongest terms. The candidate stands for it. Are not can didate and platform to be taken at what they say? True, C. E. S. "Wood and some others say not. But who has authorized them to declare that the great body of their political associates are liars? Four years ago the country didn't want the party that deolared for free silver. That party now renews its dec laration for free silver. Does the coun try want It now? There Is, moreover, in the platform of the Bryan party now the same dec laration for free riot that so offended the country four years ago, and the Bame menace to the Federal courts that then alarmed the country. The platform of 1896, which the coun try rejected by an overwhelming vote, has been "reaffirmed in its entirety by the Bryan party, and Is again the issue In the election today. The country re jected it then, and has seen the result In a period of order, fruitful industry and high prosperity. Why, therefore, shouldn't the country reject it again? The great body of active, prudent and Industrious me.n. In every line of busi ness, industry or action. Is for Mc Klnley. There are exceptions, of course, but they are comparatively few. On the other hand, the great body of men who do not make prudent and cal culated Industry the order of their lives, who strive little and accomplish Utile, who laok efficiency and run to thrlftlessnese, is lor Bryan. Every person sees this general line of divis ion. Men who have little or nothing to lose, who have small hopes and smaller ambitions, who do not feel the respon sibilities of affairs and accustom them selves to the idea that their non-succesB ik the result of wrongs committed against them by other men, or by so ciety and government, are voting for Brynu, while those who look for their resources within themselves and are willing- to pay and expect to pay the price of success In prudent and calcu lated effort, are against him. It is a line of division never seen so clearly hitherto in our politics. Bryan's meth ods have forced It and drawn the line. The next great matter at issue is the Philippine Islands. Pretense is set up that our worlt there is a crusade against liberty. SThts is partisan dec lamation. No mn really believes It. "We shall put hunWn rights and self government la the Philippines on a bet ter basis than the natives ever could or can. without our ad. Through the presence of our flag in the Philippines and through oKr sovereignty over the Islands, civilisation, with liberty and humanity, will be Immensely the gainer. This Is the first phase of the Philip pine Question. We pass to the next one. Shall we surrender the Philippine. Islands, withdraw from them and for feit the immense advantage they offer us, not only in themselves for com merce, but as a position of Influence and ever-growing power. In the open ing trade of the Orient? This Is a vital matter to our Paolflo States. He Is no friend te their de velopment who would throw this op portunity away. Thus far we have had little here, and the trade of the Orient Is our only hopeful prospect. But the Bryan politician will ask: Is trade to be set against liberty and civ ilization? No. Our position in the Philippines will make for liberty and for civilization as well as for trade though not for savage warfare or free riot National reputation. National honor, too, our standing before the world, are very much at stake in this -enterprise. It Is a question whether we are actu ated by a spirit of courage or not; whether our spirit partakes of the world-spirit, or Is merely a provincial spirit; whether we are a people to be daunted by the first considerable under taking in which fortune, opportunity, course of National events, contact with the outer world, have carried us, or whether we are a people of courage, resolution and purpose. Disguise it as we may, there would be shame and hu miliation for us before the world. In withdrawal from the Philippine Islands. It would be a confession of National defeat the first this country has "known. These are the main issues on which the electoral contest of today is made up. We shall see what the electoral majority has to say upon them. A WORLD IN WAITING. In the result of today's election the whole country Is concerned; but no other portion has so much at stake on the result as has the Pacific Coast. The silver baBls would hurt us less than It would hurt the East, because of our habitual use of gold and the traditional disgrace of those who "greenbacked" their creditors in the last era of debased currency. But the verdict of the country upon the Admin istration's foreign policy. If adverse, would affect us more disastrously than any other section. And for two reasons, one Immediate and one remote. The immediate effect would be to discourage our newly es tablished trade with Asia. Under cover of the American occupation of Manila our goods have been Introduced Into unfamiliar fields in the Philippines, making widened markets for our manu factures and thus affording Increased employment for our labor. The elec tion of Bryan would put the seal of dis approval upon all this activity, and give notice to our capital and our fac tories that they "must turn their atten tion to the home field with Increasing severity of competition, diminishing markets and shrinking payrolls. More remote but more profound will be the effect upon International politics. When we consider the great forward movements undertaken under Presi dent McKlnley's Administration, not only acquisition of new territory, but self-assertion In the Asiatic fight for trade, and reflect that the election of Bryan would put the stamp of disap proval and rejection upon this whole tendency, we can understand why It Is, as the London cable announces, that Europe has stopped work and sits down to await the result. The reason for this suspense Is that the whole for ward movement of the last two years, as represented In the treaty of Paris, Pacific expansion and .Secretary Hay's demand for the open door In China, Is balled In question by the Bryan party and will be repudiated by its success. Ordinarily, no nation ever confronts a crisis of this kind, because the general policy Is recognized as paramount by both parties. In Great Britain, for ex ample, both great parties stand for the greatness of the empire and the main tenance of its prestige politically and commercially, and differ in their pro posals of means to ends. It Is only in this country that partisanship, In trusted to unstatesmanllke hands, de clares war on National greatness, ele vates National failure and calamity to the dignity of a civic Ideal, arid points with pride to those who are In arms against the forces of the United States. Ordinarily, both parties are for Na tional success If the Nation Is at war, and they differ as to the shortest way to victory: but In this case one side Is for the Nation and the other for its enemies. Ordinarily, each side rejoices in the country's greatness and prosperity, and the quarrel is as to its causes; but In this case the country's greatness is viewed with alarm, Its successes de cried. Us failure hoped for, Its progress denied. Its prosperity hooted at. Ordinarily, each side glories In the country's honor and prestige abroad and vies with the other In pledges of greater achievement; but In this case one side is for humbling the Nation, traduces the Army and boldly defends the principle of hauling down the flag. It Is a strange thing that party oppo sition should carry a party to the ex treme lengths of antagonizing the growth the country has made, both In territory and in influence among the nations. ' But It has been done, and that Is why the world stands still to see what the verdict will be. Our European rivals never hod the concern about an American election that they have about this one. They know that In our withdrawal from a strong position In the Pacific will come their unimpeded opportunity In Asia. They know that a reversal of the poll oles maintained by McKinley, Hay, Root, Long, Smith and Griggs will be the signal for withdrawal of the United States from self-assertion In the contest for trade, and abandonment of the field to Its rivals. The proud position which American arms and American diplomacy have won for us the past two years is dis tasteful to the Bryan party, and will be abandoned by It If put In power. To that It Is committed, and the world sees It plainly. The work done by Dewey and Grldley, Sampson and Schley. Otis and Lawton, Schurman and Worcester, Anderson and MacAr thur. Hay and Root, Roosevelt and Wheeler. Wood and Summers, Funston and Stotsenberg, will be undone as quickly as possible by Bryan and Ste venson. Jones and Croker, Tillman and Altgeld. Truly, It Is not worth while td do much until the question Is decided. PROOF OF PROSPEHITY. Poor's report of the earnings of rail roads In this country In 1S99 deals with enormous figures. These earnings In total were $1,336,096,000; in net, 5447. 741,044, being up to the time the report closed the greatest record of earnings" ever made by American railroads. As this has also been a notable railroad year, the figures for 1900 will no doubt show an Increase over the phenomenal earnings of last year. These figures tell a story of pros perity that is by no means confined to the railroads. The enormous volume of business was possible because the people were buying, selling and travel ing as never before in the history of the country. They have had money and they have used It In traffic and In travel. Proof of this was and still may be found In crowded passenger cars, in enormous freight trains and In the un paralleled v activity on every road. ISimpty stated, the country Is producing and spending 'at a rate unequal ed here tofore, and the earnings of the rail roads show hut one phaBe of the gen eral prosperity. Suggestive of another phase Is the large difference between the gross and the net earnings, which represent, among other things, millions of dollars paid to railway employes. There is no such thing as a one-sided prosperity. Not all the rant indulged by Bryan in a thousand speeches can disprove this simple statement or dispel its logic. A wheel within a wheel wheels within wheels from factory to market, from producer to consumer, from the capital ist who furnishes the plan to the hum blest employe who findB therein a mar ket for his skill or his brawn all turn upon a common pivot, and, turning, produce prosperity all along the line. OUR LOCAL INTERESTS. The Russian Government has in course of promulgation a tariff on im ports into her Asiatic possessions, the object of which is to monopolize their trade for her own people. It Is the pol icy which France employed to destroy our flourishing trade with Madagascar, and which Germany is using to cripple American exports Into her empire. It is faithful indication of the policy Euro pean powers, with the possible excep tion of Great Britain, may with cer tainty be expected to employ against us in Asiatic territory, wherever not restrained by our diplomacy or our arms. The race for markets has become very fierce among the highly civilized nations, and the activities of the great powers are directed to little else nowa days but the conservation of fields for Investment of accumulated home cap ital and for sale of the rapidly Increas ing surplus of home manufactures. Every great nation" Is now making tre mendously more goods than It can con sume at home. Every great nation has Immensely greater accumulations of savings than it can employ at a profit at home. Outside openings for Its cap ital, outside markets for Its manufac tures, are a necessity, unless Its capital Is to become unproductive, unless Us labor Is to be thrown out of employ ment The most potent fact of this critical situation Is that the only basis of ef fective" assertion and protest In these matters rests on physical force. The labored diplomacy of a power without fleet or army, naval bases or coaling stations, Is impotent. If American cap ital Is to share In the task of civilizing Asia with railroads, canals, roads, bridges and factories, Us rights and Us equal privilege with other capital must be guaranteed it by the United States Government, through retention of the Philippines and the maintenance of adequate naval and military force In Pacific waters. If the markets of awakening Asia are to be kept open to American manufacturers, the repre sentations of our diplomats must be backed up with possession of the Phil ippines, with possession of army and navy adequate to enforce whatever those representations involve. This is the way other powers do, this is the way we ourselves have always had to do. For us to demand rights or protest against discriminations, without the equipment and military bases to make those demands and protests effective, would only be to excite derision. The prosperity of Oregon wheatgrow ers and flour mills, loggers and lumber mills, hopgrowers and breweries, stock men and meat packers, cracker fac tories and cordage works, woolgrowers and woolen mills, with all their em ployes and retail tradesmen, Is largely In the hands of the United States Gov ernment, and depends largely upon the attitude and purposes of the Adminis tration concerning Pacific expansion and Asiatic markets. The Bryan pro gramme is a direct attack on the wel fare of the Pacific Coast. THE REAL BRYAN. When Bryan was candidate for United States Senator from Nebraska In 1894, he announced among other things that he favored an income tax as a permanent part of our fiscal sys tem, preferring a graduated Income tax; the operation of the telegraph sys tem by the general Government; "such legislation as will 'hereafter prohibit the making of contracts for a particu lar kind of money"; the issue of all the paper money of the country by the general Government, in shape of full legal-tender paper; "the Immediate res toration of the free and unlimited coin age of silver at present ratio of 16 to 1 without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation on earth." This was part of his platform in 1896, and it is included In his platform to day, for September 4, at Zanesvllle, O., this year, he said: "The Democratic party stands where it did in 1896 on the money question." And at Grand Rap Ids, Mich., the 11th of last month, he said: "The Democratic party Is for the free coinage of sliver at the ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the aid or con sent of any other nation." He still stands where he did in 1896 on the money question, and urges those to whom prosperity has come to invite and embrace disaster by supporting him and the free coinage of sliver. What kind of a man is this Bryan, measured by what he has done In a life of 40 years? He was admitted to the bar at Lincoln. Neb., In 1S85, when he was 25 years old. At the end of three years he had no practice what ever; he could not afford to practice law, for he had found out that he had a large mouth that had been put on melting hot and had run all over him. It was suoh a mouth as Shakespeare makes Faulconbrldge Impute to the Duke of Austria Here's a large mouh. Indeed, That spits forth death and mountains, rocks and seas. Talks as familiarly of roaring lions As maids of thirteen do o puppy-dogs! What cannoneer begot this lusty blood T He speaks plain cannon fire, and smoke and bounce; He gives the bastinado with his tongue; Our ears- are cudgell'd. Zoundsl I was never so bethump'd with -words Since I first call'd my brother's father dad. At the end of three years this large mouth had made Bryan a candidate for Congress. He was elected, and served four years. Since that time Bryan has had no law office, but has been traveling over the country making political speeches. At the time he en tered politics hlB father-in-law built him a house, but he himself was not worth 5500, and, except for what he has made by speaking and lecturing .and on his book, or what has been given him by his' free-silver friends, he is not worth, outside of the home built for him, more 'than $500 today. He wa3 40 years old last March; he has never been retained in a case of any importance, and is .utterly without any reputation for ability in his profession. He has never been connected with or placed in touch with any commercial, manufacturing1 or financial enterprise whatever., He never saw any service in the State Leg islature before he "went to Congress. And yet this man, without any stand ing in his profession, without any ex perience with or knowledge of the world of business affairs, without any acquired Intelligence through large read ing and thoughtful reflection, is put forward by the National Demo-Populist party as fitted to assume the duties of the President of this country, the greatest Nation on earth I Bryan's whole stock in trade ilea in. the gurglings of his mouth, the mega phonic quality of his voice and the plenitude of his oratorical gall. He is a political agitator and Boclal incendi ary, utterly unqualified and unfitted to be placed in the Presidential chair. Bryanlsm as expounded by Bryan re calls Sydney Smith's humorous denun ciation of the solar system: "Damn the solar system; bad lights, planets too distant, pestered with comets, fee ble contrivance." Bryan favors the adoption of a "com pulsory arbitration law" by Congress. Of course, compulsory arbitration would be curtailment of the right of freedom of, contract. The Constitution of the United States would have to be changed; the whole theory and practice of the American Government would have to be changed, and If this took place the Government Board of Arbi tration would have the pay of the workmen and business of the em ployer both at Its mercy. Even today, while the employer keeps his contract the employe can arid does break his contracts at will. The famous Chicago railroad "tie-up" of 1894 was a demand on the companies to break their con tracts with the Pullman Company, con tracts equally binding In law and In morals. Demagogue Bryan knows per fectly well that arbitration between employer and employe can only-be vol untary. He knows that compulsory ar bitration could not be enforced any more than you can force In practice to day a worklngman to keep his con tract. In theory, you can. but In prac tice, you cannot. Compulsory arbitra tion would mean to deny to the own ers of capital invested in railroads, manufactories, etc., the liberty of mak ing their own bargains. This would make capital spurn Investment The goose that laid the golden ess would fly to other countries, leaving the mass of labor with nothing to do but to ask one another whether after all National poverty is a blessing when consequent upon the persecution, expropriation and ultimate expatriation of capital. THE PARAMOUNT ISSUE. "IF THERE IS ANY ONE WHO BELIEVES THE GOLD STANDARD IS A GOOD THING, OR THAT IT MUST BE MAINTAINED. I WARN HIM NOT TO CAST HIS VOTE FOR ME. BECAUSE I PROMISE HIM IT WILL NOT BE MAINTAINED IN THIS COUNTRY LONGER THAN I AM ABLE TO GET RID OF IT." WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. KNOXVILLE. TENN.. SEPT. 10, 1800. "I WANT TO TELL YOU WHAT I TOLD OTHERS: THAT IF YOU THINK THE GOLD STANDARD IS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO THE WELFARE OF THIS COUNTRY, YOU MAKE A GREAT MISTAKE IF YOU VOTE FOR ME. BECAUSE IF I CAN HELP 1J-, TUB GOLD STANDARD WON'T STAY IN THIS COUNTRY FOR ONE MOMENT." WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. MEMPHIS, TENN.. OCT. 5. 180C. THE PARTY STANDS WHERE IT DID IN 180(1 ON THE MONEY QUESTION." WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. ZANESVILLE, O., SEPT. 4, 1000. "WE ARE IN FAVOR OF THE FREE COINAGE OF SILVER AT THE RATIO OF 1 TO 1. WITHOUT WAITING FOR THE AID OR CONSENT OF ANY OTHER NA TION ON EARTH." WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. ANN ARBOR, MICH., Oct. 11, 1900. Very few are apprehensive that the country will go to the devil If McKin ley is elected. Everybody knows bet ter, because we are farther from the devil than we were four years ago. But very many are laboring under the conscious obligation of proving that the country will not go to the devil If Bryan is elected. In other words, Bry aultes are apprehensive, but are trying with might and main not to, be. Their paramount argument now has come to be that destiny never has hinged upon the event of an Election, and that we are unjustified In attaching so much Importance to the outcome. This is very good argument. An election Is important because it Is not important. If Jefferson had not been elected, he would not have bought Louisiana. But that is not important. If Monroe had not been elected, he .would not have bought Florida. But that Is not Important If Jackson had not been elected, he would not have quelled the. South Carolina nulllfiers. But that ia not Important If Lincoln had not been elected, -he would not have spoken for human rights. However, all these things are of no Importance. The elec tion of a President is the most trifling thing in the world, as everybody proves by taking such momentous Interest In it The day for which all other days In American politics was made has dawned. The American citizen will be out en masBe from morn till noon, from noon till dewy eve. laboring with voice and ballot to "save the Republic." And it will be saved whatever may be dis closed by the count, though in the event of the triumph of Bryanlsm It may have again to pass through the slough of despond from which four years ago It emerged rejoicing. The worst can never come so long as a mighty host, determined still, though temporarily defeated, stands pledged to a sound financial policy, National growth and a dignified and firm foreign policy, with a mighty arm In reserve for Its defense. Bryan Is supported by Carl Sohurz, fhe conspicuous champion of the civil service law, despite the fact that Bryan recently declared himself in favor of a fixed term for all appointees, Including the host of Government clerks. This Is simply the old Jackson Ian doctrine of rotation In office, made compulsory by law, which has always been vigorously opposed by the civil service reformers, who consider the present four years' terra for collectors, postmasters, etc., a great misfortune. Should Bryan be elected, we should thereby say to the world that we shall undertake nothing outside the present domain of the United States; that we intend to shut ourselves up and imitate the isolation pf China, depending on our own sufficiency and keeping our selves "unspotted from the world." In i Buch Isolation there is Inevitable decay. Our country Is great; yet It must find room for It3 super-abounding energies in the outer world. Expansion is the law of, National life. When the Na tional forces that make for expansion cease- to exist. National decline has al ready set in. It's a sordid man who wants to know" about lost dollar. And. yet Bryan ha rangues about the 5100,000,000 or more per year It will cost to stay in the Phil ippines. If there Is sordldness any where, it is in Bryan's itch to be Pres ident The question of $100,000,000 Is a bagatelle compared with that of the value of the dollar. Bryan advocates a discount of fcQ per cent on all debts, public and. private. Sordid, indeed, the desire of the creditor and the laborer to know whether they will be paia In 50-oent dollars I Whoever refuses to answer the question rather Is sordid. We ought td be willing to throw away 1100,000,000 yearly rather than to lose 50 cents on every dollar we earn. The Prohibition leaders have made themselves and the rank and file of their party happy by an estimate of from 300,000 to 500,000 votes today. What they see in the ,way of victory In these figures It Is Impossible for a practical mind to understand. Yet they are gleeful In the prospect,' and pro claim their determination to go march ing on and at the end of each cam paign "line up and be counted." Bryan's announcement that, If elect ed, he would appoint a man for Com missioner of Pensions "more satisfac tory to the pensioners than the Repub lican Incumbent" means that he would appoint a Pension Commissioner who will turn a blind eye Xo improper and dishonest applications. The pledge Is in line with the rest of Bryan's flag rant, dishonest demagogy. Vote In the precinct where you are registered. If you have moved away from it you can still vote there, In this election. If you are not registered In the precinct where you offer your vote, you must have the attestation of six freeholders. With such proof you can vote in any precinct While It Is true that the Kentucky General Assembly passed a new elec tion law practically repealing the Goe bel law. It does not become a law until ninety days from date, so that the elec tion today In Kentucky will be held un der the Goebel law. John McCraken Is Republican candi date to fill the Legislative vacancy In this county. He should not be over looked at the polls today. So place an X before his name, as well as before the Republican Electors'. Bryan asks men to vote for him on the ground that they have loss wealth than some other men. The reason seems Inadequate. The letter of General Lawton Is an Impressive commentary on the modern copperhead character. The South does not believe lit Bryan. It is only the color question that keeps it "oolld" fqr htm. ' ESTIMATES ON THE VOTE. IIott Republicans Expect the Elec tion to Roault. Tho number of votes in the Electoral College, and Republican estimates as to their distribution, are shown by the fol lowing: STATES FOR M'KINL-ET. ' i California Ncw-Jersev 10 Connecticut 6 Delaware 3 Idaho 3 New York 36 North Dakota 3 Ohio 23 TlUnola , 2lOregon 4 Indiana 15 Iowa 13 Pennsylvania 32 Rhode Island 4 South Dakota 4 Utah 3 Washington 4 West Virginia 6 Wisconsin 12 Kansas 10 Kentucky 13 Maine 6 Maryland ,. S Massachusetts ... 15 Michigan 14! Wyoming 3 Minnesota New Hampshire.. 4 Electoral votes.. 303 STATES FOR BRYAN. Alabama llNorth Carolina ... U Arkansas , 8South Ca.ulhu. .,, 9 Florida 4Tenneseeo 12 Georgia 12 Texas 16 Louisiana ,. dlVirgiiiia 12 Mississippi 9 Montana 3 Electoral votes..ll5 DOUBTFUL STATES. Colorado ' 4Svada 3 Missouri 17 Nebraska 8 Electoral votes.. 32 Total electoral votes, 447; necessary to elect, 224. a Bishop Potter on Our Task In tho Far East. Bishop Potter In the The Century. I would not minimize the difficulties or the costliness 6f the task. I have elae Where than in these pages recognized our considerable inadequacy for It But that inadequacy consists rather in our Instru ments than in the absence of those In forming principles which must forever de termine the value of any Instruments, and which arc forever at the foundation of all good government The greatest glory, as a history of administration. Of our Civil War was that after wo had blundered, and had bred swindling contractors and shoddy manufacturers and smuggling and incompetent Generals, then, like some great creature breasting the waves, we shook ourselves free from them, and rose above them, and did the tasks, and fed and moved the armies, and fought our battles, better and better. And, best of all, wo searched for and found the men, and lifted them from their obscurity Lincoln, Stanton, Grant and their peers and successors who did the thinking and planned the marching, and fed and moved the armies that won through to victory. I am not one of those who believe that the people of the United States have lost the capacity to repeat such achievements. There are many who will never cease to regret our original blunder in the Phil ippine Islands. But they are not so de spairing of their country as to believe that she is so far gone from original right eousness that she bos In her no virtue left with which to educate those dis tant islands for freedom; and meanwhile it is Just as well to remember that her rulers have never Intimated that this Government has any other purpose in re gard to them. But we shall gravely blunder if we min imize or evade any one of the difficult tasks which are before us. There are In fluences that will tempt the leaders of political parties to do this, which It would be the crudest folly to ignore. If we are ever to win the confidence and mold tho characters of these Island peoples we must recognize the Injustices from which too long they have suffered, and set about to- right them. We must pot with one hand proffer them freedom freedom of thought freedom of speech, freedom of worship and take It hack with the other. . . . Our tasks, at the best, In the Philippines, are not easy ones. It will be necessary, at the outset to have it definitely understood that they are not to be obstructed by Influences and socie ties of whose enormous power for mis chief and-corruptness the history--of-the r'nillpplne islands Is the melancholy and tragic record. REVIEW AND FORECAST. An Article Worth Reading on the Contest Today. The Brooklyn Eagle is one of tho great and widely known Democratic journals that have steadily opposed Bryan- Fol lowing paragraphs are from an editorial 'review by It of the political field and its forecast for today: ' Looking back on tha debate from this point, one sees that the two strongest principles in publlo iavor have been expansion and honest money. 'We- put them in the orHer given, though others would reverse It. "We are satis fied that, while both are strong- with the- peo ple, the. expansion principle outclasses the hen eat money principle in their minds. They ore familiar with the honest - money principle. They afflrmed It once and intend to affirm It again. They believe they can hold It against all opponents and conditions. But, whllo they like It. they know it. and they have It. Hence they put It among the sureties, and find In the proposition of expansion a more novei. attractive and commanding Idea to which they have given careful examination, and upon which they mean decisively to express their mandate. The hopes of the Bryanltes and the tears of tha Republicans centered more on expansion than on anything else. To those hopes have come frustration. To those fears have come relief. Both were groundless. The Democratic party was the expansion party from the begin ning of the Republic until this campalrn. To appeal to t against expansion or to expect It to unite against expansion was as foolish as would have been an appeal to It against home rule and for centralization. Never was an ex pedient which involved the stultification by a party of its own. record more shallow. A dis covery of this canvass is that, while race and oligarchical conditions will lead most of the Southern States to vote for Bryan, the people of the South are mora unanimous for expan sion than the people ot Pennsylvania are for protection. For .'Republicans to fear the affirmative of that Issue was fatuous, and should have been Incredible. It Is an Issue with manhood In It. None with manhood In It was ever rejected by tho American people. No politics against man hood has ever been Indorsed by them. Our Army and our Navy confront a rebellion. Nearness or remoteness of that rebellion mat ters not. But the success of our forces, the power of our flag, and the authority of our Government are of tremendous concern. For one party to be for those things In a way to make the other chargeable with being against them was simply extraordinary. Already the original and persistent antl-ex-panslonlsta, whether roaring demagogues or flabby or sappy sentimentalists, see that ex pansion Is the dominating and triumphant note of Republicanism in this canvass. This Is plain from their concerted and cunning en deavor to suggest that not expansion, but hon est money, will account for Mr. McKlnley's election, and that he will owe his success, on account of honest money, to the reluctant sup port of many antl-expanslonlsts, who will pre serve their Issue and their attitude tenderly and will advocate the one and stiffen the other, after the polls are closed. This de fensive plea should fool none, and will fool few. If It at all consoles those who make It, by softening their fall or nursing their seir lmportance. well enough for them and 1U to nobody. The party will repel no adherents, but, If successful, will unconditionally carry expansion to Its logical consequences. Dropping the honest-money Issue and lessen ing the antl-exrahston Issue, Bryanlsm as it passes out Into- roar and odor, both bad. Is making a tremendous war on what It calls "trusts." Mr. Hanna was technically abso lutely right when ha said "There are n6 trusts." Those who have caviled at his state ment are themselves woefully awry from the meaning of words, or they have hoped by noise In the misuse to offset nicety In the use of language. Wo care not, however, to stand on terms. What were trusts have become cor porations. What are corporations stand In business for Just what machinery stands in power. And corporations will last as long as machinery, not only In this land, but In the world. They have tho same place In energy and In thought that gravitation has In nature, or the succession of the crops or tha seasons. Man needs toning up. Knowledge needs to be tempered by the gospel of humanity. Ignorance needs to be enlightened by the same goapel. To that gospel we must look altko for the civ ilization and Chrlstlanlzatlon of capital and ot labor, of wealth and of poverty. No Preslden tlat canvass and no Presidential candidates can affect tha natural order of energy and of thought any more than the hissing of geese or the barking of dogs can stay the moon or deter the tides- Not only will the Bryan rally against "trusts" ot corporations fall to elect him, but his election Itself, try afterward as he might, could In nothing affect their -permanency and prevalence in the business of man kind. Remain for consideration. It any is deserved, only the minor mendacities of the canvass. They comprise assertions that the United States protects and sanctions slavery and polyg amy In Sulu; that the intention, under a ne cessity to Increase the Army, Is to make and man forts around Cities to suppress industrial evils which legislation should cure; that a policy of wholesale bribery and corruption ex ists to befoul suffrage In advance, and to cor rupt the count, afterward, with Ilka savory accusations. Those who believe these things are to be pitied and need physicians. Those who do not beUeve them, but proclaim them, will, by the law Inherent In falsehood, soon compel the police to take notlco of tha con duct which their excesses engender. There la no need for full-grown men to be concerned with tha drippings of lies, with the lees of malice or with tha shreds of Insanity, which these minor mendacities exhibit The Ameri can people are brave, true, self-contained, manly, tender and sane. Garbage Is a finality ot their housekeeping, but they send It away In sewers or In dans. It Is not the fruit of their minds nor are their minds its habita tion. A chance for offensive and repulsive odors Is an Incident to the economics of the home. But they are carried off by gracious sanitary devices and appliances, without dan ker and without notice. The analogue holds good in American politics. What in that pol itics Is akin to refuse and Its resultant la swept out of the life Of our people. For the first time a political organization has Invested in such stuff. Returns, if any. on such an in vestment will be madb known on Tuesday next. There is magnificent reason to believe In advance that the peoplewlll overwhelmingly condemn dishonesty, disorder, cowardice, dis content, social division, class hatreds, the deg radation of the flag and coquetry with anarchy as the desperate recourses ot a Bryanlaed party in oar history. i Marie Twain on General Havrler. Argonaut Only once did Mark Twain appear in public as a political speaker, and that was in the Presidential campaign of 1SS0. While visiting In Elmlra, N. Y in the Fall of that year, he made a short speech Introducing to a Republican meeting Gen eral Hawley, of Connecticut. In the course of his remarks. Twain said: "Gen eral Hawley Is a member of my church In Hartford, and the author of 'Beautiful Snow,' Maybe he will deny that but I am only here to give him a character from his last place. Ah a pure citizen I respect him, as a personal friend of years I have the warmest regard for him, as a nolghbor whose vegetable garden adjoins mine, why why, I watch him. As the author of 'Beautiful Snow he has added a new pang to Winter. He is a square, true man In honest politics, and I must say he occupies a mighty lonesome posi tion. So broad, so bountiful Is his char acter that he never turned a tramp empty-handed from the door, but always gave him a letter of introduction to me. Pure, honest Incorruptible, that is Joe Hawley, Such a man In politics is like a bottle of perfumery In a. glue factory It may mod erate the stench, but It doesn't destroy It. I haven't said any more of him than I would say of myself. Ladles and gentle men, this is General Hawley!" Bott Croker Shot BIcKenna. New Tork Post It only lacks a year of a quarter of a century since thfe same "notorious Dick Croker" awoke one morning, after an unusually exciting election one especial ly after his -own heart and found himself a prfsqner In the Tombs on a charge of murder. It was Croker who, In his ef forts to defeat Sheriff O'Brien for Con gress, began a free tight at an election booth, as a result of which a man by the name of John McKenna was killed his lost words being: "Dick Croker shot me." Croker was not convicted, it Is true; the jury disagreed; and he was set free to become the ruler of Greater New Tork and the prophet of Tammany Hall." j. - mt ANtf COMMENT ' The paramount issue will merely be tha slxe of McKlnley's plurality. Vote, brothers, rota wfth care. Vote for'MeXteier everywhere Croker's association with the ice trust has prepared him In a measure for to day's frost ' ' Whatever may be -the result today, it Is a bet of 16. to 1 that Bryan doesn't stop talking. All the worklngmen who think their present wages are too high should vote for Bryan today. It seems likely that an acute cass of the day-after feeling will develop In Lin coln, Neb., tomorrow. Don't worry about the result In New York. Go to the polls and make tho result in Oregon right B. Agulnaldo will learn something to his disadvantage If he communicates with James K. Jones tonight ' The army of the unemployed for the next four years will consist of General Agulnaldo and Colonel Bryan. Wandering Willie will have to go to work tomorrow, Has-twens oan not even find employment on the lecture platform. The man whose friendship for the la borer Is of a kind that he wants wages paid in, EO-cent dollars la not the man the worklngman will vote for. Women will vote In four states today for President of the United States, name ly, in Colorado, Idaho, Utah and Wyo ming. The women of Wyoming have voted In two Presidential elections, and those of Colorado and Utah in one. The women of Idaho will cast a ballot for President today for the first time. It Is estimated that In the four states named there are 145,000 women entitled to vote. General Otis in his annual report made publlo points out that the United States did not bring the liquor traffic to Manila but found it there In native hands. He says on this point: "The liquor trafflo always has been extensive, especially In the matter of Intoxicating native drinks. This traffic has been the subject of con cern and mature deliberation. In reduc ing the number of licenses, which Spain granted freely, tho natives complained grievously that they were deprived af the privileges which Spain bestowed. Not withstanding these complaints they were greatly diminished, but could not be en tirely withheld, nor could the trafflo bo destroyed by any means within our power. Experience led to the belief that It could bo controlled through careful ma nipulation under a stringent license law." H. R. Nicholas "acknowledges the corn" In regard to tho joke played on him Halloween night by pasting McKlnley's picture over tho Bryan picture displayed in his window, but says it was not bo good a joke as was played on him hy a neighbor at tho election of four years ago. This man come to the Bryan head, quarters and professing to be a Bryan man wanted to bo hired to work at tho polls. It was supposed that If he were employed his vote would be secured for Bryan, so he was given $2 to work at tho polls. Ho was a voter all right, but Mr. Nicholas happened to, be Judge of elec tion In. his precinct andTle" n'otloe'cf'that the man never came up to vote at alL Yesterday the same man came to the Bryan headquarters and wished to be hired to work at tho polls again. He was refused a job and told that the last time he was hired he hod not even voted. He explained that he hod been busy at the polls in another part of the city, but the excuse did not go. It Is supposed that the fellow engaged himself to eaoh of the political parties to work at tho polls, and so made a Yery good day's wages, but was not able to vote for any of them. P1VBASANTTUES OP PARAGRAPHKRS Re I always used to overestimate my abil ities. She (consolingly) Well, never mind. Tour friends never did. Tit-Bits. Qayboy What have you been doing all dayT Btghead Increasing my ignoraaoe. I have just read the latest historical novel. Ufa. A Sex Dlff erene. Mrs. Cobwigger When men turn around In tha street to look after a woman It shows that she has a pretty face. Cobwlgger That's so, my dearl And when women turn to look after her It shows that she has a pretty dreas. IMck. A Good Start "Evallna. U wa are going to elope, don't you think wa would better be off before your father awakens and follows tut" "Oh, no, Algernon, there's no great hurry. Fa said he'd be sura to give us a good two hours' start." Philadelphia evening Bulletin. Should Not Bo Downhearted "Ha says that X inspire hira to poetical outbursts." "Toq dor' "That's what ha says." "Oh, well, I wouldn't reproach myself too raucl. If I were you. By striving to do, 'good, .ln.,pt'her ways you may atone for your evil Influence la this line," Chicago Evening Post ' i Pa's Flopped. Chicago Times-Herald. When pa coma home, tha other sight, he says. to ma and me: "Tve went and flopped rva changed my mind and politics," says he; ' "Tha man that always votes the way his fath er used to do , Ain't eotn very much to help his troubled country through; You've got to think of principles and let tha rest bo dropped It ain't tha party's nam that counts, and so I've went and flopped. I've voted as my father did now twenty years r so, Not thlnkln' Ms It wright er wrong Just Went it blind, you know But I've been In a meetln' ot the other crowd tonight. And heard the speakers speakln' there, and, ma, they're in the right! I tell yeu what there's quite a lot ot things I never knew Or didn't think of eo rye flopped Pm glad I done It, tool "I used to s'pose the other crowd was all made up of crooks Who robbed the public when they could and had no use fer books , But. ma. they don't have hoofs ner horns; they're civilized and white I know it fer I mingled with a lot of them to night! I went there tinbeUevin', but before the speak in stopped I'd got a better view of things, and so Tve west and flopped l" Ma sat and listened fer a while, with kind of stalrey eyes, Not knwln what to think er say pa'd filled us with saprise But pretty soon she got her breath, and' then she hollered: "Say, Pa, something happened to your watcl-tbe chains' been tore away I And look there, at year poeket. toot What made that awful elltT And Where's your rooayT Feel and seef I'll bet they've taken IT!" Pa, felt In all his pockets geel They touched him slick and clean He bad tho serrowfullest look X nearly aver sees I He stood on one ialg fer a while and then ba ehaBged around And tried the other, and at first ha couldn't make a-seuad But aftee, whlle.be banged bis fists against tha wait, and, then ,. . . ',... Ho said things that I dassn't say and pa's Dopjica Daca agent . 5. XUer.