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Show Do any of you laboring men save anything any-thing from your earnings" Colonel Bryan. Like Gum Shoe Bill, Colonel Bryan looks upon savings banks as treasure. Ileuses of the plutocrats. We wonder whether this Mr. nearst who is presiding over the National Association As-sociation of Democratic Clubs and .howling against imperialism, anil beseeching be-seeching everybody to vote for Bryan, is the same Mr. Hearst, who, only two years ago this month, said in one of his papers: "We hold Manila and our flag is hoisted there. No Blount iu America will venture to haul it down."' Harttord Couraut. One of Bryan's Own, the Kansas City Star, says that the paramount issue is not "militarism,"' or "imperialism," or - .tlie ryouey question, but the "enormous accumulation of -wealth In theuuiids-8f the few." It is more than a month to election day. As none of the Democratic "para-mounts" "para-mounts" has lived a month, the question ques-tion is, what final paramount will be devised wherewith to close the campaign, cam-paign, The Republican party in Idaho Is united and perfectly harmonious. It presents a solid front to the enemy, and If all its members keep at work from now until election day it will carry the state for every one of its candidates and secure control of the legislature. The prize is worth making a light for, and the Republican pany has the ability abil-ity and the spirit to prosecute such a fight to a successful conclusion. Idaho ' Statesmen. The fusionists are talking in a gaseous gase-ous strain about the immense number of converts they have received this year, but their papers contain no tangible tan-gible evidence that any conversions have been effected. The Republican press, on the contrary, is full of letters from former Bryanites who make public pub-lic recantation and profess a desire to cast their votes for President MeKinley and the policies he represents. The lie-publican lie-publican mourners' bench, in fact, is pretty middling full in every county in the country. Bishop Hughes is down to conference from Mention. He confesses without a blush that he has been a pretty bad - man all his life up to a few days ago, "Why," he says. "In the old days I was a Democrat and can remember when I thought it was the genuine political gospel. But I began to drop upon it ami upon myself a good while ago, and this year things have come so tough that I finally determined to draw out of the business. And now I see what a segregated old idiot I was 60 long and pray for forgiveness." By an oversight, perhaps Colonel Bryan, when he edited his "First Battle" Bat-tle" left in one of his famous prophecies, prophe-cies, on page 532. It was in an address ad-dress to a traveling men's club. He said "Only a few of our peoplw-wil! be able to wear shoes under the gold standard. As it is with shoes so it Is with clothing." This is perhaps the funniest of all the prophecies made by the colonel in '90. -The picture he draws of our people peo-ple under the gold standard, only a few of them wearing -shoes and clothes, is enough to make even a sand-hill pop laugh. Nebraska State Journal. Democrats who flatter themselves that Boss Croker is too smart to bet on an election without a show to win, mustn't forget that he sunk $250,000 of the Tammany fund on bets when Teddy Ted-dy was elected governor of New York a while ago, and that this accounts for the strenuous life the New York dive keepers have been compelled to live under the pressure of the Tammany losses. Croker's bets are made merely to steady the nerves of his braves and keep them from breaking up in a panic. pan-ic. They do not cost him a cent, for he immediately levies on the law breakers in his city for whatever sum ho drops to the sports. There is beautiful unction in these remarks made by the Pramount at East St. Louis: "My dear friends, there is not a place in the Holy Scriptures w-here the Lord commands us to go out aud conquer nations." Colonel Bryan has not read the Old Testament lately or he would not have forgotten that the Chosen People were consistent expansionists aud did a good deal of conquering. But what has "conquering nations" to do with the case? The United States is simply reducing re-ducing the rebels in the Philippines to subjection. Its is maintaining its right to its own. The New Y'ork Evening Post tells the following significant little story, and vouches for its truth: "I suppose there is no danger of Bryan's election," said an eminent southern banker to a friend in this city a few days ago. "What's that?" replied re-plied his interlocutor. "I thought you southern people were all in favor of his election." "So we are on the sociai-question sociai-question but we- expect you in the EOitn to prevent him from coming in," was the rejoinder. This conversation ftctualljW 00k place a day or two ago in a New Y'ork hotel and we print it because be-cause it is typical of the state of feeling feel-ing In the business community of the southern states. A near contemporary upbraids the Republicans of Utah because they hold that present "conditions do not require the discussion of the silver question." Well, who is discussing it? Is Mr. Bryan? If Republicans refrain it is not for the reason that Mr. Bryan does, It is not because they are afraid. There is no silver issue this year. The only financial question before the people this year is whether to adhere to the present standard or whether to help destroy that standard and to enter upon a protracted pro-tracted financial drunk by pushing aside both gold aud silver and turning the country over to a limitless issue, of irredeemable greenbacks '.'Salt Lake Tribune |