Show i SPEAK OUT MK MKINM3Y Beneath the noise and smoke of the campaign the quiet steady progress of fusion recorded from time to time in a paragraph hidden among columns of political speeches has attracted little attention at-tention Yet It now presents a very different dif-ferent aspect from that of a few weeks ago Then Republican hope was high on account of Democratic and Populist dissensions dis-sensions Now that hope has dwindled to a few faint and fading glimmers from a few states that are normally Democratic Demo-cratic by large majorities Fusion has to a reasonable certainty added Alabama Kansas Nebraska North Carolina and Tennessee fiftytwo electoral elec-toral votesto the fortysix electoral votes of Arkansas Colorado Idaho Ms sissippi Montana South Carolina Utah Washington and Wyomng that were already al-ready assumed to be reasonably safe for silver It has presumably given 60000 Populist votes in Illinois 25000 in Indiana 30000 in Iowa 20000 in Kentucky 400A In Missouri 80000 in Virginia and 85000 in Minnesota towards making good the losses from the defection of sound money Democrats and towards swelling the accessions ac-cessions of free silver Republicans Wnile it has not yet been consummated in Georgia and Texas those states are anything any-thing but certain for honest money In brief fusion has made it necessary that there shall be enormous Democratic defections de-fections from the free silver ticket If Mr McKinley is to have even a respectable majority of the electoral votes For even if he gets every state east of the Mississippi Mis-sissippi and north of the Ohio and the Potomac which includes Delaware and Maryland and gets West Virginia also he stiil needs two votes to make the necessary majority This is the campaign at a glancethe peril of free silvers success the penl of free silvers bare defeat Suppose Mr McKinley gets only enough states to just elect him and those states all in one section of the country what will be the net result of election The silver heresy will have carried ten or a dozen more stau than did Mr Harrison In 1892 It will contm le Its absolute control of the senate It will control the machine of a national Ilitkal party It will be Intrenched as never before be-fore It will organize imonefliaieiy fcr the congressional election two years hence and for the presidency two VMIS after that Is not this common sense Mr McKinley an prevent this The honest money president must not be a man chosen by a section or by a political party He must be the expression of the nations overwhelming repudiation of the doctrine of repudiation The wave that sweeps him In should sweep out free silver sil-ver forever Is not this common sense Mr McKinley cannot accomplish this YihSut work lC sound public policy without the aid of hundreds of thousands of hesitating hesitat-ing voters in the states that are or maybe may-be made doubtful These voters whom Mr Bryans free silver repels and whom Mr McKinley does not attract are thinking of the Insolent aggressions of the lawdefying law perverting corrupt trusts and monopolies They wish to know what Mr McKinley thinks and feels about that subject Mr Bryan has spoken We gladly give him credit for It although we cannot agree with him that the trust evil may be cured by creating a rapacious silver trust whose unjust and universal levies would double the cost of living and halve wages and savings But In his seventy speeches Mr McKinley has not said a word to indicate that he even knows of the exstence of the trust evil To speak means to win the support of this multitude of voters who take his silence as a danger signal He must not remain silent He must not put in jeopardy the overthrow Of free sliver Is not this common sense What do you think about the trusts Speak out Mr McKinley New York World Oct 1 1896 5 |