Show 1 RESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS 4 r The ite ight of Ninety Ninetysix RYAN WAS BY 1 IS' IS POVERTY t t dressed Five Million People in His lis Great JY Personal Appeal SINESS MEN OF COUNTRY OPPOSED HIM H f arK irK Hanna Want Wanted d MiddIe Middie Mid Mid- id- id c die le Course on Money r Whipped Into Line Line i t BT SY FREDERIC J J. HASKIN b b bc events cents of the great political batt bat bat- i t w whose hoe o e outcome for for n i tin time tnie e more Uncertain than any fi fight ht bt re e t the c four cornered campaign n of a o are aro of such rc recent occurrence t as I o Jr t in iii the mentor memory of f m most st people the breaking down of I of pf the old p-ar p party y than an any ay I cr i fi fight ht since ince the b beginning in in or of t the te teIn I I t a ar In that it tran Iran Idt tided e even en the iu r lm campaign n ssi and ami the Liberal Republican an anU U lim V of l 1872 It is is comparable only ouy I Ice cam eat aign n in the brcak bicak- f ruty tics start for or JIl his second t term rm Tic i M was not 1 promising The rhe storma storm if it a a tk re on oil oil the tho hor horizone horizon z n e i tV wa c elected caused the tho c wil 2 t cr 1 lot O for th the thc ieuan issuance t c. c BtU to ke-ci ke up uT hc nc tr treasury a. a ury t re- re l. l 1 i tb the time Hmo Cleel Cleveland el Sv u w in in- td d I hM fh M times h ha had It l arrived II DA d c h before oo the Wilson t tariff rif hill W wai wa ritten they were ere ere down up upon h he be ri nation t tu OD But the thc admin admin- o wai wal blamed mcd for tor it it t just at atI I n n U. U Huren ren ap blam blamed d for the Janif panic pani f 1837 and aud just JUlIt as UI the tho Republicans erf er made ic responsible for the panic f 1873 1813 With its ho hopes s f for r the imm immediate diate fu fuore ore lore ruined by the tariff situation and tb the tho a ie Democracy turned to free it ier er in in it iti bid hid for popularity and But Hut b re reit it found itself at ato p o o. purposes with its it chief in in the tIle 1 bite itc hourc houe Cleveland Gle liou sought ht to ake ih tho the country rO a a gold standard Before Befort this happened etl he bemo herro be- be m mo involved oh in a a controversy ersy with i Igland over r the Venezuelan lelan boundary rite and read the thc law hm on the Mon Mon- to I with wilh il h such di dU and aud determination that Britain d to Ia accept hi his contentions Some Sortie th Republicans hailed this a as 8 a bid biel 1 r ra a third term Senator Depew went ar a a to toc c give c out a an int interview n p eav- eav Jt g that at it vs was beyond nil all question the te p first rt r move o e op the political looking to a Tc d nut But the country wa wai absorbed oer over itt its internal affairs t tet ct- ct outside r matters divert ert it mind R Baby Baty Boast bo repeal of the hc silver r h law Ian and 81 the Democratic lit over orr tho mone money question tiou coupled ith ih tb the panic th th tariff and anti the thc lond bond bondes C es led ed d the Republicans to o OJ could a as ai they boasted nominate fa T c baby for president in 1896 and alid rJ n It at the tho polls poll The two rea real J cant can can- att t for the nomination r To William inc ld and Thomasl Thomas fl Red ed l The Thc PP tion to to nt bt to br break k down don tho the b hack back ck b it is hy brinin out favor favor- on ons' ons n ever Iowa lowa broucht out ator on and t they h tried to n az e out Senator Cullom in Illinois fit t t- t r o McKinley son on ht bt to cc the Cullom boom b bv by offering I ft Portion under r 1 lorn rn himself FaY aya h he could have had nc jc b be wanted 10 1 in n T return t for a 3 lie Lite e of support and when he lie deto de- de pd d' d t to Vr c that promise the Me- Me fr airy derided to earry the fo for lor their r r I Cullom boom no iio o Cullom boom end they u he be McKinley man cers with Maric fla JI a a their h chief l tn to i iddle W. W the th 4 money y question Thovan Thoi They Thov i t an early tate state ton convention in Ohio Ohi J oro of t i Platform ih Hh rV houM d fi R as ll a guide ui in other t te 7 The JIbe be money plank yva was a con com the rJ of concealing t th J T 38 Both and ani gold cold Ild Tead in it in a n full fun indorsement of 01 tor r r varying a. a ip view views Hanna s with great sj l' l S in th tha w ivay v In ing up the d dele l tr and went to t Jc convention pr prepared prepare to wi win lit t Hanna to Terms I h h one problem no confronting was WR tho the attitude they V uM uld t tak k on the mone question ri e HAnna Ranna fa wanted d a monc money Dk he be held pl put t ae it ft long ou l to carry arry out out veral other r oh ob- b bl i hi vir An n tern com com- UPOn him t at bot J end and id d him th they would cri rc McKin- McKin r If b not let Jel m have havo L a ll tJ cy 1 n i It i if rt th that t Senator f bo io o of DC New York enTiced to th that tha fc he hid had nn an r T lIl to come to term ant anal to isa hi I half an hour on P pae e 2 f q f BRYAN WAS DEFEATED BY HI HIS POVERTY Co Continued from 1 page a ag 1 1 When the platform finally was adopted the money plank declared for gold old simply using international ti nal bi bi- a ai as a ladder by which the Silver r Republican might climb upon the platform and to catch atch voters whal who wha l leaned toward fie free eo silver Twe Twenty 1 t 1 two Republican state conTentions had had declared for free r e silver Th The Democrats wore a H. badly split plit party when wh they ar arrived h-cd h at Chicago Chica o. o Th silver winK wing wa wa wU so o violently opposed op posed pOlled to Mr Cleveland that the they defeated defeated de de- de A it a resolution indorsing th their ir own administration something perhaps 9 unexampled un un- un- un exampled in p party politics ics in n the United States They r rode de over tho Cleveland adherents and when it came camo cameto cameto to voting for a party nominee tho Cleveland supporters were t In tho Republican convention tho the crites who could not f favor vor the platform walked out some of them with f tears streaming down lown their eh cheeks but th tho silver Democrats sat ti tight ht until un til ii after aCter the tho convention con Bryans Bryan's u crown crown of thorns and cross of ot gold cold speech swept him up the political ladder ladder ladder lad lad- der from rom a contesting tin del delegate delto to to the tho nominee of ot tho the convention after one oneo o of the most moet dramatic scones in the tho history history his his- tor tory of political gatherings e. e t rhe The silver Republicans ratified tho the ac action action ac- ac tion of tho Democratic convention the Populists put up Bryan and Watson and tho the bulk hulk of the Prohibition vote voto went wont for free freo silver Later the gold old Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- met and gave the Cleveland administration ad ad- ministration the indorsement it had been denied by tho the rc regular lar Democratic convention a and d nominated Palmer Palmor and Buckner on a gold old Democrat platform After Aft r the ont con conventions ons were over o the Republicans found thov they had serious business on hand for Bryan and free silver it seemed had at one ono timo time carried car car- ried ned more voters away from the Republican Republican Rep lican Hcan party than tho the Republican leaders lenders could coul hope to get i in recruits from the I Democracy Bryan van went to Now York 1 and imitating Lincoln read a a carefully I prepared speech of rather I than to take an any chance of sacrificing i his thoughts for oratorical efforts Whoa When the canvass b began an in in earnest t I Bryan ryan found himself handicapped ped by Y poverty personal poverty personal and political Ife Ho often had bad to borrow money to get et from one stopping place to another an and the tho first firt part ot of his tour was made maile in in day coaches The railroads were wen a against I him hun a and it was a along long wh while Je before they gave gae him a a. private car Meanwhile the Republicans Republican conjured with ith the pro prosperity argument and the threat of oC worse times if Bryan c cams came m into power Debtors were ero informed that their creditors would want their I money moner if Bryan BryanTon won Ton factory workers w were re warned t to exp expect ct a shutdown in inthe tho the event cent of his t and with the tho i biggest ett campaign fund in m all political history and three fourths of the business busi bui- ne ness 8 men on their side ride nothing was left undone by bv Hanna and his associates In 8 the tide th that hafl n flowing flow lR ing toward Bryan turned back an and k kept pt rising filan toward l McKinley until election d- d day The gold Democratic advised ad ad- vise vise-d support of Pam Palmer r and md Buckner but it was understood that only those t who nho o could not conscientiously i support McKinley should voto vote for them tho tim others other were to vote ote for di di- root recto and nail they did dia i Wh When n tho the campaign l n was over ocr Bryan had llad spoken n to more th than n people peo reo- I pie pIc while over had mado malO pilgrimages pil pH grim i. i s to Canton 0 to hoar and ann greet McKinley in 1 his famous front porch campaign When tho the returns came camo in they showed that tho the n cans cane nJ s had hadon won on an easy casy victory wIt with more than a hundred electoral votes otes to spare Only in two tS tw of tho states did nid the gold old Democratic ticket fi figure lre to an extent In Kc Kentucky and California the tha votes vote it received had bad they thov gong gone nto tuto to tho Democratic c column would woud havo hac al given en tho the el electoral votes otes to Bryan ran Me- Me got a n a. a quarter of a million popular lar tar votes otes m more more- rc than all his opponents combined The Tho elect election n of 1896 1806 permanently r re tired tiled from tho the r realm alm of I paramount issues a question that arose as a r ri suit of the tho civil war and which had hectored the thc two groat parties s for a s t quarter of a century The Tho tion wa was retired to tho the limbo Jimbo o of d dead issues and tho the added production of f gold has largely cly overcome the tho which the tho Bryan s school hool of statesmanship Bought son ht to remedy by bJ the free co coinage na A of t silver r. r When McKinley came camo into power he be brou brought a great rRt chan change e into the white h house use Cleveland nd and Harrison l know knew nothing of th the fine art of of conciliation B Both th failed f to agree with their party part leaders and each Aeb of ot them was ready read to fight at t the drop of the tho hat hai But Me Me- Kinley wa was a conciliator He preferred to tp w the advance guard in in a po pc- contest rather than to head it He Ho tried to car carry y out the tho will of his party arty rather than to control it it Some said aid he had tho the backbone of n a chocolate eclair but his friends realized that he be henas was n-as a man roan to keep leep his party to together eth r rb b by compromise se rather than to split it by opposition Cleveland and Harrison ou go down in in history as the only onh two presidents who ever defeated one an an- other John Quincy Quiney Adams defeated Jackson h before fore Jackson became president dent and afterward as was defeated b by Jack Jackson on but this was a c caw of an n ex ex- president defeating a pr president Tomorrow I PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS I NS What What of or Today I |