Show POLITICAL revolutions great political revolutions are oc currins in this country that come almost as it of a nightmare to the staid and conservative party men of the two great national organizations which from down to 1896 battled tor supremacy and knew neither converts nor deserters the silver issue in 1896 so changed tho complexion of both parties that millions who were f democrats became republicans and republicans changed to democrats tho new alignment was expected to continue without perceptible change or years to come at least while the money question was yet unsettled by vote but out ot the war with spain there has grown another perplexing problem which threatens to leave political divisions in the matter of personnel almost as as lid the silver contest senator hoar whom it was thought could never be found out of harmony with the principles of the republican party Is fully In accord with william J bryan in opposition to expansion or imperialism as they term it while senator morgan a stalwart democrat places his prestige on the republican side of a broader americanism as he de nominates our expanding greatness but there is rev parkhurst and rev van dyke of new york who saw in dryan the destruction ot our government and the ascendancy of anarchism during the campaign of 1896 they are now flauding lauding the batters lat appreciation of good government and fine sense of national conservatism which leads him to raise his voice in condemnation of the militarism that must come of mckinless McKin leys pronouncement in favor of retaining the territory given over to us by spain in obedience to the sentiment that the flag must not be pulled down while not their exact words the foregoing is the substance of their praise of bryan in whom they seem to have found a mr hyde most detestable transformed into a dr jekyll most attractive senator teller adne of the great central figures on the silver side in the fight two sears ago says the nation should retain every inch ot acquired spanish territory but in antagonistic attitude stands andrew carnegie gold to the core who Is so overcome with tearful forebodings of the dangers ot an enlarged sphere ot action of the american republic that he rests his faith in the preservation of american institutions on the ability ot the silver leader to combat the cohorts of militarism thus tar we are firmly convinced the republicans have gained by the transference of allegiance that has been going on in the two parties and if the administration continues to win to its support more tellers and morgans and loses the weight of the car and men of their ilk the campaign of 1900 will be devoid of that intense rivalry and uncertainty which marked the election ot 1896 and republicanism will overwhelm the opposition |