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About Valentine Democrat. (Valentine, Neb.) 1900-1930 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 13, 1900)
- -V - tafi aiaiiiHiH FtfflMjfB3S5lrtln p y sow T S y T r r f5ft v ALENTINE DEHOCKAT BY I M RICE VALENTINE NEBRASKA NEBRASKA NEWS NOTES Geneva has organized a Bryan club York has caught the Belgian hare fever The old settlers picnic at Humboldt was a great success Traveling men were the whole Works at the Grand Island fair - The democrats and populists will con vene at Clarkson on September 19 Beatrice observed Labor day by clos ing all the banks and public offices Harvard was struck by a cold wave the thermometer dropping to 44 degrees Clinton Konkright of Hastings is un fler arrest charged with statutory as sault Heed Newton of Beatrice had his band bandly lacerated at the Demp ster mill Fred Hartwick of Firth fell from his horse and injured his spine so badly -that he will die Ministers of the Christian church have 2egun a ten days series of revival meetings at Trenton Mrs Chris Hendrickson of Kelso com mitted suicide by drowning herself in six inches of water JTred Brailey of Butte who is charged -with rape and whn escaped from the jail has been recaptured John Plum an old settler living near Columbus was run down by a train at that place and severely injured John Plough a farm hand -working for William Brown of Chappell has been arrested for horse stealing Herman Kaufman of Norfolk took carbolic acid with suicidal intent but prompt measures saved his life N J Keyes the Surprise jeweler who accidentally shot himself with a tar get rifle Is in a precarious condition Little David Edison of Wolbach ate toadstools which his mother mistook jfor mushrooms and died in frightful agony Councilman John Schmahling was brutally assaulted by Archie McMani gal at Blair and is in a critical con dition - i t t J L Stanley who was shot by Geo Severs 6f Eagle is reported to be dy ing The sympathy of the populace is with Bevers i - The Superior reunion and coursing meet is being held this week and pre parations have been made on an ex tensive scale for the events Twelve-year-old William Weston of Holmesville had his right hand badly injured in a corn sheller and narrowly escaped losing his whole arm J Limans of Holmesville found a burglar in his room and before the fellow could escape he fired several vhots none of which took effect The total Nebraska rainfall for the month of August was 907 inches This is a record breaker the greatest previ ous rainfall for this month being 551 James Wood an Omaha Indian was almost cut to pieces on the reservation near Lyons by a white man with whom ie became involved in a drunken quar Tel j George Kroblin of Norfolk took a tea spoonful of carbolic acid by mistake for medicine This is the third accident tfrom carbolic acid in Norfolk and vi cinity within a week The supervisors of Knox county have called a special election to vote on the relocation of the county seat for Sep tember 25 Niobrara Bloomfield and The Center are in this race being the -three highest at the first election Since the killing of August Housha at Schuyler by a Union Pacific train it has come to light that the Union Pa cific train runs through the town at from forty to sixty miles per hour instead of eight miles as per the lew A burglary was committeed at Be atrice and when bloodhounds were put on the trail they piloted the posse to the house of a hitherto respectable and respected citizen They were dniwn on and started again but pulled up at the same house BELAYING HIS JAWS Shark stories with some reason are commonly received with incredulity A well authenticated anecdote however Is told of Dr Frederic Hill an English surgeon of distinction A man fell overboard in the Indian ocean and almost Into a sharks mouth Hill who was standing close to the tail grabbed a belaying pin and without hesitation jumped in to save the sailor The great brute was just turning on his back to bite when Hill drove the belaying pin right through both jaws Both men were got on board again un harmed Perhaps that fellow wont want an other toothpick Has any one got a clean shirt to lend This was my last were the only words of the res suer The biggest orchard t in - South Da kota is owned and managed by Mrs Laura A Alderman It covers 150 acres -and containJJOOO trees besides currant and gooseberrfebushes and grape vine and three acref strawberries MR HLv j 5fesaSw5tetejS S r iii tWtt y wiim ui r fi i rr n winm i Him 111 iii mm ii iin i i i i Hiitnifciyiiiniii ipxij t rfi BRYANS SPEECH ON LABOR DAY GREAT ORATION GIVEN TO THE DEMOCRATIC LEADER THOUSANDS LISTEN TO HIS ADDRESS Mr Bryan Reviews the Great Labor Day Parade In Chicago Dem onstrations areSIffnlflcent and Shows the Universal Condem nation of the Administration Imperialistic Policy Chicago 111 Special For four hours William J Bryan and Governor Roosevelt stood on the portico of the Auditorium hotel and reviewed the La bor day parade The friends of Mr Bryan will be gratified to know that the incidents of today have given great encouragement to the Bryan forces in Ililnois and have given a correspond ing amount of discouragement to the McKinley forces Although this was presumed to be a non partisan gathering from the be ginning to the end Mr Bryan received ovation after ovation from the laboring men of Chicago and democrats every where are jubilant As the labor vote of Chicago goes so goes Cook county as Cook county goes so goes Illinois and it may be stated as a solemn truth that many practical politicians who this mornig might have regarded Illinois as a certain republican state this min ute believe that it is very likely to go for Mr Bryan There can be no question but what the events of the day made a profound impression upon the Chicago public and nothing has happened to give the democrats greater encouragement than the scenes and incidents of Labor day Every democrat in Chicago is jubilant and republicans who are devoted to im perialism and the special interests of the McKinley administration begin to suspect that after all William McKin I ley may not be the special agent of Providence r Mr Bryan said Mr Chairman Ladies and Gentlemen I am greatly oblige dto the committee I for the invitation which enables me to participate in the celebration of Labor j day at this place This Jay has been wisely set anart by law to emphasize I the dignity of labor and for the eration of those subjects which especi ally affect the interests of the wage- earner The laboring men constitute so large and so indispensable a portion of the population that no social eco nomic or political question can be treat ed without an investigation of their connection therewith But there are some questions which touch them im mediately while others only operate upon them in a general way THE LABORERS AMBITION The first thing to be considered is the laboring mans ambition what are his aims and his purposes for what is he striving The animal needs only food and shelter because he has noth ing but a body to care for but man wants are more numerous The ani mal complains when it is hungry and is contented when its hunger Is ap peased but man made in the Image of his Creator is a three fold being and must develop the head and the heart as well as the body He is not satisfied with mere physical existence neither will he be content unless all avenues of advancement are open to him His possibilities must be as un limited as his aspirations In other countries and in other civ ilizations men have been condemned by birth to a particular occupation place and caste in this country each man however or wherever born can strive for the highest rewards in busi ness state or church and these ave nues of advancement must be kept open SHOULD BE NO ANTAGONISM No civilization can be considered perfect which does not plant a hope In the breast of every child born into the world the nearer we approach to this ideal the better is our civiliza tion Those who complain of exist ing conditions cannot be put aside as disturbers of the peace To seek a remedy for every abuse of govern ment is more patriotic than to profit by bad systems and then frown down all criticism There should be no an tagonism between those engaged in the various occupations and there will be none when all rec ognize the mutual obligations which are due between citi zens Our desire should be not to sep arate the people into warring factions but to bring them into better acquaint ance and greater sympathy with each other The enmity which the poor sometimes feel toward the rich and the contempt which the rich sometimes manifest toward the poor would be avoided if each knew the other better and both were content to -be guided by the strict rules of justice The extremes of society are really not as far apart as they appear Those who work for wages today may un der a good government be employers In a few years and the sons of thse who are employers today may In a short time be day laborers Since no one can save posterity from the evil effects of a bad law all should strive for legislation which will protect each citizen in his rights and in the en joyment of the fruits of his own genius his own industry and his own integrity It is of advantage to the rich as well as to the poor that the children of all have an opportunity to secure an edu cation for education widens the in dividuals horizon increases his ca pacity for usefulness multiplies his en joyments and makes him in every way more serviceable to society Victor Hugo has described the mob as the human race in misery Those who are well-to-do have a selfish interest and should feel a moral concern in remov ing despair from every human breast As misery is lessened the security of property is increased human life is protected in proportion as happiness is promoted Whv should the man who eats at a well supplied table forget the man whose toil furnishes the food Why should the man who warms himself vy me nre lorget uie maii wiiuse ictuui in the forest or in the mine brings forth the fuel Why should the man clad in the bast products of the loom forget the roan whose calloused Hands make fine clothing possible Both the consumer and producer are necessary but of the two the producer comes first in point of time and In point of im portance Shall the rosebud blooming in beauty and shedding its fragrance o the air despise the roots of the bush because they come in actual contact with the soil Destroy the bud and leave the roots and a second bud will appear as beautiful and fragrant as the first but destroy the roots and bud and bush will perish LABOR ORGANIZATIONS How can the wage earner secure that share of the earths bounties and the governments protection which he de serves The associations formed by workingmen have been productive of much good The labor organization as we now find it is the product of industrial con ditions The individual found himself at a disadvantage when dealing with the corporate employer and the organ ization not only enables him to con tend for his rights upon terms more nearly equal but it stimulates him to study and understand the conditions which surround him The labor organization has been fore most in advocating the reforms which have already been secured Several years ago the secret ballot was de manded by the wage earners for their own protection That ballot has been obtained and through its operations those who toil for individuals or cor porations are able to protect their po litical rights and to use the ballot ac cording to their own judgments This is a long step in advance The labor organization has done much to lessen the evils of child labor No one can visit the factories where children are employed without con templating the crime which is being perpetrated upon posterity If there is any temporary economic advantage in the employment of children of ten der afe it is insignificant when meas ured against the permanent injury done to present and future generations To rob a child of its school days Is bad enough but to bend its back by a load for which only the aduit is fitted is even worse SHORTER HOURS The labor organization has also con tributed toward the shortening of the hours of toil and it should not cease its efforts until the eight hour day is secured Approximately one third of the twenty four hours must be given to sleep if another third of the day is devoted to manual labor only eight hours are left for eating for going to and from the place of work for the reading of current news for mental improvement recreation social inter course and domestic life Since the hours occupied in gating and travel cannot be encroached upon every houv added to the days labor must be taken from the time available for intellectual development recreation and the family The labor organization has been a consistent and persistent advocate of the doctrine of arbitration although it is difficult to see why the burden of this reform should be thrown upon the laboring man Surely the employer if he would take a comprehensive view of his own interests would be as much benefited by arbitration as the em ploye and because every prolonged con test between labor and capital brings Interruption to business and pecuniary loss to those who are in no way respon sible for the disagreement society in general Is even more interested than employers or employe The edsire for justice is so universal that the public can be depended upon to support the finding of an impartial board of arbi tration as certainly as it can to support the successful contestant in a law suit The court of -arbitration is one of the certainties of the future and when it is secured and perfected we shall won der why its coming was delayed so long BLACK LIST AND ASIATIC LABOR The black list by means of which employers combine to deprive the dis charged workman of re employment is one of the more recent menaces to the laboring man The independence of the wage earner decreases as the difficulty of obtaining employment increases and the skilled workman whose life has been spent in acquiring efficiency in a certain trade or occupation becomes practically the chattel of the employer if every opportunity to make use of his experience Is closed by agreement between employers The laboring man is also interested in legislation prohibiting oriental im migration It is unfair to the Ameri can workman who is the foundation of the nations wealth in time of peace and its defense in time of war to sub ject him to the danger of having his accupation given to an oriental laborer often brought by contract who has no permanent interest in our government If the Asiatics come here work for a few years live on a lower scale and then carry home the net proceeds of their toil the drain upon our money supply will be similar to that caused by landlordism in other countries The political objections to oriental labor are scarcely less weighty than the econom ic ones Race prejudice cannot be dis regarded and we have seen how in every industrial depression race ani mosities result in riot and bloodshed We cannot afford to bring into this country those who cannot amalgamate with our people USE OF INJUNCTIONS ALARMING The attempt to use the injunction of a court to deprive the laboring man of trial by -jury should alarm all our people for while the wage earner is the first to feel its effects the principle which underlies government by injunc tion is so far reaching that no one can hope to escape ultimately The thing forbidden by an injunction would with out the injunction be either legal oi illegal If it would be legal the judge usurps the function of the legislature when he forbids it If it would be ille gal the injunction of the court is un necessary for any one who violates the law can upon conviction be made to suffer the penalties prescribed for such violution The meanest thief and the most brutal murderer are entitled to trial by jury why should this right be denied the laboring man Those who oppose government by injunction are not in favor of lawlessness they are on the contrary the best friends of law and order They deny the right of any man to violate the law in an effort to advance his own interest btit thely insist that it is Inconsistent with our ideas of government and dangerous to all classes to invest any judge with the three fold power first to make the lawn second to bring accusation against those charged with violation of the laws and third to sit in judg ment upon the case Government by injunction is so indefensible that the anti injunction bill indorsed by the Chicago platform passed the senate without a yea and nay vote being de manded and since that time no party platform has specifically indorsed gov ernment by injunction and no promi nent member of any party has entered upon a defense of the system and yet corporate influence is so strong that it has thus far been impossible to secure any remedial legislation The fact that United States senators are elected by legislatures rather than by the people directly lessens the la boring mans influence in securing fa vorable federal legislation When the action of a political convention must be submltetd to the voters for ratifi cation at the polls the convention is constrained to nominate a candidate acceptable to the people but when a senator is chosen by a legislature the Individual voter is far less considered Even when direct bribery is not em ployed the indirect Influence which corporations can exert is resorted to and more frequently still money is se cretly used to aid legislative candidates in close districts Such obligations are usually repaid in the caucus and as a rule the majority in the caucus con trols the party which has the selection of the senator If this question were submitted to the voters the majority in favor of the election of senators by direct vote of the people would be over whelming and yet partisanship has de layed the adoption of this amendment The people submit to policies which they do not like rather than secure im provement by a change in party affili ations DIRECT LEGISLATION The laboring man favors direct legis lation wherever practicable for the same reason that he favors the election of senators by popular vote Direct legislation brings the government nearer to the voter There is more virtue in the people than ever finds ex pression through their representatives To hold that a representative can act for the people better than they can act for themselves is to assert that he is as much interested in the people as they are in themselves and that his wisdom is greater than the combined wisdom of a majority of the people Neither proposition is sound Most if not all of the evils complained of in government are traceable to the fact that the representative of the people has personal interests at variance with the interests of his constituency Cor ruption in municipal state and feder al governments is due to the misrepre sentation of the people by public ser vants who use their positions for pri vate advantage The people should have an opportunity to vote on public questions when those questions can be submitted without too great inconven ience or expense But the laboripg man is even more interested in the proposition to estab lish a labor bureau with a cabinet officer at its head Such a bureau would keep the executive in constant touch with the wage earners of the country and open the way to the re dress of their present and future griev ances If labor is given a place in the presidents official household the man selected will necessarily be a worthy and trusted representative of the peo ple for whom he speaks and his pres ence at cabinet meetings will give to those who toil for their daily bread as surance that their interests will be properly guarded Mr GomperS the chief executive ot the Federation of Labor has In his correspondence with the secretary of the treasury so ably presented the la boring mens reasons for opposing a gold standard and a national bank cur rency that it is not necessary to discuss those questions at this time REASON TO FEAR TRUSTS The laboring man has abundant rea son to fear the trusts Mr Charles R Flint in a speech delivered in Boston more than a year ago in defense of the trusts frankly asserts that one of the advantages of these combinations is that in case of local strikes or fires the work goes on elsewhere thus pre venting serious loss Is it possible that any wage earner can fail to see how completely the trust places em ployes at the mercy of the employer LABOR BEARS THE BURDEN The resolutions adopted by various labor organizations in condemnation of militarism and imperialism justify me In making a brief reference to those questions No class contributes more than the labor class in proportion to its members to the rank and file of the army no class contributes more in proportion to its numbers to the ex pense of the army and no class is more menaced by the existence of a large army Most of the countries in Europe which maintain large military establishments collect an income tax which adjusts the burden of the gov ernment to the income of the citizen Here our federal taxes are largely col lected upon consumption and while they are income taxes in the sense that they must be paid out of the income of the people yet the exactions are not proportionate to the incomes The taxes upon consumption bear heaviest upon the poor and lightest upon the rich and are in fact graded income taves the per cent collected decreas ing as the income increases If this nation adheres to the doctrine that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the gov erned and the people have an easy and ready means of correcting all abuses the government will not need to be supported by a large permanent army for every citizen will be ready to defend such a government from attack The only domestic use for a large standing army is to suppress by force that discontent which should be cured by legislation To support a permanent army of 100000 men require approximately one half as much money as is ennually ex pended for education in the United States How much cheaper it is to uplift people by the gentle and peace ful process of intellectual development than to blow them up with powdei and dynamite A RADICAL DEPARTURE Imperialism involves a departure from principles which were universally accepted in this country until within two years To know that all men are created equal one needs not the wis dom of a sage or the learning of the schools It was declared to be a self evident truth it was evident to those who pledged their lives -to the main tenance of the Declaration of Independ ence and it is evident still to those who are not blinded by the glamour of wealth and the glittering promises of a colonial system If all men are created equal and endowed with inalienable rights it follows as a logical and nec essary sequence that governments were instituted for the welfare of all and de rive their just powers from the consent jf the governed On the preservation of this doctrine our hopes depend if it is abandoned there is no foundation upon which a government like curs can be constructed Do not allow yourselves to be de ceived by those who question the ca pacity of this people or that people for self government Macauley in his essay on John Milton points out the 48 isfitr sasfeaawceteij t folly of attempting to prepare people fro self government by denying them the right to participate in their own government Many politicians of our time are in the habit of laying it down as a self evident proposition that no people ought to be free until they are fit to use their freedom The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story wno resolved not to go into the water until he had learned to swim If men are to wait for liberty till they become wise and good in slavery they may indeed wait forever When I say that those who distrust the capacity of the people for self-government tend directly toward mon archy I am only repeating what Lin coln deliberately declared in his first annual message He said WHAT LINCOLN SAID Monarchy Itself is sometimes hinted at as a possible refuge from the power of the people In my present position I could scarcely be justified were I to omit raising a warning voice against this approach of returning despotism It is not needed nor fitting here that a general argument should be made in favor of popular institutions but there is one point with its connections not so hackneyed as most others to which I ask brief attention It is the effort to place capital on an equal footing with if not above labor in the struc ture of government No men living are more worthy to be trusted than those who toil up from poverty none less inclined to take or touch aught which they have no hon estly earned Let them beware of sur rendering a political power which they already possess and which if surren dered will surely be used to close the door of advancement against such as they and to fix new disabilities and burdens upon them till all of liberty shall be lost WARNING MORE NEEDED NOW The warning is even more needed now than it was forty years ago The Armv nnrl Navv Journal is already justifying the colonial idea and de claring that fate has decreed for us a destiny in which an imperial executive free from the restraints of a written constitution will govern subjects ac coi ding to his own pleasure The Unit ed States Investor published at Bos ton in its issue of July 2S says Only a blind person can fail to see that remarkable transformations ot one kind or another are in store for the race hence the folly of asserting that the policy of this country which is destined to play such a leading part in human affairs of the future Snail be governed for the most part by polit ical maxims uttered more than a hun dred years ago The greatest evil which now confronts this republic is the clam or rnisprJ hv a certain faction for a set tlement of our problems of state by just such a method as we nave Deen deprecating Considerably more than a century ago a certain notable declara tion was made in this country to the effect that all men ought to be free and independent This is merely a gen eralization of the French school of Vol taire and the encyclopaedists It is a dictum absolutely lacking foundation in history and incapable of syllogistic jus tification It was however a handy phrase for us to employ when asserting our right to break away from the moth er country it suited the exigencies of our situation in 1776 admirably though in itself but a bit of sublimated dema gogism The declaration was a ser viceable means to the end that was at that time desired To bring forward this declaration in this year 1900 in connection with our treatment of the Filipinos and the Cubans is as gross an absurdity as ever was practiced To do so is to offer an insult to the intelligence of the people Who first sub scribed to the declaration in question But why quote from newspapers as to what may be done hereafter in the presence of a law already enacted which makes subjects out of Porto Ricans withdraws from them the guarantees of the constitution and as serts the power of the president and congress to govern them without their consent and tax them without repre sentationa power as unlimited and tyrannical as was ever asserted or ex ercised by any ruler in all the history of the human race This doctrine has not yet been approved by the people it furnishes the supreme question of the present campaign In the pres ence of these perils the laboring man has a responsibility gommensurate with his opportunity Without a large percentage of the laboring vote no par ty can win an election in the United States The men who work for wages can by throwing their votes on the one side or the other determine the policy of this country They need not march in parades they need nbt adorn themselves with the insignia of any party but on election day their silent ballots can shape the destiny of this nation and either bring the gov ernment back to its ancient land marks or turn it into the pathway fol lowed by the empires of the old world PORTO RICO FEELS THE OPPRESSOR McKinieys Evasion of Congress Will is Deliberate Fraud By James Creelman Cleveland lO SpciaJ Th cold oooded fraud practiced by the McKin ley administration upon the helpless people of Porto Rico was revealed today by an American gentleman who has just returned from the island and who has had greater opportunities for know ing the facts than any man outside of Governor Allen and General Davis The representative government pro vided for Porto Rico by congress does not exist and the administration of the island is in a state of anarchy No attempt to elect a legislature has been made The executive council has only met once for the sole purpose of tak ng the oaths and organizing There is no law making body in existence Governor Allen is simply carrying out te government under the authority of ne military orders issued before the was established so called civil government lished New taxes are imposed upon the people by the mere order of Treas urer Hollander Leading Porto Ricans who have demanded that the legislature should be at once elected to provide for taxation and appropriations have been told Governor Allen finds all the authority needed in the military law which is binding until the Porto Rican legislature modifies or repeals it In other words the pretended civil government is really a military gov ernment carried on by civilians in plain definance of the intent of the will of congress it to be Governor Allen has caused understood that no change will be made in the situation until after the presidential election in the United States He is exercising the power and applying the methods of a military des pot and renders no account of the reve nues or expenditures of the government to the people jlgieB v SHERMAN f o JOHN SHERMAN DENOUNCES ADMINISTRATION POLICY CONDEMNS THE WAR Former Secretary of State Takes McKinley to Task for His Policy of Imperialism Washington D state m Mc Sherman secretary of condemned Kinieys cabinet in an interview imperial the terms demned in no uncertain perial policy of the administration With his old time vigor he denounced the acquisition of countries far from our shores and the useless sacrifice of and tne expenditure the lives of our young men penditure of vast sums of money Sherman has been in the past ac cused of changing his politics for pop ular opinion but in his retiring years shows a stiff adhesion to the tradition of old conservative republicanism In talking of the Philippines MrSher man said STOP KILLING YOUNG MEN The wealth we are taking out of our own country now to fling after those Philippine islands is fabulous w and agriculturists the miners have taken away the Philippine natives culturists to subdue it the other nations tives Depend upon tions do not envy us but think us fool ish Above all we are not a monarchical people but a republican people We should stand by our own lines and continue the example of our country Instead of becoming another England or Germany using up our young men and our treasure to get a foothold in unhealthy and unproductive lands I see not the slightest sense in our long excursion of 12600 miles to the Philippine islands There we have no as I am I would be willing to take a stand against our expeditions and sac rfices in those far away islands which do not promise anything material or acquaintances or affinities or anything which gives promise of a happy solu tion of a most foolish undertaking Old moral to reimburse us The climate is- deadly The natives show they do not want us by the courage with which they fight us They are making a strong fight Some think Mr Sherman that there is no way now but to go on and that to turn back would be a disgrace SHOULD RETRIEVE MISTAKE I do not think so We cannot too soon retrieve a profound mistake Those Philippine islands never were consid ered when we resolved to drive the Spaniards out of Cuba When we at tacked their fleet out there and de stroyed it we should have come away The Philippines have been no help to Spain in developing her own coun try and keeping out of foreign trouble The Philippine native had about taken those islands from Spain when we went there and we appeared to the natives in the light of a faithful ally Now we are fighting the natives as if we were the Spanish The Chinese trade we can have by arrangement with the Rus sians and the English We are in fact right upon the Pacific Ocean and our natural base of trade with China is from California and Washington state How can that trade be helped by form ing another base away from China I fear that perseverance in this im perial policy will ruin the republican party I was willing when in the cab inet to drive the Spanish out of Cuba I had followed the president in attack ing the Spanish He changed his pol icy and did not consult me and I re signed from the cabinet Mr Sherman said concerning Presi lent McKinley that he wondered how i man of his general want of public deas or public policy had become dent in the first place He was a congressman that we had hold up and assist said Mr Sher lan There was nothing in his course except trimming to the wants as he supposed them to be of his immediate constituency As McKinley was ar ex pansionist on the tariff he became an expansionist against the views he de clared to us in the matter of these distant possessions And still his pur Doses are not clear or determinate and I suppose that the great activity in business has dropped the public atten tion from the far reaching consequences of these amended and still vague pur poses of Mr McKinley SENATOR GORMAN FOR BRYAN Maryland Leader Will Support the Democratic Candidate Washington D C Special Ex Senator Arthur Pue Gorman of Mary land was in communication with friends in Washington today and not only con firmed the report that he is going to become one of the active managers of Mr Bryans campaign in the east but expressed the belief that Mr Bryan will be elected He is satisfied beyond question so he told a prominent local democrat over the long distance tele phone that Mr Bryan has already won Maryland West Virginia and Del awarek three states that cast thir electoral votes for McKinley in 1S3S and that he stands better than a fight ing chance of carrying the state of New York Senator Gorman believes that it only requires hard and conscientious work an the part of the democratic national committee and a sufficient insight intA current events to take erything that is favorable advantage to he of ev ocratic ticket to win a complete Tictory v f t t V - 1 t J A r ff K f A h Jt r i i Hti 1- Y I
