Life — September 17, 1896 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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19 West Trirty-Fixst Street, New York. Published every Thursday, $5.00 @ year in advance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 a year extra, Single copies, to cents Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope, The illustrations in Live. are copyrighted, and arenot to be repro- duced without special arrangement with the publishers. HE Vermont election was doubly welcome because of its timeline: It was the first definite indication of how voters are feeling. Vermont was expected to go Republican, but to have it go Republican by a great, big, rousing majority, gives heart to honest-money men everywhere. They have, all the time, expected to beat the repudiationists, but the Green Mountain landslide encourages the hope that Bryan and all the fiscal and governmental follies and iniquities which he represents will be buried so deep in November that they will stay dead. What a supreme relief it is going to be to wake up on the 4th of November and find that the whole incoherent dream of repudiation, populism and silver-monometallism was only a night- mare after all, and that the great mass of the Americans are still honest and still able to distinguish fact from iNusion and right from wrong. . . . K EEP right on, Republicans and honest-mone Democrats in your labors for that relief. courage from Vermont; courage for new efforts. are distinctly ahead. You will have the silver-skites on the run presently, and then be sure you run them hard. . . n nominee for ANY R. BLACK, the Republ 1 Governor of New York, made his politi- cal reputation as the prosecutor of a criminal and seems to wish to advance it further on the — same lines. In his speech at Saratoga he denounced all the Democrats in the State as persons of whom it was absolutely hope- less to expect any good. Mr. Black is a man of vigor and his fight against Senator Murphy and gang in Troy was a most creditable fight, but it argues ill for his intelli- gence if, especially at this time, he can find nothing good in the Democratic party in this State. He will probably be elected, and will have a chance as Governor to show what is really in him; but if he has the tempera- ment of a public prosecutor, to whom every man opposed seems a rascal to be punished, no start, however fortu- nate, can carry him far in American public life. The man with an eye for the good that is in his fellow citizens is very much better equipped for political use- fulness than the man who sees the worst and is blind to the other side. * . * HEN Mr. Black proclaims that such New York Democrats as attended the conventions at Syra- cuse and Indianapolis are unworthy of the confidence of their fellows, he deceives himself, but no one else. It scems a pity that the Republicans should have put up so rancorous a partisan for Governor this year, but still Mr. Black's record is clean, what there is of it, and there were more objectionable men than he among the candidates. . . . od DEMOCRACY’S Marc Antony” is the title that the Boston Hera/d gave Bourke Cockran after his Madison Square Garden speech. Whereat one may smile, remembering that he came to bury Bryan, not to praise him. . . . T% deliberations and proceedings of the Indianapolis convention made joyful reading for thoughtful and honest Americans. The spirit that ruled and actuated the convention was the spirit of patriotism. The con- vention showed a single purpose to work for the vindication of American intelligence and honor and the re- establishment of American credit. The candidates chosen are universally felt to be the fittest available to accom- plish the end for which they were nominated, Senator Palmer and Gen- eral Buckner are both men of high character and long experience in public affairs and both representative Demo- crats of the best school. Democrats here who are unwilling to vote either for McKinley or Bryan can vote for the Indianapolis nominees and platform with a clear conscience and satisfaction to themselves. It is held with reason that the ticket will be especially strong in Illinois and Kentucky and the middle western States where the real battle against repu- diation must be fought. * . * HE action of the convention at the instance of the Tennessee delegation on the death of William E. Russell, of Massachusetts, was a most notable and affecting occurrence which will not soon be forgotten in Governor Russell's state or by the thousands of Americans who honored him and who believe in the sort of Democratic politics that he stood for.