Life — November 5, 1896 — page 10: what you’re looking at

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‘LIFE: “While there is Life there's Hope.” VOL, XXVIIL. NOVEMBER 1g West Tutxty-First Streev, New York. ed every Thursday. $5.00 a year in advance. Postage to foreign countries in the Postal Union, $1.04 @ year extra. Single copies, 10 cents Rejected contributions will be destroyed unless accompanied by a stamped and directed envelope. The illustrations in Live are copyrighted, and are not to be repro- duced without special arrangement with the publishers. finds most of its week knee deep in newspapers, and with eyes and ears for nothing but election re- turns, Speaking with all the reserve which befits a commen- whose ob- servations must be made before the event, it still finds ample grounds for venturing to wish its readers joy in a great political victory. Assurances abound at this writing that Bryan is beaten, and that {ree silver coinage and the spectres of anarchy and populism are effectually banished, But it is one thing to hope, with even the best founded confidence, and it is another thing to read the actual returns. Only the older citizens of the Republic can remember an election that compared with this year’s in importance or in interest. Gradually, during the four months of the campaign, apprehension had died away, but interest has known no abatement. As hope has risen, the desire for a conclusive and overwhelming sound money victory has increased. tator . . I IFE trusts that its readers + are happy in the realiza- tion of this honorable long- ing. It trusts New York has given to Order and the Gold Standard by far the greatest jority it ever gave. It tru that Illinois has not only buried Bryan, but Alt- geld, the arch-conspirator, too; and both deep. It trusts that all the Northwest, =» all the Middle West, all the old Middle States, the Pacific States and the Border States, and some from the South, will count their electoral votes in the same column, That is the sort of victory Lire hopes for, Not an electoral vote will Bryan get that Lire will not grudge him, but it is prepared to allow him one hundred and ten. Go look and if not, hang out another flag, and raise another cheer. again at the returns, and see if he has so man. . * . ND what now? Election being over, what next? Now, for one thing for a change of thought and some varicty in matters under discussion, most of all for business. rything has waited until now. Now will everything please resume as promptly and as vigorously as possi- ble, and ‘Jet us see some results. Whoever has been hoarding gold, let him pay it out; whoever has been waiting to invest, let him invest before the best s are gobbled up; if any stocks have been waiting isc, let them rise; all those orders for goods and work that we have been reading about that were condi- tioned on McKinley's election, will they please get them- selves filled now as expeditiously as possible? We want to hear all the wheels go round again; to see the sellers selland the buyers buy ; the working people toil with new hope; the seekers after pleasure pursue their arduous chase with easier minds. Now, if there is a boom waiting anywhere for us, let it come, for we are ready for it. * a * I" was notable how Bryan seemed to fade out of sight in the last days of the campaign after his tour through the ‘enemy's country.” He seemed to be perfectly understood and estimated in the t, and not much thought taken about him after- wards. The story about his having applied last January for a job as the- atrical press agent was . = very widely credited at first, because it corre- sponded with the idea that thousands of Eastern voters had of the bent of his mind. He seems versatile, fluent, and of a superlative assurance. It will be interesting to see whether he will be able to turn the advertising he has had to profitable account. Altgeld gained attention while Bryan lost it. Altgeld, Debs, Tillman and Jones came at the last to be the foremost representatives of what the saner voters did not want. They will not be forgotten, but if they are beaten as thoroughly as Lirr trusts they are, it may not be necessary to keep them very prominently in mind. was comicbooks.com