San Antonio Daily Light

New York reviewers of Bryan's speech in Madison Square garden assert that his speech was delivered to continually diminishing numbers.

That he did not hold his full audience ten minutes and that after the first five minutes of his address there was a steady decrease in his crowd.

The effect upon him was apparent.

Of the 20,000 who heard him in Chicago not one left their seats while he talked. Of the 12,000 who heard him in New York half or more had left the hall before he had concluded.

This demonstrates that either he had not a Democratic audience, or that he could not hold his crowd. Probably the truth lies between the two. He had not a Democratic crowd, that is a fact. At least the prominent Democrats of the city were conspicuous by their absence, but he should have been able to hold his crowd, no matter who they were. If his campaign is to be run on his personal power as an orator this is a poor beginning. It was hardly fair to poor Sewall. who had to speak to empty benches after Bryan.

A British aristocracy is end upon end at the reports that Waldorf Astor is setting his pins to marry the Princess Maude, daughter of the heir apparent to the throne. It is settled that she is wearing a magnificent diamond ring that the grand son of the old fur trapper gave her and it is argued that it would not be good form for her to accept such a present unless she intended to give herself in return. It would be peaches and cream for the American gentleman to have his Americanism stand in lieu of the patent of royalty that is generally demanded.

Jo Chamberlain has sent a polite letter to Cecil Rhodes with his compliments. assuring the plotter against the republic of the Transvaal that it would give the colonial secretary exquisite pleasure to see the face of the said Cecil at the investigation board.

Cecil has as yet not answered the polite invitation, nor had he better unless he has a safe conduct. That he planned the whole thing while Jo winked his left eye at the planning. goes without saying

A Bryan and Watson elector is not a Bryan and Sewall elector. This is the opinion of the Globe-Democrat in its answer to an enquiring correspondent. It will be impossible in the opinion of the G. D. to trade the Watson end of one ticket for the Sewall end of the other and make them both count for Bryan. There is a queer state of affairs involved in the query.

It is accepted that the northwest is to be the battlefield of the campaign.

It might be in a worse place in so far as the Republican chances are concerned. It will be harder to stampede the voters of these states. with the exception of Kansas, than those of any other states. The average people will study the situation, and there will be teachers to instruct them.

The Madison Square performance of Bryan may be accepted as foreshadowing the effects of the campaign upon the free silver enthusiasm as it effervesces. As his audience did, so will the free silver enthusiasm grow smaller by degrees and beautifully less.

The attempt is being made to Americanize this country in a funny way.

The Bryanites start in with the idea of bringing the whole commercial world to our standard, and their first movement is to Mexicanize our currency. How long after that is done before they Mexicanize our wages and our conditions of labor? It is worth thinking of at least.

All things are working as though they were ordered for the success of the McKinley-Hobart ticket. There is a decided improvement in the hopefulness of the tone of the public speakers and the daily prints. The first wave of the silver flood has passed and no one is drowned out. The succeeding waves will be less forceful and by another month the ebb will set in.

It is only three months from the early days of August to the early days of November, but those three months will witness such a revolution in the sentiments of the voters of this country on the free silver craze that it will sweep the Bryanites out of dock and out into the unknown and turbulent sea of their own political repudiations. There will be no place in American politics for them or their theories after the returns are in in November.
Providence is fighting the battles of sound money this campaign. At least there is some benign influence at work for the sound money cohorts, sowing jealousies and divisions in the management of the free silver ranks and preventing the brains of that party controlling its campaign work. Gorman is the best leader that the party has available today. but he will not act as Jones' lieutenant. and insists upon absolute control or none. This will not be given him and the result will be to the advantage of the opposition in Republican and sound money camps.

The returns are now all in from that wonderful effort in Madison Square garden. There is nothing in it to fire the "Ephesian Dome." Bryan was as tame as a little heifer calf.

The situation sobered him. He felt much as old Peter Cartwright did when trying to preach in Tremont Temple, Boston. Bryan will Peter out before the campaign is half over.

He is on the down grade already.

The real scattering for shelter usually comes later in the campaign.

Wait until October is fairly ushered in and see the scamper to get under sound money cover

Tom Watson has not yet been heard on the hustings at Madison Square garden. It was rather an oversight on the part of the Bryanite committee. this leaving Tom out in the cold There is not a doubt that he would have made it particularly interesting for somebody had he been there.

Tom is the intellectual equal of the others on their three ply ticket and should be allowed a chance to be heard. He will be in evidence with his following on election day.

Canada is the most conspicuous specimen of a big baby grown too big (in its mind) for its ordinary frocks and fuming because it can- not wear pants. Its attempt to dis- criminate against the silver coin of this country, when it is of greater value and based on more secure foun- dations than the issues of coin in that seven by nine streak of Dominion. is a case in point.

William McKinley in his quiet talks to the farmers and others who visit him in his quiet Canton home is ut- tering some weighty truths, compact as the contents of an egg shell and just as meaty. Here is one of the recent ones. "It is better to open the mills of the United States to the labor of America than open the mints of the United States to the silver of the world." Such sentences as these are pregnant with meaning for working men.

Thurston of Nebraska has lived long enough with Bryan to know just how big he isn't. This is a decided ad- vantage to the big brained Republi- can of Nebraska, for he knows the measure of the man he is to defeat in that state. Thurston knows Nebraska better than Bryan does, and he says that the state is safely within the Mc- Kinley and Hobart column. He knows.

She Boy Again, in the Populist state of Wisconsin, had until recently a Populist club of goodly proportions and loaded to the muzzle with en- thusiasm. The officers of the club called a meeting the other day to take steps for the campaign. and the first business done was to pass reso- lutions denouncing Bryanism and de- claring for sound money. Those fel- lows knew which side their bread was buttered. They wanted no He Boy Orator in She Boy again.

Word comes from California of the existence of a free silver federation in the west and northwest, banded togther by oaths and grips and pass- words to secure the election of a free silver president and houses of legislation. That do settle it. No oath bound secret political society ever yet succeeded in this country, and it is not going to in the year 1896.

Bryan shows that bedragled ap- pearance which foreshadows collapse even thus early in the campaign. Two or three more doses of Madison Square would finish him off.

It is a great pity to take Bryan up into the heights that overlook the presidential land of promise, giving him a view of all its goodly vales and fertile slopes, only to announce to him his burial without entering. But better men than he have had to do it.