Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1900 — BRYAN'S MANY SIDED HOPES AND FEARS. [ARTICLE]

BRYAN'S MANY SIDED HOPES AND FEARS.

His Expectations Based on Hopes that Others WHI Forfet. Bryan argues that the Constitution extends in full by its own force to every foot of land under the American flag. He hopes that the American people,won’t find out before November that the United States courts, from the lowest to the highest, have decided by overwhelming and irresistible decisions that he is wrong. He is running on a platform declaring for the fraud of free silver. He hopes that the gold Democrats who have returned to the Democratic party on the issue of imperialism will not cease to believe in his readiness to betray it. He is running on a platform on which imperialism is said to be the paramount issue. He hopes that the silver men won’t take this portion of tbe platform seriously. He is running as a Democrat. He hopes the Populists won’t lay it up against him. He is running as a Populist. He hopes the Democrats will forget it. He is running as a silver Republican, He hopes that the silver Republicans, mainly.men of the West, won’t give him up because of their belief in expansion. He is running as the avowed friend of Aguinaldo. He hopes that this won’t drive the American votes against him. So every Democratic hope of 1900 has error or humbug back of it.