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The Democratic prediction-made with a view to avoid disappointment-seems to have been exactly fulfilled. Returns from two-thirds of the State show a gain of seven thousand in the Republican plurality over that in 1894. If this gain is maintained in the rest of the State, the Republican plurality will be almost exactly 50,000. This is thirty thousand more than in any recent Presidential election. The campaign was fought upon the financial issue exclusively. Most of the gold Democrats voted directly for the Republican candidate the gold Democratic candidate receiving less than a thousand votes. Mr. Bryan last week made a brief speech accepting the nomination of the American Silver party, and published a brief letter accepting the nomination of the Democratic party. Both the speech and the letter declared that the tariff question must be held in abeyance until the money question is fully and finally settled. The speech said little more than this, for the platform of the Silver party had but the one plank. The letter to the Democratic Committee took up in succession all the planks of the Democratic platform, and expressed a cordial indorsement of each. Its expressions were perhaps most guarded upon the plank condemning the use of National troops for the preservation of order within the States. The law, it said, must always be enforced and the public peace always maintained. Opinions would ever differ as to the best means of securing these ends, but those who were loyal to our form of government and trusted the people of our States would conform with the Constitutional provision that the National Government should not interfere in the domestic affairs of any State except upon the application of the Legislature or of the Executive in case the Legislature could not be convened. 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Mr. Bryan said nothing about the currency question except that he had previously discussed it and that it was the all-important issue of the campaign. "Momentous results," he said, "must follow the action taken. . . . The people of this Nation, sitting as a high court, must render judgment in the cause which greed is prosecuting against humanity." Mr. Hobart's letter accepting the Republican nomination for the Vice-Presidency is a spirited and well-written document. Its author is evidently a firm believer in the single gold standard. "Necessity," he says, "has made gold the final standard of all enlightened nations." Nevertheless he expresses the desire of his party to continue to use the silver now in circulation, and assist in promoting the double standard whenever it can be secured by agreement and co-operation among nations. Free coinage Mr. Hobart arraigns as a proposition to cut in two all that is owing to the poor who have deposits in savings-banks or policies in insurance companies. Regarding the tariff he is moderate in his expressions, though entirely loyal to the programme of his chief. Like Mr. Bryan, he believes that the currency is the predominant issue, and that all citizens who place country above party ought to allign themselves according to their beliefs on this question. If public opinion changed as rapidly as the opinion of the political conventions supposed to represent it, the supporters of Mr. Bryan might indeed claim a revolution in Eastern sentiment upon the silver question. Less than three months ago the Democrats of New Jersey and Pennsylvania adopted the strongest kind of gold-standard resolutions. Last week the Democratic Conventions in the same States "enthusiastically" indorsed Bryan and Sewall and the Chicago platform. 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