Identifier: reviewofreviewsw22newy (find matches)
Title: Review of reviews and world's work
Year: 1890 (1890s)
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Publisher: New York Review of Reviews Corp
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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for hints and suggestions. There is, after all, something superb in Mr. Bryans poise and self-confidence. There is nothing of a Hamlet about him, either in mind or in temper. His strength and vigor as a man are, in some sense, a disqualification for public affairs; for we do not get the best results from autocrats as presidents. And Bryan is the most autocratic person now in American public life, not excepting Hanna. To see what he would really do if put into the White House would be so interesting as to afford at least a partial compensation for some of those harmful consequences that the conservative mind has conjured up as probable. Willis Abbot \^q publish elsewhere two inter- on the .•■., . , Campaign cstiiig articles upoii the practicalettiods. methods employed in this campaign. One of these is by Mr. Willis J. Abbot, who has played the leading part in the conduct of the Democratic propaganda by means of the press and printed matter; the other is by a Xew THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. 525
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WE CAN EAT IT, BUT From the Herald (New York.) (Carl Schurz, David B. Hill, and Richard Olney would not be happy at Bryans Cabinet table.) York newspaper man who has seen much of the work at the Republican headquarters. Mr.Bryan, in a speech made last month to his former neighbors in Illinois, is reported to have said: If the election were held today, there is no doubt that we would have a majority in the Electoral College mid in the popular vote. But the Republican managers are now collecting from the monopolies a large campaign fund. They will buy every vote that can be bought. They will coerce every vote that can be coerced. They will intimidate every laboring man who can be intimidated. They will bribe every election judge who can be bribed. They will corrupt every count that can be corrupted. Mr. Abbot, writing from what we may call the Intelligence Bureau of the Democratic campaign, does not bear out the feeling conveyed in these words of Mr. Bryans. He takes the position that his opp

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