The news from America is, on the whole, favourable to
Mr. McKinley's chances. The sound money Democrats headed, it is understood, by President Cleveland, have resolved in Convention to start a candidate of their own, and have selected General Palmer, who will carry away, it is believed, a large number of votes, his friends say a million. An election in Vermont has revealed too that Mr. Bryan's nomination has increased the bitterness of New England against the Western men. The gold men, moreover, who are fairly roused, are showing great energy and are flooding the country with lecturers and pamphlets intended to convince the electors that a double standard means re- pudiation. On the other hand, Mr. Bryan declares, pro- bably with conviction, that he shall carry New York and a majority of the Electoral College, and agents sent into the South to inquire into prospects, report that on silver there is no reasoning with the people, and that the negroes are all for Bryan, a statement partly confirmed by an election in Arkansas, which has returned a Bryanite by a greatly increased majority. The fury of sectional hatred, too, increases, the Western newspapers in particular using lan- guage as violent as that of the Southern journals before the Civil War. Their general allegation is that the Eastern States, in slavish obedience to the London money-spinners, are devising plans to plunder them. Poor innocent Londoners, wbo could not even name the Western States if their lives depended on it !
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