. Review of reviews and world's work. idate. He is not, however, a strictconservative. For a number of years, indeed, he has been regarded as in sympatliy with the views,that are summed up in the word was as a pro-silver Democrat that he was ap-pointed by President McKinley in 1897 as a mem-ber of the commission of which Senator Wolcott,of Colorado, was chairman to visit Europe in theinterests of bimetallism. Of Mr. Stevensons per-sonality and career, we shall present a more ex-tended account next month. r*. n A/ Meanwhile, Mr. Bryan finds himself The Double - Candidacy now, as fou
. Review of reviews and world's work. idate. He is not, however, a strictconservative. For a number of years, indeed, he has been regarded as in sympatliy with the views,that are summed up in the word was as a pro-silver Democrat that he was ap-pointed by President McKinley in 1897 as a mem-ber of the commission of which Senator Wolcott,of Colorado, was chairman to visit Europe in theinterests of bimetallism. Of Mr. Stevensons per-sonality and career, we shall present a more ex-tended account next month. r*. n A/ Meanwhile, Mr. Bryan finds himself The Double - Candidacy now, as four years ago, in associationProblem, ^^-^j^ ^^^^ candidates for the Vice-Presidency. Our readers must remember thatthe situation is complicated by the fact that citi-zens do not vote directly for Presidential andVice-Presidential nominees, but for groups ofelectors. In order to make their votes count forthe common end of promoting the election ofBryan, Democrats and Populists must in eachState unite on a common electoral ticket. HON. CHARLES A. TOWNE. OF MINNESOTA. (Populist nominee for the Vice-Presidency.) makes it difficult in the extreme to have two can-didates for the Vice - Presidency. Mi*. Bryansprogramme should have been accepted as a logi-cal whole at Kansas City, or else tlie conventionshould have acted on its own initiative from be-ginning to end. If the convention had shownthe couraure of its real convictions, it would have THE PROGRESS OF THE IVORLD. 141 carried the fight on the silver plank from theresolutions committee to the floor of the conven-tion hall, and voted to postpone the coinage ques-tion for four years. Since, however, the con-vention accepted Mr. Bryans silver plank, itought, in consistency and ^ood policy, to havemade Mr. Towne the Vice-Presidential outcome has encouraged the so-called Mid-dle of the Road Populists, whose nominees areMr. Wharton Barker, of Philadelphia, and Donnelly, of Minnesota. This organi-zation is
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