The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-06
That is What Michael DeYoung
of California Thinks.
If Democrats Adopt It They'll
Have 242 Electoral Votes.
FIGURES IN PROOF.
Thinks TheyMayPut Up Morgan
of Alabama for Presidency.
If Republicans Stick to Silver
They Will Surely Win.

NEW YORK. Dec. 6.-Michael II. De
Young, proprietor of the San Francisco
Chronicle and member of the national
committee. is in this city. He is on his
way to Washington, to present the claims
of San Francisco as the place for hold
ing the next Republican convention.
There are persons in this part of the
country" he said, "who are figuring on
a Republican walkover, and l notice
that Brice, on behalf of a certain class of
Democrats has thrown up the sponge.
There are other Democrats like ex-
Speaker Crisp for instance who take a
less cherries view of the situation.
You will remember MIR. Crisp said
after the election that the monetary
policy of the Democratic party would in
the future be dictated by the sure Demo-
cratic states, not by the doubtful. To me it
seems that Crisp is figuring something
like this: The group of states known as
the "Solid South" which have 156 cleo
toral votes. can be depended upon to
take any action in the national conven-
ton that its leaders dictate
Now suppose in their wisdom they
decide upon a hat-footed plan favoring
free and independent coinage of silver
what help could they expect? They are
perfectly aware OF the situation and
know that they could depend upon the
delegates from the following states to
stand in with them: California, Colo
RADIO, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Iowa.
Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South
Dakota, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyom-
ing, Utah and Oregon.
These fifteen states have all shown
pronounced silver or Populist leanings,
and the latter just now means silver.
Illinois would in all probability send a
l.
"rhe Democratic conventions stick to
the two thirds rule, and the delegates
from the solid south and the states above
enumerated would represent several
votes of two thirds, but if the keen poll
ticians of Indiana, Michigan and Mime
sofa have it made clear to them that. the
one fighting chance for the party is un-
der the banner of free silver, they would
not long refuse their adhesion to the pro-
gramme of Crisp, Harris, Morgan and
Bland.
s'If the Democrats should adopt a free
coinage plank, and the Republicans
should try to straddle, these men think
that they could depend upon the 156
votes of the solid south and the SO votes
of the other fifteen states
'Whom would the Democrats snomi-
nate on a silver platform? | don't know
whether they would have the courage to
nominate q former confederate general,
but there are signs of a disposition
on their part to consider the war at an
end. If so, there is no reason why they
should not put up Morgan OF Alabama.
"The south would go for him with
whoop, and there is scarcely a silver
man unacquainted with his straight for
ward record in favor of bimetallism. 1
should regard him as dangerous oppo-
nent on free silver platform, if our par
ty has not sagacity enough to see the
drift of events.
"Ot course, all these conjectures go on
the assumption that the ideas expressed
by Republicans in the states along the
eastern seaboard prevail. and that the
party's attitude of friendliness to silver
will be abandoned. If good
sense prevails and the Republicans
come out for silver and show that they
are in earnest, no Democratic candidate
would have a show against them, for
bimetallism and protection are logically
connected. If the ideas expressed by
Reed, Senators Lodge and Chandler are
followed we can sweep the field"