Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1896-08-07
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON. Aug srd. 100.

l0c cHOIto OF luc SllNcl llililc ONilci ofWlOoc
paid employee Bryan is said 70 be,to corrupt
the unthinking masses with faIIaoious ar
guments aud promises of something for
nothing wilt end in defeat for the party Of
anarchy and population. Everyday in
formation is received from communities in
which it had been supposed that the silver
sentiment had full sway showing that the
sentiment in favor of honest money and
protection to American industry, which is
solely championed by the Republican party
is on the increase. This. too, in face of the
ract that the Republicans have just begun
the sharp shooting of the great battle which
is to be waged in the interests of our right
to have an honest currency and the right to
earn it by honest toll.
In the campaign literature that is being
sent out by the Republican Congressional
Committee every argument that is being
advanced by the advocates of the free and
independent coinage of silver by this gov
eminent is being fully met and refuted, but
a protective tariff, which most Republicans
believe to be the thing in which the coun-
try stands most in need of and from which
it will derive the most benefit, is also being
advocated just as strongly as though there
were no such issue as silver in the cam
paign Had there been no Democratic tin
kering with the tariff law which the Re
publicans left on the statute books, the sill
yer question never would have risen to the
dignity Of a National issue. notwithstand-
ing the extensive and expensive agitation
which has been carried on for several years
at the expense of the men who own the big
silver mines only men who would be
largely benefited by the free coinage of sill
yer, now standing at ratio to 81 to lat a
ratio of 10 to /.
! There are a number of Senators whose
prosy and monotonous style of making
speeches on hackneyed subjects never fail
to clear the galleries whenever they speak,
but for some time Senator Stewart, of Ne
vada,, has held the record for clearing the
gallerins oftener and quicker than any of
his colleagues. Senator Jones, of Arkan-
sas, Chairman of the Democratic National
COMMITTEES, knows this and that is why he
is in quandary as to what to do about
Senator Stewards offer to take the stump
for Bryan. If he declines the offer he will
offend Stewart aud some of his personal
friends, and if he accepts Stewart will make
more votes for Mckinley than for Bryan,
if allowed to speak in his own way.
The National Republican Protective AS
sociation,an organization of prominent col
ored men. the main object of which is to
educate the coIored voters upon the ques-
tons at issue in the campaign, has opened
headquarters in Washington While the
association will endeavor to get in touch
with eolorei clubs in all sections, it has de-
cided to pay especial attention to the States
of West Virginia, Maryland, Virginia, North
Carolina, Alabama Tennessee and Ken
lucky, in all of which Mckinley and Hobart
are believed to have more than a fighting
chance to win, and in all of which the silver
men are trying to work on the colorec
voters.
f Representative Tawney, of Mimi, now
: in Washington on business said 81 be
lieve that we will be able to carry Mime
sofa for Mckinley, but it will require HARD
work, as all the elements opposed to Repub
licanism are going to effect thorough
fusion. Nelson carried the State in "a by
a large plurality but by very small ma
! iority over the combined vote of the Dem
ocratss, Populists and Prohibitionists Their
are signs of a reaction against the free sill
yer movement and | believe there will b
q many changes among voters who have beef
q temporarily mised by the fiat money delu
n sion. The advocates of silver have hur
= their cause greatly by raising the sectiona
t plea of Southern and Western AIliano
!. against the East. They have also don
o themselves harm by publishing detache
7 sentences of a speech made by Mr. Blaine
Y containing artfullY picked out expression
5 speaking of both silver and gold as tn
e money of the constitution, and suppressin
d what he said in the same speech about tn
+ dishonesty of stamping dollar as sue
y when it contained less than one hundre
q cents, and allowing the bullion owner to az
" propriate wrongfully the difference betwee
the coin and bullion value" Mr.. Blaine
entire speech is being distributed by tn
- Republicans.
20 Among the signs indicating the fright c
the BryaniteS may be mentioned The STOP
" ping Of the distribution of Bryan's Chicag
s speech in order that it might be revised an
ie the Interpolation of modifying words int
II the Democratic platform that were nc
~ adopted by the Chicago Convention. The
"a are finding out that the people of this couT
e try are not ready to indOrse the THROWN
r off of any of the safeguards which surroun