The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-08-15
SWANSON AFTER SPEAKERS AND
LITERATURE FOR VIRGINIA.
He Says There is Unparalleled Interest 10
the Rural Districts of the Old Do
minion-Sil Clubs Are Being
Formed All Over the Countrywide
Republican Campaign Committee
Sending Out Large Quantities of Mr..
Blaine's Financial Speech.

Washington, August 15.-There was
a rush of visitors at Democratic headquar-
ters to-day, including a. j. Warner of
Ohio, chairman of the Bimetallic League
who arrived to-day; Representatives.
Fithian, of Illinois; Swanson and Jones'
of Virginia, and Mr.. POUCH, the Demo
cratic candidate for Congress in the
Fourth North Carolina district.
Chairman Faulkner said the question of
locating national headquarters would be
settled before the week closed, but he had
no information encouraging to Washing
toms claims. General Warner, who had
just come on from New York, said the
feeling was that, as the contest was to be
waged in the States surrounding Chicago
1T would be natural to make Chicago the
center. AT the same time he said there
was no definite decision up to the time he
| left.
The personnel of the executive COM
mittee, which is about to be named, is
attracting much attention. General
Warner said that, while he had no direct
information, he believed Chairman Jones
would include eX- Representative Kerr, of
Pennsylvania; George Fred Williams, of
Massachusetts,, and Mr.. Troup, ..of Con-
| necticut, on the committee.
Mr.. POUCH, of North Carolina, says
that the. reports of to-daysas to the Popu-
| list convention in that State indicate
there will be II three-cornered fight, in
which event, he says, Democratic success
will be made more easy. He says the
| Populists of North Carolina will vote for
| Bryan. sS4r
Mr.. Swanson is here to secure cam
| paign literature and speakers for Vir-
ginia. He says there is unparalleled in
terest in the rural sections of Virginia,
| and that the campaign will open in
| earnest on September 1.
Secretary Gardner, of the Democratic
| Congressional committee, is back from
| the New York meeting. Mr. Gardner's
mail indicates that silver clubs are being
formed independent of the National AS
| ISOLATION of Democratic Clubs, and that
| steps will be taken to effect national
| organization of these clubs.
AT Republican headquarters there was
the usual air of systematic business.
Chairman Babcock said there were no
developments beyond the strong encour-
| agements brought by the mail reports
from every section of the country.
| The Republican Congressional commit
| tee to-day issued II large number of copies
of the financial speech of JAS. G. Blaine,
| from which numerous extracts have
| been made of late. The speech is printed
in full as means of showing that the
| silver utterances attributed to Mr. Blaine
We're wrong from context which, when
| given in full, presented different view.
The sub-heads to the speech indicate the
main points:
Restoration of silver impossible with
| out the CO cooperation of Europe
"Our silver dollar must be worth 100
| cents on the dollar"
Free coinage at 16 to would force us
| to n single silver Standard
eve need both gold and silver, and we
can have both only by making each the
| equal of the other.'
can inferior silver dollar or cheap pa
, per money would be disastrous to the in
, terests of ALL"
The committee is sending large sup
plies.of the Blaine speech to each of the
State committees