Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-28
Political koses.

Tuesday, refused to issue q mRndamu'
compelling State Election supervise
Populist candidate for elector, from thu
ballot and it will remain.
A. w. Corley of Braxton county. w
Iva, filed his resignation, Tuesday. as the
of appeals. This completes the list Of
designations and the Democrats and Pop
ulists have at last made common cause
against the gold standard.
Judge T.. j. Latham vice-president OF
the Tennessee Bankers Association. says
1t is difficult to estimate the benefit from
McKinleys election. That large
amount of capital would be invested In
| this section in manufacturing and other
enterprises. and that the stimulus would
! result in immediate business improve
ment, he does not doubt.
In the event of McKinley's election
many new enterprises will be started in
Louisville and in other points throughout
Kentucky according to Mr.. W. I. Rolph;
manager for X. G. Dun Co. One OF
| these enterprises will have capital OF
| Germs. 1t is estimated that $l.3o0O0o VIII
about cover the amount to be invested at
once.
Minnesota has millions of capital which
| ton of Mckinley as it can find what APP
pears to be profitable employment.
Among the merchants in the jobbing dis
! trict it is stated that over 60 per cent; OF
orders are made contingent upon the cleo
| ton of Mckinley. H. p Upham. presi-
dent of the First National Bank. said
| that there would be big demand for
money Immediately after the election.
1t is estimated at Wilmington that
more than $l.000,000 will be invested in
| that city in existing manufacturing
| plants. in the event of McKinley's cleo
| ton. The Baltimore 4 Ohio Railroad will
expend a large sum in railroad improve
ments in Delaware. and the Philadelphia.
Wilmington & Baltimore Railroad Com
| large repair shops Few of these i'm
provements will be effected, however.
should Bryan win.
| A decision handed down by the Mis-
souri, supreme court Monday, holds
| that the Silver party's state ticket cam
| not be printed on the official ballots.
| The Silver party ticket was made up
of the Democratic Presidential electors
and the Republican state ticket. 1t
was opposed in the courts by the Dem
| ocratic state central committee.
| The industrial and commercial situa-
| ton in Trenton. n. j.. very clearly typi-
! ies the situation throughout the state,
| Bank officials say all the business OF the
| banks is delayed awaiting the results of
| the election and that no commercial pa
| per is being considered by the boards be
| cause of the political crisis. The pottesries
are nearly all idle. except those making
| sanitary goods, which have had Il shrink
| age of 200 per cent. during the past six
months. If Mckinley is elected a busy
time will follow in this state.
AT least 81 ooo. 600 of new capital will be
| invested in Indians within the next two
years in the event OF Mcknley's cleo
| ton. During the last two years there
has been but little new capital coming
| into the natural gas territory. but re-
| Gently men who have money to invest
| have been in the territory prospecting
and they all said that their future ac-
Mckinley. The money will mostly &C
| into glass factories tin plate factories
iron mills and wooden ware factories.
| Chairman Roselle of the Missouri Pop
| ulist state committee. is preparing cyl
dence to present to the grand jury. which
i he believes will prove several prominent
| Republicans guilty of ante--election brib.
| cry Mr.. Roselle says that he was Offered
| $40. 900 as a campaign fund if fusion with
| Democrats on the electoral ticket in Mis-
| souri, was prevented, and that Judge
| Jones. candidate for Governor. who re-
| tired in favor of the Democratic nominee
was offered $1,000 to remain in the race
| Other instances are cited by Mr. Roselie
The Subcommittee of the Georgia
Democratic state committee: appointed tt
| reply to the Populist proffer of fusion
has given out its reply. The letter says
that the Popuists wrote an insulting
communication to the Democrats ans
announcing that it was the Populists
ultimatum. The Democrats say that flu
sion on fair terms might have been ar
ranged if the Populists had approached /
in different spirit. The Populists arr
| asked to explain their action in takins
down Mr. Watson, their own candidate
| in his own state.
Il Bourke Cochran addressed about 4oo
people in the Auditorium at Memphis
Tenn. Monday night. Mr.. Cochran testet
the temper of his audience by mentioning
Bryan. and at once there was a storm o
applause Later he was asked about hi
| ROT ''nnrppOEStruptpU Sl1EEnOld
ers" in his Madison Square Gardel
speech and there was another outbreal
pubiicans and gold standard people. Th'
speaker noted the incident and inquir,
only to state that the silver people be
lieved in noise because 1t was the onl.
argument they could command.
The Middle-of- the Road Populists o
Kentucky, met at Louisville, Monday
and prepared an address bitterly de
, nouncing the fusion agreement be
tween the Populists and Democratic
state central committee. 1t closes a
/. follows: Let us refuse to vote TO
Bryan and his New England Pluto
, cratic running mate, Arthur Sewall
: the national banker. bond-holder ant
millionaire plutocrat; the Mark Ham;
Of the Democratic party; the personi
fication of all that is vicious and cor
rupt in American politics.
G A conservative estimate of tn
amount Of capital that would see
circulation at Chicago, in case McKin
=, ley is elected is 10000, 600. The vic
), tory of sound money means turnin
into the banks and from the banks t
:, borrowers these millions of dollars tina
are now boarded. In the real estat
q markets of Chicago 81 900, 900 has bee
q lost since the Chicago convention de
clared for a debased currency. Con
. sentative estimates place the sum con
tingent upon the victory of SCUM
a money at more than double tina
!, amount, so that it can be safely sal
~ III the real estate and building bushes
a alone fully $50000,00O trembles in tn
=, balance, so far as Chicago is con
-, cerned.
&c A special from Iron Mountain, III
-e says: At a meeting of the employe
u of the Chaplin Mining Company, hel,
9 Monday, the following resolutions wer
adopted: We, the undersigned, in mas
meeting assembled, of our own FIRE
will and without any suggestions froi
our superiors or anybody connecte
OF with Mr.. M. A. Hanna or the manage
ment of the Chaplin Nine where "