Arizona republican., 1896-09-18
The Silver Sentiment in New York.
 Territorial Library, .sl,
Five Hundred Speakers on the
 Rampage.
That the Big Fight Is On in New York There Can Be No Doubt-Dem
 ocrats Confident.

NEW YORK, Sept 1.-The hardest kind of a fight will begin at once to carry New York state for Bryan
 Chairman Jones of the Democratic National committee while in the city heard news that pleased him.
 The senator is convinced that the Democratic National candidates will be elected, end was assured by New York Democrats that this state would give a majority for the Chicago ticket.
 The National and state committees will exert every effort to carry this state. Immediately after the Buffalo convention Senator Jones will return to the city and start a campaign that for vigor, it is promised, will never have been excelled.
 At least five hundred speakers will be secured for this state. Routes will be carefully mapped out with a view to covering the state thoroughly and systematically, and at the end of the six weeks every city town, village and crossroads settlement will have had two or three mass meetings.
 The determination. to make stiff fight i'm this state, a fight that was not intended two weeks ago, was caused by the reports to Senator Jones from ex-State Treasurer Elliot Danforth, Congressman William Sulzer and Sen ator Faulkner, chairman of the con gressional campaign committee, who came from Washington to have a talk with Chairman Jones. Messrs. Dan forth, Sulzer and Henry w. Cornell called on the senator together. MT. Danforth voiced the sentiments of Messrs. Sulzer and Cornell when he said:
 ''Two weeks ago I thought the possi- bilfty of Bryan carrying this state remote. was in this city, encoun- tered Mckinley sentiment daily and feared he had an overwhelming lead, despite the encouraging letters I re- ceived from friends up the state. Since then have been all through the state and my firm belief is that we will come to the Harlem river with a ma jorfty."
 'T agree with that opinion" said MT. Sulzer
 "It is exactly what I think" added Mir. Cornell.
 'In Chenango county, for instance" continued Mir Danforth, Bryan will have majority of certainly 5000 votes. The county is wild for him. The other night we had a meeting at the county seat, and although I have been in politics i'm that county for twenty-one years, never before saw anything there like that meeting for attendance and enthusiasm.
 ''We have had many prominent pub lie men in Chenango, but before this there was never a necessity to hold an overflow meeting. The population of the entire county seemed to have con- centrated in the town. We were fif- teen minutes in forcing our way through the crowd to the opera house.
 "Mr Cornell addressed the 2,000 people in that square from the court house steps The meeting in the theater lasted until 11:30 o'clock, and the people even then clamored for more speeches.
 Mr. Bryan's "trip through the state is bearing fruit. If good campaigning be done we can carry the state"
 Senator Faulkner, i'm discussing the situation in this state, said: q am II weeks I have been noticing the rapid specialization of Bryan sentiment in New York. I have already sent out 100000 pieces of literature in response to personal requests. Every day, from this state alone, come about eight hundred requests for literature from as many individuals.
 One prominent leader sizes up mat ters in this way:
 '"Hhe general situation is improving every day. Two weeks ago the pros pect was better than it had been two weeks previously and now it is better than it was two weeks ago. The Ar kansas election indicates how the peo- pie feel in the west. Indiana and Mich igan are practically safe for Bryan In Illinois he has a good deal better chance than Mckinley. The south and far west will be solid for Bryan and Iowa, if the election were held to- morrow, would give Democratic ma jority of 30,000."
 "A year ago last August some silver Democrats met in Washingt anC issued statement explaining their be- lief that with proper effort the silver Democrats could control the next Ma tional convention. The next day tht New York press ridiculed us and pre- dicted the early death of the silvel sentiment They continued saying that it would die out until the Chi cago convention, when two-thirds O the delegates were for silver. Eve since then we have been told by th' Republicans that silver sentiment wa! dying out.
 '"The silver sentiment will continu,