Kansas City daily journal., 1896-10-17
POLITICS aqa
POLITICIANS.
News and Gossip of the Campaign,
Gathered at the Hotels and
Public Buildings of the
Citv and Elsewhere.

most interesting letter was received
by the Journal yesterday from c. w.
Miller, commercial adjuster for Burnham,
Hanna, Munger & Co., who in the past
six weeks has been in almost every county
in Texas. The letter is dated at Fort
Worth, October Ii. My business" runs
the letter. brings me in contact with all
classes of people. 1t would surprise even
the most sanguine sound money advocate
not acquainted with the conditions in this
state TO learn of the reaction that mas
taken place during this time in favor OF
sound money and sound government one
of the principal causes for this Is the aS-
gressiye fight being made by Chairman
Green and his lieutenants. aided by the
sound money clubs throughout the state.
Sound money literature containing the
utterances of the doctrine by all parties
is being freely distributed over the stare.
The people are reading and thinking with a
view of getting at the solution oil this
question, regardless of politics. Another
cause is the tariff question. 1t may SOUND
strange but il is nevertheless true that
more than 10 per cent Of the rank and file
of the Democratic party in this state are
strongly in favor of tariff for protection
and for reciprocity. If the Democrat party
in framing the new tariff law had appointed
a.
what would hit the Southern cotton raisers
the hardest its verdict would have been
to take the duty from WOOL The writer
has taxed with great many cotton raisers
and they almost invariably say, HOW can
we expect a high price for cotton when
foreign wool is being shipped into this
country and sold at about the price of
cottong Another reason for this great
charge in sentiment is that while the Re
publiosns and sound money Democrats are
working in harmony, making every blow
count the opposition Is divided up into
factions, expending its force against one
another instead of the common enemy.
These are some of the reasons why Texas
is liable to go for Mckinley and Hobart
this year"
Henry thinner, who is the Popocratic
candidate for the state senate from Wyan-
dotte county. Kas, is a market gardener
who has been well known dealer at the
the city market here for several years.
He has sixty acres of kaw valley land
planted in garden truck" and is busy
harvesting ii and selling it here in the
city and is giving but little attention to
the question of politics. He began business
there several years ago. and by eschewing
politics and attending closely to his gar
den and having fresh stuff on the market
each morning, he has managed to lay away
a snug sum of cash. He has learned by
experience that the man who raises garden
truck for market has little time for
politics and he is not allowing the faint,
delusive hope of a probable seat in the
senate to interfere with his work of mar
keting his potatoes and his cabbage. He
was on the market yesterday with a nice
lot of stuff which he sold for a neat sum.
He is interested in politics and will vote,
but will give his first thought to his busi-
ness.
Talking of the campaign yesterday and
the peculiar features 1t presents. Mr.. n.
]. Burtoh of Illinois, who was in the city,
said: 81 have been a participant in cleo
tions since 1850, but / have never seen
one in which the flag was used so freely
as the present one except during the war.
and then its use was not SO general as
1t is now. You see the flag at every cor
ner; 1t flies from buildings, both public
and private, from residences, school houses
and business houses, and the people carry
II in the parades more than ever BEFORE
1t is a good sign and indicates that the
feeling of respect for what the flag repre-
sents is just as strong and deep and gen.
eral as It ever was and that an appeal to
the patriotism of the people will never
fail to secure a rousng answer. When
once the people believe that underlying
all issues before them is the question of
patriotism. they can be depended on to
respond
A. G. Hartley, with Walls Laundry Com
pany, was in Bush Bros Zeal estate Office,
in the New York Life building, yesterday.
investigating certain piece of property
which he was about to purchase. Not un-
like the general rule of business trans
actions nowadays, politics drifted into the
conversation. Mr.. Hartley said: 'If
thought that Bryan had any show of being
elected, / would not invest & cent in any
thing. In that event I shall look for the
greatest panic this country has ever gone
through. But don't think he has a ghost
Of a show. Why, I personally know of
fifty men who have returned to the sound
money standard after a few weeks of the
silver craze"