The Republican journal., 1896-08-13

POLITICAL POINTS. The Republican
campaign in Wisconsin was opened at
Milwaukee Aug. 5th with mass meeting
at the Exposition Building. Several thou
sand people were present and listened to
addresses by Senator John W. Thurston
of Nebraska, ex-Congressman Charles NJ.
Fowler of New Jersey and ex- Congress-
man William f. Mason of illinois. In the
course of his speech Mr.. Thurston said:
Il received word to-day from a trusted
friend in my State, confirming what | al
ready knew, that William j. Bryan, great
as he may appear to other parts of the
country, on election day in November
will be defeated in his ward in his city, in
his county, in his Congressional district
and in the State where he lives. ''.... Sea-
born Augustus Wright was nominated by
acclamation for governor by the Georgia
PopuliSt State convention at Atlanta Aug.
7th, with a full list of State officers. The
platform adopted declares for prohibition
and endorses the action of the St. Louis
convention No action was taken regard
ing the presidential muddle The
convention adopted resolutions authoriz-
ing the State committee to negotiate with
the Democrats for fusion on the electoral
ticket whenever the Democrats withdraw
Sewall, but not before. =. Ex- Secretary W.
c. Whitney denies the statement that
New York is a doubtful State. He says
that not only can Bryan not win there,
but that Mckinley will carry it by 200, 900
majority. This number is 1000 more
than the Republican nominees majority
as predicted by exGov. Flower short
time ago.. One of the things cheered at
the Waterville silver convention was the
Democratic victory in Brunswick, Mary
Low, Il hot e Ill
thing to crow over. 1t appears that Bruins
wick is town of only 900 voting popuia-
ton, of whom but 293 cast votes at the
recent municipal election. 1t was merely
a choice of town officers, there was no ex-
citement and no issue except purely local
ones. The Democratic candidate for
mayor received 161 votes and was elected
by 32 majority over his Republican
competitor. The silver question was not
mentioned and it was a reduced Demo-
cratic majority. ..., The Texas Populists
followed the example of those of Georgia
and refused to fuse except on condition of
Sewalfs withdrawal. As that is an i'm
possible condition, an Independent Popu-
list electoral ticket in Texas is assured.
That, however, would probably not dis
turb the Democrats much. They had
40, 900 plurality in 1892 and "a, 900 in
1894, and it is unlikely that any detection
of sound money Democrats will be large
enough to overcome those figures. 80. The
gold Democratic conference at Indianapo-
lis decided to call national convention in
indianapolis, Sept. I'd. c. Vey Holman
was the Maine representatives. Lewell-
ing was a candidate for governor before
the Kansas Populist convention, but was
defeated by big majority. In that in
stance, at least the Populists showed good
sense. They have had Lewelling in the
executive chair before and have had quite
enough of him.. Representative Apsley,
who represented the fourth congressional
district of Massachusetts in the house
during the SD Congress and the first ses-
sion of the 54th Congress, has notified the
managers of his district that he will not
under any circumstances accept a renomi-
nation.