Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-08-20
KANSAS GOLD DEMOCRATS.
Eugene Hagnn Snys There Are Thou.
sands of Them-State COnyen-
ton Next Tuesday.

Topeka, Kas., Aug. i9.-(Special) Eugene
Hagan and C. ]. Lantry are up to their
ears in work at the sound moneJ Demo-
cratic headquarters in this city. To-day
they answered more than 800 letters in re-
ply to inquiries about the state convention
to be held in Topeka next Tuesday. They
have received an immense pile of coTre-
spondence within the past few days, and
both are jubilant over the outlook FOR a
large convention. Mr.. Hagar said to the
Journal correspondent:
I'VE will have at least 800 delegates in
our convention. IL we had a week longer
TO work we could get out a crowd that
would make the silver fellows wonder
where they all came from. l have here
list from every county in the state show.
ing the sound money Democrats who be-
yond question will oppose the election of
Mr.. Bryan. For instance, here IS lis-
from Chase county, sent in by man down
there, which contains sixty-two names,ani
Mr.. Lantry informs me that it can read
lily be increased TO several hundred. Here
is list from Barber county, where we had
counted on hardly anything, and yet 1t
contains the names of twenty-six Demo-
Gratis, every one of whom is pronounced
against Bryan. Here Is a list of fifty rom
Bourbon county, twenty-eight frora Clay
county. seventy from Wyandotte county.
forty from Leavenworth county and others
from nearly every county in the state
which run from ten upwards.
II have made a canvass of the Demo-
cratic business men on Kansas avenue, in
this city, and with one exception everyone
l have talked to is opposed to Bryan and
free silver. My list for Shawnee county
will run somewhere between 800 and 500
zone of the things we have to contend
with in getting this convention to a sue
cessful finish is the opposition on the part
of sound money Democrats TO running a
third ticket. i have dozens of letters here
from different portions of the, state In
which the writer's declare their intention
to vote for Mckinley, and say that they
will not go into convention which would
| seem TO bind them TO vote for another can
didate.
Il have universally replied to these LETT
tors that it is not so much the getting of
votes for sound money candidate that We
are after as 1t is to register an organized
protest against the election of Bryan and
| the success of the Chicago platform. do
| not believe anything will be done, either
| at our state convention or at Indianapolis
| which will interfere with individual choice
| of the best methods of accomplishing these
ends
The Journal correspondent read large
| number of the letters in Mr.. Hagan's pos
session, and some of them are rom men
! who are generally supposed TO be support
/ 1n. Bryan ana tDe 1OpullSl state
| They ask that their names he not printed
| and give as a reason distaste for the no.
| toriety of being advertised as bolters, bu,
| they declare their unfaltering intention tc
| vote against the candidate and platform OF
| reputation and disgrace.
| "A Kansas City paper recently published
| an item" said Mr. Hagan, which placet
| the number of delegates who would at
| tend the sound money Democratic con
| vention at thirty. and sneeringly adde;
that these thirty would ride in on railroad
| passes Another paper stated that th
| Republicans had furnished us money witt
| which to get up side show to their big
| circus. / wish you would say for NJ
| that not single railroad pass has beel
sent out through these headquarters t.
| anybody. and that not one cent of Repub
| lican or any other kind of money, excep
| our own has been or Will be expended il
| this affair.
MIR. Lantry and myself have furnishe
| every penny so far expended from our owl
| pockets. and We are not seeking, nor vii
| we accept. any contributions from Repub
| licans or Republican organizations. We ar
| In this movement for the honor of our stat
| and the glory of our country. and benin
MS you will find the best blood and brain
| of the Democratic party in Kansas"
| The convention will be held in Represent
| ative hall, commencing next Tuesday after
| noon at O'Clock.