The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-15
Be YE NOT DECEIVED
All is Not Gold in the Glitter
ing Big Cities.
MARYLAND FOR BRYAN
The Silver Sentiment Sweeping
Over the keystone State.
THE BANKER BOOMERANGS
And the Effect of Their Boiling the
Chicago Nominee--The Masses
OF the Cities Are For
Silver.
THE BANKER BoOMERANGS

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Baltimore, Md, July 11-(Ssaf
| Correspoudence)-I spent this week
or a good portion of it, in the cities
north of us. / saw great crowds
| gather in front of bulletin boards, and
| / would approach to learn the latest
from the Chicago convention with al
most fear and trembling. For had
| not read in the great morning dailies
that all the people in the cities were
for gold; that they all regarded free
silver as reputation, and its adyo-
Gates anarchists. | stood in a crowd of
several hundred in front of the Times
office, in Philadelphia. l said not a
word, but listened attentiyely 10 the
remarks of those around me.
Bob Pattison boit?' l heard one
man say. NO, sir. Bob Patbison is
a Democrat. He is a friend of the
people. He is not going to bolt. Be
sides, he knows that the masses of the
people in Pennsylvania are having
their eyes open ON this silver ques-
'bion, and that the working masses are
getting tired of the gold Standard
All this was spoken with emphasis
by tail, sturdy, well dressed man,
whom a gentleman subsequently, told
me was the foreman of a large manu-
featuring establishment in Philadel
phia. He is only stating the situation
as it is, continued this gentleman,
for there is no use Disgusting the fact
that for month or more silver has
been taking root in Pennsylvania. Fhe
labor organizationsan and the farmers are
I,a hnV
have before. They are listening and
being convinced that the free coinage
of silver will be advantageous to them
and if the sentiment keeps growing in
Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, hike ii
has for the past month, Mckinley
and Quay will find that they will
have TO fight like tigers to keep Penn
slyvania in line. | talked with a
dozen or more prominent men in Phil
adelphia. They, as a rule, predicted
all kinds of dire calamities if silver
sould win, but without an exception
they admitted that the sentimen was
invading the East, and smashing party
lines into atoms. why this little Phil
adelphia Item" remarked one gentle
man, with the largest circulation of
any paper in Philadelphia and the or
gan of the laboring classes, is a ram
pat free silver sheet, and it is preach
ing them full of free silver every day,
telling them that if the gold standard
is continued ten years longer the work
ing classes in America will be little
more than English or Russian serfs.
Its daily circulation is nearly 100000
and it is the only journal that goes
into thousands of working mems
homes. Really, remarked this gentle
man, who was a strong Mckinley Re-
publican, Il view the situation in
Pennsylvania with some anxiety
Cameron on the one side. and Siblev on
the other, have been championing the
cause of silver for years, ad Pattison is
right ready 10 fall into line, and these
three men are more popular with the
masses than any triumyirate in Penn
slyyania. If they should all line up
for one silver candidate, we would
have nip and tuck fight in Pennsly-
vania."
All this was said before Bryan was
nominated and before Pattison had
announced TO the Pennsylvania dele
cation that he was going to support
the Chicago platform and ticket. The
next day / spent in Baltimore and
casually took in the situation around
the bulletin boards in the Monument
tai City. In front of the Sun build
ing the American Building and the
Herald Building large crowds were
gathered, they We're heterogeneous
crowds representing all classes of men.
| listened with interest to the remarks
of different individuals, they were four
to one for Senator Daniels against
Hill, and at least four out of five of
those | talked to were for the silver
platform and the Chicago nominee.
Eyes sir, Senator German will sup
port the ticket said one gentleman to
me- The Democracy of Maryland
will be reunited for this years fight.
Senator German knows that he has a
strong faction against him in Mary
land. The election of Gov Lowndes
was rebuke to the German machine
control and German knows when he
has got enough. We all recognize his
ability and we like him, we have
shown him our power. He has re-
cognized it and we have buried the
Ratchet. German, Gibson, Hurst and
the anti-Gorman forces are drifting
together again. We have already got
~ isN III MARY
land and this year you may count on
Maryland for the Democracy, free sill
yer and all. The workingmen. small
er merchants, farmers and other la
boring classes are almost a unit for
silver and we shall surely win against
the autocratic bankers, capitalists
and rich newspapers
This man spoke with much earnest
ness, and yet with conservatism.
Very much unlike another man
met few moments later.
John X. Cowen has bolted the
ticket and come out for Mckinley re-
marked bystander."
The castigation that the ex-Con-
gresham received from the man adj
dressed was something terrible. He
was called a plutocrat, an enemy to
every man who toiled and hundred
men applauded the emphatic remarks
of the speaker.
| met one prominent gentleman, the
secretary of a large financial inStitu-