Middletown transcript., 1896-09-19

1 AS The question u
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/ ~ NalT cratic in all hi.
:.TT1 ~ dealings will
the members o
the Populist National Committee a.
Bryan is with the members of the Dem.
ocratic Committee, and his demand
that Sewall be taken off the Bryan
ticket to make room for him has reach.
ed a stage where it cap no longer be
ignored. The Popocratic managers
havegot to do something. very soon,
and they are at loss to choose. Their
original intention was to bunco Wat
son, and there is reason to believe that
Senator Butler, Chairman of the
Populist National Committee, was a
party to that intention; but Watson
has succeeded in stirring up the Popu-
lists in portions of the South and West
to such an extent that the Popocrats
have lost their nerve and are now in
doubt about what to do, and bets have
been made that they will wind up by
throwing Sewall overheard. They
would pro bably have done so before
now, if they did not hopsfor a lot of
Sewalls money. and if they had not
been afraid of its effect in the East.
After the New York Convention
meets. this week. the last fear will not
count. They know that they haven't
a ghost of chance to carry an Eastern
State, but they want the moral effect
III other states of declaration in
favor of Bryan and Sewall, by the
New York Democratic Convention.
Good news continues to be about the
only Kind received at the Repu blican
headquarters. It comes from every
section and indicates that the reaction
against the free and independent coin
age of silver at ratio of 16 to l by
this Government is steadily becoming
stronger, even in states into which the
managers have sent neither
literature nor speakers because they
believe them hopelessly given up to
free silver sentiment. This is, of
course, pleasing, but no rainbow chas-
Ing is being done by Republicans;
their efforts are being confined to
states which they have reasonable
right to believe can be carried by Nc
Kinley and Hobart.
The calm, dispassionate, legal-like |
open letter which Attorney General
Harmon made public several days ago
is by far the most important utterance
hat has come from the administration.
against Bryan's anarchistic tendencies,
lot excepting the letter from Mr..
Cleveland. Mr.. Harmon's letter deal,
exclusively with that clause of the
jhicago platform declaring against
What it termed Federal interference in
ocal affairs, which everybody knows
o have been aimed at Mr.. Cleveland's
'rompt suppressi n of the interference
With the U. s. mail by the railroad
ioters at Chicago, the most creditabie
hing in his administration, and with
fr. Bryan's pledge not to do likewise
hould he become President, and a
imilar state of affairs be brought
bout again. The following words of
Attorney-General Harmon are. worthy
f the careful study of every good citi-
eD, regardless Of party This in my
Judgment, is far more serious matter .
han the money question or ANY other
uestion now before the people, grave
5 they all are. Our form of govern
lent may survive wrong decision Of
lose questions, and the people may
ndure for time the evils which re-
llt from false systems of finance and
but if the President has de-
befately disregarded the instrument !
pom which the Union is founded, by
lpplanting the authority Of a
,vereign state by armed force, pre- }
sdent has been made which threatens
1r form of government, while. if '
lndidate for Presidens may properly I
edge himself in advance, as Mr.. v
ryan has done, to do nothing to pro- h
ct the property, maintain the author {,
y and enforce the laws of the United r,
ates, unless and until the officers of
,other government request or consent
zen we really have no Federal govern :
ent, for Government which is not =,
tirely free 10 use force TO protect and =
aintain itself in the discharge of its :
vn proper functions, is no govern
ent at all. /" Mr.. Harmon also quotes
E L
e resolution offered in the Senate by
uator Daniels, of Va, who presided \,
'er the Chicago Convention, voted for
at platform and who is now on the
nmp for Bryan, indorsing in the :,
rongest language the Presidents ac- =. =:
m in suppressing the railroad riots. r.
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Col. B. E. Havens, Of Terre Haute, W
d. has written letter to a WASH O.
yton friend on the political situation sal
that state, which he has unusually
I'd opportunities to be familiar with, ac
sing with this positive assertion IT sui
ard Indiana safe against all comels 20 .,
McKinlev.n ia'