Middletown transcript., 1896-07-04

N@ OF majority o
NSZ% his party on th,
uEs&n financial question
a@<f44&S that he wants Il
" Y@1s be where he car
Il &0G2GS4O commune W it'll
the wild waves of Buzzard's Bay
when he hears the news from the Chic.
ago Convention, and he is accordingly
making his arrangements to leave
Washington this week. 1t took a long
time for him to get it through his head
that a big majority Of the Democratic
party was. for free silver. but now that
all the delegates to the Chicago Con.
yention have been selected, he is at
last convinced, and he is mad all the
way through about it, and is taking it
out on members of his cabinet by ac-
cusing them Of misleading him in re-
gard to Democratic sentiment in their
states.
The best informed Democrats now
accept it as practically a settled fact
that the platform adopted by the Cnic-
ago convention will declare for the
free coinage of silver, and the efforts
OF the anti-silver Democrats are now
being directed towards getting a man
whose opinions on that subject are not
radical nominated for President, and
they haven't much hope of accomplish
ing even that much. They will not
bolt If they fail, but it is an open Sc
cret that none of them will render any
active help in the campaign for radi-
Cal silver man on free coinage plat
form, and that many of them who do
not for reasons of their own, care TO
openly repudiate their party's ticket
will quietly knife it at the polls without
the slightest compunction.
1t seems practically certain that more
than nine.tenths of the German Ameri-
cans will be found working and vot-
ing for Mckinley and Hobart this year.
The German American sound money
league, composed of both Republicans
and Democrats, has served notice up
on each individual to the Chicago
Convention that the German Ame-
rican will support no plat
form which does net declare against
the independent fee coinage of silver
under present ciicum stance. In this
notification were som, interesting fig
ures gathered by the League. OF the
5S1 German American newspapers in
this country which discuss politics 499
are in favor of the present money STAN
dard, 80 are for the free coinage of sill
yer, and 43 have not taken a definite
stand on either side. A majority of
these papers are published west of the
Allegheny mountains.
Mr.. j. L. Mcdonald, manager Of
the Elyton Land Company of Birimng-
ham, Ala, who has been a Democrat
all his life, is now visiting Washing
ton. He says he is inclined to vote for
Mckinley and Hobart, and that his
Democratic friends and business as
sociates will do the same, because they
consider free coinage, which he calls rs
a great delusion as was the old green
back movement, to be dead against, the
business interests of Alabama.
Although the hardest work of the
campaign will not be on until all the
nominations for Congress have been
made, things are already quite brisk at
the rooms of the Republican Congress
sional Campaign G. mnittee, and much
literature is being sent out. 1t is the
purpose of the committee to concen
trate its work upon those districts
which may reasonably be considered
doubtful. Chairman Babcock hasn't
the sligh est doubt about the Republi-
cans retaining control OF the House,
but he will work just as hard as though
it were matter Of doubt, in order
that the majority may be as large as
possible. q
Senator Germans friends make no
bones of charging the responsibility
for he triumph of the silver wing of
the party upon Mr.. Cleveland. They
say that months ago, he was urged to
write letter saying that be was not
candidate for denomination and that
be would not attempt to control the
choice of the convention. This Mr..
Cleveland refused to do, until the sill
yer wing was in control, and even then
be SO w0rded the letter that he might
still accept the nomination should any
chance combination of circumstances
brings him the opportunity. They say
further that it would have been easy 10
nave defeated the silver wing of the
,arty had it not been for the fear on
t1O Roht Va many OCiuOSA0tb kudt uG~
i've opposition to silver would be &C
:epted as friendliness towards Mr..
cleveland and his third term ambition.
senator German reiterates his deter
not to go TO Chicago. He
oesn't fancy butting his head against
be silver wall, knowing that nothing
:an be accomplished thereby, except to
nake enemies for himself among the
liver meii in his party, and that he
oesh't \ ant to do at this time. as
here are silver democrats in Maryland,
nd he wants To get reelected to the
enate, il he can gel majority Of
democrats elected to The next Iegisla-
are- Maryland Republicans say thi
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