The Mason County journal. [volume] (Shelton, W.T.) 1886-1927, 1896-08-14

From our regular Corresponden


WASHINGTON, D. c. August 4, 1895.
The Mckinley and Hobart army
has begun its march towards victory,
and already news is beginning to come
in showing that the efforts of the sill
yer mine owners, whose paid employe
Bryan is said to be, to corrupt the un-
thinking masses with fallacious argu-
ments and promises of something for
nothing will end in defeat for the
party OF anarchy and reputation.
Every day information is received
from communities in which it had
been supposed that the silver senti-
ment had full sway showing that the
sentiment in favor of honest money
and protection to American industry
which is solely championed by the re-
publican party is on the increase.
This too, in the face of the fact that
the republicans have just begun the
sharp shooting of the great battle
which is to be waged in the interests
of our right to have an honest cur
rency and the right to earn it by
honest toll.
In the campaign literature that is
being sent out by the republican Con-
gressional Committee every argument
that is being advanced by the advo-
Gates of the free and independent coin
age of silver by this government is
being fully met and refuted, but pro-
tective tariff, which most republicans
believe to be the thing in which the
country stands most in need of and
from which it will derive the most
benefit, is also being advocated just as
strongly as though there were no such
issue as silver in the campaign. Had
there been no democratic tinkering
with the tariff law which the republi-
cans left on the statute books, the sill
yer question never would have risen
to the dignity of National issue, not
withstanding the extensive and expen-
sive agitation which has been carried
on for several years at the expenses of
the men who own the big silver mines
the only men who would be largely
benefited by the free coinage of silver
now standing at ratio of 81 to l, at
a ratio of 16 to l.
The National Republican Protective
Association, an organization of prom
inent colored men, the main object of
which is to educate the colored voters
upon the questions at issue in the
campaign, has opened headquarters in
Washington. While the associstion
will endeavor to get in touch with col
ored clubs in all sections, it has decid-
ed to pay especial attention to the
states of West Virginia, Maryland,
Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama,
Tennessee and Kentucky, in all of
which Mckinley and Hobart are be-
lieved to have more than a fighting
chance to win, and in all of which
the silver men are trying to work on
! the colored voters.
Representative Tawny, of Minn.,
now in Washington on business said !:
sI believe that we will be able to carry
Minnesota tor Mckinley, but it will
require hard work, as all the elements
opposed to republicanism are going to
effect thorough fusion. Nelson car
ried the state in "a by large plurality
but by very small majority over the
combined vote Of the democrats, pop
vlists and prohibitionists. There are
signs of reaction against the free sill
yer movement and I believe there will
be many changes among voters who
have been temporarily misled by the
fat money delusion. The advocates
of silver have hurt their cause greatly
by raising the sectional plea Of .
Southern and Western Alliance agains'
! the East. They have also done them